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Posted by: Quintura @ 14:12 [12. 04. 10]
The leading Chinese instant messaging platform QQ-owner Tencent has invested $300 million in exchange for a 10.26 percent economic interest in Russia’s major Internet investment firm Digital Sky Technologies (DST), the company announced on April 12. The investment values DST at almost $3 billion. Tencent and DST share the same investor Naspers/MIH Group, which owns [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 09:14 [6. 08. 09]
– The leading Russian social network, Odnoklassniki.ru, which is majority owned by a Facebook investor DST (Digital Sky Technologies) has announced a new site design to provide a better site navigation and increase page load speed. Odnoklassniki.ru, which has 40 million registered accounts and 10 million daily users, has revealed its first major site re-design [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 11:25 [14. 07. 09]
The leading Eastern European and Russian publisher of online entertainment and browser games, Astrum Online Entertainment, which is backed by Facebook, Mail.ru, Odnoklassniki.ru and Vkontakte investor DST, has reached 5 million users in its browser-based Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG), Legend: Legacy of the Dragons. Overall, more than 20 million users are registered in [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 07:05 [3. 07. 09]
It is no surprise that MySpace has decided to close down its Russian office. The latest study of social networking in Russia has found that MySpace and Facebook attracted just 371,000 and 616,000 Russian visitors in May 2009, respectively, says comScore. This represented a reach of only 1% and 2% of 31.9 million Russian online [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 16:24 [27. 05. 09]
DST (Digital Sky Technologies)’ founding partner and CEO, Yuri Milner said in his interview that DST will do IPO. The exact dates will depend on market conditions and readiness of DST itself but the IPO could happen within the next three years. DST was reportedly valued at $1 billion when Russian media and metal investor [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 22:34 [26. 05. 09]
The largest Russian internet investor, Digital Sky Technologies (DST), which owns stakes in Russian and Eastern European market leading social networks Odnoklassniki.ru, Nasza-Klasa.pl and Vkontakte.ru as well as Russia’s most visited online portal Mail.ru, has invested $200 million into preferred stock for 1.96 percent stake in Facebook, valuing the company at $10 billion. In addition, [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 02:08 [26. 05. 09]
Renaissance Partners, the merchant banking arm of Renaissance Group, has sold a half of its 4 percent stake in Digital Sky Technologies (DST) to Alisher Usmanov, reported business newspaper Kommersant. As a result, Mr. Usmanov increased his stake in DST from 30 percent to 32 percent, the newspaper said. According to analyst estimates, the deal [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 12:41 [25. 05. 09]
Yuri Milner, the founding partner of Internet investment holding Digital Sky Technologies (DST), whose social networks in portfolio companies have more than 85 million registered members and 20 million daily users, is seeking a Board of Directors post at Facebook as a part of proposed $200 million to $350 million investment into the company, reported [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 02:25 [10. 03. 09]
The leading Russian internet investor, Digital Sky Technologies (DST) has invested an undisclosed amount in exchange for a 25.1 percent stake in Sape.ru, a link exchange service, reported business newspaper Vedomosti. According to the newspaper, DST acquired the stake in January 2008. Founded in 2006, Sape.ru has over 180,000 users and 196,000 web-sites in its [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 16:10 [15. 02. 09]
It looks like major Russian online services are well armed to sustain economic recession. The leading Russian social network, Odnoklassniki.ru is now generating a half of its revenues from subscription-based services, announced Nikita Sherman, CEO of Odnoklassniki.ru at the Russia Forum 2009. Founded in 1998, Subscribe.ru operator St. Petersburg-based Internet Projects is the largest permission-based [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 09:57 [30. 01. 09]
When I was looking for an apartment in Moscow more than a year ago, I was able to find one and pick it up before anyone else saw it in other sources thanks to WinNER. This service has now received fresh funding to expand its database offerings to web users. The leading Russian internet investor, [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 13:51 [23. 01. 09]
What do you do if you are a market leader in social networking? You will try to leverage your position and maximize revenues. The leading Russian social network, Vkontakte.ru, which has more than 25 million registered users and 7 million daily users, is going to launch its own contextual advertising service in summer 2009, reported [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 12:22 [29. 12. 08]
The hedge fund, Tiger Global Management has sold 27 percent of the leading Russian online portal, Mail.ru to the company’s shareholders, Digital Sky Technologies and Naspers, reported business newspaper Vedomosti. The stake could have been sold for a total of approximately $400 million. Update: Naspers reported that it paid $101 million for a 10% stake [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 01:37 [6. 12. 08]
Having recently introduced SMS payments for premium features, the leading Russian social networking site, Odnoklassniki.ru, reportedly tested contextual advertisement services from Google AdSense and Yandex.Direct. The contextual ads brought in $0.3 million revenues to the site in Q1 2008. Apparently, it was not enough. Begun, which Google recently failed to acquire for $140 million, has [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 03:21 [25. 11. 08]
Having been refused an acquisition of contextual ad firm Begun in Russia, Google was likely looking for revansch. Well, it may has gotten one. This time, it’s not acquisition. It’s a business deal that would increase Google’s 33 percent share of Russian search market by several percentage points. According to business newspaper Kommersant, the largest [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 15:34 [5. 10. 08]
The Hungarian online auction site Vatera.hu has been acquired by a principal shareholder of the leading Russian web portal Mail.ru in one of the biggest financial deals in Hungarian Internet history, the financial news site Portfolio.hu reported. Mail.ru recently postponed its London-based IPO until 2009 after Digital Sky Technologies obtained a majority stake in the [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 16:09 [30. 09. 08]
The Internet investment group Digital Sky Technology from Russia remains the most likely buyer of the leading Czech search engine and portal, Seznam, reported Prague-based radio station Radio Praha. Seznam holds more than 60% share of the Czech search market, twice as much as Google. The other potential buyers include private equity firms Warburg Pincus, [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 03:33 [24. 09. 08]
Digital Sky Technologies (DST), Internet investment group in Russia run by Yuri Milner, has obtained a 50.6% majority stake in Mail.ru by acquiring an additional 15% stake in the company for $300 million from Tiger Global Management, reported business daily newspaper Vedomosti. As a result of the deal, Mail.ru was valued at $2 billion. DST [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 10:13 [21. 09. 08]
Albert Popkov, the founder of the most popular Russian social networking site Odnoklassniki.ru, has been named “Businessman of the Year” by the men’s lifestyle magazine GQ. The annual ceremony “GQ People of the Year” was held at Et Cetera theater in Moscow on September 18. Odnoklassniki.ru has over 20 million registered accounts and 6 million [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 08:37 [4. 09. 08]
The new private equity fund Global Technology Fund (GTF), which is managed by private equity firm Sloane Square Capital Partners, acquired a 31% stake in FreeCash (Свободная Касса), an instant payment processing provider, with an option to acquire an additional 20% stake, according to the company. GTF will invest a total of $30 million in [...]
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