Quintura URL Info is a small and useful app (just 80 kB) that runs in the background mode while you surf the web on your mobile phone.

When you are going to follow a link, you could never be sure to get exactly what you wanted. It’s not a problem if you’re sitting at home or in your office with a laptop / desktop with broadband internet connection and limitless traffic. But if the same thing happens with your mobile device, then you surely wish to get what you want.

That is exactly the reason behind the release of Quintura URL Info. You click on the link and our application analyzes the page you are going to visit and offers you the page summary. It saves you an expensive mobile traffic (some tens of kilobytes per page) and an upload time (the page with all pictures). Besides the page contents, you can view the saved traffic and keywords highlighted on the page by Quintura.

The application is available on Adroid Market for 0.99

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The iPhone visual search app for web and image search Quintura Search is available at iTunes App Store.

Quintura Kids, a safe and visual way for kids to learn how to explore the web using a tag cloud, is also available at App Store.

More information about Quintura’s visual search for iPhone is at Quintura Mobile page at http://mobile.quintura.com/

We plan to release new search apps for iPhone as well as launch Quintura Kids and Quintura Cook for Android (via Android Market) and Symbian (via Ovi Store).

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Quintura Search for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch is available at iTunes App Store.

Quintura Kids, a safe and visual way for kids to learn how to explore the web using a tag cloud, is already available at App Store.

Next, there is Quintura Cook. More information is at Quintura Mobile page at http://mobile.quintura.com/

With several million new iPhones and iPads being sold every month and over 100 million iPhones being used around the world, Quintura‘s innovative visual search apps shall become popular quite shortly.

We also plan to release Quintura Kids and Quintura Cook for Android (via Android Market) and Symbian (via Ovi Store).

Quintura‘s newest iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch app - Quintura Kids is available at iTunes.

Quintura Kids is a safe and wonderful way for kids to learn how to explore the web using a tag cloud, says AltSearchEngines.

Next will be Quintura Food (Quintura for Cooking) that will be like Quintura Kids available in both English and Russian. More information is at Quintura Mobile page at http://mobile.quintura.com/

With several million new iPhones and iPads being sold every month and over 100 million iPhones being used around the world, Quintura‘s innovative visual search apps shall become popular quite shortly.

We also plan to release Quintura Kids and Quintura Food for Android (via Android Market) and Symbian (via Ovi Store).

Exalead

Both 10-years old Exalead and Dassault are headquartred in France.

In other recent news, Clusty, a meta-search online service of search clustering engine vendor Vivisimo, was acquired for US$ 5.5 million by Yippy.

With over 100 million iOS (iPhone Operating System) devices being used around the world, Quintura that will shorlty release visual-based search applications for both iPhone and iPad has a strong chance to take part in search market consolidation.

Opera Software

The safe search engines and web browsers for kids include Ask Kids, KidZui, KIDO’Z, and our own Quintura for Kids.

Being the leading internet browser for desktop and mobile in Russia and Ukraine, Opera Software has decided to open an office in St. Petersburg, Russia. Headquartered in Norway, Opera has 5 employees in Russia who work remotely.

In May 2009, Opera Software bought Mobica Solutions of Poland for $2 million. Before purchase, Opera contracted consultants from Mobica.

In January 2010, Opera Software acquired mobile ad optimizer AdMarvel for $8 million, plus, an additional consideration of up to $15 million, subject to meeting certain financial targets over the next two years.

Founded in 2006, Evernote has 2 million users. The service, which is available in English and Russian, works online and on mobile devices BlackBerry, iPhone, Windows Mobile and Palm Pre as well as on Windows and Mac computers.

Evernote utilizes a “freemium” business model. The basic service is free but offers a limited amount of online storage space. For a small monthly fee, users get more storage, increased security and can share notes.

According to Interbrand Zintzmeyer & Lux’s forth annual ranking of 40 most valuable Russian brands arranged by brand value, Beeline and MTS were named the most valuable brands in Russia with a value of $7.4 billion and $6.9 billion, respectively.

VimpelCom (Beeline) is the second largest mobile phone operator in Russia and CIS countries with 53.7 million subscribers as of June 30, 2008. VimpelCom was the first Russian company to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in 1996, under the symbol VIP. Beeline topped the brand rankings in Russia in 2007, 2006 and 2005.

Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) is the largest mobile phone operator in Russia and the CIS countries with 87.6 million subscribers (incl. 61.2 million in Russia) at the end of September 2008. MTS listed its shares on NYSE in July 2000, under the symbol MBT. MTS is majority-owned by Sistema, the largest private sector consumer services company in Russia and the CIS.

MegaFon, the brand behind Russia’s number three mobile phone operator is valued at $569 million and ranked 6th. The media brands behind television channels, NTV and CTC are valued at $335 million and $194 million, respectively, and ranked 11th & 22hd.

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 supported by chase teams and a 24/7 command and control center. AutoLocator reports on its corporate web-site that its total recovered vehicle value has reached more than $140 million.

Alex Genin, Managing Director of Access Industries CIS told about its reasons for the acquisition in the company’s press release: “With Russia becoming the largest auto market in Europe, AutoLocator provides an excellent platform for Access to take part in this increasingly important sector of the economy. Within the next few years the telematic unit and service will be considered a standard feature on all cars.”

Access Industries, which was founded in 1986, is chaired by Len Blavatnik. In 2007, Access Industries together with Atlantic Bridge Ventures acquired LogicaCMG’s telecoms products business for $525 million and formed Acision. In 2004, Access Industries invested into the largest Russian producer of television series AMEDIA.

According to business daily Kommersant, Access Industries has invested into a recent acquisition of film distribution and marketing companies as well as film libraries of Mel Gibson’s Icon Group by Stadium.

Founded in 2003 by mobile phone and consumer electronics distributor Severen, Egrad has over 1,400 retail outlets in Russia, including over 800 outlets under franchise. The company reported revenues of ca. $800 million in 2007.

In April 2007, Russian Funds invested over $7 million for a 40% stake in Egrad.

Founded in 1997, Euroset has more than 5,000 retail outlets in Russia and its neighboring countries. The company reported revenues of $3.6 billion in 2007. Euroset is owned by its two founders Evgeny Chichvarkin and Timur Artemiev.

Founded by private individuals in 2007, EZtalk started providing services in January 2008 and now has 30,000 users. With accelerated marketing spending, the service could reach several million subscribers out of more than 140 million mobile users in Russia.

EZtalk requires registration via its web-site and download of its application to mobile phone. After topping up an account via a payment terminal, user can make calls to Europe, US, Canada and some other countries for about $0.30 per minute or to anywhere in Russia for $0.15 per minute. EZtalk has interoperability agreements for voice traffic with several long-distance and international telecom operators including Rostelecom and Orange.

VTB Venture Fund (ВТБ – Фонд венчурный), which was formed in September 2007, is managed by VTB Asset Management, part of banking group VTB.

In June 2008, VTB Venture Fund invested in provider of indoor-advertising and interactive marketing solutions BS Graphics (Б.С. Графика).