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Files under: News
Posted by: admin @ 00:17 [5. 09. 11]
The leading Russian search engine company Yandex is rolling out its start-up investment activities. Having recently agreed to invest in start-ups from InCube Accelerator, Yandex will invest in Startup Labs‘ investee companies that will come out of Startup Weekends from all over the world. Yandex will offer up to $30,000 to Startup Labs‘ companies to [...]
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Posted by: admin @ 23:32 [23. 08. 11]
The last Russian independent search engine standing, Aport has stopped using its own web search index. Being one of the Russian search market pioneers, Aport switched its search to Yandex. From now on, Yandex powers web search results and contextual ads on Aport.ru. Launched in 1997, Aport is owned by Vimpelcom (Beeline), Russia’s leading mobile [...]
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Posted by: admin @ 10:45 [21. 06. 11]
// After NASDAQ-listed Yandex launched its Yandex.Factory start-up investment initiative in early 2011, the other major Russian online companies such as London-listed Mail.ru Group and ProfMedia-owned Rambler aimed to respond. The united company of Afisha and Rambler has launched its own start-up investment program called Rambler-Fund. Rambler-Fund (Рамблер-Фонд) plans to invest up to $100,000 (3 [...]
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Posted by: admin @ 08:57 [26. 05. 11]
Almaz Capital Russia Fund I, Russia-focused venture capital fund that is backed by Cisco, shall have returned all money to investors with just two investments, fund’s Managing Partner Alexander “Sasha” Galitsky revealed on twitter. Those investments should have been made by Almaz in Qik and Yandex. Almaz‘s first close was at $60 million. Then, Almaz [...]
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Posted by: admin @ 09:57 [28. 04. 11]
// The leading Russian search engine company Yandex will begin pre-marketing its IPO in Moscow on May 3, according to Reuters. The IPO is planned at NASDAQ in June 2011. The IPO can put Yandex valuation to as high as $9 billion. The company may sell 10% to 20% stake at IPO. The Yandex IPO [...]
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Posted by: admin @ 02:11 [21. 02. 11]
// The leading Russian search engine and contextual advertising company, Yandex plans $1 billion IPO on NASDAQ in June – July 2011, reported newspaper Vedomosti. The company hired investment banks Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley to manage the IPO, the paper said. The shares to be sold at IPO will come mostly from existing shareholders [...]
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Posted by: admin @ 11:56 [19. 01. 11]
The leading Russian search engine and contextual advertising provider, Yandex reported 2010 revenues of 12.5 billion Roubles (US$ 410 million), up 43% year-on-year from 8.7 billion Roubles in 2009, the company said. The leading Internet advertising company in Russia, Yandex has managed to outgrow the Russian internet advertising market that increased almost 40% last year. [...]
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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 @ 05:05 [3. 03. 10]
World’s largest privately-held Internet security company, Kaspersky Lab is becoming the largest software and Internet company in Russia. Kaspersky Lab should be bigger than 1C Company, accounting and mutimedia software vendor with estimated revenue of $265 million in 2009 and Yandex, the leading Russian search engine whose revenue were just under $300 million in 2009. Founded [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 06:21 [28. 01. 10]
The Russian contextual advertising market was up 13% year-on-year to 9.61 billion Rubles ($302 million) in 2009. Yandex holds 78% of the market, ahead of Begun with 11% share and Google with 10% share. Due to Ruble devaluation, the contextual advertising spending in USD were actually down from $344 million in 2008 to $302 million [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 04:48 [26. 10. 09]
The alternative search engines held only 1.3 percent share of searches in Russia in August 2009, reported Vedomosti by citing data from comScore. The Russian search market leader, Yandex held 54.5 percent share of searches, ahead of Google (34.5%), Mail.ru (7.4%), Rambler (1.9%) and Microsoft’s Bing (0.4%). According to comScore, there were 21.5 million search users [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 14:00 [23. 06. 09]
The leading Russian online portal Mail.ru, which is owned by Digital Sky Technologies (DST) and Naspers, has announced 2008 financial results according to US GAAP. The company accounts were audited by Ernst & Young. Mail.ru 2008 revenues were $74.6 million, up 45% from 2007. The net income was $34.3 million in 2008, up 29% from [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 13:22 [5. 05. 09]
The leading Russian search engine Yandex has launched a mobile search that takes into account a location of the user. The location is determined using base stations of mobile operator. To use Yandex Mobile search, the user has to download an application from Yandex Mobile page to its mobile phone. The application works on Symbian [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 15:07 [1. 04. 09]
Yandex Quintura Google
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Posted by: Quintura @ 20:31 [5. 02. 09]
I have attended the session on Internet advertising at The Russia Forum 2009 today. The panel included CEOs of leading Russian Internet, media and advertising companies: Yandex, Rambler, Odnoklassniki.ru, Kommersant Publishing House, IMHO VI, and the others. The forum is organized by leading Russian investment bank, Troika. Yandex CEO Arkady Volozh has revealed at the [...]
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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 set [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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. All [...]
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