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Posted by: admin @ 06:24 [30. 05. 11]
Social game publisher Pixonic is one of the social game publishers in Russia. It was first funded by AddVenture. The Russian leading online travel agency Oktogo.ru venture capital investor Ventech as well as Kite Ventures of Edward Shenderovich and TA Ventures of Ukraine has put $5 million in Pixonic at a valuation of ca. $10 [...]
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Posted by: admin @ 08:57 [26. 05. 11]
Almaz Capital Russia Fund I, Russia-focused venture capital fund that is backed by Cisco, shall have returned all money to investors with just two investments, fund’s Managing Partner Alexander “Sasha” Galitsky revealed on twitter. Those investments should have been made by Almaz in Qik and Yandex. Almaz‘s first close was at $60 million. Then, Almaz [...]
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Posted by: admin @ 02:20 [7. 04. 11]
// The race to become Zappos of Russia (or Zalando of Russia) gets underway. In July 2010, the French Direct Group of Pascal Clement and the German Otto Group-backed eVenture Capital funded the Russian online shoe store Sapato. In November 2010, Investment AB Kinnevik contributed $2 million of $5 million round in Sapato. The other [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 01:47 [28. 12. 09]
________________________________________________________________________________________ Click to download Quintura search apps for iOS, Android and Symbian. ________________________________________________________________________________________ Russia has become the second largest Internet market in Europe with over 40 million internet users. We at Quintura would like to introduce top 10 Russian internet startups of 2009. The list includes startup internet companies from Russia, which launched new online [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 06:55 [19. 11. 09]
Adding ICQ to online instant messaging (IM) platforms and VoIP services already owned by Naspers will complement its global footprint and make Naspers one of the largest global communications companies with over 500 million users. Naspers will become as big as Skype that reported 521 million user accounts at the end of September 2009. That [...]
Files under: Inside View, News, Quintura Search, Tech
Posted by: Quintura @ 01:58 [4. 09. 09]
Google CEO, Erick Schmidt has revealed in his recent interview to Techcrunch that Google needs to move from words to meaning, i.e. better understand search queries and return results based on meaning of the query. “We have to get from the sort of casual use of asking, querying…to “what did you mean?””, he told to [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 15:49 [25. 05. 09]
PCWorld.com blogger Rick Broida has reviewed Quintura for Kids in his article “Keep Kids Safe Online: The Quintura Search Engine” on the blog: Hassle-Free PC. Here is an explanation why Rick turned to Quintura: “Because I can’t monitor my kids’ computer activity every second of the day, I’m starting by replacing Google with Quintura. This [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 21:09 [17. 05. 09]
Google has introduced several new search options on its search engine including Wonder Wheel, a map to see related searches and refine searching. Quite a few bloggers already said that it is very similar to Quintura’s search cloud (or search map). What is also noticed that Google’s Wonder Wheel is missing images in the search [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 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 have [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 17:10 [24. 12. 08]
Discover Christmas and New Year holidays by browsing through our Search Cloud on quintura.com! We wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
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Posted by: Quintura @ 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 14:57 [23. 09. 08]
Rambler Media, the Russian internet service and media company operating the Rambler portal, has reported its consolidated interim financial results for the six months ended June 30, 2008. Below are Rambler’s user statistics, financial highlights and key deals. In July 2008, Rambler agreed to sell a 50.1% stake in contextual ad firm Begun to Google [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 16:27 [5. 09. 08]
Quintura is a semantic search engine and advertising technology company that offers interactive site search, analytics and monetization platform for web publishers and content owners. I would like to announce today that Quintura has received several million dollars in bridge funding from leading European early-stage venture capital investor Mangrove Capital Partners as a part of [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 01:44 [28. 08. 08]
The consortium of Western institutional investors led by AXA Private Equity and Paul Capital Partners invested $420 million into two private equity funds managed by the Russian fund manager Marshall Capital Partners (MCP) called Marshall Capital I (Marcap I) и Marshall Capital II (Marcap II), according to news agency RIA Novosti. UBS Investment Bank acted [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 15:31 [25. 08. 08]
I have recently shared several tips regarding corporate blogging with Ernst-Jan Pfauth, a Dutch problogger and editor of The Next Web Blog. He posted my interview about the blogging in an article called Learn from Quintura… Ernst-Jan also wrote Seven Essential Tips For Corporate Bloggers Who Want To Write Remarkable Content on his own blog, [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 23:47 [24. 08. 08]
The leading Russian search engine Yandex will launch a new logo on Monday, August 25. The new logo displays the Yandex name in Cyrillic, Яндекс. The change reflects a fact that Yandex has become a household name in Russia. When people think of both Internet and search in the country, they think of Yandex. All [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 12:27 [4. 08. 08]
The founder of Metalloinvest holding and owner of Kommersant publishing house, Alisher Usmanov is becoming a major investor in Russian internet, reported business daily Vedomosti. According to newspaper, he is negotiating an acquisition of a 10%-20% stake in Russia’s leading search engine Yandex from the founding managers of the company as well as via new [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 14:00 [17. 07. 08]
The most popular Russian web properties in June 2008 were Mail.ru with 14.7 million unique visitors, Yandex with 14.6 million, the social networks Odnoklassniki.ru – 10.6 million and Vkontakte – 9.4 million, and Rambler – 9.1 million, reported business daily Vedomosti according to TNS Web Index. Mail.ru also led the Russian market with 6.2 million [...]
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