The Russian search engine marketing (SEM) market is unique and, to a large extent, different from the SEM-markets of other countries. The main difference lies in the fact that most of the search traffic is concentrated on the local search engine Yandex. According to various estimates, Yandex’s share of search engine traffic in Russia ranges …
Russian startup Unim (United Medicine) has launched the Unim Histology Internet service, which will make it possible for the public to send analyses remotely to the Dmitri Rogachev Federal Clinical and Research Center for Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, and Immunology in Moscow. Backed by the IIDF (FRII in Russian, the country’s largest startup investment fund inspired by …
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Did you ever imagine the day when students organize and filter their college interests on one portal? That day has come in Turkey. Most of us remember how overwhelming the college application process felt but thanks to the recent launch of Yandex üniversite, Turkish students now have a comprehensive online guide to the college decision process.
Yandex has announced its participation in the preparation of an experiment at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) to confirm the existence of dark matter, RBC daily reports. Yandex is to provide scientists at CERN with big data processing technology and human resources. The Yandex School of Data Analysis (SDA) has partnered with CERN …
As part of a large set of actions that are designed to lessen Russian reliance on foreign technology and digital services, government agencies in the Irkutsk region (Siberia) were ordered last month by the presidential administration to stop using the services of Google. The ban concerns the use of Google’s web resources for the storage …
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Viber, the expanding international instant messenging and voice call app, will soon open a representative office in Russia, Russian business daily Vedomosti learned from the company’s co-founder and CTO Igor Magazinnik. The small office will be in charge of service localization and local partnerships. Former Diageo and Red Bull CMO Evgenyi Roshchupkin has been appointed …
Last week Yandex announced to its Russian users that it will stop supporting its blog hosting service Ya.ru “by the end of this summer.” “About 0.3% of the journals opened on the service are now updated once a month. On average, just 1500 comments are added in a day,” the Russian search giant explained. “Obviously, the …
Russo-American startup Coursmos, a developer of short online courses, has raised $530,000 from Russian venture fund Imperious Group and business angel Evgeniy Medvednikov. The funds will be used to develop the platform and to add more staff. Coursmos is also planning to develop new features for the site including a system to recommend courses to users depending …
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Andrey Andreev, the Russian entrepreneur responsible for creating popular social apps such as Badoo, is reviving the dating site Hot or Not in the United States. Andreev has been trying for several years to enter the U.S. market’s complex and oversaturated online dating industry with the help of his social network Badoo, which has proven …
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LinguaLeo, a personal online service that helps people master foreign languages, has launched its service in Turkey with a localized web-version and a mobile app. This is the second market after Brazil in which the Russian startup has launched its service. “Within the framework of our plans for global expansion we chose Turkey for a variety …
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Last week, Russian online local-search service Yell.ru announced that it has secured $11 million, which includes $8 million from Vostok Nafta and $3 million from current investor AB Kinnevik. In addition to providing a search engine, Yell.ru offers user reviews about local companies and services. “More than a third of all online Russians will use …
Yandex (NASDAQ: YNDX) is launching a service for search and selection of companies and organisations in Russia’s cities. Called Yandex.City, it helps users choose restaurants, beauty salons and a wide range of other businesses whose services they might need. The service, currently available only in Russian, is accessible on city.yandex.ru, as well as on applications for …
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