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March 2019 www.intellinews.com @bneintellinews
Russia to introduce 5G
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.
MTS and Ericsson sign 5G roadmap agreement 4 Russia becomes Europe’s largest
internet market 5 Russia gets a second female billionaire 6 Russian government still hot on
blockchain and cryptocurrencies for
the financial sector as a digital law
takes shape 7 Russia’s MTS to sell its stake in online retailer Ozon to Sistema 10 Yandex to IPO Yandex.Taxi in the next
two years 10 Leaders 11 Apple provides details on compliance
with Russian data-localization law 11 Mail.Ru Group sells SK Gaming to Mercedes-Benz,” the first car maker
to invest in an eSports team” 11 Russia drops two places on Bloomberg innovation ranking 12 Russia’s food service market growth accelerated to 5% y/y in 2018, fast
food is the leading sub-segment 13 Russian state-backed tech fund
Rusnano exits US Wi-Fi chipset
provider Quantenna with high return 14 Turkey’s gaming exports hit $1bn+
in value last year says GIST expo rep 14 Investment 15 Food delivery service Golama raises $2.3mn, sees orders grow by “up to
30%” monthly 15 HeadHunter invests into Russia’s
Skillaz, an AI-powered recruitment solution developer 15 Russia’s Gazprom Media and US investor back catering startup from Moscow 16 Russian e-commerce operators drive warehousing demand as retail is transformed 17 Russians spent $1.66bn on games in 2018 18 Siberian startup iFarms secures $1mn
to develop “vertical farms” across
Russia and Europe 18 Swedish investor VNV injected $8.5mn in Russia’s Busfor ticketing service in 2018 19 Blockchain & Cryptocurrency 20 INTERVIEW: ITI Funds democratising
the asset management business 20 Bitcoin mania spreads to the Western Balkans 23 Cryptocurrency exchanges eye Russia
for expansion despite sanctions 24 Romania-based blockchain startup
gets Canadian financing 25 Central Bank of Russia to expand its
new peer-to-peer Rapid Payment
System to B2C payments 26 Telecom 27 Big three mobile company VEON
reports unexciting 4Q19 results 27 Russia’s Yandex smartphone flops 28
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Google agrees to filter censored content in Russia
EWDN in Moscow
Google has “established a constructive dialogue” with Roskomnad- zor, the Russian telecom and Internet regulator, to delete
from search results websites that are banned in Rus- sia, the Russian media reported, citing the Roskomnad-
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