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Files under: Inside View, News
Posted by: Yakov @ 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: News
Posted by: Yakov @ 16:13 [17. 11. 09]
Russian financial group Finam has invested an undisclosed amount to exercise its option and increase its stake from 10% to 20% in global social networking site Badoo. In January 2008, Finam said it would make a $30 million investment in the site.
Founded in 2006, Badoo has over 48 million users worldwide. The users come mostly [...]
Files under: News, Quintura Search, Web 2.0
Posted by: Yakov @ 10:43 [17. 11. 09]
Our visual search engine for children Quintura Kids has been named among the Top 5 Search Engines for Kids by Pandia Search Engine News. The list of top 5 search engines for kids includes Ask Kids, Boolify, Quintura Kids, StudySearch and KidRex.
Per and Susanne Koch, editors of Pandia, said about Quintura Kids:
“..If these are not [...]
Files under: Mobile, News, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Yakov @ 03:58 [17. 11. 09]
One of the deans of venture capital, Morgenthaler Ventures has led a $10 million Series B round for electronic note application service Evernote, the company announced. Previous investors Troika Dialog and DOCOMO Capital, which invested a total of $6.5 million in Series A, also participated in the round. The investment will be used to expand [...]
Files under: News, Quintura Search, Web 2.0
Posted by: Yakov @ 11:41 [13. 11. 09]
Our visual search engine Quintura has been named among the Best Search Engines for ESL/EFL Learners – 2009 by Websites of the Day blog. The list of the best search engines for English language learners includes EyePlorer, Study Search, Carrot2, Quintura, Boolify, Viewzi, Mel Zoo, and Middlespot.
Larry Ferlazzo, editor of Websites of the Day, said [...]
Files under: News
Posted by: Yakov @ 05:50 [12. 11. 09]
Leading European provider of cinema information and e-commerce services AlloCine has acquired a stake in the most-visited Russian cinema information site and search engine, KinoPoisk.ru. The 40% stake was purchased from internet investor DST (Digital Sky Technologies), reported newspaper Kommersant. According to expert valuations, the deal could be worth ca. $2 million. KinoPoisk.ru founders Vitaly [...]
Files under: News
Posted by: Yakov @ 08:55 [11. 11. 09]
Russian media and entertainment group ProfMedia has launched a reverse accelerated bookbuild to purchase shares in leading Russian online portal and search engine company Rambler Media. The company is listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange. Following the completion of the bookbuild, ProfMedia may consider de-listing Rambler from AIM, the [...]
Files under: Enterprise, News
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 [...]
Files under: News
Posted by: Yakov @ 05:34 [27. 10. 09]
Quintura Site Search has turned one year old when Google celebrated the third anniversary of its Custom Search Engine by releasing some new features last week.
Unlike Google, Quintura Site Search offers a search cloud (map) of related concepts and keywords from the site. The Quintura search cloud helps to determine user intent and gives [...]
Files under: News
Posted by: Yakov @ 13:28 [26. 10. 09]
Russian ecommerce group eHouse Holding, which sold 51% stake in Paintium, a company operating online dating and social networking site Damochka.ru and banner exchange network BannerBank for $3.3 million to Rambler Media in July 2006, has bought the online properties back from Rambler for about $0.2 million, reported CNews.
Founded in 2001, Damochka.ru had 1.7 million [...]
Files under: News
Posted by: Yakov @ 06:34 [26. 10. 09]
The Russian online game market is expected to reach $238 million in 2009, up 29% from $185 million in 2008, according to data released by iKS-Consulting (via Prime-TASS BIT). The Russian mobile game market is valued at $87 million in 2009.
MMOG will generate revenues of $210 million while casual games will generate $28 million. The [...]
Files under: News
Posted by: Yakov @ 04:48 [26. 10. 09]
The alternative search engines held only 1.3 percent share of searches in Russia in August 2009, reported Vedomosti by citing data from comScore. The Russian search market leader, Yandex held 54.5 percent share of searches, ahead of Google (34.5%), Mail.ru (7.4%), Rambler (1.9%) and Microsoft’s Bing (0.4%). According to comScore, there were 21.5 million search users [...]
Files under: News
Posted by: Yakov @ 15:12 [22. 10. 09]
Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies (RUSNANO) will set up a $1 billion international nanotechnology investment fund, according to its corporate web-site. The U.S.-based C Change Investments has won a tender to become a Western investment partner for RUSNANO’s first international fund, reported business newspaper Vedomosti.
RUSNANO and C Change are expected to put up to $500 million each [...]
Files under: News
Posted by: Yakov @ 08:44 [22. 10. 09]
Our hosted site search service Quintura has been named a top 10 site search option by web design community DesignM.ag. The list also includes Bing Box, Eurekster Swicki, Google Custom Search, Lijit, Rollyo, SearchBlox, Sikbox, Sphere, and Yahoo! Search BOSS.
Steven Snell, editor of DesignM.ag, said about Quintura Site Search:
“The Quintura site search widget can easily [...]
Files under: News
Posted by: Yakov @ 01:24 [21. 10. 09]
Russian billionaire Vladimir Potanin’s Interros and JP Morgan Chase’s One Equity Partners agreed to put $500 million each into a new $1 billion private equity fund. The fund will make expansion-stage investments in Russian companies in consumer retail, manufacturing and service sectors. JP Morgan will help the fund to secure debt financing. This is the [...]
Files under: News
Posted by: Yakov @ 09:54 [15. 10. 09]
The venture capital fund Softline Venture Partners has agreed to invest $1 million in ebook online service Bookee. The investment will be disbursed over three years, Softline announced on its corporate web-site.
Bookee, which is expected to launch in early November 2009, will offer ebook search and download service. The users will have to first download [...]
Files under: News
Posted by: Yakov @ 01:00 [15. 10. 09]
Russia’s largest retailer in terms of sales, X5 Retail Group will develop its online business using experience of well-known online retailers in Russia. X5 has acquired a 51% stake in IT Business, a joint venture with the owners of online stores Bolero.ru and 003.ru, for $1 million. In addition, X5 has an option to [...]
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Posted by: Yakov @ 06:51 [14. 10. 09]
Leading European private equity firms UFG and GIMV have invested into a EUR 31.6 million leveraged buy-out (LBO) of French travel portal Easyvoyage. The transaction includes raising new capital and restructuring of existing capital.
Founded in 2000, Easyvoyage is the largest French travel site for information and price comparison with 6 million unique monthly visitors. The [...]
Files under: News
Posted by: Yakov @ 05:21 [14. 10. 09]
The leading Russian search engine Yandex has launched Yandex.kz in Kazakstan. The online portal offers major Yandex services such as search, news, mail, maps, and hosting customized for local web users.
With 46% share of searches in Kazakhstan through Yandex.ru and Search.Mail.ru, Yandex faces a fierce competition from Google that also has 46% search share in [...]
Files under: News
Posted by: Yakov @ 14:15 [13. 10. 09]
The leading Russian online video portal, RuTube has started monetizing its online video content with in-video contextual advertisements from Begun, the two companies said in a joint press announcement.
Founded in 2006, RuTube has over 6.5 million unique monthly visitors. The site is ranked as top 10 most visited web-site in Russia. The monthly video views [...]
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