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September 2019 www.intellinews.com @bneintellinews
Russia's mobile connection could get expensive
Russia's communications ministry suggests revising its approach to collecting fees for using mobile communication frequency bands, which could drive up prices in the short-term but provide savings for the development of fifth-generation networks.
The agency says that the existing policy, under which mobile operators' annual payments for using frequency spectres
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Battle of the Russian voice assistants
We are slaves to the keyboard if we want to act with the growing range of smart devices but being able to simply talk to a virtual assistant is the technological manumission that is already
a reality. It is also one area where Russia is on the
cutting edge in the development race.
Russia's mobile connection could
get expensive 2 Battle of the Russian voice assistants 3 Russian app FaceApp causes international controversy 6
Leaders 9
China’s Huawei mulls cooperation
with Serbia on developing 5G network 8 Russian internet giant Yandex
launches a beta version of its
food retail app Supercheck 8 Russian Sberbank takes on Yandex
by teaming up with Mail.ru 10
Investment 12
Dostavista, the leading crowdsourced same-day delivery service, secures $15mn in series B funding 12 Estonia-based EstateGuru to
carve out up to €5bn of expanding alternative real estate financing
market 13 Recruiting platform for medical staff
in Romania gets angel financing 14 Sberbank's fund Fort Ross Ventures invests in Instamart delivery service 14
Fintech & E-commerce 16
Chinese online retailer Joom buys
into Russia's iGooods delivery service 16 Polish cosmetics companies make it
to the Chinese e-market 16 Russia's Sberbank to launch
biometric payments 17 Wildberries overtakes Sportmaster
as Russia’s biggest clothes retailer, e-commerce outlet market leader
for first time 18
Telecom 19
North Macedonia's Makedonski Telekom’s net profit up 8% y/y in 1H19 19 Romania, US sign memorandum
on 5G technologies 19 Russia's Rostelecom delivers solid
2Q19 results, upgrades guidance 20
NIBs 21
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