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Files under: News
Posted by: Yakov @ 14:21 [20. 06. 08]
The leading global online social networks announced their Russian versions Facebook and MySpace this week.
According to Fox Interactive Russia’s CEO, Alexander Turkot, MySpace is expected to reach 1 million users in Russia by the end of 2008, up from 0.3 million users now.
The leading Russian social networking sites Vkontankte (a Facebook copycat) and Odnoklassniki.ru […]
Files under: News, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Yakov @ 19:39 [13. 06. 08]
The leading Russian social networking site Vkontakte has been named top Russian web-site, in the list of top ten Web 2.0 sites in Russia reported by an Eastern European advisory firm GoalEurope, based on data collected by Alexa.
Vkontakte, which was started as a copycat of Facebook by two brothers Pavel and Nikolai Durov in St. […]
Files under: News, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Yakov @ 18:14 [11. 06. 08]
The European Founders Fund (the Samwer brothers) sold their minority 10% stake in Nasca-Klasa, the largest online social network in Poland with over 11 million users, to Forticom, one of the major owners of the largest Russian online social network Odnoklassniki.ru (aka Classmates), as a part of the Forticom’s acquisition of a 70% majority stake […]
Files under: Inside View, News, Web 2.0
Posted by: Yakov @ 02:46 [18. 04. 08]
The largest Russian social networking site Odnoklassniki.ru reported revenue of $3.3 million in Q1 2008, including $3 million from display (banner) advertising and $0.3 million from contextual advertising. Odnoklassniki.ru is expected to generate revenue of up to $30 million in 2008, says Albert Popkov, founder and CEO of the company. He estimates that it will […]
Files under: News
Posted by: Yakov @ 17:13 [16. 04. 08]
The average Russian blogger is a 22-year old female who lives in Moscow, makes 6 blog posts per month and has nineteen blog “friends”, says a new study on the state of the Russian blogosphere from Yandex.
There are 3.8 million Russian blogs, up 23% from October 2007. Only 20% of Russian blogs are updated once […]
Files under: News
Posted by: Yakov @ 19:52 [15. 04. 08]
Rambler Media that owns the second largest Russian search engine and portal Rambler has become the official title sponsor of the Russian Football Cup. The company signed a four-year strategic partnership with the Russian Football Union (RFU). The competition will now be known as the Rambler Russian Football Cup.
Football (or soccer) is the most popular […]
Files under: News
Posted by: Yakov @ 00:01 [14. 04. 08]
In February 2008, 47.4% of all searches in Russia were conducted on Yandex, followed by Google (31.2%), Rambler (9.7%), Mail.ru (7%), Yahoo! (1.3%), AOL (1.1%), and Microsoft (0.6%), says a new study of Russian Internet usage from comScore.
The results of the study will imply that the Russian alternative search engines including Quintura.ru held 0.5% share […]
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