Thursday, July 3, 2025
Russian mobile operators will not be able to use the frequencies that they already have for the deployment of 5G networks, Bankir.ru reports. The State Commission for Radio Frequencies was expected to issue permission to use the frequencies that are now occupied by 2G, 3G, and LTE. However, after the...
Ozon, one of the leading Russian e-commerce companies, intends to raise several hundreds of million dollars in equity next year to support new investment in logistics and IT, Kommersant reported last week. After the plans were announced in the Russian media by the company’s general manager Alexander Shulgin, an unnamed source...
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...
U.S.-based IT services company DXC Technology has acquired Luxoft, a custom software development company founded in Russia and currently headquartered in Switzerland, for $2 billion in an all-cash deal, Cnews.ru reports. “Luxoft and DXC are highly complementary, and our shared vision of digital transformation makes this strategic combination a...
Messenger service Telegram has warned its users not to be scammed by offers to buy the Gram token, a planned cryptocurrency on the high anticipated Telegram Open Network (TON) blockchain platform that the company is currently building. The Russian-owned company raised $1.7 billion in the biggest ever ICO (Initial Coin Offering) in...
Three top Facebook executives described In separate posts on Tuesday the company's latest efforts to protect the integrity of elections around the world by removing accounts, ads and other content generated by the Russia-based Internet Research Agency (IRA), The New York Times reported. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a blog...
Fyodor Ovchinnikov, the freshly crowned franchise czar of Russia is betting beyond his country and into global expansion with the help of cloud technology, Bloomberg writes in an analysis of the rise of the billionaire’s company, Dodo Pizza. From a single basement oven in his native Syktyvkar in the Far...
A database of copyright infringing webpages and content in Russia is being established by the country’s communications watchdog Roskomnadzor in a bid to tackle the chronical problem with piracy, Profile.ru reports. The agency will then encourage internet companies in the country to speedily remove links to offending sites from their search engines...
Russia will make a decision on continuing its work at the International Space Station after 2024 depending on its technical condition and the plans on creating a national orbital station, the press service of Russia’s state space corporation Roscosmos told TASS. "We have agreed with our ISS partners the term...
Alexei Navalny, a jailed Kremlin opponent, claimed Thursday that Russia has forced Apple to delete his app from the App Store, putting his movement under unprecedented pressure ahead of crucial elections next month, Moscow Times reports. Navalny started aggressively marketing the app after authorities banned access to his main website...