IT service management giant Bitfury has partnered with Russia’s Plekhanov University of Economics to create an accelerator for blockchain projects, Cointelegraph reports citing Russian media.
The university will also provide courses and additional education dedicated to “training specialists who are able to create innovative projects using digital technologies in a...
Data Center (DC) services provider Linxdatacenter has sealed a deal with software-defined network-as-a-service supplier Megaport to offer customers direct access to leading cloud service providers (CSPs) from its data centers in Moscow and St. Petersburg, CNews.ru reports.
Linxdatacenter also has “partner data centers” in Warsaw, Shanghai and Hong Kong. It...
Many Russian tech enthusiasts hoped that Yandex will reveal a highly anticipated Russian-made smartphone this week, but the company instead presented a new smart speaker powered by Alisa, a virtual assistant similar to Amazon’s Alexa, Rambler reports.
Speculation has been mounting for years that Yandex -- which dominates internet services...
A healthy legal technology industry is emerging in Russia, including an emerging ecosystem of legal tech startups, lawyer and journalist Robert Ambrogi writes in an article published on Above The Law.
But while there is now a developing array of legal tech products, their adoption is not keeping pace. By...
A Russian-owned company linked to allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election has sued Facebook, after the social-media company barred it from its network, Reuters reported.
The company, called the Federal Agency of News LLC, filed its lawsuit in U.S. District Court in California on November 20, arguing it...
In order to make the most out of an expected boom in demand from electric vehicle makers, Russian nickel and palladium giant Norilsk Nickel plans to ramp up production over the next five years, its CEO and top shareholder Vladimir Potanin said in an interview with Reuters.
The company, which competes...
Unhappy fans of Japanese videogame giant Nintendo in Russia have called for the company to replace its local CEO and have begun circulating an expletive-filled video of him mismanaging a Mario Kart 8 Deluxe livestream, Kit Guru reports.
The company’s local boss, Yasha Haddaji, was caught losing his temper during the...
Roskomnadzor, Russia's telecommunications watchdog, said Wednesday that it had negotiated with Google the settlement of a possible administrative fine caused by the tech giant's noncompliance with Russian legislation, Vedomosti reports.
Vadim Subotin, deputy head of Roskomnadzor (Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media) met with Google's representative...
Russia cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab announced that threat-related data shared by European users will now be processed in two data centers located in Zurich, Switzerland along with the opening of the company’s first Transparency Center, Sky News reports.
These moves initiate the first part of a relocation commitment made by the company...
Group IB, a Russian cybersecurity company, is planning to open a global headquarters in Singapore in a few months as part of the firm’s international expansion plans, Chief Executive Ilya Sachkov told Reuters.
32-year-old Sachkov is a co-founder of the Moscow-based company which was set up in 2003 and focuses...
