Archives for the 'Mobile' Category
Files under: Mobile, News, Tech
Posted by: Quintura @ 16:23 [9. 03. 10]
Opera Software, maker of the Opera web browsers for desktops, devices and mobiles, could build a web browser for kids. “We think about creating an internet browser for kids. It’s a secret, exclusive..,” said Opera Software Communications Manager in Russia, Vladimir Isaev in his recent interview to Runetologia. He added that the company thinks about [...]
Files under: Mobile, News, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Quintura @ 03:58 [17. 11. 09]
One of the deans of venture capital, Morgenthaler Ventures has led a $10 million Series B round for electronic note application service Evernote, the company announced. Previous investors Troika Dialog and DOCOMO Capital, which invested a total of $6.5 million in Series A, also participated in the round. The investment will be used to expand [...]
Files under: Enterprise, Mobile, News
Posted by: Quintura @ 15:18 [17. 11. 08]
Russia is not only known to the world by its vast natural resources and luxury consumer shopping habits but also by its enormous territory. When it comes to building a brand in Russia, the domestic mobile phone operators that has covered the country’s territory and population lead the race.
According to Interbrand Zintzmeyer & Lux’s forth [...]
Files under: Enterprise, Mobile, News, Tech
Posted by: Quintura @ 13:34 [9. 10. 08]
The U.S.-based industrial group Access Industries, which invests in natural resources, chemicals, telecoms, media, and real estate, has acquired a majority stake in the Russian telematics pioneer AutoLocator.
Founded in 2000 by Megapage wireless system distributor, AutoLocator was the first company in Russia to launch vehicle anti-theft systems utilizing both radio and GPS/GSM location systems supported [...]
Files under: Mobile, News, Tech
Posted by: Quintura @ 02:33 [24. 09. 08]
The Russian mobile phone retailer Egrad (Цифроград), which holds 10% market share in handset retail sales, raised $16.7 million from a group of existing and new investors. The deal was organized by an existing investor Russian Funds and consultant Advanced Research.
Founded in 2003 by mobile phone and consumer electronics distributor Severen, Egrad has over 1,400 [...]
Files under: Mobile, News
Posted by: Quintura @ 08:58 [22. 09. 08]
The investment company A&NN Capital Management Fund of Alexander Mamut, who owns a significant stake in LiveJournal-owner SUP, agreed to acquire the largest mobile phone retailer in Russia, Euroset, reported business daily newspaper Kommersant. The deal valued Euroset at an enterprise value of $1,250 million including $850 million in debts, the daily said.
Founded in 1997, [...]
Files under: Mobile, News, Tech
Posted by: Quintura @ 12:28 [4. 09. 08]
The venture capital fund VTB Venture Fund invested $4 million (100 million rubles) in EZtalk, a mobile callback service operated in Russia by Simbiotel Limited company, reported newspaper RBC Daily. EZTalk helps save on international calls from mobile. The callback service market in Russia was valued at $60 million in 2007, of which mobile callback [...]
Files under: Enterprise, Mobile, News, Quintura Search, Tech
Posted by: Quintura @ 23:59 [21. 08. 08]
The largest Russian mobile phone operator Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) has agreed with Apple to distribute iPhones in Russia starting from October, reported Reuters. MTS had more than 87 million subscribers at the end of July 2008, including almost 62 million subscribers in Russia. 17 million people access Internet from mobile phones in Russia, making the [...]
Files under: Mobile, News
Posted by: Quintura @ 00:55 [15. 08. 08]
11.2% of Russian mobile users accessed the Internet on their mobile devices, trailing only the U.S. (15.6%), UK (12.9%), and Italy (11.2%) and ahead of Spain, France and Germany, says the Mobile Media Marketplace report released by Nielsen. In the other BRIC countries the mobile Internet penetration was as follows: in China (6.8%), Brasil (2.6%) [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 19:28 [23. 05. 08]
The Russian private equity firm ICON Private Equity together with Goldman Sachs and consortium of private investors acquired a majority stake in AriaDSL, an Italian telecom operator that holds WiMAX licenses to operate across Italy for $100 million from the Israeli billionaire Davidi Gilo, reported business daily Vedomosti. Each investor paid approximately one-third of the [...]
Files under: Mobile, News
Posted by: Quintura @ 01:29 [16. 05. 08]
Virgin Group together with two private equity firms Delta Partners and Eurasia Capital Management (ECM) have made an undisclosed investment into Trivon, a fixed wireless operator with WiMAX licenses to operate across Russia. All three new shareholders own significant stakes in Trivon co-investing with existing business angels and the management team.
Trivon launched on May 15 [...]
Files under: Mobile, News
Posted by: Quintura @ 01:29 [22. 04. 08]
The largest Russian mobile phone operator Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) is the first and only Russian company that was named as one of the world’s Top 100 Most Powerful Brands, the third annual BrandZ™ Ranking announced by leading global market research and consulting firm Millward Brown.
MTS was ranked 89th in the BrandZ Top 100 list [...]
Files under: Mobile, News
Posted by: Quintura @ 12:03 [2. 04. 08]
The Russian mobile content market was valued at $592 million in 2007 or 21 percent of total mobile value-added services (VAS) market of $2.8 billion, says ComNews Research. VAS made up 13.5 percent of total mobile telecom market in Russia.
Major Russian mobile telecom operators Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), VimpelCom (Beeline), and Megafon held 41%, 27%, and [...]
Files under: Mobile, News, Web 2.0
Posted by: Quintura @ 17:06 [2. 02. 08]
The leading Russian mobile entertainment service provider Playfon is entering a mobile social networking business by buying-out Wappy.to, a mobile video and photo sharing community site. Some industry observers put a deal value at $5 million.
Wappy.to has 1 million unique monthly users. The service was created in Denmark in 1999 as a tool [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 20:18 [30. 10. 07]
Russia may be known to the world by its vast natural resources but when it comes to building a brand the Russian mobile phone operators lead the race.
According to Interbrand Zintzmeyer & Lux’s third annual ranking of 40 most valuable Russian brands arranged by brand value, Beeline and MTS are the most valuable brands in [...]
Files under: Mobile
Posted by: Quintura @ 22:12 [25. 10. 07]
The city of St. Petersburg is the first to have a 3G mobile network in a 147-million country.
MegaFon, Russia’s 3rd leading mobile telecom operator with over 34 million subscribers, has launched 3G services in the country’s 2nd largest city St. Petersburg. MegaFon’s tag line is ‘The Future Depends on You“.
MegaFon utilizes UMTS with High Speed [...]
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