9 posts and columns on Moscow

Russian Carriers Hot to Get iPhone 5 Before Winter

in News on August 5, 2011 at 11:59 am PT

Russian business newspaper RBC Daily claims the iPhone 5 will hit Russia in November, “almost immediately” after sales begin in the U.S.
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Skype Snaps Up Mobile Video Chat Player Qik

in Commerce on January 6, 2011 at 10:50 am PT

Skype has confirmed it is acquiring Qik, a start-up that has been getting attention over the past year for becoming the default video chat software on many new smartphones with forward-facing cameras.

It's a Small World After All: Facebook's Russian Investor–Who Just Got $300 Million From a Chinese Investor–Nabs $388 Million More From a South African Investor

in News on July 13, 2010 at 10:38 pm PT

Naspers, a South African international media group said one of its subsidiaries was taking a nearly 30 percent stake in Digital Sky Technologies in a transaction that includes a $380 million investment. Russia-based DST has made a splash in Silicon Valley by investing massive gobs of money in high-profile, social-focused U.S. Internet companies, such as Facebook, Groupon and Zynga. Now, it apparently has even more money to spend.

The Secret Life of Chatroulette’s Hacker Founder

in Media on May 10, 2010 at 8:23 am PT

Can’t read enough about Andrey Ternovskiy, the kid who built Chatroulette? You’re in luck: This week’s New Yorker has an excellent profile of the Russian teenager.

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Tweets of the Week: From Russia With Tweets

in News on March 1, 2010 at 12:58 am PT

Some of this week’s biggest tech-industry tweets came not from Silicon Valley but from Russia. “Rustechdel”–for Russian Tech Delegation–was hash-tagged by people like Twitter Co-founder Jack Dorsey, start-up investor Esther Dyson and actor Ashton Kutcher, who joined the U.S. State Department technology delegation in Moscow for a week of extolling the benefits of social media to Russians.

Facebookers Start Cashing Out Up to 20 Percent of Shares With New $100 Million Investment

in News on July 13, 2009 at 9:55 am PT

According to sources close to the situation, current and former employees of Facebook are now going to be able to sell up to 20 percent of their common shares. It is part of a $100 million add-on investment in the social networking company by the Russian investors who recently put $200 million into the company for preferred shares valued at $10 billion. The new tender offer today by Digital Sky Technologies for common shares of Facebook is valued at $6.5 billion, or $14.77 a share.
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The First Video Interview With Facebook's New Russian Investor, Plus COO Sheryl Sandberg

in News on May 26, 2009 at 12:33 pm PT

Because a lot of tech’s big shots are converging on our seventh D: All Things Digital conference, BoomTown managed to grab Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Alexander Tamas, one of the key execs of the social-networking site’s newest megainvestor, Digital Sky Technologies. Here’s my video interview with them about the $200 million that the Moscow- and London-based DST announced today that it had invested in Facebook, at a $10 billion valuation.
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Da! Facebook Takes $200 Million From Russian Investors at $10 Billion Valuation

in Media on May 26, 2009 at 9:17 am PT

Facebook is indeed taking money from Russian investors Digital Sky Technologies. As previously reported, the social network is selling $200 million of preferred stock at a $10 billion valuation; DST will also buy up to $100 million of common stock at a lower valuation later this year.
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