bne_Tech_07_2018

bne:Tech
July 2018 www.intellinews.com @bneintellinews
Russian AI segment set to outstrip global competition
Vladimir Kozlov in Moscow
Over the next few years, Russia's artificial intelligence segment is likely to take off, outperforming global competition, recent studies suggest.
Contents
Russian AI segment set to outstrip
global competition 1 Cybercrime a growing challenge
as Russian firms embrace digital technology 1 Ukrainian cryptocurrency mining
driven underground 5 Russian retailer X5 to team up with China's online store JD.com 8
Leaders 9
Chinese Alibaba Group starts online
food sales in Russia 9 Czech fare aggregator Kiwi.com adds
new Nomad function for multicity
journey planning 9 Yandex-affiliated browser Opera files
for IPO in US 10 Uber signs another memo with Czech finance ministry to report its sales
since October 11
Investment 12
Hungarian venture capital fund to
invest €100mn in Central Europe 12 United Group announces €100mn investment in local content in the
Balkans 12
Blockchain & Cryptocurrency 14
Two major Russian banks to offer crypto
to their private banking clients 14 US confiscating Iranian cryptocurrency wallets around world 15 Uzbekistan signs decree on
cryptocurrency, blockchain 16
Fintech 17
BCS to launch a digital lender 17 Russia's TCS banking group mulls
buying online ticketing service 18
NIBs 19
Telecom 23
Court rulings on Ukrtelecom nationalisation overturned by
supreme court 23 Russia's mobile major MTS approved $0.5bn buyback amid Sistema
sanctions rumours 23
Telecom 24
Turkish banks to take over bankrupt
Turk Telekom 24
By late 2018, the global artificial intelligence (AI) market
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Cybercrime a growing challenge as Russian firms embrace digital technology
Vladimir Kozlov in Moscow
Russian companies have been actively entering the digital economy, something the government has been pushing for ever since President Vladimir Putin announced the digital economy See page 4 was one of the main priorities at the St Petersburg