"You may not have heard of serial entrepreneur Serguei Beloussov, founder of SWsoft, but Western investors go ga-ga over his startups..."

"Putin is pouring billions into boosting the tech sector. The country has a skilled workforce—but cronyism and copyright issues pose problems."

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"Slide.com claims to be the largest widget-maker in the world, reaching over 117 million unique viewers every month, according to Comscore. It lets people make slideshows of their photos and embed them in the form of "widgets" into Myspace and other social networks...

"Alternative search startup Quintura Inc. has secured a Series A round of nearly $5 million from Mangrove Capital Partners, to scale up and build out its meaning-based search engine... The platform was developed by several Russian technologists and aims to make search more intuitive."
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Alexander Stepanov, inventor of the C++ Standard Template Library and a renowned engineer and scientist in the world of programming, is working on a new book about programming and looking for your opinion. Press here for more details.