The Chinese manufacturer has purchased the patents and hired the team of designers from Vocord Company, a current resident of the IT cluster of the Skolkovo Foundation. The deal was confirmed to Sk.ru by Vocord. Neither party would disclose the cost of...
The Chinese manufacturer purchased the patents and hired the team of designers of Vocord Company, resident of the IT cluster of the Skolkovo Foundation. The deal was confirmed to Sk.ru by Vocord. The parties will not disclose the price of the deal. The...
Group-IB, a resident company of the Skolkovo Foundation that specializes in the prevention of cyber-attacks, has announced the official opening of their global headquarters in Singapore. In addition to the region-wide promotion of cutting-edge technology that...
The first Russian incarnation of the giant German digital business expo CEBIT will take place at the Skolkovo Technopark next year after the technopark signed a cooperation agreement with Deutsche Messe Rus, the Russian arm of the event’s organizer. ...
Skolkovo resident VisionLabs and the smart building systems developer Alphaopen have launched a smart home system that uses face recognition technology to enable residents to enter their building without a key and to reach their floor without pressing a lift...
The Skolkovo Foundation has teamed up with the Russian Export Centre, a state body that helps Russian companies enter foreign markets, to set up a Russian innovations hub in Dubai. The hub is planned to be located in the national innovations and industrial...
Russia’s biggest lender, Sberbank, has acquired 25.07 percent of shares in Skolkovo resident startup VisionLabs , which has been ranked one of the world’s best face recognition technology companies. VisionLabs founder and CEO Alexander Khanin...
The Skolkovo Foundation announced the official launch of Skolkovo Ventures – three new investment funds devoted to IT, industrial technology and biotech – at the Startup Village open-air conference on Tuesday. The investment funds have been set...
The Skolkovo Foundation signed a strategic business cooperation agreement with the Russian division of Japan’s Panasonic Corporation during a state visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin to the island nation on Friday. Skolkovo vice president...
Amid heightened security alerts in airports, train stations and other public places across the world, Skolkovo startups working on security solutions for crowded places have travelled to France to demonstrate their technologies and search for potential partners...
A Russian Cybathlon Federation was officially set up on Tuesday to develop the creation of technology to help disabled people, with the Skolkovo Foundation among the signatories of the founding document. The first international Cybathlon was held in Zurich...
Two residents of the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT cluster have teamed up to work on a secure communications system using quantum cryptography technology devised by Russian Quantum Centre (RQC) in conjunction with existing telecoms infrastructure developed...
Cybersecurity company Group-IB, a resident of the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT cluster, has signed a memorandum of understanding with King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL) to promote Group-IB’s solutions in Thailand and exchange...
Young IT specialists will turn their hand to battling the forest fires that have ravaged Russia in recent summers by gathering this weekend for a hackathon aimed at developing technology to monitor their outbreak. An emergency worker battling a blaze...
Oil producer Gazprom Neft is to open a research and development centre at the Skolkovo innovation centre outside Moscow under an agreement signed Thursday at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Skolkovo president Victor Vekselberg (left)...
VisionLabs , a facial recognition, data analysis and robotics company that is a resident of the Skolkovo Foundation, has created an open-source computer vision platform using funding from Facebook and Google. The Russian company created the new resource...
The director of Algeria’s National Agency for the Promotion and Development of Technoparks (ANPT) visited the Skolkovo Innovation Centre on Friday, two days after the agency and the Skolkovo Foundation signed a memorandum of cooperation during a visit...
Russian startup CardsMobile and its U.K. partner TEDIPAY have unveiled their joint product Wildcard, a platform that allows users to make contactless payments via a wearable device such as a smart watch, bracelet or ring. Using the Wildcard platform on the...
Computer-aided design giant Autodesk has signed a cooperation agreement with the Skolkovo Foundation to potentially provide software support to resident startups and Skoltech students. Skolkovo's Alexandra Barshchevskaya, left, and Autodesk's...
Panasonic opened its R&D Center at Skolkovo during Startup Village on Tuesday, opening a new chapter in electronics research cooperation between Russia and Japan. The Panasonic R&D Center at Skolkovo Technopark Office Center. Panasonic signed...
Technoserv has become a Skolkovo partner, signing a deal that compels Russia’s largest IT systems integrator to create an R&D center on the territory of the innovations hub. Technoserv, which recorded a total turnover of more than 40 billion...
Korean giant Samsung grilled six Skolkovo startups in a series of product pitches for healthcare and connectivity innovations. Hoping to strike up a potentially life-changing partnership with a world-leading electronics company, budding entrepreneurs had...
Microsoft Research is to award grants to high-potential projects that develop machine learning, a type of artificial intelligence, the company has announced. Machine learning is the ability of computer programs to adapt and teach themselves new capabilities...
Skolkovo Foundation president Viktor Vekselberg has wrapped up a board meeting in India by inviting the country’s startups to take part in Russia’s top innovations project, ITAR-Tass reported Friday. Vekselberg, one of Russia’s top entrepreneurs...