What if you could buy a piece of land in a historic location, like Trafalgar Square or Times Square, and build whatever you wanted on it? Well now you can – at least, in a digital format – thanks to Skolkovo resident Piligrim XXI . An example...
Seven Skolkovo resident startups are currently presenting their innovative mobile tech products and solutions at Mobile World Congress Shanghai , which opened Wednesday and runs through June 29. Seven Skolkovo startups are taking part in this year's...
Few countries in the world can benefit from telemedicine and the remote diagnosis and monitoring services it offers as much as Russia, with its enormous territory and multitude of sparsely populated and hard to reach areas. Yet currently, digital healthcare...
Skolkovo resident startup CardsMobile , the creator of the Koshelek (Wallet) mobile app, has raised investment from Alfa Bank in exchange for a 25 percent stake in the fintech startup, the bank announced Monday in a press release. Photo: CardsMobile COO...
Several resident startups of the Skolkovo Foundation took their products and technologies to Las Vegas last week for CES , one of the world’s biggest consumer technologies exhibitions and conferences, which ran from January 9 to 12. Promobot robots...
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...
Fibrum , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT cluster that makes virtual reality headsets, games and platforms, has developed the world’s first chain of virtual stores for the Chinese ecommerce platform AliExpress. Customers...
Three Skolkovo fintech startups presented their solutions to the global financial services world at the recent Sibos conference in Toronto, after winning the chance to do so in a competition earlier this year. Maria Veikhman (left), CEO and founder of...
Face recognition technology went definitively mainstream this week, with the unveiling of Apple’s new iPhone X, which is unlocked when it recognizes the owner’s face. But the technology makes many people decidedly nervous. Last week, The Guardian...
Five Skolkovo companies will take part in the DICE Europe video game industry conference, which is taking place in Cascais, Portugal on September 10-12. DICE (Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) brings together gaming, console and VR industry players...
When Vitalik Buterin, founder of the Ethereum blockchain platform, was about six years old, he already knew the value of Pi to about 30 digits. “Here people teach children to memorise Pushkin poems; I learned 3.14159265359… ” the 23-year...
Navigine , a Skolkovo resident startup that makes indoor navigation and tracking systems, has raised $900,000 in funding from an international syndicate of investors led by the Innovestor co-investment service. Navigine's technology can be used to...
Hot on the heels of other major French retailers scouring the Skolkovo innovation city for new technologies, a team of talent scouts from the Decathlon Group chain of sports stores met with a range of Skolkovo startups on Monday with a view to adopting their...
People working at the Skolkovo innovation city outside Moscow can now get a free lift to and from work and get to know their colleagues at the same time, thanks to an app designed by resident startup DaDaEdu , whose name translates as “Yes yes, I’m...
Four Skolkovo resident startups are among the 10 finalists of the Innotribe Startup Challenge taking place next week at the International Financial Congress in St. Petersburg. The four Skolkovo companies selected for the final of the competition on July...
Russian tech startups seeking to conquer international markets are setting their sights on the U.K. as a gateway to Europe, attracted by government support and business conditions in the British capital. Successful Russian tech startups looking to expand...
If you’re stuck for ideas of where to go on holiday this summer, how about visiting a mythical world you once saw in a dream? Or how about spending some time on Mars? If you’re looking for something more earthly but can’t face a long-haul...
ШАНХАЙ. Участники проходящего в крупнейшем городе Китая Всемирного мобильного конгресса с большим удивлением реагируют на вопрос о том, что они думают о компьютерном вирусе Petya, поразившем мир накануне. К утру четверга (разница во времени с Москвой +5 часов...
ШАНХАЙ. Каждая международная конференция начинается с регистрации. MWC в Шанхае, крупнейший конгресс в области телекомов в Азии, вполне эффективно организует то, что во многих других случаях является кошмаром для тысяч человек. После пререгистрации в онлайне...
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...
Watch Skolkovo startups exhibiting at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York on May 16 present their cutting-edge tech solutions to TechCrunch's Mike Butcher in this video . Click on the image to watch the video.
Линейка Nobelic со встроенным сервисом Ivideon пополнилась двумя 3-мегапиксельными внутренними и двумя уличными камерами с разрешением 4 Мп. У каждой камеры свои преимущества, ниже коротко о них. Внутренние камеры Новинка Nobelic NBQ-1310F —...
Skolkovo startups won two out of four categories at the Startup of the Year awards at Moscow’s Digital October centre on Wednesday. Koshelek (CardsMobile), an app that allows users to compile all their bank, transport and discount cards into one electronic...
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...
A robotic pet sitter designed by an offshoot of a Skolkovo resident startup has raised more than double the amount it was seeking, just a few days into its crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. Pebby consists of a smart collar and a remote-controlled...