Business In Hi-Tech

Mail.ru Group and Researchme conducted a study and found out which banking products are preferred by Runet users and how advertisers ' investments in this category change.

The project office for the implementation of the national program "Digital economy" of the Analytical center under the Russian government and the all-Russian Center of public opinion research present a study on the attitude of Russians to artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.

The Infowatch analytical center presented the results of an annual study of confidential data leaks in the public sector (Central authorities, law enforcement agencies, state-owned companies). In 2018, government agencies accounted for 13.9% of the total number of registered leaks in the world and 23.3% in Russia. The main explanation for the high share of the public sector in Russian leaks is its dominant position in the economy. At the same time, 2/3 of leaks in the segment are intentional, and almost a third (33.3%) of leaks in the global public sector are the information of the "state secret" category.

Having remembered the events of 2019 which were taking place in IT market of Russia, the analytical center TAdviser selected 5 key trends which influence will fully be shown in 2020.

On December 19, 2019 the Promobot company announced creation of the Russia's first robot for sale of SIM cards. They will be used for commercial purposes since the beginning of 2020.

A famed Russian technical university is helping to lead the government’s push for public-private efforts to develop AI technologies and applications — including a joint project with China’s Huawei — and to stop top talent from flowing to the West.

Joint survey of analytical center TAdviser and Microsoft "Cyber Security in the Russian Companies", devoted to information security in the Russian segment of medium and small business, showed that 76% of the companies for the last year faced incidents in this sphere. At the same time data of Positive Technologies company show that more than a half of respondents of the SMB-companies consider risk of the purposeful attack (ART) of critical, and 80% of the companies are not sure of the readiness to resist to the attacks of this kind.

At the end of November, 2019 the international research and consulting IDC company submitted 10 forecasts of development of the IT industry in 2020.

Russia was included into the three of the countries in popularity of financial technical-services. The results of the research EY were published on November 21, 2019 to demonstrate it.

In November, 2019 analysts of IDC published results of a research of the Russian market of the artificial intelligence (AI).

Specialists expect that in 2019 the sales volume of solutions using AI technologies will reach $139.3 million that for 48.2% will exceed an indicator of year prescription.