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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).

Having recently acquired full control in Mail.ru from Naspers, DST, which plans IPO in London in 2011, plans to consolidate its holdings in other Russian internet ventures ahead of the IPO. DST could be valued at $6 billion at IPO next year.

Founded in March 2006, Odnoklassniki.ru generated revenues of $49 million in 2009 from display advertising, paid services, contextual links and social games. Odnoklassniki.ru‘s net income reached $11 million in 2009.

Odnoklassniki, which has 45 million registered accounts, attracts 10 million daily users.

Darberry‘s previous investor eVenture Capital Partners, which also co-invested in this round, should have shopped the deal to Groupon. In early 2010, eVenture Capital sold German group discount site CityDeal to Groupon. In 2010, Darberry got first funding from Russian internet incubator AddVenture.

Launched in March 2010, Darberry.ru has more than 180,000 subscribers. The site claimes that it saved almost $0.5 million to its subscribers since launch. Darberry currently operates in seven Russian cities. The Darberry service shall expand in other cities in Russia as well as in Ukraine with the new funding.

Russia’s leading internet investment holding Digital Sky Technologies (via its affiliate DST Global) contributed a majority of Groupon’s latest funding of $135 million in April 2010.

In July 2010, ABRT Fund and Mangrove Capital invested in Russian group purchasing service KupiBonus.ru. The site focuses on selling beauty service coupons to women.

Launched in February 2009, Wikimart has over 2,000 online merchants that offer over 410,000 products. Wikimart‘s merchants generate a monthly sales turnover of $1.5 million. The site, which has 150,000 monthly visitors (according to Rating@Mail.ru), earnes some 3 percent of sales revenues generated by the merchants.

Wikimart was founded by Russian entrepreneurs Maxim Faldin and Kamil Kurmakayev in June 2008 who were Stanford MBA students at that time. Wikimart, which is based in Moscow, employs 50 people.

Tiger Global Management recently invested $10 million in online travel sales site Anywayanyday in Russia. Tiger is also an investor in Russian search engine Yandex. Previously, Tiger was an investor in leading Russian online portal Mail.ru.

The Russian ecommerce market is going to reach $6 billion in 2010. In January 2010, online shopping club KupiVIP.ru raised $20 million from Accel Partners and other investors. German Otto Group-backed eVenture Capital Partners invested in daily coupon site Darberry and online shoe store Sapato while Mangrove Capital and ABRT Fund invested in beauty coupon site Beaucoup.ru.

Anywayanyday is owned by an affiliate of Valars, a major Russian grain trading company.

Focused on airline ticket sales, Anywayanyday was launched in 2008. The site has 50,000 daily visitors. It reported a sales turnover of 450 million Rubles ($14 million) in 2009. Anywayanyday, which holds 3% of Russian online airline ticket sales market valued at more than $500 million, plans increase its share to 15% by the end of the year. The Anywayanyday service plans to branch out into online hotel reservation as well as open a regional sales office in Ukraine.

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).

Founded in 2006, Odnoklassniki.ru generates revenues from display advertising, paid services, contextual links and social games. The leading Russian website social network Odnoklassniki, which has 45 million registered accounts, attracts 10 million daily users.

DST-major owned Forticom has a 60% stake in Odnoklassniki.ru. Company founder Albert Popkov and his wife own the remaining 40% stake. DST, which recently consolidated 100% stake in Mail.ru, may also consolidate 100% of Odnoklassniki.ru.

Launched in June 2010, Sapato.ru offers shoes from major European brands. The service utilizes logistics facility of German’s Bertelsmann near Moscow. Sapato.ru is a project of Fast Lane Ventures, a business incubator founded by Pascal Clément of Direct Group and Oskar Hartmann, founder of online shopping club KupiVIP.ru.

The Russian shoes retail market is valued $15 billion per year.

Having sold the German CityDeal to Groupon, eVenture Capital recently invested in Russian Groupon-like service Darberry.ru. Meantime, Direct Group, ABRT Fund and Mangrove Capital Partners invested in the other group purchasing service Beaucoup.ru.

Launched in July 2010, KupiBonus.ru offers to its subscribers daily deals with big discounts in beauty and SPA salons, fitness and wellness centers in Moscow. The service wil shortly add offers in other Russian cities. Beaucoup.ru is a project of Fast Lane Ventures, a business incubator founded by Pascal Clément of Direct Group and Oskar Hartmann, founder of online shopping club KupiVIP.ru.

According to the Public Opinion Foundation, the Russian e-commerce market will increase to $6 billion in 2010. Otto Group-backed eVenture Capital recently invested in Russian Groupon-like service Darberry.ru.

Group Buying Global AG is founded by Dr. Klaus Hommels (investor in Skype, Sportify and Facebook), Oliver Jung (investor in Brands4Friends.de, Xing and Facebook) and Mangrove Capital Partners to own and manage group purchasing projects across four continents.

ABRT Fund and Mangrove Capital Partners together made several investments in Russia including in KupiVIP.ru, social game company Drimmi and visual search engine Quintura.

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.

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KupiLUXE.ru sells luxury brands via special offers to its registered club members. The luxury brands include Bulgari, Chanel, Dior, Giorgio Armani, Dolce&Gabbana, Fendi, Mont Blanc, and the others.

Launched in 2008, KupiVIP.ru has 1.5 million registered members.

KupiVIP.ru raised more than $41 million in venture capital including $30 million from Accel Partners in January 2010.

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.