Social networks & apps

LinkedIn fails to agree with telecom regulator on restoring service in Russia

March 8, 2017 March 8, 2017

LinkedIn Corp. and the Russian authorities have failed to reach an agreement to restore access to the international social network from this country, Reuters has reported, refering to statements made yesterday by the company and the telecom regulator Roskomnadzor. “While we believe we comply with all applicable laws, and despite conversations with Roskomnadzor, including meeting with them in Moscow …

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Head of Orthodox Church blasts social media “disease”

March 2, 2017 March 2, 2017

Millions of young people who crave approval on social media are suffering from a “real disease,” Russia’s spiritual leader has said. Patriarch Kirill, the head of Russia’s Orthodox Church, said that young people were willing to risk their lives in a bid to win approval from their online followers. He claimed that the problem was …

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Vkontakte sues data mining companies

January 31, 2017 February 23, 2017

Russian social network Vkontakte is suing two data-mining companies who used its website to gather information on users without permission. The two companies, Double Data and the National Bureau of Credit Histories, will appear in the case at Moscow’s Arbitration Court. Double Data collects information on users’ place of work, study, and friends from their …

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Russian Internet users say Trump gave a wonderful, communist inauguration speech

January 20, 2017 January 21, 2017

Trump’s big day was headline news in Russia, one of the few countries on Earth that overwhelmingly supported the Republican’s candidacy even when it was in its infancy. Russian jokesters on Twitter certainly had their eye on President Trump’s inauguration speech, which more than a few Internet users compared to Communist rhetoric popular during the …

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Russia requires Apple and Google to remove LinkedIn from local app stores

January 6, 2017 January 9, 2017

Smartphone users in Russia can no longer download the LinkedIn app on iPhone or Android devices, following a similar move in China to block The New York Times app on iPhones. The demand by Russian authorities to remove LinkedIn in Apple and Google app stores comes weeks after a court blocked the professional networking service for flouting local laws that require internet firms …

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Spokeswoman for Russia’s foreign ministry accuses Facebook of working with ISIS

December 21, 2016 December 22, 2016

Maria Zakharova, the colorful spokeswoman for Russia’s Foreign Ministry, accused Facebook administrators of working for the Islamic State, after the network temporarily unpublished one of her posts on Monday. Shortly after Moscow formally confirmed the death of Andrei Karlov, Russia’s ambassador to Turkey, Zakharova posted a photograph on Facebook, showing Karlov standing in front of …

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Russian face recognition app now available to Twitter users and Turkish police

December 16, 2016 November 18, 2024

Now Twitter users can find a random person’s page in the network after taking a photo of them in the street. This functionality — a sort of Shazam for people — is offered by FindFace, an app that can scan Twitter’s database of 313 million active users in less than a second and find a match, if it exists. The app was made available to Twitter …

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Social media use: Instagram in Russia

November 29, 2016 November 29, 2016

Instagram in Russia has taken off with a far more impressive impact as a foreign app compared to the slow entrance of Facebook and others . The app has become an increasingly popular photo sharing social media app worldwide. Instagram is yet another way to connect with friends, follow celebrities, get fitness and beauty advice, …

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Access to LinkedIn officially blocked in Russia

November 17, 2016 September 4, 2021

Since this morning, many LinkedIn users from Russia have not been able to access the site. Local Internet service providers have started to block access to the site following as requested by telecom regulator Roskomnadzor. In a short statement, Roskomnadzor cites a Moscow court decision from August, according to which LinkedIn has failed to comply with the Russian legislation on personal data storage. This initial court decision was …

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Access to LinkedIn from Russia likely to be blocked imminently following new court decision

November 10, 2016 February 16, 2017

Rejecting an appeal from the US company, a Moscow municipal court confirmed today an earlier court decision to consider LinkedIn as violating the Russian legislation on personal data storage. The news has just been reported by the Russian news agency Interfax. As a consequence, the telecom regulator Roskomnadzor — which had initiated the legal procedure against LinkedIn — will require operators …

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New Blockchain social media platform speaks with a Russian ‘Voice’

October 27, 2016 December 23, 2018

With cyber.Fund using Steemit as a template, Voice is intended to cater to the uniqueness of the Russian people, as contributions to the Steemit website are primarily in English, although there are posts in a few other languages. In an official release by Bitcoin Conference Russia, cyber.Fund stated that they looked to create a decentralized social network for authors, bloggers and …

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Facebook is working on its own Prisma-style art effects app for video

October 27, 2016 October 27, 2016

Russian apps Artisto and Prisma made a splash over the past couple of months with their cloud AI-powered effects apps for photos and video. But Facebook, too, is in the running, reports The Next Web. In an interview at The Wall Street Journal’s WSJDLive conference, Facebook’s Chief Product Officer Chris Cox demonstrated an app the …

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