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Files under: Mobile, News, Tech
Posted by: Quintura @ 16:23 [9. 03. 10]
Opera Software, maker of the Opera web browsers for desktops, devices and mobiles, could build a web browser for kids. “We think about creating an internet browser for kids. It’s a secret, exclusive..,” said Opera Software Communications Manager in Russia, Vladimir Isaev in his recent interview to Runetologia. He added that the company thinks about [...]
Files under: News, Tech
Posted by: Quintura @ 05:05 [3. 03. 10]
World’s largest privately-held Internet security company, Kaspersky Lab is becoming the largest software and Internet company in Russia. Kaspersky Lab should be bigger than 1C Company, accounting and mutimedia software vendor with estimated revenue of $265 million in 2009 and Yandex, the leading Russian search engine whose revenue were just under $300 million in 2009.
Founded in [...]
Files under: News, Tech
Posted by: Quintura @ 14:50 [27. 02. 10]
The online video platform and advertising company Digital Access, which was acquired by ru-Net Ltd of Leonid Boguslavsky in 2009, has launched ivi.ru, online video service for Russian internet users. The free service, whose design reminds of Hulu, will be monetized with pre-roll, post-roll, and video-overlay ads. The revenues from ads will be shared with [...]
Files under: Enterprise, News, Tech
Posted by: Quintura @ 19:34 [23. 02. 10]
The web server software Nginx served 7.5% of top servers across all domains in January 2010, ahead of Google with 7%, according to Netcraft. Apache and Microsoft held 53.8% and 24.1% market share for top servers across all domains, respectively. Nginx has been steadily gaining market share ever since first release in 2004. The growth [...]
Files under: Enterprise, News, Tech
Posted by: Quintura @ 17:21 [19. 02. 10]
The leading provider of automation and virtualization software for cloud services, Parallels has raised an undisclosed amount of venture capital funding from Siguler Guff‘s Russian investment arm, Russia Partners, which led the round, and Bessemer Venture Partners.
Founded in 1999, Parallels has numerous sales and business offices across the U.S., Europe and Asia and significant research and [...]
Files under: Enterprise, News, Tech
Posted by: Quintura @ 06:54 [17. 02. 10]
The Quintura search destination on Quintura.com is very popular among Search Engine Optimizers (SEO) and Search Engine Marketers (SEM) as a visual-based keyword suggestion and research tool.
Today, we released a new SEO tool – Quintura SEOInfo for keyword extraction and more that demonstrates the Quintura technologies.
You can use the SEOInfo tool to extract keywords, build [...]
Files under: News, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Quintura @ 05:17 [8. 02. 10]
The leading Internet group in Eastern Europe, Naspers/MIH Group, which together with DST (Digital Sky Technology) own the largest Russian online portal, Mail.ru is doing due diligence of assets of DST-owned holding Forticom, reported newspapers Vedomosti and Kommersant.
As a result, Naspers/MIH and DST could merger their Polish internet assets, instant messaging service Gadu-Gadu and social [...]
Files under: Enterprise, News, Tech
Posted by: Quintura @ 19:24 [3. 02. 10]
The leading early-stage European venture capital firm, Mangrove Capital Partners of Luxembourg has confirmed its association with the Renault F1 Team. The firm said in its latest quarterly newsletter: “We are proud to announce our association with the Renault F1 racing team. This association will undoubtedly lead to new business development opportunities and play a [...]
Files under: News, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Quintura @ 16:29 [2. 02. 10]
Moscow and Silicon Valley-based Almaz Capital Russia Fund I, which is sponsored by Cisco, UFG and EBRD, has invested about $3 million for a 23% stake in the leading Eastern European casual games company, Alawar Entertainment. The 15% stake was purchased from Finam Capital Partners and the other 8% was purchased from business angel investor, [...]
Files under: Enterprise, News, Tech
Posted by: Quintura @ 06:02 [1. 02. 10]
The leading Russian search engine and contextual advertising provider, Yandex reported that its 2009 revenues were up 14% year-on-year to 8.7 billion Rubles. Due to Ruble devaluation in 2009, the Yandex revenues in USD decreased 9% year-on-year from $300 million in 2008 to $274 million in 2009. Being the leader in Internet advertising in [...]
Files under: Enterprise, News, Tech
Posted by: Quintura @ 05:12 [1. 02. 10]
The Russian online display advertising market was up 10% year-on-year to 8.3 billion Rubles ($261 million) in 2009. The car manufacturers and dealers accounted for 30% of the market spending last year, ahead of telecoms operators with 12%, according to AdWatch/Isobar. The Russian contextual advertising market was up 13% year-on-year to 9.61 billion Rubles ($302 [...]
Files under: News, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Quintura @ 04:16 [25. 01. 10]
The Russian social games market has grown to $30 million in 2009 from almost zero in 2008. The half of the market is currently taken by Vesely Fermer (Cheerful Farmer), the most popular game on Russia’s leading social network VKontakte. On one hand, such a game generates about $1 million per month. On the other [...]
Files under: News, Search Cases, Tech
Posted by: Quintura @ 15:41 [19. 01. 10]
The leading Russian search engine Yandex, which holds over a half of Russian searches, has released a list of top searches (Zeitgeist Russia) in 2009. The searches for GTA 4 and The Sims 3, which are the names of the computer games GTA 4 released by Rockstar Games and The Sims 3 released by Electronic [...]
Files under: News, Tech
Posted by: Quintura @ 07:14 [19. 01. 10]
Allianz Rosno Asset Management venture capital fund New Technologies has invested $5 million in sea seismic survey technology company Seismo-Shelf, the asset management company reported.
Based in St. Petersburg, Seismo-Shelf (Сейсмо-Шельф) offers integrated software and hardware complex for seismic survey of the sea shelf called “dense seismic on sea floor“. The technology was developed in sea [...]
Files under: News, Tech
Posted by: Quintura @ 07:23 [12. 01. 10]
Russian venture capital fund Bioprocess Capital Ventures has agreed to invest $18 million for a 50% stake in the Incuron joint venture with Cleveland BioLabs, the companies announced on December 30, 2009. The joint venture, Incuron is going to develop the Curaxin compounds for cancer applications. Cleveland BioLabs agreed to transfer rights to its [...]
Files under: News, Tech
Posted by: Quintura @ 09:59 [1. 01. 10]
Top 10 Russian venture capital internet deals in 2009:
1. Digital Sky Technologies (DST) invested $400 million for a 5 percent stake in the largest global social network compay Facebook over the year.
2. Leading Russian online portal Mail.ru acquired online games group Astrum Online in cash and share deal in December 2009.
3. Digital Sky Technologies (DST) [...]
Files under: News, Tech
Posted by: Quintura @ 06:33 [30. 12. 09]
Top 10 Russian Venture Capital internet investors:
1. Yuri Milner, CEO, Digital Sky Technologies (DST) – Facebook, Zynga, Mail.ru, Astrum Online, Odnoklassniki.ru, Vkontakte, KinoPoisk.ru, HeadHunter (hh.ru), etc.
2. Viktor Remsha, CEO, Finam – Alawar, Begun, Buka, Mamba, MoneyMail, AstroStar.ru, MirTesen, MarketGid, AuKa.ru, Badoo, etc.
3. Artem Yukhin, Venture Capital Investments Director, Troika Venture Funds/ Troika Capital Partners – [...]
Files under: News, Tech
Posted by: Quintura @ 17:16 [29. 12. 09]
Top 10 CEOs of Internet companies in Russia :
1. Arkady Volozh, CEO, Yandex (largest Russian search engine and contextual advertising provider).
2. Dmitri Grishin, CEO, Mail.ru (largest Russian online portal).
3. Alexey Basov, CEO, Begun (second largest contextual advertising provider in Russia).
4. Sergey Ryzhikov, CEO, 1C-Bitrix (leading web-site CMS vendor in Russia).
5. Alexander Lyskovsky, President, Alawar Entertainment [...]
Files under: News, Tech
Posted by: Quintura @ 02:55 [29. 12. 09]
Top 10 internet entrepreneurs in Russia:
1. Arkady Volozh and Ilya Segalovich, founding CEO and CTO of Yandex (leading Russian search engine and contextual advertsing provider).
2. Evgeny Kaspersky, co-founder & CEO of Kaspersky Lab (top 5 global internet security software vendor), was awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation in Science and Technology.
3. Albert Popkov, [...]
Files under: Inside View, News, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Quintura @ 01:47 [28. 12. 09]
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 services and raised venture capital funding in 2009. The below startups were involved in [...]
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