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 February 2020 www.intellinews.com @bneintellinews
  Belarus emerges as Europe's leading high tech hub
Best know as “Europe’s last dictatorship,” Belarus has a secret. Over the last decade it has grown a blossoming high tech industry that earned the small northern republic nearly $15bn last year – as much as Russia earns from arms exports.
Belarus emerges as Europe's leading high tech hub 2 Yandex bets on super-fast grocery delivery 4 Messenger service Telegram warns consumers about Gram token scams 6
Leaders 7
OneWeb’s big satellite launch at
Kazakh cosmodrome steps up race
with Bezos 7 Russian e-commerce could see
market consolidation 8
Investment 10
Turkish rapid delivery groceries
start-up Getir ‘in talks to raise
additional $100mn in funding’ 10 Unicorn with Russian roots Arrival
gets UPS investment 11 Insight Venture Partners acquires
Veeam Software 11
Fintech & E-commerce 12
Czech online food shop Rohlik.cz
begins operation in Hungary 12 Russian e-commerce major
Wildberries enters EU with Poland
launch 12 Russian e-retailer Ozon to give up
own delivery service 13 Brexit pushes money app Revolut
to shift payment operations to Ireland
and Lithuania 14
Telecom 15
Russian government said to reject
JV for 5G roll-out, insists on one main operator 15 Romania’s Digi telecom operator
raises €850mn in bond issue 15 Osijek to become Croatia’s first 5G city 16 Russia's VEON to sell business
in Armenia 17
NIBs 18
For a country that is better known for producing tractors, giant mining trucks and the legendary “Minsk fridge”
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   Yandex bets on super-fast grocery delivery
Russia’s government is keen to wean itself off foreign technology and promote domestically developed hard- and software. Now the tech hub Skolkovo based in Moscow has proposed creating
an “IT integrator” for the country's giant state-owned
enterprises (SOE) that will push both import substitution See page 4 and the Kremlin’s digitalization drive.
 





























































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