Archives for October 2008
Files under: News, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Quintura @ 21:05 [31. 10. 08]
If you can’t monetize your online traffic yourself, then bring in a guy who could replicate a previous successful experience in it. When the leading Russian social networking site Odnoklassniki.ru recently hired a new CEO, the market was wondering what he would do first. In fact, the answer’s easy. Previously, he worked at online dating [...]
Files under: News, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Quintura @ 14:52 [30. 10. 08]
Having acquired computer game publisher BUKA for $80 million last July, the largest Eastern European computer and video game publisher 1C Company obtained a 40% share of the Russian game publishing and distribution market valued at $400 million per year. Today 1C Company announced it acquires Avalon Style Entertainment, a Russian game studio known for [...]
Files under: News, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Quintura @ 00:58 [30. 10. 08]
It’s not often when a web startup drops its name, unless something important happens. The real estate search engine Properazzi has changed its name to Enormo, CEO Yannick Laclau announced on his blog. The new name “better reflects the mission of what we do“, Yannick wrote regarding the name change. Founded in 2006, Enormo has [...]
Files under: Enterprise, News, Quintura Search, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Quintura @ 22:05 [29. 10. 08]
Having become a major site search solution provider for women-centric websites in Russia, Quintura Site Search now reaches more than 5 million monthly site visitors in the country. Quintura‘s visual-based site search is being used by major online lifestyle sites such as Passion.ru, Cosmo.ru, LeLuxe, and Portal-Woman.ru. They will be soon joined by Ameno.ru, Bazaar.ru [...]
Files under: News, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Quintura @ 17:36 [29. 10. 08]
Having escaped from Google’s acquisition, the leading Russian contextual advertising company Begun continues offering new ways to monetize multimedia online content. In June 2008, Begun launched video contextual advertisements via Begun.VideoContext that were first introduced on video sharing online community Rambler Vision. Now the company is launching a new monetization option for photo sharing websites [...]
Files under: News, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Quintura @ 11:58 [27. 10. 08]
When it comes to online shopping in Russia, the venture capital investors are looking for proven business models and projects that can generate revenues from the very beginning. The largest Russian online shop Ozon.ru, which often called ‘Russian Amazon’, has raised $18 million from Index Ventures and the others. I recently suggested that for an [...]
Files under: Inside View, News, Tech
Posted by: Quintura @ 01:20 [24. 10. 08]
Rambler Media, which operates one of the most popular Russian internet portals Rambler, has announced that the Russian Federal Anti-Monopoly Service (FAS) refused Google‘s application to acquire 100% of Russian contextual advertising company Begun. Rambler Media, which owns 50.1% of Begun, agreed to sell the company to Google for $140 million last July. Google had [...]
Files under: News, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Quintura @ 06:11 [22. 10. 08]
// The European venture capital investors are going across the border and scouting for opportunities outside of their home markets, the ones that have proven business models and success stories. Take auFeminin.com, a women-centric network of sites with over 20 million monthly users founded in France in 2001. It was valued at EUR 284 million [...]
Files under: Enterprise, News, Quintura Search, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Quintura @ 22:07 [21. 10. 08]
I am glad to announce the launch of Quintura Site Search into the U.S. market today and the awarding of the first U.S. patent. We raised a new funding from Mangrove Capital Partners last month to scale the site search business. Quintura Site Search is a hosted site search, analytics and monetization solution for online [...]
Files under: News, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Quintura @ 23:49 [20. 10. 08]
The leading Russian search engine and Internet company Yandex has acquired the business assets of display advertising sales house Mediaselling, Yandex announced on its corporate blog. As a result of the deal, Yandex also gained display ad targeting and planning solution for online publishers. Mediaselling, which employs staff of 30 people in Moscow, was set [...]
Files under: News
Posted by: Quintura @ 06:35 [16. 10. 08]
The leading Russian internet company Mail.ru turned 10 on October 15, 2008, the company announced. Mail.ru received a telegram from Dmitry Medvedev, President of Russia who congratulated its staff on the 10th anniversary. Started as a web mail service, Mail.ru now also operates some of the most popular online services in Russia such as instant [...]
Files under: News, Web 2.0
Posted by: Quintura @ 02:24 [15. 10. 08]
The brainchild of a Russian-born engineer Lev Walkin, social widget provider JS-Kit, has received $3.6 million Series B funding from Altos Ventures and previous investor The Entrepreneur’s Fund III (TEF3), Khris Loux, CEO of JS-Kit announced on its blog. The company previously raised $1.2 million in August 2007 . Started as a JavaScript comment widget [...]
Files under: Inside View, News, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Quintura @ 00:03 [14. 10. 08]
Having agreed selling contextual ads service Begun and outsourcing the most of its search engine activities to Google, the leading Russian internet company Rambler Media is launching a massive outdoor and television advertising campaign with a goal of doubling its current daily audience and becoming number one online destination in Russia within one year. Rambler‘s [...]
Files under: Enterprise, News, Search Cases, Tech
Posted by: Quintura @ 17:02 [11. 10. 08]
The leading Russian search engine Yandex has reached 50 million searches per day, the company announced on its corporate blog. This number includes searches made on Yandex partner sites Mail.ru, Tut.by, Quintura.ru, and others that use Yandex.XML to power search results. This will imply that Yandex run rate of monthly searches has increased to 1.5 [...]
Files under: Enterprise, News, Quintura Search, Web 2.0
Posted by: Quintura @ 14:05 [11. 10. 08]
I am delighted to announce that Quintura Site Search is joining the EconWomen conference in New York on October 29 as one of the sponsors. The conference, which is organized by ContentNext Media, will focus on key strategic issues surrounding the economics of women-centric digital media. The agenda includes spotlight Q&A sessions with top executives [...]
Files under: News, Tech
Posted by: Quintura @ 15:34 [10. 10. 08]
Aureos Central Asia Fund (ACAsF), which is managed by private equity firm Aureos Capital, has invested $5 million in the Kyrgyz cable television company Ala TV, the fund announced on its corporate web-site. Founded in 1999 as a joint venture between Metromedia International Group and local partners, Ala TV is a broadband operator that provides [...]
Files under: Enterprise, News, Tech
Posted by: Quintura @ 01:12 [10. 10. 08]
The leading Russian internet security and antivirus software vendor Kaspersky Lab plans to do a private placement of equity to finance potential acquisitions, reported business daily newspaper Kommersant. By attracting external investors, the company shall also become more transparent to large enterprise customers. Credit Suisse is expected to manage the equity offering that could happen [...]
Files under: Enterprise, Mobile, News, Tech
Posted by: Quintura @ 13:34 [9. 10. 08]
The U.S.-based industrial group Access Industries, which invests in natural resources, chemicals, telecoms, media, and real estate, has acquired a majority stake in the Russian telematics pioneer AutoLocator. Founded in 2000 by Megapage wireless system distributor, AutoLocator was the first company in Russia to launch vehicle anti-theft systems utilizing both radio and GPS/GSM location systems [...]
Files under: News
Posted by: Quintura @ 00:20 [9. 10. 08]
The Russian online consumer shopping holding eHouse has acquired 003.ru, online shop that sells consumer electronics and home appliances, from Marta holding, reported CNews. Through the acquisition, eHouse becomes the leader in online shopping in Russia. According to analyst estimates, the deal is valued at $10 million. Founded in 2000, 003.ru is Russia’s second largest [...]
Files under: Enterprise, News, Tech
Posted by: Quintura @ 08:36 [8. 10. 08]
According to a recent research from ISDEF (Independent Software Developers Forum), the Russian software market was valued at $3.7 billion in 2007. The enterprises accounted for 65% of total sales. The rest was divided between the state companies (25% of total sales) and consumers (10% of sales). The market is expected to grow to $5 [...]
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