Google opens development centre in St. Petersburg

The St. Petersburg division of Google Research and Development comprises 10 former members of staff from Borland, while the new Google structure is headed by former head of the Russian division of Borland Pavel Feldman. In the summer Borland laid off over 20% of its staff worldwide. About 200 people lost their jobs in St. Petersburg who, in addition to Google, are now employed in local development centres of Yandex, Sun Microsystems, Motorola, Alcatel and Intel. Russia will become the second country after the USA to house two Google development centres; the first was opened in Moscow.