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Posted by: Quintura @ 14:22 [21. 01. 08]
The Russian financial group has invested some $30 million for a 10% stake in global social network Badoo to help it grow in Russia. The Russian social networking market reached over 10 million users in January 2008.
is a social networking site with photo and video sharing features. It has 12.7 million registered accounts, mostly in Latin America and Continental Europe. Badoo was launched from London in November 2006. Badoo is advertising-free, which should be why it has grown so quickly. Badoo was number 2 fastest rising search term on Google Zeitgeist list for 2007 .
Finam made an investment in Badoo out of its fund . Back in 2005, Finam bought-out a 68.5% stake in Mamba, a leading online dating community in Russia with over 9 million registered accounts, which is rumored to share the same technical founders with Badoo.
Our Q-blog recently named 2007 as the Year of Social Networks in Russia where Odnoklassniki.ru and Vkontakte are the leaders with more than 7 million and 4 million registered accounts, respectively.
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1 Finam Invests $30 Million in Social Network Badoo Quintura @ 14:22 [21. 01. 08]
2 TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » Uk’s Badoo pulls $30m for Russian launch, ahead of a home push Quintura @ 14:22 [21. 01. 08]
3 Russians Invest $30 Million in Social Networking Site Badoo Quintura @ 14:22 [21. 01. 08]
4 TechCrunch Japanese ????? » ??????????Finam????SNS?Badoo??$30M?? Quintura @ 14:22 [21. 01. 08]
5 Badoo l?ve 30 millions de $ Quintura @ 14:22 [21. 01. 08]
6 Open Community Social Network, Badoo Raises $30 Million Quintura @ 14:22 [21. 01. 08]
7 Russians Invest $30m in Social Network Badoo | RussianMarketer Quintura @ 14:22 [21. 01. 08]
8 Weekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: Jan 22, 2008 Quintura @ 14:22 [21. 01. 08]
9 M?s negocios en Internet en Rusia – Finam invierte en Badoo Quintura @ 14:22 [21. 01. 08]
10 David Quintura @ 14:22 [21. 01. 08]
you are so lovely (in a non gay way) naive when you say:
‘Badoo was launched from London in November 2006. Badoo is advertising-free, which should be why it has grown so quickly’
trust me , latin americans don’t care about advertising, It grow that quickly because they spammed a lot using people email contact lists. besides they It’s pretty cool free dating service with plenty of people from your country
11 Yakov Quintura @ 14:22 [21. 01. 08]
sure, it’s more a dating service than anything else because it’s created by the guys who did one before
12 Dating Watch » Badoo valoris? ? 300 millions de dollars Quintura @ 14:22 [21. 01. 08]
13 Jacob Madison » Blog Archive » Finam Invests $30 Million in Social Network Badoo Quintura @ 14:22 [21. 01. 08]
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