Cloud computing and cloud innovations was main topic for November 29 IT cluster club meeting, which was attended by more than twenty experts from leading IT companies and Skolkovo residents. The round table was initiated by the IT cluster of the Skolkovo...
Skolkovo is to become a testing centre for driverless buses with the setting up of a research and development centre by innovative bus-maker Volgabus . The driverless bus developed jointly by Bakulin Motors Group and Skolkovo resident KB Avrora. Photo...
Wallarm , a Skolkovo resident cybersecurity startup, has attracted $2.3 million in investment upon completing the prestigious Silicon Valley seed accelerator programme Y Combinator. Three quarters of the Wallarm team pictured at Y Combinator in Mountain...
On April 25, 2013 the presentation of a robotized rock hauler “BelAZ” with the freight capacity of 130 tons and electromechanical transmission took place in JSC “BelAZ”. The car is controlled by software developed by “VIST Group”...
«Russian Innovation Convention 2012», со-organized by the Skolkovo’s Technopark, brought more than thousand participants and tens of high profile speakers from the sphere of innovation Young people are the main audience of the Convention...
Ahead of International Women's Day on March 8, the U.K.'s main telecom companies joined forces to launch a mentoring programme aimed at encouraging women to pursue STEM careers, as professions based around science, technology, engineering and mathematics...
Even before Pokemon GO fever struck the world, 2016 had already been dubbed the year of virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) by tech-watchers due to the number of new devices hitting the market this year. Then Nintendo’s Pokemon-themed AR game took the...
Soon those extensions may be sold to other businesses or mobile app builders in the marketplace. Foster City, CA (PRWEB) October 2, 2012 -- iBuildApp , the premiere platform for creating and publishing a mobile app in minutes, is adding the ability to reuse...
Konstantin Deblikov deftly extends one black, bionic finger to rub the side of his nose as he talks. The casual observer might think that the young journalist from Voronezh has complete mastery of his bionic hands, but his dexterity belies the struggle that...
The world’s best face recognition algorithm is made by Skolkovo resident Vocord , according to the MegaFace platform, which rated it above Google in one of its rankings this week. Vocord's algorithm was developed to identify faces in crowds...
For any Russian company with international aspirations, the Asian markets are the modern Klondike - and not just because strained relations with the West have made it more difficult for some Russian enterprises to do business there. Asia will be the future...
Nine innovative resident startups of the Skolkovo Foundation are heading to London next week to exhibit their products at Bett , a major international EdTech trade show taking place from January 25 to January 28. The giant education trade fair is attended...
Skolkovo’s resident cybercrime sleuths Group-IB have helped Russia’s Interior Ministry catch a gang of hackers suspected of using a Trojan virus to steal money from more than one million bank accounts via mobile banking apps, the ministry said Monday...
Countries across the globe are scrambling to learn lessons from last week’s global cyberattack, and Russia is no exception. Cybersecurity experts hope that the publicity from the ransomware attack may have a positive outcome by making individuals and...
The co-founder of a Skolkovo resident startup has been included on Forbes’ list of 30 influential people under 30 for his company’s work creating what the magazine describes as “friendly, intuitive, promotional robots.” Oleg Kivokurtsev...
Specialists of “Rock Flow Dynamics” from the IT cluster have held their first corporate conference for users in Tyumen and announced a deal with the American oil giant Occidental Petroleum. At the first corporate conference for the Tyumen...
Hong Kong’s startup scene is one of the fastest growing in the world, and the global financial centre has been dubbed Asia’s FinTech hub for the explosion of tech solutions for financial services seen there during the last few years. A delegation...
President Vladimir Putin inspected life-changing medical solutions made by resident companies of the Skolkovo Foundation at the Strategic Initiatives Forum in Moscow on Thursday. President Vladimir Putin greeting a little girl with a prosthetic hand while...
Japan’s Panasonic Corporation may be primarily associated in the public mind with consumer electronics, but in some parts of the world, it is selling a very different kind of product: vegetables. Panasonic has branched out to grow lettuce and other...
Guide dogs have been used by blind people for nearly half a millennium, and in that time, no more trustworthy solution has been found to reliably lead a blind person through the numerous potential hazards that surround them. But training a guide dog is a slow...
Optimenga 777, resident of the IT cluster, has received the first tranche of grant funding from the Skolkovo Foundation for development of an advanced software for aerodynamic design of airplane wings. Sergey Peygin, general director of Optimenga 777...
There are several companies among Skolkovo residents, which currently work hard at Olympic Sochi, where innovative technologies are being used quite extensively at different sports facilities. NPO Sodis is one of them. NPO Sodis, the IT cluster resident...
Nginx, a startup company of the IT cluster of the Skolkovo Foundation (resident “Enginix” LTD) became one of the world leaders in its segment. According to statistics which the company collected in June 2013, Netcraft nginx served or proxied...
Anton Kirichenko tucks his laptop under his arm, adjusts his suit and follows an event coordinator into a separate room for his speed date. The young entrepreneur has precisely eight minutes to impress his interlocutor. Waiting inside is Yaroslav Sedrichev...
Representatives of French corporate giants Michelin and Auchan visited the Skolkovo innovation centre on Tuesday to meet with Russian startups that could help them to keep their businesses innovative in an event organised together with French Tech Moscow and...