Tag Archives : Moscow

Skype yesterday announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Qik, a provider of mobile video software and services that enable users to capture, preserve and instantly share great moments on video anywhere. Qik has 60 employees and is headquartered in Redwood City, California and has an office in Moscow, Russia. The transaction should [...]

One of the biggest names in automobile tires, Pirelli, has now finally come out with the much awaited and highly customary annual calendar, in the form of the all new  Pirelli Calendar 2011. Pirelli Calendars have for long been associated with high class and have been considered as a collectible rather than a table top calendar. For the year 2011, [...]

Russia opened a case against a man for involvement in a large spam operation that has flooded the web with ads against impotence (about the drug Viagra), a Russian newspaper published today. The newspaper said the allegations were unprecedented in Russia, a major center for the spam, which is under pressure from its Western partners to crack down on [...]

Can you believe it that Naomi Campbell has completed 25 years of her career! In any case the achievement calls for celebration. And the Italian fashion design duo Dolce & Gabbana has decided to do just that. They are celebrating the 25th anniversary of Naomi Campbell’s career with a limited edition t-shirt collection and launch event. There are [...]

Russia isn’t exactly the place that would come to your mind when you think of Thanksgiving. However, it might come to you as a surprise to learn that Russians celebrated Thanksgiving too, along with Americans in a parallel tradition. A Canadian Blogger has written more about that. Americans have long viewed Russia with suspicion and there are [...]

Kaspersky, an anti-virus and computer-security firm based in Moscow, created a tool called Krab Krawler, a program that searches through tweets. According to the company, ‘a quarter of Twitter messages contain a URL and half of those are generated by spammers and other Internet lowlifes.’ It seems that Twitter has been used by cybercriminals as [...]

Moscow welcomed Obama, who on the evening of Tuesday (7) concluded a Russian-American summit of two days as if he were just another dignitary of way, without demonstrations as occurred in other European cities. No crowds clamoring for a glimpse of him. The headlines offer only a brief note or frivolous activities. The programming of the TV was not [...]

In theory, this time Russia should remain as the major power in its region. Throughout the year, despite its own economic spasms, Moscow devoted huge amounts of money to their impoverished post-Soviet neighbors, seeking to ensure their loyalty in the long term and restrict the influence of the West in the region. But the neighbors seem to have other [...]