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Files under: News
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 @ 23:49 [20. 10. 08]
The leading Russian search engine and Internet company Yandex has acquired the business assets of display advertising sales house Mediaselling, Yandex announced on its corporate blog. As a result of the deal, Yandex also gained display ad targeting and planning solution for online publishers.
Mediaselling, which employs staff of 30 people in Moscow, was [...]
Files under: Enterprise, News, Search Cases, Tech
Posted by: Quintura @ 17:02 [11. 10. 08]
The leading Russian search engine Yandex has reached 50 million searches per day, the company announced on its corporate blog. This number includes searches made on Yandex partner sites Mail.ru, Tut.by, Quintura.ru, and others that use Yandex.XML to power search results.
This will imply that Yandex run rate of monthly searches has increased to 1.5 billion, [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 13:44 [3. 09. 08]
The IPO of the leading Russian internet search firm Yandex, which holds 55 percent share of searches in Russia, was not scheduled for 2009 as it was suggested by Profy. The Russian internet insider news site Roem.ru reported that it was just a market expectation from financial company Finam. The information did not come from [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 01:03 [2. 09. 08]
It wasn’t a long ago when Google was doing a bench advertising in Moscow to build brand awareness in Russia. In a much bigger response, the leading Russian search engine Yandex has launched an outdoor advertising campaign called “Any Questions?” The idea behind is that answers to any questions can be found on Yandex. The [...]
Files under: Inside View, News, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Quintura @ 23:47 [24. 08. 08]
The leading Russian search engine Yandex will launch a new logo on Monday, August 25. The new logo displays the Yandex name in Cyrillic, Яндекс. The change reflects a fact that Yandex has become a household name in Russia. When people think of both Internet and search in the country, they think of Yandex. [...]
Files under: Inside View, News
Posted by: Quintura @ 12:27 [4. 08. 08]
The founder of Metalloinvest holding and owner of Kommersant publishing house, Alisher Usmanov is becoming a major investor in Russian internet, reported business daily Vedomosti. According to newspaper, he is negotiating an acquisition of a 10%-20% stake in Russia’s leading search engine Yandex from the founding managers of the company as well as via new [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 17:29 [28. 07. 08]
Digital Sky Technologies (DST), an Internet investment group run by Yuri Milner, has obtained a 50.6% majority stake in Mail.ru by acquiring an additional 15% stake in the company from Tiger Global Management, reported Vedomosti. The deal could be valued at between $180 million and $200 million. That may put Mail.ru’s IPO plans in 2008 [...]
Files under: Inside View, News
Posted by: Quintura @ 14:00 [17. 07. 08]
The most popular Russian web properties in June 2008 were Mail.ru with 14.7 million unique visitors, Yandex with 14.6 million, the social networks Odnoklassniki.ru – 10.6 million and Vkontakte – 9.4 million, and Rambler – 9.1 million, reported business daily Vedomosti according to TNS Web Index.
Mail.ru also led the Russian market with 6.2 million daily [...]
Files under: News, Tech
Posted by: Quintura @ 10:20 [20. 06. 08]
Among senior executives expected to leave Yahoo! is its General Manager of Search, Vish Makhijani, who is rumored to become CEO of Yandex Labs, a new U.S.-based outpost of the leading Russian search engine Yandex, according to PaidContent. Before joining Yahoo! in 2002, Vish was General Manager at Inktomi.
Yandex is expected to do a [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 16:48 [16. 06. 08]
The leading Russian search engine Yandex agreed to acquire SMIlink, the leading Russian road traffic information service operating in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The deal, whose value is not disclosed, is expected to close in the beginning of July 2008. According to business daily Vedomosti, the deal is valued at several million dollars.
SMIlink, which has [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 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. [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 23:36 [20. 05. 08]
The leading Russian search engine Yandex is expected to raise up to $2 billion at initial public offering (IPO) of shares in New York in the upcoming autumn based on the company’s preliminary valuation of $5 billion, according to Reuters. Yandex is said to have mandated the investment banks Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank and Renaissance [...]
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