Mobile Content Russia

Between December 6th and 8th in Paris there was held Game Connection 2011 Conference – a great business event which brought together game developers, service providers and publishers aiming to expand their network and to find the right business partners worldwide. SmsCoin project, which provides technology solutions for SMS payments implementation in over 90 countries worldwide performed as an outstanding exhibitor in this international marketplace.

A leading provider of game industry happenings, Connection Events, is best known for organizing Game Connection conference, which brings together publishers, service and technology providers, IP owners, investors, and independent developers from across the world to meet, pitch, and sign deals. Many exciting conferences, workshops and master classes covering business, technology and game design took place throughout Game Connection Europe-2011 that attracted over 250 exhibitors and more than 1000 visitors globally. One of the unique features unveiled by Game Connection was its online meeting application that presented the companies with the chance to conduct up to 50 meetings in three days, which along with an impressive number of exhibitors and attendees makes Game Connection one of the important B2B events in the games industry calendar.

The largest Russian mobile Ad network Plus1 WapStart has introduced a unique and innovative ability to perform a detailed geographic and behavioral targeting for the advertisers.

The geographic targeting will now be done with an increased accuracy and up to the small town level within the Russia and CIS countries. Additionally, the new functionality allows to anonymously "track" mobile audience when they move between geographic locations temporarily, such as vacation or business travel. For example, if some one from Moscow visits St. Petersburg he will be able to see advertisement for both locations broadening the relevant audience for the advertisers. This is the foundation for the behavioral targeting which WapStart is planning to actively developer this year.

A largest Russian mobile ad network WapStart Plus1 has reached over one billion mobile ad requests monthly.

This is a big milestone for the fast growing Russian and CIS markets and the company is excited to be the first to cross it with its' highly scalable platform Plus1 WapStart - providing innovative targeting and format technology to millions of users daily.

During the first month of 2011 WapStart Plus1 has registered over 30 million requests daily and with limited data for March of 2011 the network is already seeing over 37million requests per day - a very rapid growth in less than 2 months.

Spb Software a leading mobile software developer expands its presence on Android with the release of SPB Wireless Monitor - a complete Android solution for measuring data traffic via all types of connections and calculating network usage costs according to the current data plan.

One day you may realize that you do not control your spending on mobile Internet. It even can become dramatically expensive and subjected to the high costs of roaming. Astonished by the unforeseen expenses you try to find out what's going on. Your search comes to no avail since there is no easy way to track which particular applications your money is being spent on. You finally decide to stop using the Internet on your mobile device in order to prevent bankruptcy. There is a way out: by installing SPB Wireless Monitor to your mobile device, you will be able to calculate how much money you spend on the Internet and determine which applications are consuming the most of your money.

Spb Software, a leading mobile software developer, announces the results of the seventh annual SPB Survey. This year the survey was held from November 18th till December 7th and aimed to give an overview of the latest mobile market trends, while helping in identifying changes in user profiles, mobile device expectations and the typical handset use cases. The most discussed and controversial issues in 2010 were picked to be included in the survey. The highly respected mobile market analysts Distimo and MobileSQUARED were involved in the work on the survey questions.

In August 2010 SmsCoin — mobile payments aggregator — announced the release of unique program for the market - «Synergy». «Synergy» campaign invites aggregators which rent short codes from mobile carriers all over the globe and provide these codes to the owners of all kinds of services, to join forces in connecting new countries or reaching already connected countries under better conditions.

We remind you that currently SmsCoin is the only project within the sector that provides SMS-payments platform which offers its' services to partners across 87 countries free of charge. According to chief managers of the project, considering extensive worldwide coverage, searching for and connecting brand new countries becomes much more complicated due to individual specifics, such as mentality, differences in business models, financial opportunities and technical requirements. The goal of «Synergy» confined as mutually profitable cooperation of aggregators from different countries all over the world, aimed at business-abilities development and profit growth based on traffic exchange. We interviewed Yakov Beder, SmsCoin CCO and head of cooperation with aggregators department, on the preliminary results of the campaign and perspectives of SmsCoin in general.

HeroСraft released mobile fishing sim unpretentiously called “Russian fishing”.

Light ripples on water, leisurely floating clouds and a beautiful view will take you from the stuffy, dusty city back to the heart of nature. Choose a spot for fishing, cast your rod and… feel the first bite. Use your fishing skills, make sure that your line doesn't break and the fish doesn't get off the hook!

Euroset, the largest mobile phone and consumer electronics retail chain in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), and Brightstar, the leading global provider of services and solutions for the wireless industry, announced today the signing of a multi-year agreement. Brightstar will immediately begin assisting Euroset on the sourcing of mobile devices, as well as mobile device strategy and category management.

As part of this agreement, Brightstar will also provide Euroset with various supply chain and retail operations services, and the two companies will also identify and pursue additional joint market development opportunities.

Russia's Svyazinvest is reported to have suspended plans to merge its mobile network subsidiaries with the smallest of the country's three dominant mobile networks, MegaFon. (Though by some reports MegaFon overcame VimpelCom in April and now it's the second largest mobile operator in Russia in terms of subscribers base - Mobile Content Russia note). A Svyazinvest spokeswoman told Dow Jones News that the company is no longer negotiating with Megafon and the proposal is on hold until next year. No explanation was given for why the talks were suspended.

Svyazinvest is primarily a landline operator, but also owns 14 mobile networks, which operate in four federal districts. The mobile networks had around 16 million subscribers at the end of last year, equivalent to a market share of 9%. A study carried out by consultants, McKinsey recommended merging the networks with another company.

“VimpelCom Ltd.” (“VimpelCom Ltd.” or the “Company”) (NYSE: VIP) today announced that it has delivered the squeeze-out demand notice and related material required to be provided under applicable Russian law to OJSC "Vimpel-Communications" ("OJSC VimpelCom").

As described in VimpelCom Ltd.'s final prospectus dated March 25, 2010, all OJSC VimpelCom shares and American Depositary Shares ("ADSs") not tendered to VimpelCom Ltd. in its exchange offers to holders of OJSC VimpelCom shares and ADSs are subject to a mandatory squeeze-out procedure under Russian law. Today, VimpelCom Ltd. commenced the squeeze-out procedure through which it will acquire all remaining OJSC VimpelCom shares, including those represented by ADSs, for a cash payment of RUB 11,800 per share (which is equal to approximately US$382.18 per share at the exchange rate as of May 25, 2010).