Hackers may be associated around the world with Russia above any other country, thanks to news reports that often describe cybercriminals as Russian, and to accusations this year that Russian hackers were behind attacks on the U.S. Democratic National Committee...
On April 30, 1975, the Vietnam War ended when tanks from Communist North Vietnam burst through the wrought-iron gates of Saigon’s Independence Palace, the home and seat of the president of capitalist South Vietnam. Forty-one years later, Vietnam is still...
A Skolkovo startup that has designed a smart clock that shows users notifications as they need them has raised more than eight times the amount it was seeking on the Indiegogo crowdfunding website. Glance Clock, which is being promoted under the tagline...
Skolkovo resident SensArt , whose product Surfancy turns any surface into an interactive touch screen, has reached an agreement with Sberbank Technologies to introduce its technology to branches of Russia’s biggest bank. Surfancy's interactive...
Mobile devices, the Internet of Things and outdated legislation were put under the microscope last week at the annual Business Information Security Summit in Moscow, as international IT security experts agreed on one thing: business technologies are growing...
The whole of the territory of the Skolkovo innovation centre is now covered by a wireless Internet of Things (IoT) network set up by STRIZH Telematika , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation’s space and telecoms cluster. STRIZH Telematika's...
A California-based company has bought the rights to indoor navigation technology developed by Skolkovo resident SPIRIT Navigation . SPIRIT Group, of which the SPIRIT Navigation startup is part, said it had sold all the property rights to the technology to...
The parking gods can be cruel and capricious, as anyone who has ever spent half an hour or more circling their destination in a city centre looking for a space knows. A new app aims to relieve drivers in Moscow of this particular stress by not only showing...
Оператор МТС запустил мобильное приложение «МТС Деньги», базирующееся на решение для бесконтактных мобильных платежей компании CardsMobile. Приложение позволяет загружать в смартфоны с поддержкой технологии NFC виртуальную банковскую карту МТС-банка...
Компания ComfortWay объявила о старте продаж SIM-карт CwSim. Новый продукт даст пользователям возможность подключаться к мобильному интернету по локальным тарифам в 140 странах мира. ComfortWay — резидент кластера информационных технологий Фонда «Сколково»...
Skolkovo resident startup ComfortWay has launched sales of a SIM card that allows travellers to make use of the best local mobile internet deal available, wherever they might be. The CwSim card uses the Remote SIM Provisioning technology released earlier...
The Skolkovo Foundation is on the hunt for promising virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) projects and has launched a search that will culminate in St. Petersburg next month. The competition will be held as part of Unreal Fest , an international open-air...
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...
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...
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...
Одна из крупнейших розничных сетей по продаже электроники и бытовой техники «М.Видео» запустила программу лояльности в приложении CardsMobile «Кошелек». Компании объявили о сотрудничестве на конференции Startup Village. Подписание...
Российские компании ComfortWay и AVO объявили о партнерстве в создании универсального решения для роуминга. Новый продукт совместит в себе доступ в интернет по локальным тарифам и дешевые телефонные переговоры во время международных поездок. Фото: AVO...
Разработчик систем трехмерного машинного зрения компания 3DiVi получила от Фонда «Сколково» минигрант в размере 4,8 млн рублей на развитие проекта VicoVR. В рамках гранта планируется подготовка к серийному производству сенсора виртуальной реальности...
Wells Fargo has won a Most Innovative Feature Award for its use of a mobile biometric authentication system developed by Skolkovo resident Speech Technology Center (STC) . The U.S. bank’s mobile app for commercial account customers, which uses STC’s...
Российский разработчик высокотехнологичных устройств для слепых и слабовидящих людей компания Oriense получит от Фонда «Сколково» минигрант в размере 3 млн рублей на доработку системы «технического зрения». В рамках минигранта будут...
“What makes your project any better than those of your competitors? What will stop people stealing your idea? You need to learn how to interact with investors.” This is the blunt feedback that Skolkovo resident companies hear from potential investors...
Резидент IT-кластера Фонда «Сколково» Navigine , разработчик решений в сфере indoor-навигации, привлек 400 тысяч долларов от синдиката инвесторов во главе с финской финансово-технологической компанией Innovestor. Приложение для аэропортов...
Резидент кластера информационных технологий Фонда «Сколково» компания «МобилитиЛаб» (входит в ГК «АйТи») объявила о выходе новой редакции своего продукта WorksPad, ориентированной на сервис-провайдеров. Решение позволит провайдерам...
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...
Платформа безопасных бесконтактных платежей CardsMobile и TEDIPAY представлена на Mobile World Congress в Барселоне. Партнеры продемонстрировали первое совместно созданное носимое устройство — часы TEDIPAY, с помощью которых можно совершать покупки и...