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...
The Skolkovo Foundation is hunting for the country’s best innovative IT projects via the GoTech competition, and plans to reward them with up to 5 million rubles ($79,000), mentoring and expert advice from the foundation’s IT cluster. Skolkovo’s...
Surfancy, a project designed by Skolkovo resident SensArt to turn any surface into an interactive touch screen, has been named the winner of an accelerator programme run by MEGA, the chain of giant malls across Russia owned and operated by IKEA. As well as...
Navigine , a resident company of the Skolkovo Foundation that makes indoor navigation and tracking systems, has attracted $400,000 in investment from a syndicate led by Finnish fintech company Innovestor. The deal with Navigine is Innovestor’s first...
The days when people used their mobile phones primarily to make calls are long gone. New research by professional services company Deloitte showed that about 22 percent of smartphone users in the U.K. make no “traditional” calls in a given week...