In a move to enhance its international traction, the Russian webmail service Mail.ru has launched a Spanish language interface. The news was announced last week, although the interface had been made available in mid-December. Last year a report by ComScore revealed that Mail.ru, which then attracted over 42 million unique users monthly, was among the …
Earlier this week, Mail.ru Group, a leading Russian Internet group listed on the London Stock Exchange, announced its acquisition of the Ukrainian webmail service ‘Mail.ua.’ Prior to the sale, the webmail service belonged to Internet Invest Group, Ukraine’s largest web hosting service provider. The price of the transaction was not disclosed, but Internetua.com, a Ukrainian …
A Comscore report on Internet usage in Europe released yesterday has ranked Mail.ru and Yandex Pochta respectively 4th and 5th web-based mail services in Europe. In June, the reports says, 276.5 million people in Europe accessed webmail services via their computer, equalling to a 69.5% reach among the Internet audience above 15 years of age. The …
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The Russian high tech fund New Generation Investment (NGI) announced last week that it will launch a €20 million division dedicated to French startups, the French business daily Les Echos reported. “We are focusing on telecoms, web technolgies and tech-oriented media,” said NGI shareholder Leonid Reiman. France will serve as a testing ground for one …
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Mail.ru announced on Monday that its webmail interface is now available in Ukrainian. This marks the first time that Mail.ru has offered its service in a language other than Russian. In addition, the site will be slightly redesigned to include some Ukrainian-style elements, Mail.ru announced. However, the Russian webmail giant has failed so far to acquire …
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Last week, Yandex, the Russian company that dominates the domestic search market, announced a partnership with Skype to promote their respective services among their users, news agency RIA Novosti reported. Users dowloading Skype software will be prompted to install a Yandex search bar add-on on their web browser and make Yandex their default search engine. …
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Mail.ru Group, the London Stock Exchange-listed Russian Internet group, marked a symbolic victory in its battle for leadership over the Russian Internet against search behemoth Yandex. At the end of last year and for the first time since 2008, the group’s portal and e-mail service Mail.ru overtook Yandex in terms of traffic for two successive …
Mail.ru Group, a leading Russian Internet group listed on the London Stock Exchange, is in negotiations with Internet Invest Group, Ukraine’s largest web hosting service provider, for the rights to the mail.ua domain name. The deal is expected to be completed at the end of this year or early next year. This domain will be …
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Russian Internet giant Mail.ru Group, which went public last year in London, could launch a VoIP service as soon as early 2012, the group’s CTO Vladimir Gabrielyan told news agency Interfax, Gazeta.ru reported last week. The product, created in a special lab set up in August to develop the technology, is already complete. “We’re working on …
Sipnet, a Russian VoIP service provider, reached a 52% share of the Russian VoIP market in 2010 in value, according to J’son & Partners, a telecom market research and financial consulting firm operating in Eastern Europe. Skype held second place in Russia with a 32% market share. The total market size for VoIP doubled since …
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VTB Capital Asset Management announced last week it has invested in COMDI, a leading player on the Russian video conferencing market. Founded in 2009, COMDI specializes in web conferences as well as online training and broadcasts. Before this round of financing, COMDI was funded by its founders and an undisclosed business angel.
Microsoft has denied any intention to hand over Skype encryption algorithms to the FSB, Russia’s Security Service. At a press conference held yesterday morning, Microsoft’s representative in Russia, Nikolai Pryanishnikov, made an ambiguous statement about such a possibility, saying “I would be glad to do it” after Skype is integrated into the company, reported several …
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