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.

The Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, has recently announced that Russia will build a high-tech hub near Moscow as a step to modernise the economy and reduce its dependence on oil and gas. The project aims to give state backing to major companies to help them develop selected innovative products.

In the centre will be developed five priority sectors – energy, IT, telecommunications, bio-medical and atomic technologies – and will be built near Skolkovo, a town located just west of the Moscow Ring Road, and home to the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo, a premier business school in Russia.

The Russian government seems quite focused on developing a strong technology industry in Russia and reduce the gap with the other developed countries. Also, for Russia is important to retain its scientists and develop global high tech corporates. Already last year the government also announced that by 2010 several technoparks will be build near Moscow, St.Petersbourg, Tumen, Nizhniy Novgorod, Kaluga, Novosibirsk and in Tatarstan. Some of those projects have been already launched, like technopark in Petergoff (St.Petersbourg region) and foreign investors such as Boeing are very interested in this project.

Opera Software, the populuar Norwegian browser, is opening an office in Russia, according to what its director of sales and business development in Russia and the CIS, Mikhail Ilyin, reported.
Last year the Opera business in Russia grew significantly and the number of users strongly increased so they want to be closer to the market and partners.

According to Ilyin, one of the main business of Opera is the collaboration with mobile operators and develop browsers for mobile phones. In Russia the company cooperates with the telecom operator MTS and other large Internet portals. Just a month ago Opera announced that MTS will provide co-branded version of the Opea Mini browers for its subscribers.

Opera Mini is the most popular browser for mobile phones in Russia, with the highest market share.

Andrey Ternovskiy, the young Moscow guy behind Chatroulette, has announced that he is going to visit the USA to meet with venture capital and private equity investors. The 17 year old Russian Internet prodige has already received an offer from Yuri Milner of Digital Sky Technologies (DST), Russian leading social media investment company.

But Ternovskiy did not accept Milner’s offer immediately since he has received hundreds of emails from American venture capitalists as well as from Google and Skype. The rising Internet star is now applying for a US visa so that he can make the trip to America to meet with potential investors and partners in Silicon Valley.

Chatroulette currently has approximately 1.5 million daily visitors. The website allows random strangers to initiate video conversations using Flash player’s new peer-to-peer protocol. Either user may leave the chat at any time to initiate another random connection.

Bloove.com is a russian startup based in Novosibirsk that allows to keep, export and edit all mobile contacts on the web. As for entrepreneurs it is very important to store tons of contacts: investors, clients, developers etc., and when your mobile phone is lost, down or even was left at your friend you will feel yourself helpless. So bloove is a real solution in such situations – all your contacts are stored online under your profile. This startup has a great potential if it will provide simple interface to fit it for daily use.

To start using bloove you just need to download an application for your mobile and make an online registration. The full package is offered for 36$ a year and includes a storage for 3000 numbers, 3000 sms and offers the possibility to create second profile.