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I’ve been working in the startup and entrepreneurial online community long enough to notice one trend: almost every startup wants one of two things - either be acquired by Google or become the next Google themselves. Of course there are some realistic guys who kno...w that any of these two things happens so rarely that [...]

When I sift through dozens of spam emails that land in my inbox daily or moderate numerous spam comments here on Profy, I can’t help but repeat the same questions again and again because some things in the behavior of spammers are totally beyond my understanding. ...So I thought that I’d publish the questions here [...]

Only last week registration of the domains in the first fully Cyrillic top-level domain zone began here in Russia - the zone is .рф and the attention it receives from international companies definitely deserves a post. To prevent cybersquatting, initially only the trade...mark holders and various government institutions are allowed to apply for their new domains. [...]

I have to admit it: I’ve been living a life of lies for the last 3 years with my two identities rarely even meeting each other. My first identity is the online one - or basically me when my computer is turned on and I write, blog, comment or discuss something. In this life I [...]

I have a feeling that no matter how successful a person is, he or she will always admire someone who has already achieved even more and has more books published, more millions in the bank account or maybe more children who do better at school - and this is probably what ensure continuous progress - [...]

Russian Microsoft division has published its report on the corporation’s losses in the country caused by use of pirated software by the Russian users. And the amount is definitely impressive: the company claims that they lose as much as $1 billion every year due t...o activities of pirates. And while experts claim that this estimation [...]

The topic of women in tech is getting popular occasionally for no apparent reason but one blogger choosing to discuss it on a low-news day because he or she happens to care about the role of women in tech and how it is insufficient or not visible enough or whatever. Last week we saw a new [...]

I have to admit it: I have a secret passion for disaster movies and this is the category of movies that will invariably get me to a movie theatre - even if everything else I can watch on DVD from the comfort of my sofa at home. So I’ve been looking forward to watching 2012 [...]

Today the president of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev has appeared with his annual address to the Federal Assembly (the Parliament of the country). These addresses serve to voice out the intentions of the head of the country for Russia’s near future and ar...e usually watched carefully by everyone who is interested in the direction [...]

For quite a while I have been witnessing people experimenting with the very same methods of promoting their accounts on Twitter without actually inventing anything new. In fact, these methods have probably existed for almost as long as Twitter itself has been available ...to the general public and they probably look boring to everyone already. Both [...]

If you have a blog that has at least a few dozens of subscribers, I am quite certain you have received various emails inviting you to install a widget or a button that is promised to improve just about everything on your blog and make people stay longer and read more posts at a time. I [...]

Forbes is obviously a well-known international brand for all the business-related news, analytics, interviews, and just about everything a business person may need to stay up to date with the market. Unfortunately this very professionals-oriented brand has just demonstr...ated a huge lack of professionalism in one particular local market - in this case in Russia. The [...]