Apr 22, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News April 22, 2014 HealBe, a St. Petersburg-based startup, has won the hearts of crowdfunders at Indiegogo.com with GoBe, its wearable device for automatic calorie intake measurement. A campaign that started on March 5 with a fairly unassuming goal...
Apr 16, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News April 16, 2014 Microsoft and Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; Russian MGU), Russia’s most renowned institution of higher learning, shook hands earlier this month on a joint $1 million research project, the US company announced. The...
Apr 11, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
GS Venture, the one-year-old venture arm of GS Group, has announced its first international investment. Set up last summer to “support entrepreneurial innovators and startup teams” in Russia, the fund decided to establish presence in Finland with a €200,000 injection...
Apr 3, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia, Western Europe
East-West Digital News April 3, 2014 GS Group, a St. Petersburg-based industrial holding with vested interests in telecommunications, has bought into Novabase, the leading IT player in Portugal, and is paving the way for a major expansion in Western Europe and Africa....
Mar 4, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News Cubic Robotics, a Russian startup developing robots that can communicate with their owners, has raised $500,000 in its second round of funding from a private investor, the Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported last week. The financial...