    <p>
    According to Kearney, Russians’ spending on communications and online services may grow by 31%. In absolute terms, this will be equivalent to an increase of around €7 per subscriber a month.
</p>
    <p>
    According to a survey of 16 thousand people in 28 countries of the world, conducted by Kearney&nbsp; in the Q4 2019 and the Q1 2020, Russian subscribers spent about €21 per month on these services (two-thirds on communications). Meanwhile, in Eastern Europe, consumers spend on the same almost twice as much - €40 per month, and in Western Europe - €94.
</p>
    <p>
    Kearney has developed an index of consumer connectivity, where Russia only ranked 17th, which indicates potential for growth. The index takes into account the local price levels, consumer income and costs of digital services, including fixed and mobile communications, pay TV, media content and digital entertainment, as well as the costs of connected devices (voice assistants, smart home, video surveillance, etc.).
</p>
    <p>
    Analysts believe that the most promising areas for revenue growth in Russia are entertainment services, the cost of which in Russia can potentially grow by 48% - from the current €6 to €8.9.
</p>
    <p>
    <a target="_blank" href="https://ict.moscow/news/kearney-raskhody-rossiian-na-uslugi-sviazi-i-tsifrovye-servisy-mogut-vyrasti-na-31/">Original (in Russian)</a>
</p>

Kommersant

Research: Russians’ spending on communications and online services may grow by 31%

    <p>
    Over the past year, the number of searches related to digital business transformation and specific digitalization tools has grown by 43%. These results were obtained during the analysis of Yandex search statistics, ComNews reports.
</p>
    <p>
    Moreover, there has been an increase in the number search requests for specific brands of digitalization platform providers and software providers.
</p>
    <p>
    Experts note that the increased interest in specific solutions in the field of digitalization has been unevenly distributed. The number of search requests related to CRM systems has grown by 20%, while searches related to Robotic Process Automation (RPA) technologies have doubled. In absolute numbers, the number of RPA requests is approximately 13 thousand per month.
</p>
    <p>
    Electronic document management systems (EDMS) are among other technologies, the interest in which has also grown significantly.
</p>
    <p>
    According to experts, there are several reasons why interest in digitalization has evolved so unevenly.
</p>
    <p>
    “In many companies digitalization starts with business processes related to customer interactions. Therefore, when the pandemic started, CRM systems had already been implemented in a significant number of companies. But internal processes turned out to be not digitized and the companies faced the challenges associated with rapid restructuring due to the pandemic”, - says Anton Ermakov, head of the Comindware digital initiatives group.
</p>
    <p>
    Another reason is that during the pandemic the forecasting period has significantly shortened and the demand for digital solutions has grown, allowing to quickly get tangible results. In particular, therefore, the demand for EDMS and RPA - applied technologies that can be relatively quickly integrated into the overall system - has grown.
</p>
    <p>
    There is also increased interest not only in specific solutions, but also in the restructuring of the entire business management model. For example, there is a 2.5-fold increase in the number of searches for “digital transformation”.
</p>
    <p>
    <a target="_blank" href="https://ict.moscow/news/eksperty-zafiksirovali-rost-chisla-zaprosov-o-tsifrovizatsii-biznesa-v-poltora-raza/">Original (in Russian)</a>
</p>

ComNews

Experts have recorded a 1.5-fold increase in the number of searches for business digitalization

    <p>
    Moscow was ranked first
among Russian cities with the highest level of development of innovative
payment methods for transportation services, gaining 10 out of 10 points. The rating was compiled by Visa
in cooperation with the Urbanica Institute for Spatial Planning.&nbsp;<a></a><a></a>
</p>
    <p>
    <a></a><a></a>Moscow is
followed by Krasnoyarsk (9.9 points), Nizhny Novgorod and Ufa (8.9 points
each), Yekaterinburg (7.6 points). St. Petersburg took 15th position with 4.5
points.<a></a>The study involved 18 Russian cities with a population of over 750
thousand people.&nbsp;<a></a><a></a>
</p>
    <p>
    Experts assessed the introduction of payment through various
electronic media: e-wallets, time-based tariffs, using a bank card or
smartphone at the checkout, through a turnstile or validator at the conductor,
using a smartphone via a special mobile app.<a></a><a></a><a></a><a></a>
</p>
    <p>
    <a target="_blank" href="https://ict.moscow/news/moskva-vozglavila-reiting-gorodov-po-razvitiiu-innovatsionnykh-sposobov-oplaty-proezda/">Original (in Russian)</a><a></a><a></a><a></a>
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Banki.ru

Visa: Moscow tops ranking of cities in terms of development of innovative payment methods for transportation services

    <p>
    According to the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media (Mintsifry), in the first two quarters of 2020, Russian cellular subscribers talked for 231.7 billion minutes. This is more than 12 billion minutes more than in the same period last year.
</p>
    <p>
    In the first half of 2019, voice traffic compared to the first half of 2018, on the contrary, decreased by about 4% to 219 billion minutes. Before that, in 2017–2018,  there was stagnation.
</p>
    <p>
    According to Telecom Daily, conversations using mobile phones regained popularity due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the self-isolation regime.
</p>
    <p>
    <a target="_blank" href="https://ict.moscow/news/mobilnyi-golosovoi-trafik-za-pervye-dva-kvartala-2020-go-vyros-posle-padeniia-sprosa-godom-ranee/">Original (in Russian)</a>
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Vedomosti

Mobile voice traffic increased in the first two quarters of 2020 after a fall in demand a year earlier

    <p>
    By 2024, there should be
twice more IT specialists in Russia
than there are now, <a target="_blank" href="https://tass.ru/ekonomika/9395043">according</a> to the
Ministry of Digital Development. The demand in this area is constantly growing:
according to the latest data from the Moscow DIT, the number of vacancies for
programmers in the capital has grown by 14% over the year.
</p>
    <p>
    Today, there
are more than 6.5 thousand current vacancies available for programmers
in Moscow, analysts of DIT calculated. For the third year in a
row, Java, 1C and PHP programmers are the most demanded on the Moscow labor
market.
</p>
    <p>
    <a target="_blank" href="https://hi-tech.mail.ru/news/IT-day-statistics/">Ozon</a>: <b>IT specialists
Survey</b>
</p>
    <p>
    One
third of developers are self-taught, only 30% have specialized higher
education. Only 21% of IT professionals are women. The most popular profession is
a developer: 3 out of 4 respondents are programmers. 6%
of respondents called themselves testers, and a little more than 2% are engaged
in project management.
</p>
    <p>
    <a target="_blank" href="https://habr.com/ru/company/habr_career/blog/516056/">Habr Career</a>: <b>Researching
the Demand for IT Professionals in 2020</b>
</p>
    <p>
    In Moscow, the highest
salaries are offered to Kotlin developers,
as well as for the mobile development
languages ​​Swift, Golang and Objective-С. The situation
was nearly the same last year.
</p>
    <p>
    <a target="_blank" href="https://alexstaff.agency/ru/demand-skills-2020">Alex Staff Agency</a>:
<b>Overview of the World’s
Most In-Demand IT Skills in 2020</b>
</p>
    <p>
    Data Science (collection,
processing and analytics of big data). The
most popular hard skills in 2019/20
are as follows: cloud computing, AI (neural networks, ML,
etc.), UX, mobile development (Android, iOS), Data Science (collection,
processing, analytics of big data).
</p>
    <p>
    <a target="_blank" href="https://www.jetbrains.com/ru-ru/lp/devecosystem-2020/">JetBrains</a>:<b> Developer
ecosystem in 2020</b>
</p>
    <p>
    Top 5
programming languages ​​in Russia: JavaScript (62.8%), Python (46.8%), Java
(36.5%), PHP (24.5%), TypeScript (23.1%).
</p>
    <p>
    <a target="_blank" href="https://ict.moscow/news/podborka-analitiki-ko-dniu-programmista/">Original (in Russian)</a>
</p>

ICT.Moscow

Analytics for the Programmer’s Day in Russia

    <p>
    To modernize the network in Moscow, Russian telecom operator MTS will purchase 5G-ready equipment from the Chinese company Huawei.
</p>
    <p>
    MTS did not disclose the purchase price. According to Kommersant, investments in the project will amount to&nbsp;$100 million. Previously, MTS cooperated with the Finnish telecom equipment manufacturer Nokia in the Moscow region.
</p>
    <p>
    The company notes that the renewal of the network in Moscow and the region will increase the throughput at least three times. Over the past three years, the operator has noted an annual growth in the volume of mobile Internet traffic in the MTS network of the capital region by more than 65%.
</p>
    <p>
    <a target="_blank" href="https://ict.moscow/news/mts-potratit-7-5-mlrd-rub-na-zakupku-5g-ready-oborudovaniia-u-huawei/">Original (in Russian)</a>
</p>

MTS will spend $100 million to purchase of 5G-ready equipment from Huawei

    <p>
    Russian retail chains have recorded growth in sales of smartphones with electronic SIM cards. According to “M.Video - Eldorado”, since the beginning of the year the demand for eSIM smartphones on the Russian market has grown 2.8 times, and in August the sales increased 3.5 times.
</p>
    <p>
    According to the statistics of “Svyaznoy”, from January to August the sales of smartphones with eSIM increased compared with the same period last year by 178% in kind and 158% in monetary terms.
</p>
    <p>
    VimpelCom claims there is a growing interest in eSIM among Russians: in seven months of 2020, the operator sold almost as many such smartphones as in the whole 2019.
</p>
    <p>
    At the end of June, simultaneously with Vimpelcom, Megafon started to connect subscribers using eSIM. Previously this technology was launched by Tinkoff Mobile.
</p>
    <p>
    <a target="_blank" href="https://ict.moscow/news/v-rossii-rastut-prodazhi-smartfonov-s-esim/">Original (in Russian)</a>
</p>

Sales of smartphones with eSIM are growing

    <p>
    App Annie published a report on the impact of COVID-19 on user behavior on mobile. In the first half of the year Russians used mobile apps for 3.5 hours a day on average, 40% more than in 2019. People spent 355% more time in the apps ensuring remote work and communication with colleagues than in Q4 of 2019. The list of mobile games that Russian Internet users play on a monthly basis has grown by 30%.
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    <a target="_blank" href="https://www.appannie.com/en/insights/market-data/covid19-consumer-behavior-mobile/">Read more →&nbsp;</a>
</p>
    <p>
    <a target="_blank" href="https://ict.moscow/news/issledovanie-ispolzovanie-mobilnykh-prilozhenii-vyroslo-na-40-v-pervoi-polovine-goda/">Original (in Russian)</a>
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IKS Media

App Annie Research: mobile app usage increases by 40% in the first half of the year

    <p>
    According to TelecomDaily, the number of broadband Internet subscribers in Russia has grown by
290 thousand in the second quarter of 2020 and reached 33.79 million subscribers. The
growth in the number of new contracts in the first quarter in relation to the
the end of 2019 is 0.5%, and the growth in the second quarter in relation to
the first quarter is 0.9%.<b></b>
</p>
    <p>
    Rostelecom holds 36% of the
market, ER-Telecom and MTS hold 11% each, Beeline - 8%, TTK - 6%, other
broadband providers together hold 28% of the market.
</p>
    <p>
    <a target="_blank" href="https://ict.moscow/news/issledovanie-kolichestvo-abonentov-platnogo-tv-v-rossii-dostiglo-44-332-mln/">Original (in Russian)</a>
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TelecomDaily

The number of broadband subscribers in Russia has grown by 290 thousand in the second quarter of 2020

    <p>
    Beeline
started to build 5G-ready network (supports LTE standard and will support 5G)
at all stations, in all underpasses and tunnels of the Moscow Metro, Kommersant
reports with reference to the operator’s representative. 
</p>
    <p>
    The
project is supposed to be completed in November 2020, the network will be
launched firstly on five busiest lines. The amount of investment has not been
disclosed, but, according to the source referred to by the newspaper, it can be
over 3 billion rubles during a period of three years. 
</p>
    <p>
    Currently,
Vimpelcom’s network is already available at 61 out of 218 underground metro
stations, the company representatives claim.
</p>
    <p>
    The
partner of the project is Huawei, the equipment of which the operator used to
upgrade the network to 5G-ready in Moscow.
</p>
    <p>
    Megafon completed 4G
coverage of all Metro stations at the beginning of 2019, and the amount of
sections between stations where its services are available is “close to 100%”,
the representatives of the company say. Tele2 representatives note that the
network is available at all stations, and at the new ones Ericsson equipment is
being installed. One year ago, MTS managed to provide subscribers with the same
internet quality in the metro and ground transport after it had completed the
construction of underground LTE network using Nokia equipment, according to the
operator’s press service. 
</p>
    <p>
    <a target="_blank" href="https://ict.moscow/news/vympelkom-investiruet-v-razvitie-mobilnoi-seti-v-moskovskom-metro/">Original (in Russian)</a>
</p>

Beeline invests in the mobile network in the Moscow Metro

    <p>
    MTS became the first
company in Russia to obtain a license for providing 5G mobile services. The
license that expires on July 16, 2025 was granted to MTS by Roskomnadzor to
create a network that will cover almost all regions of Russia (83 out of 85).
Communication will be provided in 24.25-24.65 GHz frequency range in accordance
with 5G/IMT-2020 standard.
</p>
    <p>
    Company representatives note
that large enterprises and business will become the first users of the 5G
network.
</p>
    <p>
    “5G standard will allow corporate clients to actively use artificial
intelligence, IoT, AR and VR technologies for remote control of equipment,
driverless vehicles development, interactive educational programs and creation
of the latest quality control systems at production sites” commented Alexey Kornya, President of MTS.
</p>
    <p>
    The license was granted to MTS
on the basis of the decision of the State Commission for Radio Frequencies
dated March 17, 2020 allowing “an indefinite range of persons to use 24.25-24.65
GHz frequency band by radio electronic means of 5G/IMT-2020 standard in the
territory of the Russian Federation".
</p>
    <p>
    <a target="_blank" href="https://ict.moscow/news/mts-poluchila-litsenziiu-na-sozdanie-seti-5g/">Original (in Russian)</a>
</p>

MTS received a license to create 5G networks

    <p>
    MTS announced that it will provide the building
and territory of the Balchug Viewpoint residential complex with digital
solutions for automatic collection of meter readings and billing for housing
and communal services, contactless access to a closed area using a smartphone,
entry to a parking lot by recognizing car numbers, as well as a security system
based on video analytics.
</p>
    <p>
    The first stage of the project was completed in
June 2020, and the company plans to implement the entire range of solutions in
the fall of 2020. The residential complex will be managed through a single
center, and residents will have access to services via a mobile app. MTS will
also provide the residential complex with Wi-Fi, high-speed wired Internet and
mobile communications.
</p>
    <p>
    At the first stage of the project, MTS automated
the collection of water and electricity meter readings and billing of
residents. Data from utility metering devices via the cloud platform is sent to
the billing management company, where an invoice is automatically generated.
Data transfer from counters is carried out via the Internet of things NB-IoT
network, specially developed for the housing, real estate and smart city
segments.
</p>
    <p>
    The company notes that residents will be able to
pay bills in an app developed specifically for the residential complex. You can
also use the app to order a pass, answer a call from the intercom, connect to
the CCTV cameras on the territory of the complex and the Parking monitoring
system, apply to the management company and take part in voting, as well as
manage the "smart home" in the apartment.
</p>
    <p>
    “Today, only about 5% of Russian management
companies use digital solutions for managing apartment buildings, but we expect
that the growth rate of this market will be comparable to the growth rate of
retail sales of smart home devices – about 20-30% per year.”​ - commented MTS representative and Director of the Internet of Things Department Mikhail Kozlov.
</p>
    <p>
    <a target="_blank" href="https://ict.moscow/news/mts-sozdast-v-moskve-tsifrovoi-zhiloi-kompleks/">Original (in Russian)</a>
</p>

MTS will create a digital residential complex in Moscow

    <p>
    It can turn on music, audiobooks, fairy tales, plan the day, find out the news, manage smart home devices and suggest facts that can be found on the Internet. In the near future, it is planned to add a voice call function, control of TV set-top boxes, etc.
</p>
    <p>
    "Marvin" will run on smart speakers, which the company announced at the end of 2019 earlier. Sales of smart assistant speakers will start later. Now "Marvin" can be installed as an app on smartphone.
</p>
    <p>
    Yandex was the first Russian company to introduce a speaker with voice assistant "Alice" in may 2018. Last year, sales of speakers could reach 320 thousand units, and the market volume — $33 million, the company Just AI <a target="_blank" href="https://just-ai.com/en/russian_smart_speaker_market.pdf">estimated</a>.
</p>
    <p>
    <a target="_blank" href="https://moskva.mts.ru/about/media-centr/soobshheniya-kompanii/novosti-mts-v-rossii-i-mire/2020-06-29/mts-razrabotala-golosovogo-pomoshhnika-ego-zovut-marvin">Read more →</a>
</p>

MTS has released its own voice assistant — "Marvin"

    <p>
    The increase<a target="_blank" href="https://www.vedomosti.ru/technology/articles/2020/06/24/833298-mobilnuyu-telefoniyu"> was facilitated</a> by COVID-19 pandemic and self-isolation regime. The duration of calls using mobile phones has increased in Russia after last year’s decrease. This is evident from the materials published by the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation (MinComSvyaz). According to the estimates of the Ministry, in the first quarter of 2020 subscribers talked for 111.5 billion minutes, which is 3 billion minutes more than in the same period of 2019.
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The demand for mobile telephony has increased in Russia

    <p>
    The new direction will also include developers and suppliers of multimedia devices and on-board information systems for vehicles - “Stopol Avto” and “Koagent Rus”. It is reported that MTS acquired 100% stake in their authorized capitals.
</p>
    <p>
    According to the operator, after the acquisition of the multimedia devices suppliers, MTS will get expertise, the necessary resources and presence in the market of solutions for autonomous cars. In addition, the company will be able to create a complex solution that includes a multimedia head unit, high-speed mobile internet and a set of branded digital services.
</p>
    <p>
    <a target="_blank" href="https://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/5ef0d2189a7947c39ee522dd">Read more →&nbsp;</a>
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Russian mobile operator MTS announced its entrance to the market of “smart” automotive systems

    <p>
    Positive Technologies presented a report on cyber attacks for the first quarter of the year. The number of attacks has grown by 22.5% compared to Q4 of 2019. Around 13% of all phishing e-mails were related to COVID-19. The percentage of attacks aimed at individuals was 14%.
</p>
    <p>
    According to analysts, the number of attacks on remote workers will increase in the future. The companies can face increased attempts to hack corporate accounts and exploitation of vulnerabilities in remote access systems.
</p>
    <p>
    Research:<a target="_blank" href="https://ict.moscow/research/aktualnye-kiberugrozy-i-kvartal-2020-goda/"> “Actual cyberthreats: Q1 2020”</a>
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Positive Technologies

Research: the number of cyber attacks increased by 22.5% in Q1

    <p>
    Using big data, LETA Capital venture fund <a target="_blank" href="https://medium.com/letavc/%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9-%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%8F%D0%B7%D1%8B%D1%87%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9-it-%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C-%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE-%D0%BE%D0%BD-17d3301b2941">has created</a> a portrait of a Russian-speaking IT entrepreneur after analyzing the information of 5 thousand profiles in LinkedIn. According to the study, Russian-language IT entrepreneurs live in 636 cities and 89 countries. 750 entrepreneurs live in Russia, and 75% of them live in Moscow, 12% - in Saint Petersburg, and 5% - in Novosibirsk. This refers to CEO, CTO and founders of IT companies. Most Russian-speaking IT entrepreneurs graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University. The most common professional competences are as follows: project management (18%), startups (17%), software development (15%), business development (13%) and management (11%).
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Research: 75% of IT entrepreneurs living in Russia come from Moscow

    <p>
    MTS took another step forward in bringing the future to life by hosting a two-way, long-distance holographic video call between the Company’s 5G pilot zones in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
</p>
    <p>
    The laser-based video conference, which took place during Russian Internet Week 2019, connected viewers at Moscow’s World Trade Center with visitors to a theater in Kronstadt, one of St. Petersburg’s most famous suburbs. Headline speakers on the call included top Russian thought leaders and tech bloggers, who engaged in a thought-provoking discussion around the potential for new 5G-based innovations to accelerate the transition to a more immersive, digital-enhanced reality.&nbsp;Huawei provided innovative connectivity and advanced IT solutions to enable this demonstration.
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                    Today we are excited to witness firsthand the promising future of digital innovation and fifth-generation connectivity, which will not only radically transform our daily lives, but give rise to fundamentally new products, services, and business models. With significantly higher speeds and lower latency, 5G will provide the foundation for immersive interactive experiences that bring together the physical and digital worlds. If 4G gave us video streaming and smartphone apps, then 5G will bring to life virtual and augmented reality and the Internet of Things.
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                                    Alexey Kornya
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    <a target="_blank" href="http://ir.mts.ru/ir-blog/mts-blog-details/2019/MTS-Brings-the-Future-to-Life-with-Holographic-Video-Call/default.aspx">Read more →&nbsp;</a>
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MTS hosts a two-way, long-distance holographic video call over 5G

<p>Experts call cybersport (as well as VR) a breakthrough in the entertainment sector. According to Newzoo report, in 2019 the revenue of the world games market will be estimated at $152.1 billion, 9.6% more than a year before.</p>

<p>In 2019 the Russian cybersport market might reach the $55 million, and in 2023 it will be over $100 million, as MTS previously forecast.</p>

<p>It should be noted that, according to the data presented by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center, 58% of Russian citizens have a negative perception of computer games, nevertheless, last year Russian internet users paid gamers about 11.6 billion rubles, Yandex and Data Insight stated in spring. The research also revealed that 3 million people are engaged in streaming and selling gaming products.</p>

<p>ICT.Moscow refers to some services and platforms for cybersport from Moscow developers.</p>

<hr />
<h2>Cyberhero</h2>

<h3>Platform for gamers</h3>

<p>Cyberhero comprises services for cybersport. Users can stream the games, watch other players stream and participate in competitions. In the competition platform the users can monetize their gaming skills.<br />
Cyberhero is also a streaming platform. Here gamers create their own channels, so they can stream games and upload video. The videos from “Video” section are sorted by views and games.</p>

<hr />
<h2>WASD.TV</h2>

<h3>Cybersport platform</h3>

<p>The users can take part in cybersport competitions, stream their games and earn virtual currency for they activities. Users can spend currency on promoting streams and reward other streamers. The platform uses the resources of the CloudMTS cloud provider. A subscriber of any operator can become a user of the platform.</p>

<hr />
<h2>DonationAlerts</h2>

<h3>Service for collection donations while streaming</h3>

<p>DonationsAlerts makes it possible to collect donations while streaming in Vkontakte, Odnoklassniki, YouTube, Twitch and Hitbox. To receive money the creators of the content place a link of DonationAlerts website below the video (for VK and Odnoklassniki it is a button). The author has to be authorized in the service and choose a minimum donation for the viewers and the type of notifications.<br />
To send a donation a viewer has to be click the link and choose the donation amount and leave a message for the donations which will be displayed in the streaming. The viewer can pay by bank card, VK Pay, WebMoney, Qiwi, Yandex.Money, PayPal, Bitcoin or via mobile account.</p>

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<h2>Loudplay</h2>

<h2>Interactive streaming platform</h2>

<p>Loudplay allows users to run games in the cloud and play on low-capacity computers that have an access to the internet. The platform uses servers with Nvidia graphic cards — the data is processed in the cloud and the video is streamed on the gamer’s players.<br />
In September 2019 MTS launched Loudly on Wasd.TV media platform. After they get access to the platform, users can download games from Steam, Battle.net, Origin, Epic Games and others. The platform is available on computers running on Windows 7 or newer. In the future macOS support is going to be added. Virtual computer is available only for one user.</p>

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<h2>Kaspersky Anti-Cheat</h2>

<h3>Cybersport anti-cheat system</h3>

<p>Kaspersky Anti-Cheat makes it possible to combat cheating for cybersport competitions organizers and online games producers. Cloud technology-based solution helps to detect cheating and fraud in real time during the game and sends automated reports about all the cases of cheating to the judges.</p>

<p>Kaspersky Anti-Cheat can be integrated with cybersport platform via API. Before the competition starts the solution is installed onto each gamer’s computer. When the game starts, Kaspersky Anti-Cheat starts to collect information about all the processes going and transmits the information for analyzing. The judge of the competition receives reports about the cheating cases detected via a web interface in real time.</p>

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<h2>Gaming marketplace</h2>

<h3>Computer games marketplace</h3>

<p>It is a marketplace where over 2 thousand offers from 48 publishers, including “Buka”, Ubisoft, Square Enix, Activision, Deep Silver, Codemasters, Alawar and others are available for gamers. “Igrovoy market” provides discounts for the customers and holds sales. The project is realized in partnership with “Buka” company.</p>

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