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Foreign investors expect to see major exits in Russia's e-commerce

May 23, 2012 East-West Digital News
A pioneer among foreign investors on the Russian venture scene, David Waroquier of Mangrove Capital Partners,a recognized expert of the local Internet ecosystem, talked to East-West Digital News about Russia's online market and its challenges

Russians cash in on Facebook

May 22, 2012 Igor Korolev, Cnews.ru
Mail.ru Group and DST, controlled by Yury Milner, made $2.5 billion on the Facebook IPO. They still hold $4.6 billion worth of shares in the social network

Creating a Russian Skype?

May 22, 2012 Dmitry Kryukov, Secret Firmy magazine
Andrei Sviridenko taught modern telephones to transmit voice and show video; now he is focusing his attention on cell phone operators hoping to offset losses from the shift of traffic toward free providers

Let’s make a deal

May 9, 2012 Ben Aris, Artem Zagorodnov
Texan Brian Konradi is part of the team behind one of Russia’s most successful e-commerce ventures: the local answer to Groupon

A social network just for two

April 28, 2012 Mikhail Levin, Forbes Russia
The mobile app Pair, launched by Russian-Canadian programmers, opens a space where only two people can communicate amd intends to take couples communication beyond SMS

PPPs Capitalize on Kazan’s Entrepreneurial Spark

April 10, 2012 James Weber, The Kazan Herald
The entrepreneurial nature of Tatarstan’s population makes Kazan and the surrounding region a mecca for new business growth

Siberia made the world play

March 27, 2012 Anna Sherstneva, Tatyana Filimonova, Russky Reporter
Alawar Entertainment, a Novosibirsk-based video game developer, became one of the biggest games companies in Eastern Europe

iPhones for the people

March 19, 2012 Kirill Agafonov, Oleg Khokhlov, Kommersant-Dengi
An offer on a coupon site to get a new iPhone for half price at first glance looked like a scam, but actually turned out to be legit

The Made Here project leads Russia away from a “commodity economy”

March 13, 2012 Vsevolod Pulya
A programmer challenges a widespread economic cliché on his crowd-sourcing site

Automated down to the last mile

February 29, 2012 Anastasia Napalkova, Expert Magazine
Qiwi, a company that operates pay kiosks, is taking on the Russian postal service with a network of self-service package collection terminals

Humanity at crossroads: technology explosion or a return to the Middle Ages

February 29, 2012 Svetlana Smetanina
The Global Future 2045 Congress, a recent gathering in Moscow, brought together experts who started discussing the future direction of the human civilization

Looking toward an IPO

February 3, 2012 Gazeta.ru
Pavel Durov, is the founder and co-owner of Russia’s leading social network VKontakte, talked to Gazeta.ru about Facebook and the challenges of going public

Who’s playing dirty online?

December 20, 2011

Who’s playing dirty online?

December 20, 2011 Peter Warren, Special to RN
Cybercrime: Moscow proposes code of practice to defeat the hackers

Yandex buys mobile developer SPB Software

December 2, 2011 Anastasia Golitsyna, Vedomosti.ru
Russia’s largest search engine, Yandex, bought the software company SPB Software which includes the development of a three-dimensional shell for mobile operating systems. In the future, Yandex may release a complete operating system for smartphones

Business applications for virtual reality

September 8, 2011 Alexei Knelz
Georgy Pachikov has made a career out of answering one question: "How does that work?"

What Russia can learn from Steve Jobs

August 26, 2011 Ian Pryde
The success of Apple's products are a lesson in what it takes to win hearts and minds

Patriotic games

March 2, 2010 By Konstantin Pukemov and Igor Bakharev, Gazeta.ru
Can government initiatives encourage Russians to play video games featuring Russian heroes? Duma deputies think so, but analysts and gamers are doubtful.

Games that people play!

November 23, 2008 Alexander Lyskovsky, Alawar Ltd