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The Russia Business Review
Internet technology is moving forward at the speed of light, and it's heartening to know that Russian developers are keeping apace, even if not leading the way. Despite the brain drain that plagues the local software development field, some companies have managed to take advantage of the available intellectual potential and channel it to achieve results.
"Thinking Computers"
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The magazine of the World Economic Forum |
World Link magazine, Davos'2000
The high-flying world of Internet start-up companies and cutting-edge software is not uniquely reserved for 20-something Americans in California. Among the grey Stalinesque buildings of Moscow State University, several entrepreneurs banded together in August 1998 - just days before the Russian financial crisis - to launch a company specialising in an area that few people understand and which even fewer would try to apply to the commercial world of the Internet.
"The neural network niche"
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Financial Times, February 16 2001
Russia's budding software companies are gaining the attention of global
venture capitalists on the lookout for promising IT start-ups. The country's young entrepreneurs
employ thousands of cheap and talented programmers and are learning quickly how to sell their
products overseas.
"Russians try to lure investors"
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