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AmBAR Newsletter - Mon, 9 Apr 2007

Tue, 04/10/2007 - 22:22 — ileonov

In todays issue:

1. AmBAR and SVOD articles now available in Wikipedia.

2. US Consulate General in Moscow mentions AmBAR

3. Ozon.ru, Russia's Amazon.com, Gets $18M Investment For Expansion

4. The next Silicon Valley: Siberia, an article in Fortune Magazine

5. AmBAR is mentioned in the International Herald Tribune

6. Moi Krug has been acquired by Yandex
1. AmBAR and SVOD articles now available in Wikipedia.
AmBAR and SVOD now have pages in English and Russian in Wikipedia, the biggest and most broadly read worlds encyclopedia!
You can check it out at the following URLs:
 
2. Website of US Embassy in Moscow mentions AmBAR
Russian-born American Ingenuity: Google
By Kevin McCaughey:
 
3. Ozon.ru, Russia's Amazon.com, Gets $18M Investment For Expansion
By Richard MacManus, Read/WriteWeb
Ozon.ru , which claims to be Russia's largest e-commerce store for books, audio and video, software, multimedia games, electronic and digital goods, received $18 million in funding this week from Index Ventures, Holtzbrinck Ventures (the venture arm of one of Germany's largest publishing companies) and Cisco...
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4. The next Silicon Valley: Siberia
By Brett Forrest, Fortune
A tech boom is giving life to a former Soviet center for science. IBM, Intel - and even Oprah - are paying attention.
Time passes slowly in Novosibirsk. In front of the opera house on Red Prospect, skateboard kids skid off the plinth of the Lenin statue. The tilting chimneys of roadside hovels, rusted auto husks and sludge-slicked bus shelters appear to have been slouching into poses over many decades... To read more, please go to:
 

 

5. AmBAR is mentioned in the International Herald Tribune
Russia unable to tap science for profit
By Andrew E. Kramer, International Herald Tribune
Being a star engineering student at the top-notch science university here was not enough to exempt Viktor Gordeyev from physical education classes.
Gordeyev, a specialist in airplane piston engines, sweated it out with everyone else, running laps in lumbering, heavy infantry boots as a drill sergeant barked out commands in the foothills of the Ural Mountains. He vowed to find an easier way. And he found one or at least came close...
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6. Moi Krug has been acquired by Yandex
Yandex has announced an acquisition of the largest Russian social network, Moi Krug.  The management and development teams of Moi Krug have joined the combined company, including its founders.  A formal announcement is published in the official press release┘
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