The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of Russia intends to tackle the takeover of startups, with a new initiative aimed at better regulation of the digital technology market. The Federal Antimonopoly Service intends to monitor and prevent the takeover of start-ups ...
A database of “millions” of Telegram users has been published on one of the darknet forums. It contains data in the form of a “nickname-phone number” bundle, as well as a unique user identifier in the messenger. The Durov Code ...
The company Yandex.Lavka, specializing in express delivery of food and household goods, has filed an application for registration of its own brand “From the shop”, and is currently testing own-brand eggs, bottled water, and some dairy products within Moscow. This ...
A filter has appeared on Yandex Market product cards, with which users can only select offers from brand partners. And the recommendation icon has been made more visible to users. The Recommended Stores service costs 3,000 ₽ per day. The price includes not ...
December 2021 Update: From December 17 2021, the Gallery format was removed from Yandex Zen. Yandex.Zen have began testing the stories post format. These are more suitable for Zen bloggers who create visual content with smaller amounts of text. Stories ...
The largest hosting provider and domain registrar in Russia, REG.RU, and the oldest certification center, GlobalSign, have provided data which countries have the most valid SSL certificates and ranked them. Russia still ranks 9th in the ranking, ahead of Italy, ...
Spark.ru estimated (in 2019) that video content could be a key driver in user acquisition and conversion by as much as 80% by 2021, and Yandex Zen’s actions seem to be reinforcing this market prediction. To encourage video content on ...
Advertising publications on the Yandex.Zen platform in the second quarter of 2020 attracted 74% more users than in the first quarter of 2020. This is no doubt in part to the fact that in April, Zen offered advertisers an anti-crisis ...
Yandex.Lavka has its own application for iOS and Android. Previously, ordering products and essential goods with Lavka delivery in 10-15 minutes were only possible via the Yandex, Yandex.Food and Yandex.Taxi applications. The application uses machine learning to make personalized and intelligent product recommendations, ...
In a study of Russian entrepreneurs conducted by digital service connectors/vendor pitching company, Workspace.ru, they found that 40% of entrepreneurs do not plan to cut budgets for contextual advertising, and 25% don’t plan to cut marketing budgets for SEO. The ...
