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Posted by: Yakov @ 09:07 [9. 11. 09]
Moscow and Silicon Valley-based venture capital fund, Almaz Capital Russia Fund I has made an investment in Acumatica, a web-based accounting, ERP and CRM software vendor, the company announced on its web-site. According to business newspaper Vedomosti, Almaz Capital invested several million dollars in exchange for about 20% stake in Acumatica.
Acumatica, which launched its brand [...]
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Posted by: Yakov @ 15:17 [28. 09. 09]
Trivon Group, which operates Virgin Connect in Russia, has acquired MediaSeti, wireless broadband telecom operator of UnitLine network in Russia, from the telecom group Effortel, reported Vedomosti.ru. According the newspaper, the deal is valued at about 250 million Rubles ($8 million).
UnitLine provides WiMAX services to corporate customers in ten regions of Russia. Its annual revenues [...]
Files under: Enterprise, News, Tech
Posted by: Yakov @ 12:44 [23. 06. 09]
After months of speculation, Yandex and Ozon.ru shareholder Baring Vostok Capital Partners (BVCP) has emerged as a potential investor in Russia’s largest software vendor 1C Company, reported business daily newspaper Kommersant. The private equity fund, which is now doing a due diligence of the company, could invest some $100 million in 1C Company, valuing [...]
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Posted by: Yakov @ 23:16 [13. 05. 09]
The leading e-commerce group in Eastern Europe, MIH Allegro Group has acquired a 51 percent stake in B2B e-commerce trading platform, UAProm in Ukraine, in exchange for an undisclosed investment into its business development. The Ukrainian founders of UAProm, who previously worked for the US-based mobile service provider Sonopia, will retain 49 percent and agree [...]
Files under: Enterprise, News, Quintura Search, Search Cases, Tech
Posted by: Yakov @ 13:18 [12. 05. 09]
I will be making a presentation of Quintura Site Search at E-Publishing Innovation Forum in London on May 19 – 20.
The Forum, which is organized by Incisive Media, will feature keynotes from top executives at Thomson Reuters, Telegraph Media Group, The Economist Group, Reed Business, etc. Quintura is one of the platinum sponsors of [...]
Files under: Enterprise, News
Posted by: Yakov @ 10:22 [29. 04. 09]
The largest Russian software vendor 1C Company plans to do a private equity placement, reported business newspaper Kommersant. The company could raise up to $100 million from Russian private equity funds. The investment bank Renaissance Capital is managing the placement, said the newspaper.
1C Company, whose revenues were estimated at over $350 million in 2007, should [...]
Files under: Enterprise, Inside View, News, Quintura Search, Search Cases, Tech
Posted by: Yakov @ 20:10 [7. 04. 09]
We have added several new features and enhancements to Quintura Site Search including:
• New Mini-Cloud Settings – settings for search results display,
• Banners – an interface to enable embedding images within search clouds.
New Mini-Cloud Settings
Display search results under the Quintura search widget. If this parameter is disabled, the widget will [...]
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Posted by: Yakov @ 00:20 [3. 04. 09]
The leading Russian mobile content provider, Plastic Media acquired SMX Com, a provider of mobile value-added services (VAS), from Rambler Media. As a part of the acquisition, Plastic Media will operate and provide mobile VAS services to Rambler.
The value of the deal was not disclosed but the analysts estimate it at at ca. [...]
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Posted by: Yakov @ 15:14 [21. 02. 09]
The European “yellow pages” publisher Interinfo, which is owned by TPG Capital, sold several of its regional businesses last year. In February 2008, the Baltic countries-focused private equity firm, BaltCap acquired 100 percent of Interinfo group of companies in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania with annual turnover of EUR 15.5 million.
In late 2008, a [...]
Files under: Enterprise, News, Quintura Search, Search Cases, Tech
Posted by: Yakov @ 01:12 [16. 02. 09]
The global chemicals and pharmaceutical group Solvay has announced that Quintura started powering site search on its pharmaceutical corporate web-site, Solvay-Pharma.ru.
When corporate web-sites of consumer good companies such as Solvay Pharma become media for their brands, Quintura helps Solvay to better interact with their site customers.
Solvay has selected to place its own images and banners [...]
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Posted by: Yakov @ 21:44 [4. 12. 08]
While making a search on Technorati tonight (on Moscow time), I have noticed a lot of changes in the Technorati’s interface of search engine results page.
Technorati’s homepage has also changed. It’s easier to read.
Just a few hours ago, it was an “old” Technorati blog search that we all know it.
Now, it’s got thumbnails of search [...]
Files under: Enterprise, News, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Yakov @ 18:09 [2. 12. 08]
When some of the major Western venture capital funds are slowing down their investment activities, their Russian VC counterparts are going ahead with their investments. Troika Venture Fund, a new venture capital fund managed by Troika Capital Partners (part of the leading Russian investment banking group Troika Dialog) is completing three investment deals for a [...]
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Posted by: Yakov @ 00:23 [28. 11. 08]
Over the last weekend there were rumors in Russian online media that Forbes was going be acquired by ONEXIM Group. Axel Springer Russia has been publishing the Russian edition of Forbes since 2004. The Forbes magazine reaches more than 714,000 readers every month in Russia with an average circulation of 120,000 copies.
On November 26, the [...]
Files under: Enterprise, Inside View, News
Posted by: Yakov @ 00:44 [24. 11. 08]
When the economy is shrinking it’s good time for private equity investors to buy assets at a low valuation. There have been numerous reports in online media in Russia that ONEXIM Group is going to acquire Forbes. Here is the one confirmed by the Trud newspaper.
ONEXIM Group, which is led by Mikhail Prokhorov, is one [...]
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Posted by: Yakov @ 17:50 [23. 11. 08]
I saw my favorite car Gurney Signature Edition Mustang in downtown Moscow last week. Wish it’s mine. I hope the car maker Saleen will emerge from economic downturn. Perhaps, the Russian private equity will help it.
Files under: Enterprise, News
Posted by: Yakov @ 16:24 [23. 11. 08]
The hedge funds that focus on investing in Russia will drop by 50% next year. The hedge funds in Russia will become more like private equity funds and make investments in private companies. Due to decreased asset valuation, the funds shall return more than 40 percent per year, according to Oleg Zhelezko, the founder [...]
Files under: Enterprise, Mobile, News
Posted by: Yakov @ 15:18 [17. 11. 08]
Russia is not only known to the world by its vast natural resources and luxury consumer shopping habits but also by its enormous territory. When it comes to building a brand in Russia, the domestic mobile phone operators that has covered the country’s territory and population lead the race.
According to Interbrand Zintzmeyer & Lux’s forth [...]
Files under: Enterprise, News, Quintura Search, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Yakov @ 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: Enterprise, News, Quintura Search, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Yakov @ 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: Enterprise, News, Search Cases, Tech
Posted by: Yakov @ 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 billion, [...]
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