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Your friendly neighborhood The Next Web-man is currently scoping out the Russian startup ecosystem and technology industry here in Moscow. As you may know, Russia is already home to the two largest Internet companies in Europe, Yandex and Mail.Ru Group, both of which have gone public in recent times.

LevelUp, the pay phone app, today announced a redesign of its mobile app, along with several key executive hires at its parent company, SCVNGR.

A simple blood test that can detect lung cancer five years earlier than conventional screening will be trialled by the NHS on thousands of high risk smokers.

Berlin’s Wooga and the long-established Electronic Arts are currently neck-and-neck for second place among social games companies on Facebook according to the latest metrics from AppData. The two developers each have around 49m active monthly users of their games, although that is a long way behind Zynga of FarmVille fame’s 245m.

Vestiaire Collective, an online marketplace hailing from Paris, has just launched in the UK. We visited their headquarters to find out the secret of their success.

 Wooga, the German social gaming firm, is stepping up investment in iPhone and iPad games this year as consumers spend more time playing on their smartphone devices and tablets.

Along the way to its IPO, Big Fish Games is swallowing a number of little fish along the way. And, who better to acquire than a company positioned to take advantage of the boom in casino-styled games on social networks.

Irish electronic payments provider 3V has just launched a pre-pay youth card that’s aiming to be a type of money management service for teens, as parents can control and monitor how the card is used.

The rise of Wooga, King.com and Angry Birds is helping drive 'the third generation' of the social network's platform.

Tabula Inc., advancing programmable logic solutions for network infrastructure systems, today confirmed previous speculation that it is implementing a family of 3PLD products manufactured by Intel using its advanced 22nm manufacturing process featuring 3-D Tri-Gate transistors and co-optimized packaging technology.