According to a poll conducted by the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM) earlier this month, Odnoklassniki.ru has become Russia’s most popular social network among Russians who are 18 year-old and over – ahead of Vkontakte.ru, whose leadership is more affirmed among teenagers. Odnoklassniki’s reach is now estimated to be no less than 61% – compared to …
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Yuri Milner, co-founder of the prominent Russian Internet fund DST, is among the investors in Path, the much-hyped ‘mobile-centric social network’ launched in 2010. The investment round, which amounts to at least $30 million, was led by venture firm Redpoint Ventures, CNet reported on Monday, with entrepreneurs Richard Branson, Mark Pincus and Jerry Murdock, as …
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In a new bid to put a lid on uncensored Internet exchanges, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), the post-Soviet successor of the KGB, has called for a crackdown on the “detrimental activity” of Western intelligence services in cyberspace. Speaking last week in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, at an interregional anti-terrorist panel of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), …
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Facebook’s 2nd annual Hacker Cup competition, held at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, witnessed 25 of the world’s best hackers gather for an intense competition. Roman Andreev of Russia took top prize by correctly completing a problem in 1 hour and 4 minutes, one minute ahead of the second place winner. Andreev received …
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ResumUp, the infographic résumé startup that emerged from two innovation contests last December, is launching a new product, currently in beta testing, bringing some fresh air to online recruiting. While its first product focused on infographic résumés using data from social media profiles, the St. Petersburg startup now takes an extra step, matching visual résumés …
The popularity of banks on social networks – especially official corporate pages on Facebook or Vkontakte, and Twitter accounts – has increased more than 50-fold over the past year, says a report from Artenom Consulting. “One third of the country’s 100 largest banks has either established an official presence on social networks or is using …
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In a new move to enhance social networking searches, yesterday Yandex announced it made a deal with Twitter to make available the full feed of all public tweets – a ‘firehose’ of data – to its users. Twitter posts will be available to Yandex users almost instantly, covering users who tweet in Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian …
Last week, the St. Petersburg Arbitration Court offered long-awaited explanations about the decision it issued in January of last year regarding an alleged copyright infringement involving Vkontakte.ru, the leading social network in Russia. The Gala Records record label had accused Vkontakte of having illegally offered online copyrighted recordings by the Russian band ‘Infinity’. Vkontakte claimed …
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Russian search giant Yandex introduced the beta version of a new search service yesterday, displaying search results from social network content in a more ordered and convenient way – and a step ahead of Google’s. As before, Yandex’s search results display the public profiles of people with accounts on the country’s popular social networks, from …
A total of 4.5 million Twitter accounts had been created Russian users as of January 1, 2012 – a three-fold increase over the 1.5 million recorded a year earlier – according to a recent study by Semiocast, a Paris-based social media research company. This number puts Russia currently in 20th place on Twitter’s gobal map, the …
Koobface (the name is an anagram of Facebook), the most famous worm in Facebook’s history, has attracted public attention once again after the social network’s security service announced earlier this month that they were going to reveal the names and photos of criminals behind the malware.
Vkontakte.ru, the leading social network in most Russian speaking countries with 33 million unique users daily, has been renamed VK.com. The site has moved to http://vk.com. Old links to vkontakte.ru still work, but will open vk.com pages. The new domain name is easier to type on a mobile device, hard to misspell, easier for international users …
