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Files under: News, Web 2.0
Posted by: Quintura @ 22:00 [19. 02. 10]
Launched in autumn 2009, the Russian social games startup, Drimmi announced last month that it raised funding from Mangrove Capital Partners and ABRT Fund with goal to become #1 Russian social games company. The amount of funding was not disclosed at that time. Today, Drimmi launches its web-site that offers some details on the company. [...]
Files under: News, Web 2.0
Posted by: Quintura @ 18:36 [13. 02. 10]
Two leading Russian online communities, video sharing site RuTube and online dating platform Mamba have launched online VideoDating on Love.Rutube.ru. 10 million monthly users of RuTube.ru can now search for user-generated video profiles across 12 million user database of Mamba.
RuTube and Mamba introduced cross-site registration and online communication for users of Video Dating (Видеознакомства), the [...]
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: 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: News, Web 2.0
Posted by: Quintura @ 08:56 [28. 01. 10]
The Russian social network application on Vkontakte.ru when a user can send a virtual cocktail to a friend called “Cocktail to a Friend” (Cocktail2Friend) has become the most popular social network application in Russia. Vkontakte is Russia’s #1 social network with over 59 million registered users. It released API for social games and other applications [...]
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, Web 2.0
Posted by: Quintura @ 04:41 [18. 01. 10]
The online shopping club KupiVIP.ru, which is operated in Moscow by Privat Trade Ltd and organizes designer brand online sales in fashion and fashion accessories with large discounts off boutique prices, has raised $20 million in the third round of funding, KupiVIP.ru CEO Oskar Hartmann reported. The round was led by Accel Partners. Previous investors [...]
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 [...]
Files under: News, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Quintura @ 13:08 [15. 12. 09]
JS-Kit, which was founded by Russian engineer Lev Walkin, has changed its name to Echo, the company said on its blog. The rebranding reflects JS-Kit’s evolution from a provider of comment and other social widgets for online publishers into a reverse syndication service for social media conversations.
Most of Echo’s traffic comes from its top ten [...]
Files under: News, Web 2.0
Posted by: Quintura @ 04:38 [24. 11. 09]
Online game developer Nival Network is closing $5 million round from an undisclosed investor, revealed Sergey Orlovskiy, founder and CEO of Nival Group to Vedomosti newspaper. Nival Network is going to invest the funds into development of Prime World, online strategy game with social networking elements.
Formed in September 2008, Nival Network develops, publishes [...]
Files under: News, Quintura Search, Web 2.0
Posted by: Quintura @ 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: Quintura @ 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: Quintura @ 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: Inside View, News, Quintura Search, Search Cases, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Quintura @ 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: Quintura @ 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: Inside View, News, Quintura Search, Search Cases, Web 2.0
Posted by: Quintura @ 17:10 [24. 12. 08]
Discover Christmas and New Year holidays by browsing through our Search Cloud on www.quintura.com!
We wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Files under: News, Quintura Search, Search Cases, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Quintura @ 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, Search Cases, Web 2.0
Posted by: Quintura @ 19:38 [9. 12. 08]
Today, we are announcing new tools and features of our hosted, visual-based site search and analytics solution, Quintura Site Search. The new features, which shall help online publishers to boost Click-Through-Rates (CTR) on both banners and search result links, include:
- Search Cloud Images: a new interface enables web publishers to embed images and banners [...]
Files under: Enterprise, News, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Quintura @ 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: Quintura @ 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 [...]
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