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...
The Skolkovo Foundation has awarded its first invitations to next year’s Startup Village in Moscow, selecting two Asian startups from the finalists of the Tech in Asia Jakarta Arena competition. The winners of Tech in Asia Jakarta Arena, including...
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Mobile devices, the Internet of Things and outdated legislation were put under the microscope last week at the annual Business Information Security Summit in Moscow, as international IT security experts agreed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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Two startups from the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT cluster have raised over $10 million in investment in their devices designed to make carrying out everyday tasks more convenient. ComfortWay , which provides travellers with access to mobile networks at...
IT cluster resident PayQR has developed an app for mobile phones for paying housing and public utilities bills - and even traffic fines – from the comfort of the home. The program is available on iOS and Android platforms. In September, a new national...
Inside Skolkovo’s IT cluster, a handful of early-stage companies involved in mobile technology are undergoing an acceleration program designed to get their innovations to market faster. .Vasily Ryzhonkov, head of the software acceleration program at...
Protection Technology Research (PTR) representatives participated in the biggest European startup event Pioneers Festival. The event took part at Vienna, Austria 29-31 of October 2012. PTR presented its project for mobile anti-piracy solution of mobile software...