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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).

Digital Sky Technologies

DST hired investment banks Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan to manage the IPO.

DST, which recently consolidated 100% stake in Mail.ru from Naspers, plans to consolidate 100% of Odnoklassniki.ru. In addition, DST holds significant minority stakes in social network Vkontakte.ru, online recruiting firm HH.ru (HeadHunter), instant payment terminal operator OE Investments (QIWI), and others.

Google’

Google‘s revenues in Russia in 2009 were four times less than revenues of Yandex and twice as less as revenues of Mail.ru.

Google holds 22% share of Russian searches, behind Yandex with 66%, according to internet statisctics service LiveInternet.ru. Mail.ru holds 8% and Rambler holds 3% search share in Russia.

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).

Sistema plans to acquire the remaining 49% stake in M2M Telematics in the next two to five years.

Founded in 2005, M2M Telematics provides transport monitoring, navigation and telematics services based on GLONASS and GPS technologies. The company holds 9% of the Russian telematics market valued at over 900 million Rubles in 2009.

Sistema‘s portfolio companies RTI Systems and Sitronics together own a 51% stake in Navigation Information Systems (NIS) that implements a public-private partnership project to create a national traffic accidents emergency response system under the ERA GLONASS brand.

In July 2010, the leading Russian telematics company Russian Navigation Technologies that develops and markets the AutoTracker system for transport monitoring was valued $54 million at IPO on MICEX Stock Exchange.

Founded in 2005, Russian Navigation Technologies (RNT) specializes in development, production and installation of GPS/GLONASS-based telematics system AutoTracker for transport monitoring and fleet management. Over 60,000 vehicles in Russia use AutoTracker, which is more than 20% out of 250,000 vehicles in Russia equiped with GPS/GLONASS transport monitoring devices.

RNT reported revenues of RUR 210 million (ca. $7 million), EBITDA of RUR 44 million and net income of RUR 36 million in 2009. RNT plans to increase its revenues to over RUR 1,900 million in 2014. The Russian telematics market is expected to grow from RUR 900 million in 2009 to RUR 5,800 million in 2014.

In September 2008, VTB Venture Capital invested RUR 170 million (ca. $5.7 million) in Russian Navigation Technologies. After IPO, VTB will own 30.7% stake in RNT. Boris Satovskiy, CEO of RNT will own 26.6% stake in the company.

The IPO of Russian Navigation Technologies (AutoTracker) should be the first venture capital-backed IPO of the Russian technology company on the Russian stock exchange. The IPO’s managed by Otkritie and co-managed by Finam and ALOR Invest.

The investment was made as part of BrightSource Energy’ $150 million series D funding.

Russian Venture Capital I joined new investors in this round such as Alstom and California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS) as well as exisiting investors VantagePoint Venture Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Morgan Stanley, Chevron Technology Ventures, BP Alternative Energy, and StatOil HydroVentures.

BrighSource Energy develops utility-scale solar thermal power plants based on its proprietary Luz Power Tower technology. Headquartered in Oakland, California, BrightSource Energy has operations in the United States, Israel, and Australia.

Russian Venture Company (RVC) is Russia state-owned venture development and fund-of-funds company.

GIS Technologies supplies online city maps for Yandex.Maps (Яндекс.Карты) since 2008. Previously, GIS Technologies supplied Megapolis maps for satelite navigation devices JJ-Connect.

Launched in 2004, Yandex.Maps has a monthly audience of 9 million users.

In 2008, Yandex acquired road traffic monitoring service SMIlink, which was then integrated into Yandex.Maps.

Russia’s leading online portal company, Mail.ru has reported total revenues of US$ 126.4 million in 2009, up 67% from 2008, according to International Accounting Standards, the company reported. In Russian Rubles, Mail.ru doubled ts revenues last year.

Russia’s leading Internet company and search engine Yandex reported revenues of $274 million in 2009.

Both Mail.ru and Yandex may do IPO on either Nasdaq or LSE in 2010.

Mail.ru‘s revenue and EBITDA growth was due to both own operations and acquistions. In 2009, Mail.ru consolidated in its financial results the financials of online games group Astrum Online Entertainment, which Mail.ru acquired in December 2009. The online game services contrubuted more than 20% to Mail.ru‘s revenues in 2009.

Mail.ru is majority owned by DST (Digital Sky Investtments), the investor in Facebook, Zynga, Groupon and many others. Moscow-headquartered Mail.ru has domestic offices in 8 other Russian cities and foreign representative offices in Germany and the Ukraine.

The Russian online advertising market reached over $700 million in 2009. The Russian online games market increased to $238 million last year.

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.

The  monthly site search service subscription fee depends on a number of pages in site index, level of site search customization and technical support. We offer a special promotion until the end of summer 2010.

For “Premium Search” service, Quintura offers API service, for the first time. The web master can get site search results as XML feed and then use it directly from the programming code. In this case, it’s not necessary to embed the search widget.

Based on user feedback from more than 7,000 service registrations over the past two years, we improved web-site crawling and indexing, added new search display options and improved service user interface.

Being one of the major visual search engines, Quintura indexes a web-site and builds a search cloud of keywords and phrases related to the site.

The cloud is displayed as graphical user interface for searching and can be embedded to the site as a search widget.

See the widget in the left sidebar and create one at http://affiliates.quintura.com

One new option is that a publisher of several web-sites can create and manage site search for all its web-sites using single user account.