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Posted by: admin @ 08:21 [28. 11. 11]
 The leading Russian search engine and contextual advertising company Yandex has made its largest acquisition to date. Yandex said it acquired SPB Software, maker of the world’s most popular paid mobile application, SPB Mobile Shell. The acquisition price ca. $38 million. Build on SPB UI engine, SPB Shell 3D will become a foundation on which Yandex is going to build up its mobile opportunity.
Founded in 1999, , which is headquartered is St. Petersburg, employs 75 in offices in Russia, Taiwan and Thailand. SPB offers a suite of popular mobile software applications for consumers, device manufacturers and mobile operators including a mobile user interface engine for smartphones and tablets.
SPB Software is headed by CEO Sebastian-Justus Schmidt, COO Vassili Philippov and CTO Yaroslav Goncharov. SPB is owned by its management.
SPB Software‘s mobile TV software SPB TV is not part of acquisition by Yandex. In October 2011, was spun off into a separate company MobileWorld Media.
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