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Russia’s Yandex partners with Silicon Valley photo app Cooliris
When we last caught up with photo-sharing app Cooliris, CEO Soujanya Bhumkar and business development VP Sebastian Blum (T-Venture’s former managing partner in Silicon Valley) were in Berlin to meet the locals and scout for
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Yandex confirms Wonder app blocked by Facebook in new statement
Russian search engine Yandex has confirmed in a statement that its just-released Wonder app has been blocked by Facebook. The social recommendation tool that draws information from users of Facebook, Instagram, Foursquare and Twitter in
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Russia’s largest search engine Yandex joins forces with nuclear research lab CERN
Russia’s biggest search engine Yandex has announced a sponsorship agreement with the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), most widely known for discovering the obscure Higgs boson. The company will be joining CERN openlab, a public-private partnership between
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Russian internet, telecom and bank giants experiment with Square-like payment systems
Last month, Yandex.Dengi (Yandex.Money), the electronic currency division of the Russian search giant Yandex, started testing a smartphone-based bank card payment terminal in Moscow taxis, in partnership with SellbyCell, a specialized solution provider. This new
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Investor spotlight: Klaus Hommels on success, failure and what makes him nervous
Klaus Hommels’ early-stage investments in Skype, Facebook and Spotify have earned him a place as one of Europe’s leading angel investors. Here, on a short break during the recent CEO Berlin conference, we asked
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“The future is f!@*ing bright! Time to buy sunglasses!” Dave McClure on what makes Russia so sexy to Silicon Valley
Once a remote hinterland in terms of foreign investment, Russia is now emerging as a hot destination for investors looking for a slice of the action on the digital frontier. The recent Landing Page
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Yandex CEO Arkady Volozh is GQ man of the year: Rich, smart… sexy?
Serial entrepreneur. Two successful exits. A degree in applied mathematics. Chief executive of the Russia’s top search engine. Leader of an $8 billion company with more than double Google’s share of searches. And… dead sexy.
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Tasting the Eastern promise: Top 10 VC companies investing in Russia
The growth of the internet in Russia to its current 60 million users, the strong technical background of Russian software engineers and the sound entrepreneurial skills of local managers have attracted major money to
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City Spotlight – St. Petersburg takes its place as Russia’s leading tech hub
Yakov Sadchikov is founder and CEO of visual search engine Quintura and former founder of RussiaDeal. He’s brought his expertise of the Russian startup scene to various articles in VentureVillage and spent his student days
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The Top 10 Russian internet brands out to conquer the world
In Russia, it’s not Google, but Yandex you tap up for a search query. Mail.ru outstrips Yahoo!, Amazon is trounced by OZON, and Vkontakte outperforms Facebook. Russian versions of global brands are outstripping the market leaders,
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