iAppContest is the first competition in Eastern Europe between iPhone developers. The contest will be running in Ukraine for 2 months from April 16 to June 16. Results will be announced on a stage during the Final Event, on Saturday June 19th, Kiev, Ukraine.

We are expecting hundreds apps to be submitted to the Contest, 30 apps will be chosen out of categories, and then our USA-Ukrainian Jury will vote and pick the best three. Winners will be rewarded by a trip to the Silicon Valley where they will pitch, market their product, find partners, investors, and opportunities to grow. The uniqueness of the situation: iPhone is officially not available in Ukraine yet, but the development movement is big. For most Ukrainian developers experiencing the technological heart of the world, Silicon Valley, remains only a dream, with your support will can make it a reality.

The world’s famous social-networking site Facebook is in talks with Russian mobile operators and is opening up an office in Russia.

Facebook counts more than 400 million active users. Its main competitor, MySpace, already opened a Russian office but closed it in summer 2009 along with offices in a number of other countries. One of the main functions of MySpace’s Russian office was ad sales.

Facebook may also sell space on its site to Russian advertisers, Facebook may reach an agreement with mobile phone carriers. The mobile operators are discussing many different possibilities for cooperation. In particular, there is talk of integrating the social network with the operators, of paying for Facebook content via SMS and of a subsidized fee structure.

Facebook’s goal is to reach 15 percent to 20 percent of Russian Internet users, said an employee at another operator. According to TNS Web Index, there were 32.6 million Internet users in February. The social network could get about 4.9 million to 6.5 million users, said Denis Terekhov, a partner at consulting agency Sotsialniye Seti.

Source: The Moscow Times

Digital Sky Technologies wants to buy a share of the popular Russian startup Chatroulette.com. It’s what the German magazine Spegel reports. According to the magazine. DST claims about 10% of Chatroulette, and Ternovskiy evaluates the entire company at 10-30 million euros.

Chatroulette is a service that allows users to communicate online using video and text chat. The novelty of this service is that the source is chosen in random order and users communicate each other at the first time. Ternovskiy launched his website last November, and since then his audience has grown from 50 to 1.5 million people a day. The project is connected with seven servers in Germany and Ternovskiy received the first amount of money from his parents.

So far, Chatroulette has received many offers from various Venture funds, especially from the USA.