"Coupon" project of the United States would receive money from the Russian

Russian Foundation for Digital Sky Technologies will invest in start-up project Groupon, established in November 2008. Total volume of investments that Groupon receive from DST and the American Stock Battery Ventures, will be $ 135 million According to Clickz, funds raised will support global expansion Groupon (service providing companies the ability to sell services at a discount, in 50 U.S. cities and Canada, daily for each municipality launched the new shares). To attract consumers use ads on search and social networks Facebook, and affiliate programs. Audience of the project was not disclosed - at the same time, representatives Groupon say that for all time the work was completed more than 4 million coupons for a discount. In the current year turnover Groupon reach $ 350 million, reports TechCrunch. The project cost is estimated at $ 1.35 billion Russian counterparts Groupon (a system of collective buying Biglion, as well as project Darberry, which Oborot.ru told recently) no one has yet assessed.

Online shop OZON.ru worth $ 500 million?

In RuNet have another analogue Groupon

KupiKupon, another project for a collective shopping, sells a variety of services - such as going to the movies or a restaurant - for 50-90% of their nominal value. The basis of the service based on the idea of ??western projects that do not work one year and have already gained popularity among users. But in RuNet such projects already. Sites collective purchases collect certain, previously agreed upon with the partner number of consumers who are ready to order certain services at the partner institution in a strictly limited time span. Thus, the project partner receives an influx of new customers and the projected volume of orders, and users - favorable conditions of service. The American draft collective shopping Groupon.com, created 1.5 years ago, has attracted the attention of Russian-speaking Internet users after the announced receipt of $ 135 million from a group of investors, among whom was a Russian fund Digital Sky Technologies. Among the Russian analogues Groupon include projects such collective shopping as Darberry and Biglion.ru. On investments in the current Russian projects of collective shopping, nothing is yet known. Despite the presence of competitors, an international holding company Veritas Financial Europe, launched a project KupiKupon, intends to make its service number 1 in the market of collective purchases in Russia and CIS countries by early 2011.

UK e-shop will open "online fitting room"

Leading UK retailer, Hawes & Curtis, collaborating with the project Fits.me, finalist X Rally startups PayPal. Fits.me - a new version of the online fitting room for online clothing stores that have proved effective in preliminary testing. Development Fits.me, virtual "fitting" (Virtual Fitting Room) for online merchants, solves one of the main problems of online retailing clothing - the inability to "try on" product line, "try" it before you buy. The technology of virtual "dressing" was developed by the University of Tartu, Polytechnic University of Tallinn and the German company Human Solutions GmbH. Funding for development Fits.me - venture capital investments and research grants of the European Union. According Neykki Heldr, director and co-founder of a startup Fits.me, as a result of preliminary testing revealed that the virtual "fitting room" at 28% reduces the amount of refunds ordered clothes and three times increase online sales. Network Hawes & Curtis - a leading UK retailer in the trade business and branded shirts for men and women, also produces accessories and evening wear. Cooperating with Fits.me, British network becomes the first retailer in the country to offer consumers the opportunity to a virtual "try on" clothes before buying from an online store.

X5 Retail Group gets involved in e-commerce

Company acquired 31% of the company's "IT Business, managing online stores and Bolero.ru 003.ru. Proportion of X5 Retail Group has reached 82%. It is possible that before the end of 2014 the retailer will take advantage of right of first refusal to purchase the remaining 18% of the company's "IT Business, gaining full control of both the online stores. X5 Retail Group became the owner of "IT business in the fall of 2009, agreeing to establish a joint venture with the owners of internet-shops and Bolero.ru 003.ru. Partners X5 made in the joint venture all rights to the domain, hardware, software, call-center, customer databases and the right to lease storage capacity. The retailer received 51% of new businesses and the right to repurchase the remaining shares within 5 years. In the first quarter of 2010, the amount of net revenue, the company "IT Business was $ 4 million, the average bill has exceeded 3,7 thousand rubles, according to Retail.ru.

In RuNet will appear online auction of copyright

Run the project, which combines elements of social networking and trading platform, scheduled for August this year, exactly to the annual opening of the XXIII Moscow International Book Fair. Organizer and one of the owners of the Exchange - Alexey Kuzmin, one of the founders of the online store Litres.ru, who left the post of general director of GK Litres in March 2010. Volume upfront investment in the creation of stock exchanges is 30-40 million. Part of the funds invested in the project was obtained from the sale of controlling stake in SC "Litres" publisher "Penguin Books" (the transaction took place last fall). The value of the transaction is unknown until now - as part of a group of investors involved in the creation of an online exchange of copyrights. It is expected that the new project will bring together many participants in the book market: publishers, aggregators, copyright, online stores and other categories of rights holders. All participants in the exchange can act both as sellers and buyers as the copyright in content (primarily - web content). Fee for each prisoner a deal will be small - only 10 rubles from each side, assuming that the exchange will exist through membership fees of participants FIPR, which ranged from 20 to 30 thousand rubles a year. FIPR - Non-Commercial Partnership "Federation of intellectual property rights", which is currently undergoing a process of registration with the Ministry of Justice. According to the portal "cookie", membership in the FIPR will be available only to "professional market participants." Support for non-commercial partnership said "Russian Authors' Society Kopirus, LLC Ilosvet (owner of the electronic library edu-all.ru) and the Russian State Library.

"Yutinet.ru" wants to bring the conversion to 4-5%

Trade in luxury: a new stage

E-commerce is no longer something exclusive for companies working in the industry of luxury goods - is a necessity. Producers and sellers of goods segment luxury, long time not been paid due attention to Rosneft's marketing possibilities of the Internet, now have to pay for entry into the market of online retail. Group of Companies Richemont, which owns the rights to brands Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels and Montblanc, last week purchased online store Net-a-Porter. The declared value of the transaction - 350 million pounds. As reported by The Financial Times, the purchase of one of the world's largest online shopping luxury segment displays the relationship of fashion brands and the World Wide Web to a new stage of development. In the past, the group Richemont had a relatively low level of Internet presence (but, nevertheless, was a minority investor Net-a-Porter in 2002). Now the company is improving its position in Internet commerce, demonstrating the growing trend in the industry luxury: innovative ways of involving the World Network. Earlier this year, the French group LVMH rebranded and restart your online store eLuxury, which is now available at nowness.com. According to the Bain & Co, the market for Internet commerce in luxury goods is about $ 4.9 billion (3.2 billion pounds) and market growth rates over the past year - about 20%. Online Shop Net-a-Porter, launched 10 years ago with an investment of 800 thousand pounds in 2009 to gain by selling 120 million pounds, showing an increase of 50%.

Amazon.com will buy a site with one product

The largest online store of the world will buy the project Woot.com - service sales, daily offered for sale only one product for exclusive price. It seems that "special" range does not confuse consumers - site Woot.com registered 2.75 million users. Draft Woot.com - one of the pioneers of "non-traditional" online retailers, operating since 2004. Every day on the site there is a new special offer, the duration of shares - 24 hours or as long as the goods are in stock. For example, recently held at Woot.com Sale player iPod Nano for $ 99.99 (at Amazon.com the same item cost $ 122.54). In addition to electronics, Woot sells T-shirts, toys, and wine discounts. According to analysts Forrester Research, Woot.com gathers supporters impulse purchases, which could not entice Amazon (which, incidentally, does not interfere with online hypermarket to maintain their own "Products of the day and place proposals Woot.com among the listings of other traders). Buyers are attracted sushestvennye discounts on popular products and the element of the game that accompanies the process of shopping at these sites. On the other hand, Woot.com "famous" careless attitude toward clients (especially in comparison with the online-shop clothes and shoes Zappos.com, acquired by the corporation in the Amazon last year). Clients wishing to obtain further information on "goods of the day," project Woot.com offers to tell fortunes or Googling for "magic ball" Magic-8.

More investment from Softline Venture Partners

Venture Capital Fund Softline Venture Partners will be able to receive funding and expertise from the State Seed Fund of the Russian Venture Company (RVC). For consideration by the MERs will be added to the projects in a fairly high degree of elaboration and ready for commercialization. Seed Fund MERs will provide up to 75% of the total investment in the portfolio company. According to Elena Alexeeva, director of investment company Softline, a partnership with RMC will increase the number of funded projects. In this portfolio companies receive not only financing but also an additional examination, which will better develop high-tech business and innovation. "Seed Fund MERs designed to support the Russian innovative companies with high growth potential in Russian and foreign market. Through the partnership, the Fund will allocate 25 million rubles for the development of the best innovative projects. It should be noted that investment in one project from Softline Venture Partners can reach $ 1 million

Chinese Internet marketers go to the U.S.

Alibaba.com, the world's largest marketplace format B2B, continuing the process of global expansion. A few days ago, the Alibaba announced the purchase of U.S. company Vendio Services, which provides to small and medium U.S. businesses set of tools for online sales through its own project site and specialized platforms Amazon, eBay, Google and Shopzilla. Company Vendio - Alibaba.com first purchase on the American market. An undisclosed amount. As reported by The Financial Times, as a result of absorption Vendio customers of Chinese companies (about 658 thousand suppliers) have access to 80 thousand vendors, collaborating with the American Online service. In addition, Alibaba.com will be able to increase its customer base by representatives of SMEs USA. David Wei, CEO of Alibaba, does not deny the possibility of further absorption of U.S. companies. The Chinese company is looking for suitable companies in the U.S. for investment and integration with existing projects. As a result of such transactions Alibaba wants to increase its customer base and gain additional technologies for its customers. Past two years, Alibaba is trying to increase the influence of outside of China, luring foreign customers a flexible system of commissions and gradually transforming into a global "Yellow Pages" of the market e-commerce. In 2010, the Corporation has launched a website AliExpress, helping suppliers and buyers find each other and pay for orders online.

PayPro spend $ 1.7 million to increase software sales

Company PayPro Global, providing services in e-commerce, has received funding of $ 1.7 million will be directed to the development and promotion of the project EasyCommerce - the online marketplace for software. In a message PayPro stating that large-scale investments in technology development of e-commerce will radically change the current approach to the sales organization, offering software companies more secure and efficient alternative to existing solutions for online trading software. "PayPro Global Success depends on the development of our clients, this is the impetus for the continued expansion of the platform EasyCommerce, - commented Matthew Silverman, CEO of PayPro Global. The funds provide us with unprecedented opportunity to improve the trading platform to offer customers the company and very interested audience reliable, secure, innovative and at the same time, convenient system for the implementation of software. "

"Innova" builds shopping center for gamers

The company "Innova", which is engaged in publishing and localization of online games in Russia and the CIS, is preparing to launch an online store legal digital content AYYO. The new service will sell games, books and videotapes. Currently online store is being closed testing. Entered into partnership agreements for content distribution Paramount and Disney, completed negotiations with Warner Brothers, Universal and Sony Pictures. Press-service of "Innova" reports that the new items will appear in AYYO almost simultaneously with the release of movies on laser discs. Besides the opportunity to rent and buy video content, users of the online store will have several special services: the online video player, a system of rating of content, personal advice and a few other options. Payment online will be carried out through its own billing system "Innova". Investments in AYYO amounted to approximately $ 1 million company is confident that the project will soon be profitable. Note the value of an audience of game projects, "Innova", according to the company's own estimates, 2 million people. "We aim to make the highest quality service that will know what look you want. For it is the users and will pay - said Gevorg Sargsyan, General Director of Innova." - Now a Russian user has no culture of consumer content. And it is this not my fault. You can not accuse people of what they buy things on the Cherkizovsky market, if there is no shopping centers.

In 2011 Russia will become more microloans

Microfinance institutions made in a special register will be able to give to other businesses and individuals up to 1 million rubles. Interestingly, the Federal law № 151, which regulates the activities of such organizations, prohibits revise the interest rate and loan term in the contract period. Rights and obligations of microfinance institutions enshrined in the Federal Law of 02.07.10 № 151-FZ. The law lists the documents required for entry in the register of microfinance institutions. In addition, requires that rules for issuing microloans to each organization on the Roster are available to all comers. Ministry of Finance plans to issue a legal framework necessary for microfinance institutions and monitor them. Likely to follow the activities of such companies will have a special unit of the Ministry of Finance, said "BuhOnlayn.ru.

Licensed software on credit

"Rosbank", Softline and Microsoft launched the project "Soft loans for small and medium-sized businesses in Russia." Thus, the organization of SMEs will be able to reduce the cost of purchasing software Microsoft. Almost half of small and medium-sized Russian companies are interested in the credits for the purchase of licensed software - the study says Softline. In this case, 47% of customers prefer to take credit for 1-3 years, 25% - for a year or less. About a quarter of respondents are willing to take a draw to soft $ 10.3 thousand, 22% - from one to three thousand dollars, 17% - $ 10-20 thousand in accordance with the terms of the program Rosbank provides SMEs and individual entrepreneurs registered and conducting business on an ongoing basis in the Russian Federation, the credit for the Microsoft software volume licensing program for Open Value / Open Value Subscription for companies with a fleet of PCs is not more than 250 pieces. Loan size - from 150 thousand to 600 thousand rubles, the term - from 3 to 36 months. Softline Company provides its customers with an additional 5% discount on the software Microsoft, purchased on credit. "It's no secret that the acquisition of licensed software for organizations of small and medium businesses in Russia at times becomes unbearable burden. The" Soft loans for small and medium-sized businesses Rosbank, Softline, and Microsoft aims to help in the distribution in time and cost savings for the purchase of Software Microsoft.

Microloans for Small Businesses

Agency "Microfinance, founded the bank VTB 24 and NP" Moscow Center for Entrepreneurship Development in December 2007, the beginning of their lending to individual entrepreneurs and small businesses. The company provides quick access to financial resources, simplification of procedures for issuance of the loan and the availability of microfinance for the majority of small business clients. Loans granted to entrepreneurs and organizations working in construction, wholesale and retail trade, miscellaneous services (hairdressing, repair work of all kinds, travel agencies, transportation services). Maximum loan amount - 350 thousand rubles, loan term - up to 2 years. The deposit is not required. The interest rate - 23-26% per annum (depending on the availability of guarantors), and in that case, the bank's borrower must pay the fee for application review - 2% of the loan amount. Today in Moscow opened four centers of microfinance to the end of the year plans to launch six more such centers - one in each of the administrative districts of Moscow. A similar project - the creation of commercial microfinance organizations on an equal footing with the structures of regional government - is unique for the Russian banking market, reports the press service of VTB 24.

"Young" online stores to help finance

E-commerce platform InSales appreciate and reward their customers who have created "commercial" sites after June 1, 2010. The competition participants will have to work hard - online stores, leased to InSales, to work successfully and to show good sales at the time of examination (from 8 October to 14 November of this year). Participation is free. Completed applications will be accepted until mid-September. According to contest rules, the application may be accompanied by additional materials (the project budget, plans to move, a description of the current implementation stage, screen shots, site, etc.). One of the criteria used in selecting participants - branch claimed the online store (there are only projects, conducting retail trade of goods of mass consumption, gifts, clothing, etc.). List of participants of the contest will be published on September 20. After that, applicants will have access to account for service InSales tariff plan "Standard". Then participants will receive three weeks to create online stores, the best of which get into the final match. From October 18 to November 14, the finalists are engaged in online commerce, attracting visitors and serving customers, improving their sites and taking part in the vote. As a result of examination of the winners in the categories "Swift Business" (the leaders in terms of turnover, number of orders and attendance), "Buyers Choice" (projects with the best performance of conversion and the number of orders received), "Easy Shop" (high-quality design, easy navigation and search products, adding the evidence of purchase to the basket and go to checkout).

AnyWayAnyDay.com share bought for $ 10 million

Investment fund Tiger Global Management has acquired 40% stake in the project anywayanyday.com, conducting online sales of electronic air tickets in Russia and CIS countries. Received funds, as reported by the representatives of anywayanyday.com, will be channeled to the development of the project. The newspaper Vedomosti, citing Kirill Podolsky, chairman of the board of directors anywayanyday, calls the transaction amount of $ 10 million press office of the project does not comment on these data. However, representatives of service estimated annual turnover anywayanyday.com (for 2009) $ 15 million, while revenues for the first half of 2010 - a $ 17 million online reservation of implementing e-ticketing, more than 500 airlines, as well as allows book seats in hotels worldwide. Kirill Podolsky, chairman of the Internet project anywayanyday.com, explains, wherever the money from the sale of shares in the project: "We plan to increase our share of the market, sales of electronic tickets, as well as begin the process to develop and launch new products under the brand anywayanyday . In the face of Tiger, we obtain reliable and experienced partner that will certainly help us to begin a new round of development. " "The market for online-ticket sales in Russia will increase significantly in the near future, and we hope that anywayanyday will play a prominent role in this segment," - commented on the deal, Scott Schleifer, Managing Director, Tiger Global Management.

Beacoup.ru hold a re-branding and will be released in Russian regions

Tools collective shopping, launched in early July, will be developed with the support of Russia's largest shopping-club KupiVIP, the audience of which - nearly 3 million registered users. Projects share a common investor - the company Direct Group. To date KupiVIP and Beaucoup.ru - strategic partners. Audience both projects overlap. Core audience service Beaucoup - girls and women aged 23-35 who have a median income, but want to try and look good. Beauty Industry - the basic concept of Beaucoup, which was originally conceived. Although the resource is totally a niche in nature, the chosen direction is very popular and in demand today. "It's no secret that service in Moscow are very expensive, especially for the beauty industry" - explains Julian Kaspranova, PR-director of a popular shopping club KupiVIP. Now KupiVIP helps to "stand up" the service of collective shopping Beacoup, which just goes to market. Already done by registered users mailing shopping club, inviting them to join the Beaucoup.ru (such partnerships are planned and mailing, etc.). Also on pages KupiVIP.ru posted a banner with a link to Beaucoup.ru. In addition, the site will be posted Beaucoup.ru recommended actions Shopping Club (here KupiVIP will act as a guarantor of quality and good selection.) In the future, at both sites planned to launch a unified authentication system (when using a password, under which a person is KupiVIP, you can go to Beaucoup) and through the establishment of a registration page (when registering at Beaucoup user will be prompted to register and KupiVIP and vice versa).

Businessmen on lending

A study conducted by the National agency of financial researches (NAFI), claims - a quarter of employers have no problem with borrowing. At the same time, more than half of survey participants said - get a bank loan except in accordance with good business plan, having no collateral, difficult or very difficult. Such a view often expressed by representatives of small and medium-sized businesses, regardless of industry. In this case, start your own business with a bank loan is easier in the wholesale and retail trade, services, transportation and light industry - the representatives of these industries have argued that a bank loan easily, some more often than other respondents. Most difficult to get a bank loan, having a good business plan, but without collateral, in the Siberian and Ural federal districts. And the easiest way - in the Central and Volga federal districts. Best loan term - up to three years. Most of the respondents doubted the possibility of attracting financial resources for a period exceeding 3 years later. Confidence in the possibility of obtaining long-term loan of the respondents expressed in two federal districts - the Central and Volga. In all other federal districts, there is an inverse relationship - the smaller the term of the loan, the more likely to obtain approval of the bank. In a survey of representatives of senior management 2,2 thousand Russian enterprises in the selection of competent financial partner. Research participants asked to rate the ease of obtaining bank loans at the stage of starting a business, as well as opportunities to attract financial resources for businesses and receive specialized financial services (factoring, leasing, insurance), tells the magazine "Private Money".

Ukrainian analogue Pixazza attracted foreign investment

Service that allows you to post links to trade offers online shops in the photos, will be "substantially" finalized thanks to the emergence of the private investor. In addition, funds raised will help to "Pictures" to expand networks and increase customer base. Project "Picture" collaborates with dozens of online merchants, touting their products to pay for the transfer of the user (model CPC) and the websites that host images of different subjects (clothing, electronics, home appliances, automotive goods, sports and tourism and others). Link to an online store selling merchandise with the image "is displayed in a popup ad unit that appears when you hover over the image. Interestingly, the layout of photos to show the relevant sentences in the "Picture" is performed either manually or automatically. According to the developers, to call the ad unit, the webmaster of the site is sufficient to add one line of Java Script code. Note that the English-language project Pixazza, operating more than one and a half years, has still not learned to recognize images in a fully automatic mode. Site of the Russian analogue "Piksazzy" service "Fotokontekst.ru" at the moment and do not available.

IT-camp to developers

From July 31 to August 4 in the cultural and educational center Etnomir in Moscow near Moscow to host international conference of an informal Internet activists iCamp 2008. Continuing the tradition of American "vebkampov", a program of the first Russian Internet conference in the open air will be built on the discovery of the principle: one can declare his theme, gather like-minded people and hold a workshop, master class, open studio, contest or presentation. The conference program includes several topics: StartupCamp - Fair startups, EduCamp - section devoted to online education, MediaCamp - the interaction of media and the Internet, SocCamp - section on the future of social networks, CodeCamp - section of the web-upstream developer. Also scheduled JustCamp - General section for activities that do not fall under any declared major theme sections and YourCamp - free section, which organizer can be any company or individual. A thematic section is consistent with the organizing committee iCamp 2008. Activities within the sections (minibars) agree only with those wishing to come to the event and the main organizer of the section.

Online Store: where to start?

Cheaper to learn from others' mistakes than admit their own. Portal Oborot.ru help entrepreneurs solve basic problems arising before the opening - and the first months of work - shop. Training seminar held in Moscow on July 1. The seminar "Online Store: where to start" - the answers to key questions online entrepreneurs not only solve specific problems (eg, how to start selling online and what to do to increase sales) but also an overview of specific features of e-commerce including - legislation governing online trading in RuNet. Recall that recently formed the first precedent in the Russian judicial practice - it was proved that the owners of online stores engaged in illegal business. The seminar is aimed at those who are planning to open your own online store, as well as employees of "traditional" companies, whose responsibilities include the establishment of retail sales over the Internet. The event may be useful for managers who want to get acquainted with the specifics of online commerce, or to decide whether to open an online store. In the seminar is based on the experience of leading online stores Runet, as well as small, but successful, projects. The event will take place in an interactive mode: Organizers will not simply "recite" the material, but also to engage participants in discussion covered by the example of the problems faced by the students themselves - so everyone will have the opportunity to get answers in the subject classes.

Loans for small and medium-sized businesses

Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development (UBRD) improves the lending program for small and medium-sized businesses. Now companies and individual entrepreneurs can get targeted investment loan. Credit: "Investment-Auto allows you to purchase new or used special equipment and vehicles in showrooms of the city and from private owners. At the same time as security for a loan appears the car itself. "Investment-Office" - targeted loan to purchase real estate, processed without bail surety acquired property. The loan is designed to help companies and organizations who were forced to spend significant sums of money to pay the monthly lease payments due to lack of proper facilities. In addition, bank customers are now able to issue "Mortgage overdraft" of up to 5 million rubles, or get credit for "Business Development" under the full provision of goods in circulation, which is particularly interested in prestaviteley wholesale and retail trade. JSC "Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development" in the I quarter of 2008, took 56 th in terms of assets in the ranking of "Interfax-100", compiled by the Interfax-CEA, and the first - in the ranking of banks according to Yekaterinburg Banki.ru.

Financial management of the dictionary

Consulting Company Expert Systems has launched new sections of the site with the methods and materials on business planning, as well as a glossary of common financial management. Thus, the Russian businessmen will be able to fill the gaps in investment and financial analysis. Among the materials of the new section you can find descriptions and examples of ready-made business plans created by the consultants of the company, as well as techniques for self-training. A glossary is due to a large number of inconsistencies in terminology and often the errors encountered in the translated editions of Financial Management. When filling the section using the glossary of management accounting, previously recommended for use by enterprises of the Expert Advisory Board on management accounting for Economic Development of Russia, the terminology of software "Expert Systems", tested more than 6 thousand companies-users. In the future the company intends to complete the terminology of the investment and financial analysis of the detailed comments of consultants.

Runet: more and more investors

Venture Almaz Capital Russia Fund I will seek interesting projects Russian developers. Earlier, the start of receipt of applications has announced the IT department -Investment Holding Finam. According to Vedomosti, a venture fund created with the participation of U.S. companies Cisco and Russia's UFG Asset Management, prepared to invest over $ 8.9 million in the Russian IT-startups. Investors are interested in projects in IT, media and Communications: startups, which have "a good market and a technological idea and a team able to implement it, as well as operating companies with sales in the units of millions of dollars." investment period will be 5-7 years. Future projects and businesses in the Internet , IT and telecommunications are also attracting investment holding company "Finam". The Department of IT-investment holding company to invest in startups and existing businesses in the area of ??information and communication technologies, Internet technologies (online services, online media, video, audio, social networking, e- commerce), software, games (computer, online), infrastructure (ISP, hosting service), mobile technologies and services. At the same time, the industry of venture capital investments in the country is still in its infancy - there is no shortage of proposals (only in Finam ", says project manager of the fund Finam-IT" Yuri Eremin, available for at least 30 proposals per month), but companies willing to invest a little, told "Vedomosti" Yan Ryazantsev, investment director of the Russian Venture Company.

15.7 billion rubles for SMEs

The clients of the Services Delivery credits of "National bank" Trust "- more than 20 thousand small and medium enterprises from various regions of Russia. Total loans exceeded 15.7 billion rubles. There are currently 119 cities in the presence of credit programs SMEs (add the city of Artem, Zelenodolsk, Salavat and Syzran). According to RBC Rating, NB "TRUST" in the top three leading banks on the number of cities and the five - the number of clients. The National Trust Bank has several loan programs for aspiring entrepreneurs who have worked at least 3 months, and for entrepreneurs with the experience. The maximum loan amount under the program of SME loans of 75 million rubles, and the loan period is 7 years old. The program "delivery service credits" NB "Trust" was launched in March 2006.

SaaS-site builder named the best startup

First place in the rating of investment attractiveness of the project StartupIndex got UMI.CLOUD - SaaS-platform for rent or sale of ready sites. Types of Web projects that are accessible through UMI.CLOUD, diverse - from a simple "business card" to a great online store. "SaaS as a whole is a promising niche not only in Russia but throughout the world - says a member of the advisory council StartupIndex Michael Smolyanov, CEO Megaplan. - With regard to the direction of CMS in the form of SaaS, it is generally a goldmine. Integrated solution UMI. CLOUD, allows you to create and manage a website advertising for visitors to the site is very convenient for the creators of small businesses. " The main criteria for evaluation of 92 projects that aspired to high positions in the ranking were: level of development goals and objectives, the project team and its ability to achieve its goals. Draft UMI.CLOUD created by Yumisoft "known to the IT market as a producer of content management system UMI.CMS, which occupies over 30% of Russian market of commercial CMS.

Google and Forbes was awarded start-ups

First place in "Business Project 2010" has won a startup Ecwid.com, allowing you to create online shops at second-level domains and social networks. The winning project received 1 million rubles for contextual advertising and an annual subscription to the magazine Forbes. The competition startups involved 186 projects that meet the formal criteria that is having an online component, and running after January 1 last year. Applications from potential participants were accepted from April 15 to September 10, 2010, 40 projects were rejected due to inadequacy of the competition. An independent jury selects the best projects on 3 criteria: originality and innovativeness, economic prospects, and social significance. The prize fund - the budget for advertising in Google AdWords (ranging from 250 thousand to 1 million rubles) and a subscription to the magazine went to three start-up winners. All winners, in addition to the Ulyanovsk Ecwid.com, from Moscow. Second place the jury awarded the software platform for 3D-modeling Vizerra, in third place was the online service for accounting and electronic workflow, "My job." Audience Choice Award was "Kuponer" aggregator of information on actions of the collective project of shopping. Interestingly, the project Kuponer "scored a decisive number of votes (in fact, attracted more than 3 thousand supporters) on the last day of open voting, October 1, 2010. In response to complaints from other participants in the contest, Eurovision Song Contest looked at the statistics of voting and said there is no "nakrutok.

Amazon buys BuyVIP.com

The largest online store of the planet has announced the acquisition BuyVIP, European service collective purchases. The project focuses on sales of luxury goods, the value of its customer base BuyVIP than 6 million people (for comparison - in the summer of 2010 in the Russian Shopping Club KupiVIP, according to its own project data, there were about 3 million members). But a comparison with KupiVIP not entirely correct - the Russian draft a sales presence in Russia and Belarus, while BuyVIP conducts campaigns for customers from Spain, Germany, Italy and Austria, Portugal, Poland and Holland. Amazon representatives did not report about future plans for the development BuyVIP (unlike the situation with the absorption of another Internet marketer trendy things, the project Zappos.com). Financial terms were also not disclosed, according to unconfirmed reports, the cost BuyVIP approaching $ 100 million previously, in June this year, managers Amazon said the acquisition project Woot.com, which is the same as BuyVIP, specializes in short sales, but while using the scheme of "Day 1 - 1 commodity." Analysts noted a sharp increase in the popularity of similar projects in the U.S.. After raising $ 40 million investment in the summer of 2010 cost Gilt Group, the largest shopping-club luxury goods in the U.S. was valued at $ 400 million in April, the company acquired the draft Delivery Agent Billion Dollar Babes, a men's magazine in May Thrillist announced the acquisition closed shopping Club JackThreads.

The contest Web Ready 2010

In the category" Best start-up "contest Web Ready won the draft Quadra. E-commerce outsourcing, providing a full spectrum of services for ausorsingovyh online stores." The best project on seed stage "was the service" Ariadn - SaaS personal data, allowing to select content to Web resources in accordance with the interests of user Web Ready Contest starts August 19, 2010. Organizers of competition have received a request from the 431 participants from 10 countries worldwide. The total prize fund was 1.5 million (last year's prize was a half-million less). The authors of the projects took first, second and third place in the category "Best Startup", received 500, 300 and 100 thousand respectively. The main prize went to the draft comprehensive e-commerce outsourcing, Quadra, the second place was the platform for corporate meetings yaM (yet another Meeting) and third place went to the service Alloka, directing potential clients, customers paying for incoming calls. The creators of the best projects, seed stage got prizes of $ 250, 100 and 50 thousand rubles (depending on location, awarded by the nominee). The first place went to decision Ariadn (selection of content in accordance with the known data about the user), the second - the project SMaileX.com (System comparison and reservation service delivery), the third was a project BabbleLABEL ("binding" of multimedia content to the bar-codes). Some of the projects participating Web Ready won special awards competition.

In Russia, improve the investment climate?

Economic Development and the State Corporation Rosnano intend to simplify the creation of venture funds and their funded startups. Relevant regulations are already being developed, said Oleg Fomichev, representative of the Ministry of Economic Development, at a meeting of representatives of venture capital markets in Russia and the United States. Hinder the development of Russian ventures, according to Fomichev, 3 factors: the unfavorable investment climate, lack of relevant legal norms and the lack of real projects that can be financed. Domestic investors are not willing to take technological risks (and, as repeatedly stated in various events for members of the web industry, many projects are killed in the valley start-ups, failing to attract sufficient resources from the side). In the U.S. and Europe, as reported by RIA Novosti news agency referring to Fomichev, the parties spend many venture deals, "looking at each other's eyes."

Russian shoe merchant has attracted $ 5 million investment

Shop Sapato.ru, an investment fund launched Fast Lane Ventures in June 2010, to devote part of funds in the warehouse, has tripled the size range (from 3 thousand to 10 thousand items of different men's, women's and children's shoes from suppliers in different countries). The second area in which to develop Sapato.ru - improving customer service (according to representatives of the project, quality of service is projected to reach the level of online retailer Zappos . com, a model which formed the basis of business Sapato). Handbook of Russian store plans to introduce additional services to help customers reduce the uncertainty of buying shoes online. In addition, part of the capital raised will be spent on aggressive marketing. In the future, an online store Sapato.ru going to become a leader in the Russian market for Internet commerce footwear, which is still in its infancy. Total Market (offline and online sales) is currently estimated at more than $ 15 billion online shoe store Sapato.ru - Project Fund Fast Lane Ventures, working with the support of eVenture Capital Partners, Direct Group and Investment Holding AB Kinnevik. Henric Persson (Henrik Persson), head of fundraising AB Kinnevik, commented on the decision to invest in Sapato.ru: "Unlike in Europe e-commerce market in Russia intensity grows, our studies show that the potential in this business is huge. Sapato.ru completely new model for the Russian e-commerce, but the partners are supporting a new project, have impressive experience, which can not fail to inspire confidence in the fact that very soon Sapato.ru become a significant player ".

Avito.ru project has attracted $ 26 million investment

Additional shares bought Avito.ru Swedes: Investment Concern Investment AB Kinnevik and fund Northzone Ventures. Proportion Kinnevik not disclosed, but known - Swedish concern, while contributing the bulk of investments in Avito.ru, was co-owner marketplace before this round of investment (the concern Kinnevik owned company, Re A eKommerts, Project Manager Avito.ru). According to Vedomosti newspaper, formerly the Swedish investment fund was planning to spend $ 21.5 million to purchase shares Avito.ru. Prior to that, $ 10.8 million were issued to "Re A eKommerts" in the form of the loan. Swedish Foundation Northzone Ventures after the completion of this round of investments owned a minority stake Avito.ru. The value of a monthly audience of trading platform allows you to publish free ads, and group them in the form of paid "online shopping", is (according to TNS) about 6.6 million unique users. The main portion of the proceeds of the project comes from advertising services. In the current year sales growth Avito.ru was "impressive", the newspaper Vedomosti, citing a representative Kinnevik.

$ 1.1 million for social advice

Project ShopSocially attracted funding from the Seed Fund Valhalla Partners in a $ 1.1 million California startup is a social service recommendations for online shopping, which allows participants to social networks to share information about recent purchases and discover new products. Within a few months of service users ShopSocially introduced himself more than 10 thousand items. "Potential buyers spend nemerenoe time to read hundreds of anonymous reviews that kills all the fun of shopping. ShopSocially lets you participate in the discussion of shopping with friends, shopping, making the process easy, fun and, of course trustworthy," - says Jai Rawat, director and co-founder ShopSocially. Service, launched in November 2009, can be integrated with online stores and used as an additional source of traffic to the site by the retailer to attract potential buyers on the recommendations of their friends in social networks.

Groupon came in RuNet through Darberry.ru

The situation in the Russian market of collective shopping is heating up: yesterday's startups have managed to interest investors, absorb each other. The American draft Groupon announced the acquisition of the project Darberry.ru almost simultaneously with the transaction between two other projects, "KupiKupon.ru" and "NadoVmeste. Tools collective shopping Groupon (which, incidentally, is, and Russian money), announced the creation of Groupon Japan. Terms of cooperation with Darberry.ru not disclosed - but it is known that control of the Russian property Groupon will founder Darberry, Alex Cherniak. A similar scheme of work provides in another acquisition Groupon - to lead the Japanese unit of the project, the company Qpod-Groupon Japan, will Keisuke Seto, creator of the system of collective shopping Qpod. In the coming months and Qpod Darberry will use the trademark Groupon and its corporate design. "Creating Groupon Japan and Groupon Russia will expand our activities in Asia and Europe - said Rob Solomon, president and chief operating officer Groupon. - We aim its people and its capital markets with the highest return on investment, and these markets open up Our vast opportunities associated with international e-commerce. " Groupon holds regular sales of services, merchandise and tickets to entertainment events in 165 countries, covering an audience of 13 million people.

Parter.ru and Kontramarka.ru "sold out completely, 100%

"Parter.ru" said 10-year anniversary of the completion of the acquisition of 100% stake in a leading European ticket holding CTS Eventim AG. Thus, from the October 2010 draft Parter.ru and Kontramarka.ru "is the Russian subsidiary of the holding and are called the CTS Eventim RU. Thanks to the first service transaction online in RuNet, Parter.ru, became the first "virtual" company, sold to foreign investors (and, accordingly, the first Russian ticket agency with one hundred percent foreign capital). Through the use of multi-functional technology platform, Eventim, "Ground" - the only one in RuNet seller of tickets for cultural events, bringing together 20 countries of the European Union. In addition, "Parter.ru" first in its segment launched a service "electronic ticket (e-ticket), and realized the possibility of full integration of third-party Web sites from its system. At present Parter.ru "- the only agency that can provide full technological cycle of the ticket program for international events. Today Parter.ru "offers diverse services for buyers of tickets, and for organizers of events. For buyers: "electronic ticket", ticket delivery to Moscow, and in 86 cities of Russia, all possible methods of payment: credit card, electronic money, cash terminals, and soon - the payment from the accounts of mobile phones; own Rewards loyalty program "Ground-Club, as well as a coalition with the bonus programs X5 Retail and Mnogo.ru.

In St. Petersburg, held a competition for internet entrepreneurs

Contest for bloggers, organized by Technopark Ingra, is part of the international competition of projects in the field of modern Internet technology Web Ready, acceptance of applications for which this year will begin August 19. Acceptance of works from the bloggers will start earlier, on August 9. "With the competition we hope to once again put the spotlight on the topic of Internet business, its capabilities and potential, perhaps, our authors will want to raise issues that are relevant today. And our contest Web Ready, we have organized just for the purpose of promotion and development of Internet Business in Russia ", - said General Director of the Technopark of St. Petersburg, Ilya Tolstov. Participation in the Competition can take anyone. To do this you need to write an article about business on the Internet, trends, trends, international experiences, stories, case studies, success stories. Mandatory condition of participation in the contest is mentioned in the article contest Web Ready with a link to the website www.web-ready.ru in context with the theme of the post. Written by post should be placed in a personal blog in the period from 9 August to 17 September and then send a link to an allocated position in the Eurovision Song Contest with the note "Best Post" at n.gineva @ ingria-park.ru. Awarding of winners will be held Sept. 29 at the III International Innovation Forum.

Who will offer the best idea for online business?

Living in Russia, Ukraine and other countries of Central and Eastern Europe can take part in the competition Start with e-nnovation. Applications for participation (with a description and a short presentation of the project) are accepted until August 16. The winner will receive 10 thousand euros. During the competition Start with e-nnovation will be judged the best ideas of innovation in online business. Organizers hope to get a description of projects that could change the future of the Internet as it did Facebook, YouTube, Wikipedia, Nasza-klasa, and Flickr. Match the best ideas organized by a group of Allegro, which is part of the international group Naspers. The process of evaluating ideas consists of two stages. Initially, the application considers the program committee, which celebrates the level of innovation, the ability to project success and its attractiveness to venture capitalists. The authors of the five best ideas will be invited to the conference e-nnovation, which will be held September 23-24 in the Polish city of Poznan. During the conference, each finalist will present their project to experts and participants of the event, and then participate in open debate. Best Project, which receives 10 thousand euros for the further development and call on Sept. 24, 2010.

Online Trading Russia - among the world leaders

According to the report, Forrester Research, the Russian market of e-commerce (as well as Ukrainian, Polish and Turkish) is one of the most promising in the region. Among Asia-Pacific countries, China is the most attractive in South America - Brazil. Perhaps, Forrester estimates will attract more investors in RuNet - the report's authors recommend that Internet companies to pay more attention to emerging markets. From 2010 to 2014 online audience of U.S. and Canada will increase by 3% per year growth rate of the online population in Europe will be about 20%. As a result, in 2014 in North America, there would be 13% of the entire global Internet audience in Europe - 22%. And the total value of the online population will reach at 2.32 billion, up 42% compared to 2009 (1.63 billion). Analysts advise Western online retailers to enter the foreign audience - at least by locating the content of their websites, at least a small part of it. In addition, companies would be good to develop their own marketing tactics to important markets because of differences in the behavior of consumers from around the world. About six months ago a project InternetRetailer surveyed nearly 250 companies participating in the market distance trade dollars. It was found that only 15.4% of respondents describing the goods transferred to other languages ??besides English. Another 15% of the companies located the "official" texts (the pages with information about payment terms, delivery, etc.). Almost one in five vendor (18,6%) of respondents allow foreign customers to see prices in familiar currencies, nearly one in six (14.2%) supported the call-center operators, who speak the native language of the customer.

First merger in the market of collective shopping

Federal Project KupiKupon.ru completed the merger talks with the service "NadoVmeste, a leader in the bulk purchases in the Urals Federal District. The deal was the first absorption "KupiKupon.ru" after the statement of withdrawal on the regional markets. Project NadoVmeste Launches Ekaterinburg Leonid Gluzman, a graduate of Ural State Technical University and a certified International Project Management Association (IPMA). By the time the agreement with KupiKupon.ru Ural service collective shopping gripped the capital of the Urals Federal District and Chelyabinsk, has opened offices in Moscow and St. Petersburg. "We unite people to achieve significant discounts, but now more and cooperate with the project" KupiKupon.ru "to create a leading player in the field of collective purchasing in the CIS", - says Leonid merger Gluzman. As explained by the representatives of the federal project, the union with "NadoVmeste" increased the audience of more than 40 thousand users (up to 150 thousand people) and added to the network "KupiKupon.ru" 2 new city. To date, service sells services at a discount of 11 cities in Russia, working in Kazakhstan, and the end of August is going to go to Latvia and Belarus. Network of regional branches "KupiKupon" is considered the highest among the competitors (the plans for the development of the regions at different times of the proposed project of collective shopping Beacoup.ru, Sellberry and others).

Innovation for Retail: Finalists Retail New Wave

The contest Retail New Wave has received more than 40 projects for the retail industry, developed by young professionals and students of Russian universities. Reached the final 4 of the 17 innovations considered promising. Some innovative projects have an online component - for example, "Shop with the function of the B2B and tripartite system for monitoring the movement of orders based on the GPS network of grocery stores." Full list of projects with descriptions and information about the authors can be seen on the competition website. Winner of the Retail New Wave is determined on September 10 during the congress Retail Business Russia 2010. Innovation Projects established by the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Commerce and Industry Chamber, the Association of Retail Companies and Business to Business Conference Group.

IBM creates a "machine for online sales"

To buy companies Unica, Sterling Commerce and Coremetrics, providing solutions for e-commerce, was sent to $ 2 billion, combining the third-party development platform with WebSphere Commerce, IBM will receive a system to manage the key stages of retail e-commerce. According to Craig Hayman, general manager of Industry Solutions Group ("daughter" IBM), acquired by the company itself is vital in e-commerce. Retailers are taking orders through the use of WebSphere Commerce and Sterling Commerce to monitor their implementation. Integrated analytical data provided by Coremetrics, allow you to run more effective marketing campaigns through the platform of Unica. Combining decisions referred under the control of IBM, will greatly improve the opportunities available to professional marketers. Judging from the statements and actions of the company, IBM is going to create a unified system for monitoring the behavior of customers and orders, who came from various sources, as well as managing order processing in distributed logistics centers. IBM will create a solution that works with all aspects of B2C commerce, said InternetRetailer, and the industry already has a need for this product. Market players, U.S. retailers are actively using new channels of communication with consumers and this leads to an excess of data that companies need to somehow use. System with a single repository of information about products and consumer behavior in all channels, to better understand the needs and desires of consumers and improve the effectiveness of marketing campaigns.

Softkey.ru - partner of the contest online innovation

Online supermarket software supports competition of innovative Web projects Web Ready, who organizes a business incubator "Ingria" in support of the Administration of St. Petersburg. Applications for participation in the project (including in the category of e-commerce) are accepted until October 24. Softkey is a media partner of the competition. Felix Muchnik, general director of Softkey, became a member of the jury along with other well-known specialists in the field of internet technology, venture funds and private investors. "A startup in fact, Softkey amassed quite a profound experience. I am confident that this knowledge in the coming years will be very relevant indeed, - said Felix Muchnik, - and a similar contest - a convenient platform for screening and correction of viable sites. Last year's Web Ready attracted nearly 400 projects from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Latvia, Bulgaria, Germany and other countries. Reached the final 23 startups. Web Ready Contest 2010 invites applications from projects working in areas of social media, SaaS, Sloud Computing, mobile technology, computer games, online, web development, virtualization, and online commerce. There are 2 nominations: "Best Project for seed stage" (for business ideas, business plans, or prototypes, not bred in the public access) and "Best Startup" (for ongoing projects). Participants are evaluated on several parameters: the novelty, technical feasibility, realistic business model (monetization), etc. "We expect that by the end of the contest will take more than one transaction," - says Ilya Tolstov, CEO of Technopark "Ingria".

Google buys a product search on the pictures

The company wants to acquire service Like.com - trading platform with the option of visual search for the goods. The annual revenue of the project, established in 2004, an estimated $ 50 million, the deal Google - Like.com could exceed $ 100 million earlier leadership Google is going to invest in the predecessor Like.com, recognition system rubs Riya, but later abandoned this idea . The kernel technology of Riya was used to create a project Like.com, which allows users to select clothes and accessories by color, shape and detail. Since 2006, the project has attracted about $ 50 million venture capital investment and achieved a turnover of $ 50 million a year. Like.com directs potential customers to online stores for a commission. Resource works only with online retailers, we carry out delivery on U.S. soil. Company's owner also owns Like.com projects Covet.com, Couturious.com and Weardrobe.com. According to TechCrunch, Google may invest in Like.com over $ 100 million purchase of probable cause - an interest in visual search technology, which uses Like.com.

Shopping at American online trading

Record investment in the U.S. market e-commerce - buying corporation Amazon online store for children's products Diapers.com $ 545 million, but the largest number in a segment of Internet sales for the year 2010 - $ 1.028 billion in the same amount earned online shops U.S. is the "hot" day of the year, "Cyber". Speaking about the deal between Amazon and Quidsi (company-owned Diapers.com), not to mention "no gentleman" behavior of "Amazon". After a series of failures of Internet hypermarket engaged in price competition - has reduced prices on some items that make up the "core" directory Diapers.com, such as diapers (born diapers). What e-commerce projects were interested in the Internet giant U.S. in 2010? Apart from Diapers.com, the corporation invested in the Amazon service collective purchases LivingSocial. This competitor Groupon, claiming sales of $ 1 million per day in 2011 to reach the target of $ 500 million a day. Draft Living Social got from Amazon about $ 175 million, increasing the amount of funds up to $ 232 million addition, under the control of Amazon went shopping service collective Woot (implements, mainly electronics). The declared value of the transaction - $ 110 million Hundreds of millions of dollars that Amazon has invested in social shopping - nothing compared with the plans Google. According to rumors, the search engine corporation offered to owners of service Groupon $ 6 billion, but the deal fell through.

$ 2 million to the Ukrainian collective shopping

Ukrainian project" Gorod24 "within two years will receive up to $ 2 million from the holding Rebate Networks, which is considered one of the world's leading collective purchases. In addition to investments, startups "Gorod24" will be given the right to use a package of know-how in electronic commerce. Project Gorod24 "can be rightly counted among the start-ups - the site was launched in May 2010. K so far, according to Maxim Sklyarenko, Director of Marketing "Gorod24" audience of the project is more than 150 thousand registered users, increasing daily by 1 thousand.'s monthly audience of the project - about 600 thousand users, each of which looks at the average 5 pages. The turnover of the project has not been disclosed - but, as reported Siteua.org, last month, sales through the site "Gorod24" increased by 4 times.

Application development platform will receive a $ 500 thousand

Project Hivext, simplifying the process for developing complex Web applications, will receive half a million dollars in the initial round of investment fund Runa Capital. Venture partner of investment fund - the company Softline, previously awarded the project for its own Hivext Innovation Contest Dev Generation 2010. Hivext - a decision that comes in the format of SaaS ("Software Subscription"). The platform allows the development of the server business logic of Web applications in various programming languages ??(Java, JavaScript, PHP, etc.) and provides developers with on-line environment Hive CDE to run applications directly from the browser, without installing and configuring additional software. Package of services Hivext consists of a set of components for common tasks, sets of templates and services for developers and application hosting. Indirect competitors Hivext are projects such as Google Apps Engine, Heroku (acquired by SalesForce) and Microsoft Azure. The platform Hivext is in beta version. Commercial operation of the project will begin no earlier than III quarter of next year.

KupiVIP wants to get another $ 20 million

The largest shopping-club of Russia, which has over 3 million registered users, is preparing a new round of funding. The share of 10% KupiVIP can be sold for a sum exceeding $ 20 million, and during the next transaction, may pass under the control of a strategic investor. In January 2010, KupiVIP raised $ 20 million from the fund Accel Partners, which is one of the shareholders sotsseti Facebook and system for mobile advertising AdMob. Received funds intended to direct the development of a strong logistics structure, increasing the pool of providers and frequency of actions, as well as the aggressive promotion KupiVIP in Russian regions. The current goal, according to the newspaper Kommersant, are very similar: the expansion of business, logistics and other operational costs. " Earlier, in October 2008, the shopping club has invested $ 11 million thus incomplete for 3 years of the project whose cost is now estimated at $ 200 million, has managed to increase capitalization of about 7 times. Shareholders KupiVIP not disclosed. It is known that the funds Mangroove and Accel Partners own package of more than 25% but less than 50%. Possible members of a new round of investments - Mangroove Capital and another "two or three private equity fund, which is currently being negotiated."

Wikimart will receive an additional $ 7 million investment

American fund Tiger Global continues to invest in the Russian marketplace, which positions itself as a 'Russian Amazon ". In May last year Wikimart received from the investor's $ 5 million, which were aimed mainly at staff recruitment and internet marketing. After the second round of investment share of Tiger Global exceed 50%. Wikimart - an additional channel for online sales for retailers. Marketplace receives from 3% to 30% on each transaction. According to Vedomosti newspaper, in December 2010 sales by Wikimart reached $ 2,5 million on the trading floor were more than 2 thousand vendors.

KupiVIP estimated at $ 200 million

Company KupiVIP, managing shopping clubs KupiVIP and KupiLuxe, as well as collaboration services shopping KupiKupon.ru, is in talks with private equity fund Russia Partners. The Fund is willing to pay $ 40 million for the 20% stake in the retailer. Funds received as a result of the transaction, will be channeled to improve the logistics (including - creating their own delivery service orders). Russia Partners Fund praised the company at $ 200 million, according to RBC daily, referring to representatives of independent investment firms. In the future, according to the publication, the retailer does not intend to raise additional funds - after reaching an agreement with Russia Partners Company KupiVIP will seek a strategic investor. It is worth noting that the Oscar Hartman, director KupiVIP.ru, called a strategy of "untrue" and promised further report on any changes in KupiVIP.

Softline is investing in multi-channel sales

Venture Fund Softline Venture Partners has paid half a million dollars for project control Emegamall, allowing to manage online sales through third-party web projects: social networks, message boards, blogs, online auctions. According to Igor Borovikov, chairman of the board of directors of Softline, the future sale of Social Media expects a significant jump. "In social networks is no easy mechanism for sales. Development of individual applications for each store - a process long and expensive, and the contents of such application, unless it synchronizes with an online store on its website, requires a huge time-consuming," - says Borovikov. Total project cost Emegamall, according to experts Softline Venture Partners, at this stage of development reaches $ 2 million signing the agreement on investments of $ 500 thousand, a venture fund received a blocking stake Emegamall.

Sapato.ru spending investors' money on advertising

E-shop who wants to become a leader of Russian market of online trading in shoes, has launched an advertising campaign on TV, "TNT", "CCC" and "Home." Apparently, the TV campaign - one of the manifestations of "aggressive marketing" Sapato.ru, which planned to send a portion of the $ 5 million of borrowed funds. Draft Sapato.ru, launched Fast Lane Ventures Fund in June 2010, received the support of companies eVenture Capital Partners, Direct Group and Holding AB Kinnevik fall of 2010. Most of the funds, as expected, be spent on improving customer service and range (in addition to several thousand items of different shoes, the directory Sapato.ru were added to bags). Over the past 3 months online store turnover has doubled, the number of brands - at 40% and the average attendance exceeded 1 million users. It seems now an online store starts to phase "aggressive marketing". Sapato.ru infomercial airs on TV February 25, 2011.

"LitRes" is sold. And preparing a "jihad"

Once the "pirate" on-line store digital books intended to plead with the project "Librusek. In addition, representatives of the "Litres" confirmed the rumor about the imminent sale of the project publishing house Penguin Books. Alexey Kuzmin, director general of the online store Litres.ru, confirmed that talks with Penguin Books. Share "Litres" may pass under the control "Penguin Books in the fall of 2009. Currently discussed two options for the deal - a controlling stake in an online store, or a blocking stake with an option to share, missing to a controlling stake. The transaction amount is not called. The share of publications, "Penguin Books" accounts for about two-thirds of total sales LitRes.ru. Nevertheless, according to Alexei Kuzmin, relationships with other partners LitRes.ru not change. But the online store is going to attract "Penguin Books" to fight against the "pirates". "If the pirates had even scanned text, now they just buy and spread in a pirate library. Prior to the end of the year we want to stop it, and together with the" Penguin Books "We will do that" - said CEO LitRes "in an interview Slon . ru. Currently, visitors LitRes.ru get about 5-6 thousand texts on weekdays and about 3-4 thousand - at the weekend. The average price of e-books - about 30 rubles per copy. Thus, daily revenue online store can be up to $ 6 thousand currently LitRes.ru directory contains more than 17.8 thousand electronic and 1,2 thousand audiobooks from 4,5 thousand authors.

Small businesses have promised cheap loans

Government co-finances a program to support small business, runs the program of lending "kids" under the 13-14% APR, low predpriniyatiyam promises tax breaks and the opportunity to participate in auctions for government contract. As stated by Minister of Economic Development Elvira Nabiullina, currently is collecting applications from banks wanting to participate in the program of concessional lending to small businesses. As Interfax reported, right now banks lend to small and medium-sized businesses under the 20-30% APR. Rates of small business lending by banks participating in the program of the bank, will be monitored, and the order of 13-14% per annum.

Talk about the future iCamp Russia

July 24 in the building of the Chamber of Commerce in Nizhny Novgorod will be a series of activities on key trends and technologies of the Internet, venture capital investment and state support startups. A brief look at the future of Runet represent Garrett Johnston (Marketing Director of "MTS Russia"), Eric Wright (representative of the global coworking project), Anatoly Levenchuk (director of "Tehinvestlab"), the philosopher Alexander Neklessa and other speakers. Then Alex Belyshev, project manager Godmol.ru, talk about how it will develop a program to support young people after 2009. Outside of the program will include a presentation of the report TEDx Google "Internet in 2019." As part of Investor Day contest will be held startups to "prize" fund of $ 10 million investment committee will include representatives from 15 foundations, commercial banks and government agencies, as well as some "business angels". At the beginning of "Investor Day" will speak Ilya Ponomarev, Chairman of the Subcommittee of the State Duma on technological development, which will describe the interaction of state with the venture capital fund. Also in the Novgorod program of the conference is planned series of master classes from Google and Opera, barcamp program for "free" reports and the presentation of the Cup All-Russian Internet-marathon ROCIT. Participation in all activities iCamp Russia is free but requires advance registration.

X5 Retail Group parted with Ulendeevym

New CEO of IT business ", uniting online retailers 003.ru and Bolero, appointed Cyril Grodinsky. Previously, the company managed Vladislav Ulendeev, transferred control of the online stores X5 Retail Group in autumn 2009. According Ulendeeva, reminiscent of the X5 raider attacks. X5 Retail Group N.V. manages networks that stores Pyaterochka, "Crossroads," "Carousel" and is the largest retailer of Russia in terms of sales. Before the establishment of "IT Business" retailer engaged only in off-line trafficking. In autumn 2009 the group X5 paid $ 1 million for control of the "IT Business", receiving 51% of the company, the rights to domain names 003.ru and Bolero.ru, hardware, software, customer base online stores and other assets. Right to redeem the remaining 49% of the retailer partially implemented in May 2010, increasing its stake to 82%. On the remaining 18% stake in X5 option until 2014. Vladislav Ulendeev said that currently 18% of the "IT Business" is a minority, of which 15% owned by a co-founder eHouse (including myself Ulendeevu). According Ulendeeva, X5 bows minority shareholders to sell 15% for $ 1 of his former partner, "reminiscent of raider attacks." Representatives of X5 Retail Group argue that 100% of the "IT business is already owned by the retailer. Both sides are preparing for litigation.

In KupiVIP.ru a new shareholder

In the development of shopping-club will participate Direct Group, the leading provider of distance selling in Russia. President of Direct Group, Pascal Clement, will join the Board of Directors KupiVIP. Direct Group is planning to offer a range of solutions for KupiVIP.ru on supply chain management, development of logistics structures and optimizing the delivery of orders. One of the priority areas of cooperation and KupiVIP.ru Direct Group is the construction of a warehouse shopping club, able to cope with large amounts of supplies. "Today KupiVIP.ru more than 500 thousand members of the club, daily online shopping club holds 3.2 new shares of sales (per month KupiVIP.ru represents about 100 shares for different brands), even when only a couple of months ago The club holds two to three times less than the shares. This suggests that the "shopping club" is a very dynamic structure that requires constant improvements and the introduction of new resources, "- said Oscar Hartmann, CEO KupiVIP.ru.

Mail.ru wants to invest in robots

Internet holding company to negotiate an option agreement with "Nanosemantika, are developing new types of interfaces, providing the possibility of" natural "intercourse between man and machine. According to the newspaper Kommersant, in exchange for an option at 10% -20% of the company, Mail.ru will advance services "Nanosemantiki" on their online resources. Date of performance can be from 1 to 3 years. The main products are "Nanosemantiki" - "Virtual Advisor", who can answer customer questions on the site of the customer, "Expert systems" (simplifies the selection of necessary goods and services at the customer) and "Interactive banners" (allows customers to enter the input of the right product or service directly in the banner).

Damochka.ru become an online store

Dating "Damochka.ru, combining more than one million Internet users, came under the control of the holding eHouse. Earlier, a controlling stake of the project belonged to the "Rambler". "Rambler" acquired "lady" in 2006 for $ 3.3 million, but a project whose own audience was 1.7 million active users, have failed to integrate with services Rambler.ru. "The lady" is rapidly losing its market share, and buyers in the project is not located. According to CNews, currently the sole owner of the company Peyntium "(owning the project and Damochka.ru Bannerbank) is holding eHouse. Controlling stake was bought in 2009, details of the deal were not disclosed. According to Vladislav Ulendeeva, chairman and chief executive eHouse, shortly dating service Damochka.ru will be transformed into a woman's shopping club. "Life has shown that the more successful we can all Internet commerce," - said Ulendeev.

Investors are interested in cheap flights

In April, consumers of the Russian Federation, Ukraine and Belarus will receive another e-shop travel services. Service Bravoavia, running on the Ukrainian stock funds TA Venture, will focus on low cost tickets, but then adds a variety of other types of services: online booking of hotel rooms and rental cars. Co-investor of the project Bravoavia - International online travel merchant services Bravofly Group. New online discounter will be created using technologies Bravofly, the foundation of the project - a specialized search service tickets and other offerings for travelers. The value of investments in the project Bravoavia not disclosed, but AIN.ua information about the size of the initial capital stock TA Venture - $ 20 million

Online music trading is not profitable?

Online digital music store Fidel.ru, one of the largest in RuNet, returned to former owners. The project is just a few months spent asset "media world", a subsidiary of RBC. Controlling stake in the project moved to RBC in the winter of 2008. It was reported that manage the site will be "media world", and RBC will take on funding commitments to the online store and promote Fidel.ru sites own online projects. The transaction amount was $ 8.5 million, with over 3 years shares owned by RBC, could have been increased to 75%. According to Vedomosti, Boris Golikov, CEO and co-owner Fidel.ru, because of the crisis RBC could not finance the project in accordance with the plan - in this connection and has transferred his shares of a certain "group of investors, led by Golikov. According to the director general of the online store, the process of return of shares to the former owners Fidel.ru began last year and ended recently. According to a source close to the participants of the transaction, controlling interest referred to "a group of investors" absolutely free.

Russian online merchant enters the IPO

Group Yutinet.Ru, supports multiple online stores equipment , put up for auction MICEX up to 15% of the equity. The organizer will accommodate Investment Company Finam, a leading consultant, project coordinator - "National Listing Agency" Regional Innovation and Investment. "Funds raised as a result of placement, are scheduled to be popularizing brand Yutinet.ru, as well as R & D, in particular - better search algorithms for goods and services in a language familiar to the user, for example - "White Notebook for Mom." technology "natural" search, as expressed by representatives of the "Yutinet. py "at a recent trade show Cebit-2011, increases the conversion of visitors into buyers more than doubled. In addition, part attracted funds will be invested in the development of terminals for the selection and ordering of goods in shops with limited space." portfolio development "Yutinet.ru" allows us to count on further strengthening our position in the Internet market, laptops and computer electronics. In addition, we expect to yield a promising new product segments - such as home appliances, cell phones, television and audio equipment. "Yutinet.ru plans to become the leading online retailer of electronics in RuNet with a market share of 10-15% by 2013. To do this we will move in two directions: to create new technologies and to develop existing products, which constitute the main value of the company, "- said Michael Ukolov, CEO Yutinet.ru." Currently, the share of "Yutinet.ru" in the online market Trade-notebooks is about 20%.

In St. Petersburg, began the contest startups

Projects in e-commerce - one of the nominations of the contest Web Ready, organized by the Business Incubator Ingra, a structural subdivision of the Technopark of St. Petersburg, with the support of city administration. The contest projects requiring additional funding in categories: Social Media, SaaS and "cloud computing" (cloud computing), mobile technologies, online games, web development, virtualization, and electronic commerce. Deadline to November 24. Exhibition startups, project presentations to investors and experts, and award winners will take place on December 17, 2009.Project selection criteria: novelty, technical feasibility, viability of business models, market size, team, project scalability, investment attractiveness. May be considered as ideas and business plans, and projects with a working prototype. The jury includes representatives of private investors and venture funds, according to SpbIT.

KupiVIP.ru raised $ 20 million investment

Venture fund Accel Partners, moving to the top rating of 100 major investment funds of the world and supports projects such as Facebook and Admob, became a major participant in the next round of investment in the Russian Shopping Club. At the Board of Directors of shopping-club will be a new party - Sonali De Ricker, representing Accel Partners. The deal also involved a number of companies previously invested in KupiVIP (investment company Arlan, a venture fund Mangrove Capital Partners and a group of companies Direct Group). Since opening in October 2008 in the shopping-club has invested $ 11 million raised funds will be spent primarily on development to develop a strong logistic structure of the project, as well as aggressive marketing to attract more audience from Russian regions and to ensure efficient operation KupiVIP . ru throughout Russia. Despite the fact that more than half (53%) registered users KupiVIP.ru live outside of Moscow and the region, most orders come from Moscow region. Last year, the shopping club received more than 1 million members, has attracted more than 500 partner brands and spent more than 1200 shares on the sale of various goods. To expand the pool of suppliers, the club will offer additional opportunities for brands to promote (the use of advertising channels KupiVIP, creating an individual image production, the statistics for each stock, promoting off-line sales of the brand, etc.). It is also planned to improve the quality of customer service: to increase the frequency of rapid share and expand the list of brands that are available to order here and now ", email-client mailing will be more focused and" sharpened "under the preferences of participants shopping club.

X5 Retail has invested $ 1 million in online trading

X5 Retail Group NV, the largest (by sales), the Russian off-line retailer, has created a joint venture with the owners of internet-shops and 003.ru Bolero.ru. X5 51% of the new legal entity. In the company "IT Business transferred key personnel of online stores, as well as the rights to domains (003.ru and Bolero.ru), equipment, call-center software, customer databases and the right to lease storage capacity. NAV X5 Retail Group NV, as reported by RIA Novosti news agency referring to representatives of the retailer, is $ 1 million, while the X5 has the ability to buy the remaining 49% within 5 years. The redemption price will be determined on a pre-agreed formula depending on the operating and financial performance.

"Kids' online store has received investments from the United States

Russian site BabyBoom, selling goods for pregnant mothers and children under 12 years old, interested in the western "business angels". The size of investments received from a group SuperAngels, were not disclosed, but is in the range "from $ 300 to $ 600 thousand" By the standards of business, project BabyBoom ??more "child" - an online baby goods store recently marked one year. As reported cnews, "founding fathers" startups are Sergei Kopylov and Evgeny Loginov. Prior to launching BabyBoom ??Kopylov worked in a startup Wikimart as director of business development. It is worth noting that Wikimart - marketplace, claiming the status of the 'Russian Amazon "- recently announced a second round investment of $ 7 million investor" Vikimarta "fund Tiger Global, previously invested in this project is $ 5 million

Ecommerce - 2009. Results of the conference

About 400 participants, approximately 100 reports - only about three dozen sections in the two-day non-stop mode. However, for readers Oborot.ru are important not only these figures - so that tell you about some of the events of the conference. To begin with - about the achievements of the industry, announced at the official opening of the "Electronic commerce - 2009. During the plenary session of the conference it became clear that the crisis - insufficient justification for reduction of Internet sales. Turnover of some online shops from the beginning of the year grew by 20-50%. Growth drivers are common to most speakers: an increase in online Runet audience (and, in particular, subscribers of broadband Internet access), a growing interest in online shopping in Russia's regions. Among other factors contributing to the growth of sales, known as: development of a network of samovyvoza, especially the assortment policy, renegotiation with suppliers, the availability of pent-up demand, which formed in the second half of last year. Also voiced by some anti-crisis strategies implemented online merchants: optimization of staff, adjusting the terms of cooperation with contractors, improved SEO and contextual advertising campaigns, etc. Note that the specifics of control a little online store in the crisis was discussed in a separate section of the "Electronic commerce - 2009. During the plenary session was also voiced by a number of reasons that hinder the development of Russian online trading: lack of funding (difficulty in attracting investments and the borrowing of funds), high tariffs and the risks of accepting payments by bank card (which is especially painful for members of lower-margin segment of the goods and services), as well as several other factors.

KupiVIP and Vikimart "- start-up winners

Online shopping club and Marketplace entered the top-10 best Russian Internet startups last year, published Quinura.com. All participants in the "golden ten" - the company managed to attract significant investment from "business angels and venture funds. "Vikimart" - an online mall, where more than a thousand stores on a daily basis to sell their products to tens of thousands of customers. "Vikimart" provides enterprises with solutions to open online stores (technology platform, service delivery and payment for goods, call-center customer flow), and buyers - a wide range of products at reasonable prices. It is worth noting that last year Russia has become the second country in Europe largest online audiences - according to some estimates, in Russia there are more than 40 million Internet users. According to statistics, "ROMIR, almost half of regular users of Runet gets anything on the Internet, at least for one semester.

Online auction site eBay is investing in technology

The company will pay about $ 2.4 billion for the provider GSI Commerce, which provides solutions for electronic commerce and Internet marketing. The company serves approximately 180 major brands, including: Timberland, Mattel, Calvin Klein, DKNY, Levi Strauss & Co., Hewlett-Packard, Toys R Us. Due to the absorption of GSI Commerce, eBay could consolidate its position in working with corporate clients. GSI Commerce is considered one of the largest providers of e-commerce services in the United States, working with retailers in North America and Europe as well as planning for expansion into the Asia-Pacific countries. At that time, as GSI develops international e-commerce, eBay is experiencing some difficulties in this market. According to John Donahoe, president and CEO of eBay, in recent years, many customers the site do not know how to enter the international market, the complain about a service offered by mobile payment and social commerce. Manual eBay intends to attract borrowed funds to pay for the purchase of GSI Commerce. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2011, and already in 2013, eBay intends to obtain revenues of U.S. $ 14,1-16,3 billion previously, before the announcement of the proposed transaction with GSI, the representatives of the online auction, planned to reach $ 13-15 billion . revenue in 2013.

KupiVIP launches a new format to work with retailers

Western investors have invested in the Russian flights

The scandal Ozone "

"Ozone" gathered loyal customers to join the Club

Ozon opened Tver

In RuNet opened shop equipment Dell

ROBOX not peredogovorilsya with "Rapid"

Service exchange of electronic money and online seller of prepaid cards ROBOXchange announced the temporary suspension of postal services and bank transfers. Suspension of service associated with the termination of the contract with the NCB Rapida providing service ROBOXchange number of payment gateways. On resumption of these services will be announced later. Service ROBOXchange - multi-tool for online payments - was launched in 2002 as an online e-money exchanger. Now, as stated on the website, ROBOXchange works with the major payment systems in Russia and around the world. Accept payments of electronic currency on accounts of online stores is made in normal mode. Currently the affiliate program ROBOXchange involved more than 500 stores.

RUpay: a new image and new services

Of payment systems - directly to the clearing

Feedback from customers covered by product catalogs

Trading will become a bazaar?

In early September the popular some time ago, portal Torg.ru "acquired" second wind ". At the very least, this suggests an updated design and new engine running the resource. Attention is drawn to the emergence of the advanced search, reducing the number of sections, the acceleration of the resource itself. Recall that a portal that links to various products online stores, started in 2000 with promises to invest in its advertising and promotion of members directory several million dollars. Active management of the project and really bad the budget did their job: very soon life began to be popular both among stores and among consumers. However, competitors are not asleep, and after a while "Yandeks.Tovary 'and' Rambler-Shopping" intercepted by the palm of a "bargaining". Played a role, and deteriorating financial situation in the Port.ru. Now updated "Torg" is visited by about 1500 people a day. Monthly fee for product placement is $ 40. This price includes 400 transitions on the shop site. Transitions in excess of this amount shall be paid at the rate of 10 cents per click. Similar rates apply to "Yandeks.Tovarah 'and' Rambler-purchase". It is interesting that at the present time "Bargaining" is not in the list of projects Mail.ru (ex-«Port.ru"), but there is no doubt that soon the list will be updated. Under what name will appear there "Bargaining" - It is not known yet. According to unofficial information, the resource could be renamed Bazar@Mail.ru.

E-port drew attention to the shops

WebMoney-dozen events in 2007

Yandex and PayCash launched the payment system

The new face of "Yandex" - without PayCash

"Agave" is a system of contextual advertising

"Yandex" has brought behavioral targeting

Torg.ru will evolve independently

Coverage of behavioral advertising is growing

Price.ru in WAP-version

"In contact" rescued from the copyright holders

Internet projects are not liable for the actions of users placing counterfeit content. Panel of Judges of the Supreme Arbitration Court of Russia, considering the controversy RTR and "in contact", found no grounds for referring the case to the Presidium. Thus, the dispute between the owner of rights to content and social network ended in favor of "in contact". Litigation between the RTR, demanding compensation for illegally posted content and social networking "in contact", where the data was published materials, took more than two years. By the time the proceedings in the Court of Arbitration controversial content has been removed from the pages of sotsseti and acquitted "in contact". Then the owner has filed an appeal and this time, the social network was ordered to pay compensation of 1 million rubles. After representatives of the "in contact" filed an appeal, the court convicted Users who published a strange video content. Completion of a dispute between the RTR and social network caught in a list of the largest "pirate" the world's resources should affect policy holders who are interested in obtaining funds for the content illegally distributed on the Internet. According to the newspaper Vedomosti, citing Alexander Blinov, director general of the record company Gala Records / EMI ", the court hearing on claims of" in contact "and Mail.ru had been postponed pending the decision of the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation.

"Direct measure CR

On "Yandex.Market" appeared basket

Duma against the initiative Rosfinmonitoring

Vladislav Reznik, head of the Duma Committee on Credit Organizations and Financial Markets, revealed details on the draft law "On the national payment system." According to the MP, in both bills (which have nearly completed the preparation of two independent groups) there is no rule to limit the maximum payment of $ 3 thousand. Recall - the second reading of the bill on the national payment system in the State Duma is scheduled for February 2011. "The bill is very complex, requires finding a compromise between all market participants. Now working on that, two independent groups. One of the groups had almost completed its work. The second is also nearing completion. I can say that none of the text does not contain any amendments, including those measures Identification and control of the payment 3 thousand rubles. Quite the contrary. I think in the very near future we will introduce an amendment to the House. Time is running out. There is a presidential commission to adopt the law as soon as possible, otherwise we will pass the bill amending the law on banks and banking figures and the changes in Article 45 of the federal law on the service provider / management of mobile payments / "- MP RIA reports the words" Prime-TASS ". On reducing the maximum threshold of transactions passing through the electronic payment systems, from 15 thousand to 3 thousand rubles told Rossiyskaya Gazeta. The article, published on February 4, talked about plans to introduce Rosfinmonitoring control over all "virtual" cash flow (both electronic and mobile "wallets" online "exchangers", payment systems and terminals, instant payment).

73% of buyers demanding money for non-pecuniary damage

Clients Ukrainian online stores are willing to go to court, even if the cost of goods is about $ 50, the study said the law firm Cai & Lenard. The majority (73%) of disgruntled consumers are demanding compensation for moral harm. Judges often (in 82.8% of cases) side with the plaintiffs, although significantly (on average, 5 times) reduce the amount of compensation. Examining the results of legal disputes between customers and owners of the Ukrainian Internet-shops, the firm Cai & Lenard determine the maximum amount of "questionable" purchases - 14 thousand hryvnia (about $ 1700). Average value of goods due to which online retailers and their customers are met in the court, makes 3,8 thousand hryvnia ($ 480). The suit was becoming not only inadequate quality of purchased products, but also the failure to provide information about the product or its incompleteness. Even if the trial court sided with the buyer, Internet marketers have a great chance to win in the event of further litigation. In all cases (100% of the studied cases), when the owner of online store to appeal, the higher courts stood on the seller's side and completely denied the claim of the consumer, according to a draft MoneyNews.

Nizhny Novgorod online store to pay for marriage

Internet marketer who has sold the customer a defective refrigerator and refused to replace the goods, failed to appeal the decision of the Court of First Instance. Want to know how much the seller has lost after the sale agreement was terminated in court? A defective product was sold in August 2010. In October, during the warranty period, the client discovered many cracks on the inner plastic panel refrigerator. The buyer then turned to the vendor with a written complaint, demanding to replace the goods of inadequate quality, or return the purchase price. Representatives of the online store refused to meet the demands of dissatisfied customers. Then, the buyer contacted the manufacturer of the goods and found that these defects have the goods were factory defects. Retrying the consumer also has not been satisfied. In November 2010 the client online store went to court. As a result, after the trial Prioksk district of Nizhny Novgorod, a contract of sale refrigerator was broken. Online shop ordered to pay the buyer the cost of a refrigerator, pay the difference between the price specified in the contract and the value of similar goods on the date of the decision, pay a fine and compensation for moral damage caused to the plaintiff. In addition, online merchants have been deterred a fine to the state budget and state tax. Respondent filed an appeal against the decision of the district court. As reported by the NTA Volga region, the judicial board on civil cases of the Nizhny Novgorod regional court reviewed the case materials and left the decision Prioksk District Court of Nizhny Novgorod, without change, and the defendant's appeal - without satisfaction.

In Europe, write "killer" law for e-commerce

The list of amendments to the Directive on consumer rights, developed by the European Parliament, is displeased market participants' e-commerce. The proposed rule changes the return of goods purchased by a remote way, will cost online retailers in the $ 14 billion, the slow development of the industry and lead to higher prices. Expressing a common view of market participants, representatives of IMRG commented negatively on amendments to the Directive on consumer rights the EU (EU Consumer Rights Directive) and the potential damage to the industry at 4% of the total turnover of the European online trading for the year 2012 (about $ 14 billion in cash ). "Besides the fact that they (these requirements - approx. Per.) Redundant, they can inevitably lead to a significant increase in prices, in fact, spurring prices in all channels of retail trade and hurting small and medium enterprises, many of whom will be forced to abandon sales via the Internet, "- said James Roper, CEO of IMRG, told Reuters. At first glance, the new amendments introduce the concept of "fair play" and give equal rights to all inhabitants of the euro area, which can encourage online commerce within the region (now in each of the 27 EU member states have their own rules for the return of goods, which is why buyers are reluctant to order the goods in "foreign" shops). The document was developed a few years, members of parliament elected in the minimum (rather flexible) restrictions, and stiff (the same for all) standards of customer service.

"Market" runs "viral" list

"Market" solves the problem of trust in online shopping

For online retailers have undertaken in the regions

RU-CENTER change of ownership

The largest registrar of domain names in RuNet came under the control of RBC, becoming the sixth business unit within the group Hosting Community. One consequence of this deal - expanding the list of hosting services available to customers with RU-CENTER (JSC RU-NIC "). Parties to the transaction expect that combining the two major players of Russian market for Internet services provide a synergistic effect, increase profitability and strengthen their market position. Details of the agreement will be announced later, but already has information about the reshuffle: Alexander Panov, managing partner of Hosting Community, appointed external manager RU-CENTER, a former director general of Ru-Center Alexei Foresters was appointed his advisor.

Ukrainian legal entities register online

The results of the registration. Russia will be checked

How to register domains in the zone. Russia?

All Internet users will be able to participate in the discussion of the vision domain name registration of second level domain. RF. Receiving comments until 15 May. In the first edition of the Concept, published on the website of the Coordination Center for TLD. RU, describes the main provisions of the governance structure of the domain area, the principles of accreditation of registrars and registration of domain names. It is expected that the registration of domain names in. Russia will take place in two stages: first domains will be registered for public use, geographical domains, domain names for purposes of the Coordination Centre and the Technical Center. You will then begin the process of priority registration for the owners of exclusive rights to the trademarks. Only then will begin open registration of domain names in. Russia, which will also be divided into several stages. It can be assumed that prices for "early" registration of domain will be higher. Each Internet user will be able to participate in the discussion of new concepts. Comments are accepted via the feedback form on the website of the Coordination Center for TLD. RU until May 15. Participants of the Working Group promised to consider and take into account the comments received in finalizing the concept. Open discussion of the basic principles of registering domain names in zone. Russia will be held April 23 at the Joint Conference RIF + CIB "under the section" Extending the domain space in Russia.

"Yandex": another way to verify domain ownership

Bynet will be cleared of "illegal" online stores?

July 1 in Belarus, the process of registration of e-commerce projects in the public commercial register. Re were about 3 thousands of online stores, of which 2,5 thousand - working. Penalties for "illegal" Internet commerce, without making a "commercial" site in the state register, is being developed. Representatives of the Intelligence and Analysis Center (OAC) under the President of Belarus, the Ministry of Information and RUE BelGIE participated in the online conference at the site of the newspaper "SB", answering questions online traders by the decree number 60. From the text of the conference that online retailers are registered outside the Republic of Belarus and sell in other countries, should not be registered in the state commercial register. For other sites that have information about a product, its seller, the ability to choose and order (purchase) of goods requirements of the Decree number 60 are mandatory. However, the question of selling goods through an intermediary (in the case - through the website payment system, serving as a vendor under a license agreement with the manufacturer), demanded "further clarification," the Trade Ministry of Belarus. In this case, stated that "clones" of Belarusian online stores (for example, placed on the project Shop.by) may register a single application, as different domain names relating to the same site. Online merchants are free to make changes to information previously registered resource.