Nearly 30% of Russia’s Internet users have daily problems loading pages on the Internet, Kommersant writes citing a new report by tech news website TelecomDaily.
The cause of these difficulties can be blamed either on the operator or the user’s equipment, or on the large amount of content on a site,...
U.S.-based open software development platform GitLab is looking at suspending new hiring for sensitive positions in China and Russia because of customer feedback in the “current geopolitical climate,” ZDNet reports.
In a post published on GitLab’s website, one of the company’s executives said the venture wanted to enable a “job family country block”...
The Russian market for wearable devices doubled year-on-year in January-September, Cnews.ru reported citing a study from the mobile retail chain Svyaznoy.
A total of 3.1 million units were purchased, and revenues totaled 19.4 billion rubles (306.7 million), the report says.
Fitness bands formed 57 percent of revenues, and the share of...
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev advocated joint work with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on de-monopolization in the field of high technology. In his opinion, only a few corporations have great potential in this direction, which interferes with healthy competition and negatively affects information and network security.
“This...
A new law that allows Russian authorities to theoretically isolate the country from parts of the global internet has come into force on Friday, The Moscow Times reports.
The government says the law aims to keep the Russian network functioning smoothly in the event of a crisis or external attack....
Russia’s Internet piracy market will drop 27% to $63.5 million by the end of the year, Vedomosti reports citing experts from cybersecurity firm Group-IB. Over the past five years, revenues of illegal video services have been on the rise, Vedomosti writes.
The peak was recorded in 2016 when bootleggers doubled...
A plant which Russian aluminum giant Rusal had to close as a result of U.S. sanctions will be used by another company as a hub for bitcoin mining, RBC reports.
The Nadvoitsy Aluminum Plant in Russia’s northern Karelia region stopped production last summer after it lost access to American customers following...
The leading telecoms operators in Russia have asked the government to help them buy equipment they need to comply with a new data storage law, by allocating state funds for subsidies, Reuters reported citing a letter sent to the government.
The country’s biggest mobile phone operator MTS, state-controlled telecoms group...
Angolan businesswoman Isabel dos Santos, who is the richest woman in Africa according to Forbes, believes that Russia has great potential in high technology and plans to invest in those sectors, she said in an interview with TASS.
Dos Santos, daughter of former Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, spoke about...
Mail.Ru and Yandex, Russia’s two largest tech companies, both reported strong third-quarter results this week, with higher earnings and revenues figures, The Moscow Times reports.
The results come amid ongoing concerns over government proposals to limit foreign ownership in Russia’s largest technology companies.
Shares at Mail.Ru rose 9% on the back...
