bne_Tech_12_2018

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bne:Tech
December 2018 www.intellinews.com @bneintellinews
CEE firms to invest heavily into robots
bne IntelliNews
As global shipments of industrial robots reaches a record high of 381,000 last year, the pace of growth in the Central and Eastern European market outstripped almost all of the rest of the world in the uptake of robots, data from the International Federation
of Robotics (IFR) shows.
CEE firms to invest heavily into robots 2 Security concerns surface as Russia digitises its economy 4 Russia’s major corporates undergoing
a digital transformation 5 Ex-Gazprombank investor chipped
in Russia's CityMobil deal 8 Russian lottery operator S8 continues online expansion with Price.ru buy
from Rambler 8
Leaders 9
Ru-Net rebrands to RTP Global,
launches new $200 million fund with
a focus on India 9 Yandex.Taxi experiments driverless vehicle in Russian tech city, celebrates first 1,000 rides 10 Yandex.Taxi continues foreign
expansion with Israel 11
Investment 12
ITI Funds raises $5 million to make alternative and crypto assets more accessible to investors 12 Leta Capital’s new $50 million fund helps software startups “eat up the world” 13
Blockchain & Cryptocurrency 15
A startup with Russian roots signs
EU’s first blockchain property deal 15 Launch of crypto mining firm
reportedly delayed in Azerbaijan 15 Belarus passes blockchain legislation 16 Sberbank, NSD and MTS complete full-cycle bond deal on blockchain 17
Fintech 18
Chinese WeChat Pay comes to Russia, Russian Mir goes global 18 Russia's Qiwi payment system beats expectations in 3Q18 19 Romania’s Bittnet finances
acquisitions with new bond issue
on Bucharest bourse 20
NIBs 21
Telecom 24
4G growing fast, 5G to follow in Russia and neighboring countries, says GSMA report 24 Ericsson launches 5G and IoT research lab in Turkey 26 Moldova’s mobile voice telecom
market shrinks in Jan-Sep 27 Telekom Srbija says still in race for Telekom Albania, eyes new cable operators 27 Telia sells bribes-tainted Uzbek
telecoms holding 28 Kyiv court rejects claim to cancel privatisation of Ukraine's telecom major 29
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Security concerns surface as Russia digitises its economy
As Russia moves towards digitization, security concerns have arisen due to the failure of government agencies to foot the security bill in timely fashion.
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The government-funded "Digital Economy" programme,