Digital Intelligence

Thousands of people in Moscow and two other Russian cities gathered to march against their government's new internet restriction laws on Sunday.

12/03/2019  |  Full story...

A Russian robot named ‘Boris’, claimed to be a high tech invention on state TV has been revealed as a man in a suit.

13/12/2018  |  Full story...

Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba has joined forces with a state fund along with telecom company MegaFon and internet firm Mail.Ru Group as part of a new ecommerce venture in Russia.

14/09/2018  |  Full story...

Russian internet giant Yandex is to begin testing a new autonomous ride-hailing service in the tech-centric town of Innopolis.

31/08/2018  |  Full story...

Russian search giant Yandex is in talks with Russian retail stores about the sale of its rumoured smartphone, according to the newspaper Vedomosti.

28/08/2018  |  Full story...

Nearly half (47%) of the world online population will be will be tuning into the FIFA World Cup either online or on TV this summer, with Facebook and WhatsApp the best platforms for brands to reach them, according to new research.

28/03/2018  |  Full story...

Burger King is taking loyalty schemes to the next level in Russia, swapping cards and vouchers for its own has bitcoin-style cryptocurrency.

30/08/2017  |  Full story...

Russian search engine Yandex has launched a number of AI-powered services as it looks to rival Google in the mobile search market.

14/10/2016  |  Full story...

There is a positive outlook for the global advertising market in 2016, set to continue in 2017 powered by the ongoing growth of Digital, according to new research.

09/09/2016  |  Full story...

New connected consumers in emerging markets, especially rural China, continued to drive smartphone growth in 2Q16, according to new research.

23/08/2016  |  Full story...

Russia's anti-monopoly watchdog has accused Google of abusing its dominant position in the market by forcing phone-makers to pre-install its apps on Android phones.

17/09/2015  |  Full story...

Online advertising in Europe reached 11.8% growth to reach a market value of €30.7bn, remaining the second biggest media category as catches TV in terms of investment.

03/07/2015  |  Full story...

Kaspersky has revealed that its own systems were recently compromised by hackers, meaning that the online security firm has become a victim of the very malware that it had discovered three years before.

11/06/2015  |  Full story...

3M has embarked on a novel new digital marketing campaign that transforms ‘annoying’ re-targetted banner ads into something more useful- a reminder note for yourself.

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08/06/2015  |  Full story...

Russian Internet giant Yandex has launched the new version of its Chromium-based browser offering a twist on the traditional format.

22/05/2015  |  Full story...

Facebook has continued to dominate as an identity provider in Q1 of 2015, annihilating Russian based VK’s share of social login.

23/04/2015  |  Full story...

Russia’s most popular search engine Yandex has asked the state anti-monopoly watchdog to investigate Google for possibly violating Russian antitrust law.

19/02/2015  |  Full story...

The global advertising market will grow up to 6% a year over the next three years, driven by mobile, social media and the transition to programmatic buying of digital display, according to a new report.

08/12/2014  |  Full story...

This week, Russian hackers stole the largest known collection of emails, passwords and usernames, with the haul consisting of 1.2 billion username and password combinations, along with over half a billion email addresses. In this article, a number of key players in the security industry comment on what this means for the digital sector, and how to prevent further breaches in the future.

07/08/2014  |  Full story...

Russia's parliament has passed a new amendment that forces Internet firms such as Facebook, Google, Skype and Twitter to physically store all electronic data involving its citizens within the country.

24/07/2014  |  Full story...

Digital ads will lead the way for global media growth in the next four years, accounting for 33% of total advertising revenue, nearly catching TV in the process, according to a new report.

04/06/2014  |  Full story...

Samsung is to launch its first smartphone powered by the Tizen operating system in Russia this summer.

02/06/2014  |  Full story...

The founder of Russia's biggest social networking site VKontakte has been fired following an alleged censorship and surveillance row with the Russian government, with claims that allies of President Putin have now taken over his site.

23/04/2014  |  Full story...

With the winter Olympics over, digital marketing software Silverpop looks back at impact social media has had on this year’s winter games in Sochi, and the opportunity this presents for marketers.

04/03/2014  |  Full story...

Russia’s largest search engine, Yandex, has struck a real-time bidding (RTB) partnership with Google, granting its ad clients access to Google’s DoubleClick AdExchange.

28/02/2014  |  Full story...