Twitter has hired two high-profile Google execs – Shailesh Rao and Stephen McIntrye – to lead an aggressive international expansion in advertising, All Things D reported.

Rao will be joining the online communications network as VP of international revenue and will be starting in April in San Francisco. In that job, he’ll be in charge of setting up direct sales operations in countries and in regions where Twitter is ready to monetize.

At Google, Rao was most recently head of Google’s display ads business for Asia.

McIntrye has joined Twitter as a director of online sales and operations, which is its self-serve product that will debut to small businesses in March. He will be based in Dublin, Ireland. He was most recently working on Google’s international self-serve ads team in Ireland.

Both will report to Twitter sales head Adam Bain, who heads a staff of 120 employees in the U.S., UK, Japan and Ireland.

The pair was not the only Google hires of late at Twitter. The company recently hired UK YouTube sales head Bruce Daisley to run its entire sales team there.

Mediamax reports that, due to provision of the new service, Orange Armenia CEO Bruno Duthoit said that “journey in public transport will become more interesting”. He reminded that the motto of the company is “to make internet available for all”.

Five devices can simultaneously connect to Myfi 3G/Wi-Fi modem, installed in the buses, including pads and smartphones. Further on, Orange Armenia intends to expand the provided services and install modems in all buses and in heavy bus stops and parks.

Head of Transport Department of Yerevan City Administration Henrik Navasardyan said that 150-200 new buses will be supplied to Yerevan from China in order to ease the load of traffic in the capital city.

Mediamax was informed in the press service of Orange Armenia that the project allows building mobile networks with much less costs and time.

The innovation of TIGRAN consists in the structure of the site: the equipments are installed directly on a platform inside the tower. This new concept allows optimizing GSM Greenfield site design: space, construction time and costs.

“I am happy to manage this team, which is motivated and full of new ideas. The TIGRAN team consists of Armenian and French engineers, and that’s the result of their joint research. We are a part of a big Group, and this idea will be used in the future during other network roll-out projects. Orange Armenia is really proud for this contribution”, said Bruno Duthoit, CEO of Orange Armenia.

The project was born last year and the first TIGRAN tower was installed in June 2009. As of today, more than 100 towers have been built with this new principle.

As the Head of PSRC Telecommunication Department Gevorg Gevorgyan stated at the session today, the effect of the license is suspended because of non-payment of state and license duties.

Representatives of companies stated at the session that voice service provision has become an “unprofitable business”, since large telecommunication operators, in particular, Beeline, “press the small ones”. PSRC member Samvel Arabajyan noted that large telecommunication operators have made larger investments to develop infrastructures and this allows them being more competitive. He urges small companies to follow the global practice of VoIP services and take the path of consolidation.

Coordinator of OSIAF-Armenia information programs Andranik Markosyan informed Mediamax that the aim of the competition is elaboration of software support, which will allow users of mobile operational systems reading texts and visiting websites in Armenian language.

Among technical requirements for the competition participants are: open source of the elaborated software support, its easy installation and support for future updates.

The applications for receiving grants are accepted in OSIAF-Armenia office till May 21, 2010.

One may get details of the competition at the organization’s website – www.osi.am.

Mediamax was informed in the press service of the company today that this offer has no effect for subscribers of prepaid tariff plans “18+” and “Business Control”.

Detailed information on the tariffs of “Internet-Package” service is available at: http://www.vivacell.am/index.php?lng=2&menu=1&page=news&newsID=17405.

According to “ArmenTel” Head, the company does not consider introduction of 4G network in the nearest prospect and prefers to focus on improving the quality of services, which are already being provided.

Answering the question on changing the tariff policy of “ArmenTel” in conditions of new landline connection operators’ entry to the market, Igor Klimko reminded that tariffs for landline connection are defined by the Public Service Regulatory Committee (PSRC), and the company cannot change them.

Commenting on establishment of ARMIX Fund for Internet Traffic Exchange, Igor Klimko expressed regret that its founders did not invite to discussions “ArmenTel” “as a united connection operator and only informed us on the fact of setting up such a structure”.

“Nevertheless, we are open for discussions”, Igor Klimko summed up.

Cooperation prospects were also discussed at the meeting with the Head of Huawei. The Chinese Corporation expressed interest to launch activity in Armenia and the corresponding memorandum was signed following the results of discussions.

Huawei is a dynamically developing company and at present it yields only to American Intel as to the number of copyright licenses, and to Swedish Ericsson as to volumes of product sales.

Mediamax was informed in the press service of the company that within the framework of the campaign, Orange subscribers may send their SMS wishes to Armenia’s representative to “Eurovision 2010” Eva Rivas.

The first phase will end on May 13th and will determine 4 winners who will travel to Oslo and attend the semi-final and final of Eurovision 2010.

For those who didn’t win during the first phase, the game will continue until May 25th. The best 125 participants of this phase will receive many different prizes.

The authors of the best wishes, chosen by the representative of Armenia in Eurovision 2010 Eva Rivas, will personally meet with her and get presents from her.

Orange will support the broadcast of Eurovision 2010 by the Public TV of Armenia.

Details of “Hello Oslo” campaign are available at orangearmenia.am.

She did not name definite dates for the checks, noting that the Armenian Police and SS experts will visit companies, which have received urges and warnings of BSA to shift to licensed SS.

According to Narine Mkrtchyan’s assessments, the level of pirated software support use among Armenian companies makes 90%. “Microsoft will not insist upon licensed SS for home users, however it will continue struggle against use of pirated operational systems and software by entities, which gain profit from that”, she noted.

Narine Mkrtchyan informed that in February, BSA and the Armenian Police organized checks in 4 stores of computer equipment in the center of Yerevan, as a result of which they revealed that the stores sold computers with unlicensed operational system.

As Mediamax was previously informed in Armenian representative office of Microsoft, the majority of Yerevan stores of computer equipment possess licenses for Microsoft SS sale, however at that many of them continue spreading unlicensed SS.