The biggest bank in Russia, state-run Sberbank, has made yet another foray into technology and added driverless cars to its list of ventures, by teaming up with software company Cognitive Technologies, Reuters reported on Thursday.
Sberbank and the AI transport developer have signed a legally binding document to create a new...
U.S. tech giant Apple has complied with Russian demands to show the annexed Crimean Peninsula as part of Russian territory on its apps, sparking angry reactions from Ukraine, Forbes reports.
Location-based applications by Apple began displaying the Crimea Peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014 drawing international condemnation, as part of the...
Smartphone prices in Russia may surge in 2020, and the available range might decrease if a law on mandatory pre-installation of Russian software on gadgets comes into force, market participants told Izvestia.
Last week, the State Duma adopted the legislative act in the third reading. Experts and market players polled...
Although Wikipedia in Russian began in 2001 and is reportedly the most-visited form of the index after the English version, the country appears to be making a move for its own free online encyclopedia, Newsweek reported last week.
In September, it was announced that Russia’s Wikipedia alternative had $26.7 million...
BitRiver, a newly launched mining farm in Siberia owned by U.S.-sanctioned billionaire Oleg Deripaska, is now Russia’s largest bitcoin (BTC) mining facility and is already attracting large-scale clients, Bloomberg reports.
Deripaska has combined BTC mining and a data center with one of the largest Soviet-era aluminum plants. The power-hungry business of...
Russia’s biggest mobile phone operator MTS said on Monday it had agreed to sell its Ukrainian business to Azerbaijani company Bakcell for $734 million, RBC reports.
The company also said its board had approved a special dividend of 13.25 roubles ($0.2076) per ordinary share, or 26.5 billion rubles in total.
Vodafone Ukraine will...
The sale of smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, and computers that don’t have Russian-made software pre-installed will be banned in Russia, after the country’s lower house in parliament passed controversial new legislation this week, BBC News writes.
The law, which would go into effect in July 2020, may have significant impacts...
Russian telecoms operator MTS has reached 2,971,000 residential subscribers to its TV services in the home market, 118,000 more than a year earlier, Broadband TV News reported.
Meanwhile, the number of residential internet customers, also in the company’s fixed-line business, grew by 191,000 to 3,373,000 over the same period.
At the same...
Abu Dhabi’s Tawazun Holding, a company focused on growing the UAE’s defense industry, is taking a 50 percent stake in Russian drone maker VR Technologies, Reuters reported.
VR Technologies is the innovation design office of Russian Helicopters. The company, created in 2014, is developing advanced helicopters such as the VRT500...
Aleksei Burkov, a 29-year-old Russian suspected of hacking-related crimes, has made his first public appearance in a U.S. federal court on Tuesday since being extradited from Israel earlier this week, Haaretz reported.
Burkov’s lawyer said the man was extradited overnight and appeared in the Eastern Court of Virginia to face...
