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Files under: News, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Yakov @ 12:18 [29. 08. 08]
It’s only last month when Internet investment group Digital Sky Technologies (DST) took control over the leading Russian email service and portal Mail.ru. Its shareholders including Internet media group Naspers of South Africa then decided to postpone Mail.ru’s IPO until 2009 to increase value of the company. Now, Mail.ru started implementing its plans by consolidating [...]
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Posted by: Yakov @ 13:15 [23. 07. 08]
The Russian financial group Finam led a consortium of Russian investors that acquired a minority stake in Deluxe Television, a Munich, Germany-based broadcaster of premium music television channels with a daily audience of 5 million people, with plans to increase its stake to 50% by the end of 2008. The value of the investment is [...]
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Posted by: Yakov @ 16:27 [18. 07. 08]
Rambler Media, which operates Russia’s 5th leading site Rambler.ru, agreed to sell its Russian contextual advertising company, Begun, for $140 million to Google as well as to outsource search and contextual advertising on its web properties to Google. As a result of the deal, Google will significantly enhance its position in Russia by getting access [...]
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Posted by: Yakov @ 00:31 [18. 07. 08]
The largest Eastern European computer and video game publisher, 1C Company, agreed to acquire BUKA, a leading Russian computer game publisher, distributor and developer, for estimated $80 million from private equity investors Finam and Norum as well as BUKA’s founders. Prior to acquisition, 1C was a long-term publishing and distribution partner to BUKA. As a [...]
Files under: News, Web 2.0
Posted by: Yakov @ 16:20 [3. 03. 08]
The Russian financial group Finam has agreed to invest some $5 million in exchange for a controlling stake in MirTesen.ru (”Closed World”) in Russia that develops an online social network where you can meet people based on their location on Google Maps. Finam will try to leverage its investment in MirTesen with ones into a [...]
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