May 15, 2012 | News
East-West Digital News 15 May 2012 Qualcomm, a leading US-based international provider of wireless technology and services – with a particular emphasis on chipsets for smartphones – is ready to invest “hundreds of millions of dollars” in Russian tech companies, Senior...
May 14, 2012 | News
East-West Digital News 11 May 2012 Rocket Internet, the Samwer brothers’ famous Berlin incubator, has received a $200 million investment from Access Industries, a US based industrial holding owned by Russian-American billionaire Leonard Blavatnik. The news was...
May 10, 2012 | News
East West Digital News 9 May 2012 The Russian high tech fund New Generation Investment (NGI) announced last week that it will launch a €20 million division dedicated to French startups, the French business daily Les Echos reported. “We are focusing on telecoms, web...
May 7, 2012 | News
Vedomosti via East-West Digital News 3 May 2012 Last week, the Russian business daily Vedomosti reported that the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) received a joint request from mobile operator Megafon and WiMAx operator Scartel, which operates under the Yota brand,...
May 4, 2012 | News
Moscow Times 4 May 2012 This week’s $75 million injection into classifieds advertising site Avito.ru is further proof of the investment attractiveness of Russian startups, which are a key element in the government’s push for diversifying the country’s energy-dependent...
May 2, 2012 | News
Moscow Times 2 May 2012 Real estate investment company O1 Properties said it aims to raise about $425 million from a London stock market listing to invest in Moscow’s booming commercial property market. O1 Properties, set up by former directors at Moscow...