Andrii Degeler

Rostelecom to breathe new life into national search engine project

April 5, 2013 April 5, 2013

Russia’s national telecom operator Rostelecom is said to be working on a new search engine, CNews.ru reports. According to the publication’s sources in one of the Russian Internet companies, the national search portal has been christened Sputnik, with the corresponding domain already registered to Rostelecom’s subsidiary RTCOMM. The Internet search market in Russia is dominated …

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Stocks of Yandex, MegaFon and Rusnano are changing hands

March 20, 2013 March 20, 2013

The ownership of three major Russian tech companies – the search giant Yandex, the state-owned nanotechnology corporation Rusnano, and the mobile operator Megafon – is being affected by significant changes. Yandex, which raised $1.3 billion in its IPO back in May 2011, announced yesterday the closing of a secondary public offering of Class A ordinary …

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Yandex launches Android app store, pursues ambitious mobile strategy

March 13, 2013 March 13, 2013

Continuing its expansion into the realm of mobile, Russia’s search giant Yandex officially unveiled its application store for Android-powered devices at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last month. Yandex.Store already has more than 50,000 paid and free apps and is available in Russian, English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Ukrainian, and Turkish languages.

Vkontakte sails past 50 million monthly visitors, gets dangerously close to Yandex and Mail.Ru Group

March 8, 2013 March 8, 2013

In January 2013, Vkontakte.ru (VK.com), attracted 50.5 million users of 12 to 64 years of age in Russia, or 47.5% of the country’s population of the same age group. The popular social network occupied third place among the Top 10 Russian websites, according to the market research company TNS. In its January report, TNS put Vkontakte right …

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Vkontakte changes ad policy, launches own advertising network

March 7, 2013 March 7, 2013

Russia’s biggest social network has announced a new ad policy to streamline and centralize sales of advertisements in applications and has launched its own advertising network, a move first announced in November 2012. Starting March 15, app developers will not be allowed to place banners and media advertisements in their apps, as everything will be …

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