Mobile Content Russia

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MobiWorld Media, the owner of the SPB TV brand, outlines that the mobile TV business division, developing the world's famous SPB TV solution, was not involved into the Yandex and SPB Software acquisition deal.

"We welcome the news of the Yandex's acquisition of SPB Software, which should benefit both companies." said Kirill Filippov, CEO of MobiWorld Media. "MobiWorld Media has its own strategy to develop SPB TV solution, and as a fully independent company will not be affected by this acquisition."

Today is the 5th anniversary of SmsCoin project – the most successful SMS payments provider which became one of the leaders in SMS billing industry based on the quantity of ready-to-use solutions for different websites, as well as on the number of countries connected over this period and the amount of rates offered within each and every country.

VimpelCom (which operates under the Beeline trademark) announced that its current Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”), Alexander V. Izosimov, has decided to step down as of June 30, 2011 and that the Company’s Supervisory Board has unanimously decided to appoint its current Chairman, Jo O. Lunder, as the new CEO of VimpelCom.

The Company’s Supervisory Board has unanimously proposed Augie K. Fabela II (Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus of VimpelCom) to serve as the new Chairman of the Supervisory Board (subject to the election of the nominees to the Supervisory Board at the upcoming general meeting of shareholders (“AGM”) and the subsequent appointment by the Supervisory Board).

A VII international conference «Mobile content - MoCo2011» – one of the key events in mobile content industry - will take place between July 9th and 10th in Moscow. During 7 years, the Forum brings together leading companies from Russia, CIS countries, EU countries, Middle East and USA. SmsCoin project, which provides a complete platform for SMS payments implementation across almost 90 countries worldwide, performs as a sponsor of «Mobile commerce» session.

During the session the participants will discuss the expectations of mobile commerce participants regarding industry development, the characteristics of cooperation between the companies that offer mobile commerce services, legislation issues, target audience of mobile commerce services and consumption patterns, latest wireless technologies and employment perspectives within the mobile commerce industry.

On February 14-17 in Barcelona there took place a wide known Mobile World Congress. The delegation of SmsCoin SMS payments provider visited this significant event, and Dmitry Polyanovsky, CEO of the project, told us how thing were done.

What was your first impression regarding the Congress?

Mobile World Congress is a large scale event that assembles all the players available within various fields of the mobile industry, starting with manufacturers of the mobile devices' parts and accessories, up to the creators of mobile applications for smart phones and of software support for mobile platforms. During these days, representatives of major corporations as well as smaller scale companies attended the Congress, and you could find individuals also attending this big event. Well, and the atmosphere, of course, was warm and welcoming both at the exhibition and at the Congress alike.

This year it was the second time SmsCoin representatives attended MWC. Did you find any fundamental differences between the 2011 Congress and this year event?

This year less start-ups were represented amongst the exhibitors as oppose to the Mobile World Congress 2010, during which new projects were represented at a separate sector. In fact, the location of the participants reminded us of the last year's exposition so much, that at times we were under the impression that the booths of many companies remained at the same spot since last year.

Russian WapStart and Smaato Inc., the leading mobile ad networks aggregation & optimization platform, have entered into a strategic partnership agreement.

The main goal of the partnership is to integrate the largest Russian mobile ad network Plus1 WapStart with Smaato's platform benefiting existing and new clients of both networks by providing access to the combined inventory and advertisers.

VimpelCom (which operates under the Beeline trademark) announced that Henk van Dalen will become Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Management Board of the VimpelCom Ltd. group. The appointment will be effective on September 1, 2010.

Henk van Dalen is CFO and a member of the Board of Management of TNT N.V., an international express and mail delivery services company, publicly listed and traded on Euronext Amsterdam, with operations in more than 200 countries and about 160,000 employees. Before becoming CFO of TNT in 2006, Henk van Dalen worked for 30 years at DSM N.V., a Euronext Amsterdam listed company involved in the production of nutritional, pharmaceutical and chemical products. Mr. van Dalen was group CFO of DSM from 2000 to 2006 and managed various divisions in the period 1990 – 2000.

Last week SmsCoin (smscoin.net), world's leading project in terms of provided services and countries offered worldwide had celebrated its fourth birthday. Throughout its existence the project connected 70 countries and for each and every country there is a variety of seven ready-to-use services as well as an abundance of rates to choose from.

VimpelCom (which operates under the Beeline trademark) announced that its Board approved changes to the reporting structure of the Company. The reporting structure will be divided into four business units--Russia, Ukraine, CIS and International--that will report to the Company’s headquarters in Amsterdam.

In connection with the restructuring, Elena Shmatova has been appointed the General Director of OJSC “VimpelCom” and will lead the Russia business unit. The Ukraine business unit will continue to be led by Igor Lytovchenko, President of Kyivstar. The CIS business unit will continue to be led by Dmitry Kromsky.