Feb 4, 2013 | Deals, Latin America
Established in 2009, the Company is a plastic packaging manufacturer in Uruguay. The owners have been active in the industry since 1970 and were the owners of a similar manufacturing company in Brazil that they successfully sold in 2009. The Company manufactures three...
Feb 1, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
Since the beginning of 2013, the Microsoft Seed Fund has provided a total of $110,000 in grants to two startups from Russia’s regions. A $50,000 grant went to RealSpeaker, a startup from Kazan, Tatarstan, which offers a new approach to speech recognition. The company...
Jan 29, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
Rambler-Afisha, an Internet group owned by Russian tycoon Vladimir Potanin’s ProfMedia holding, is seeking to attract an investor in Begun, a context advertising company which it fully acquired just months ago. In an >exchange with the Russian business daily...