bne_Tech_06_2018
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June 2018 www.intellinews.com @bneintellinews
Irish tech titan lines up stake in Slovak AI firm
Jason Corcoran in Dublin
Irish tech titan Pat Phelan
Contents
Irish tech titan lines up
stake in Slovak AI firm 1 Making Russia an e-Republic 1 Startup conference bridges tech entrepreneurs and investors 6 Russia preliminarily adopts crypto- unfriendly legislation 8 Leaders 10 Sales of Czech internet giant
Seznam.cz soar to record-breaking CZK4.12bn 10 Russia could levy cross-border online purchases in 2020 10 Over 100 new companies enter
Belarus hi-tech park in 2018 11 Saudis to invest in Russian logistics runner-up PLT 11 ICO & Deals 13 Czech PPF to acquire 100% of Serbia’s Telenor banka 13 Sberbank and National Settlement Depository to test new ICO technology 13 US’s Zynga acquires Turkish mobile gaming start-up Gram Games for
$250mn 14 Gett taxi service raised another $80mn
in Russia 15 Russia's internet major Yandex starts share buyback 15 Russian DIY marketplace secures $500,000 from international business angels and VCs 16 St Petersburg delivery service iGooods
get new investors 16 Russian Railways to invest $5mn in Skolkovo Ventures fund 17 Bulgaria's IT Soft plans to offer bond
issue on Sofia bourse 17 Blockchain & Cryptocurrency 18 Russian, Chinese investors contemplate cryptocoin mining in Transnistria 18 Obuv Rossii embraces blockchain 19 Two real estate firms in Montenegro
sell apartments for Bitcoin 19 Fintech 20 Russia's Sberbank to discount online consumer loans 20 China's WeChat launches its mobile payment service in Russia 20 Fintech Revolut will launch
in Russia on Qiwi platforms 21 NIBs 22 Telecom 27 Vodafone Romania reports its turnover rose by 30% y/y in 2017 27 Cypriot court to unfreeze assets of Ukraine's SCM in Ukrtelecom dispute 27 Russia's MegaFon expands IT assets
with Ananyev's Technoserv 28 Ukraine's major telecoms provider increases tariffs 29 Vodafone quits HiWEB deal in Iran
due to US sanctions 29
Irish tech titan Pat Phelan is lining up a punt in YouFirst, an innovative Slovak startup that utilises artificial intelligence (AI) to track facial expressions of television viewers.
Phelan, who sold his e-commerce ID and fraud
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Russia's leading tech companies intend to transform the domestic online market
Making Russia an e-Republic
Russia's leading tech companies intend to transform the domestic online market. Russia’s newly inaugurated president Vladimir Putin has tasked the government with making Russia a top-five global economy by 2024 the day he was confirmed in office for the
Filip Brokes in St Petersburg
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