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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, Tech
Posted by: Yakov @ 06:01 [23. 09. 09]
The Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies (RUSNANO) agreed to invest ca. $5.5 million (166 million Rubles) in exchange for a 25 percent stake in Sun, a Russian manufacturer of UV and solvent printers and ink. The investment will be used to upgrade and expand production of printers and ink and for working capital purposes. The other [...]
Files under: News, Tech
Posted by: Yakov @ 04:46 [23. 09. 09]
Nano-Optic Devices, developer of digital planar holography technology to produce optical devices on a single nano chip, has raised more than $2 million from S-Group Ventures, according to Prime-TASS.
Founded in 2007, Nano-Optic Devices employs a team of 17 scientists in offices in New Jersey, USA and Moscow region, Russia. Nano-Optic Devices’ founder and CEO Vladimir [...]
Files under: News, Tech
Posted by: Yakov @ 01:08 [23. 09. 09]
S-Group Ventures, a 1.8 billion Ruble ($60 million) venture capital fund between Russian Venture Company (RVK) and S-Group Capital Management, has invested $3 million in Spectralus, developer of periodically poled nonlinear crystals and laser products, reported CNews.
Founded in 2003, Spectralus Corporation (Спектралюс) developed a green laser microchip for use in mobile projectors. Spectralus makes periodically [...]
Files under: Inside View, News, Quintura Search, Tech
Posted by: Yakov @ 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 TechCrunch.
The [...]
Files under: News, Quintura Search, Tech
Posted by: Yakov @ 22:36 [3. 09. 09]
We have released a new design of Flash widget for Quintura Site Search. The widget looks like an interactive tag cloud. However, the site search results will pop up when users click a tag.
The block with site search results is made dynamic in order to help your site users pay more attention to a search [...]
Files under: News, Tech
Posted by: Yakov @ 03:50 [13. 08. 09]
The leading Russian search engine Yandex, which launched a hosted site search for web publishers this week, was the 7th search property worldwide with 1.7 billion searches in June 2009, capturing 1.5 percent of global search share, ahead of MySpace Search (0.9%), Daum.net of South Korea (0.8%) and AOL Search Network (0.6%), according to comScore, [...]
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 [...]
Files under: Inside View, News, Quintura Search, Search Cases, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Yakov @ 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 kid-friendly search [...]
Files under: Inside View, News, Quintura Search, Search Cases, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Yakov @ 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 [...]
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, 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 [...]
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 [...]
Files under: News, Quintura Search, Search Cases, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Yakov @ 01:25 [20. 12. 08]
In December 2007, Quintura was named the Alternative Search Engine of the Year 2007 by AltSearchEngines.com. Today, Charles Knight, the editor of AltSearchEngines, has named Quintura a Top 10 Alternative Search Engine of 2008.
Charles Knight explains:
“When you search with Quintura, you see a two-dimensional (i.e. not a list) tag cloud.
The other words in the [...]
Files under: News, Quintura Search, Tech
Posted by: Yakov @ 13:16 [8. 12. 08]
Group M, which is part of WPP Group, reported their forecasts for the advertising market in Russia in 2009. The Russian advertising market will drop 11 percent to 244 billion rubles ($8.7 billion) in 2009, according to business newspaper Kommersant.
The online contextual advertising is the only advertising market segement in Russia that will increase in [...]
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 [...]
Files under: News, Quintura Search, Search Cases, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Yakov @ 12:18 [2. 12. 08]
In difficult economic times, we keep paying more attention to what is most important in our lives including our children. Our search engine for kids, Quintura Kids gets a new design for the winter season. We have also updated the site index and populated the initial Search Cloud on the site with graphics to make [...]
Files under: News, Quintura Search, Search Cases, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Yakov @ 01:00 [27. 11. 08]
We are getting news that Yahoo! BOSS has launched so called ‘vertical lens‘ for search across your site categories or group of your sites. We at Quintura have already implemented this on several publisher networks of web-sites. As a result, Quintura’s hosted site search significantly increases user engagement in search resulting in more page [...]
Files under: News, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Yakov @ 14:26 [26. 11. 08]
The concept of online shopping clubs where members can buy designer brands at discount prices has got a real traction across Europe. First, it was vente-privee in France 2001. Then, came brands4friends.de in Germany in 2007 and KupiVIP.ru in Russia in 2008. Both were started with early-stage investments from Mangrove Capital Partners. In spite of [...]
Files under: Enterprise, News, Tech
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.
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