The French search engine for car-sharing BlaBlaCar has taken over the Ukrainian site Podorozhniki, in order to enter the Russian and Ukrainian market. The cost of the deal has not been disclosed, as was the case with the expansion in Italy and Spain, but the Podorozhniki site is no longer available and all of its …
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American startup Duolingo launched its language learning platform in Russian last week in a bid to reach the over 90 million Russian-speaking Internet users around the globe. These users can now study English free of charge via the US company’s online and mobile platform. “There’s a very high demand for foreign language education in Russia, …
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Yandex announced earlier this week an agreement with MultiShip, a Moscow-based startup that aggregates offers from different shipment companies to help online retailers optimize their deliveries across the country. In addition to acquiring a stake in the startup for “several millions,” the NASDAQ-listed Russian search giant has purchased MultiShip’s software platform for $1 million, with …
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Yandex (NASDAQ: YNDX) has launched its Winter Games 2014 project, providing Russians with detailed, up-to-the-minute coverage of events at the international sporting event in Sochi. The project’s website will feature complete information about all the competitions: timetables and telecasts, reports on every kind of contest and articles about the medal contenders.
In partnership with East-West Digital News, MIPTV, the leading international b2b event dedicated to the TV & online video ecosystems, cordially invites Russian startups to enter MIPCube Lab. Applications for this major startup competition are open until February 15. Finalists will pitch in Cannes, France, on April 7, 2014, in front of industry experts from …
MIPCube Lab contest 2014: A call to Russian startups Read More
Universarium.org, a month-old Russian online education project backed by leading Russian universities, is offering its first set of full lectures this Monday. Officially launched on December 23, 2013 as a “Christmas and New Year present,” the effort, backed by the Russian news agency RIA Science and the government-owned Agency for Strategic Initiatives, is designed to …
Millions of Russians ushered to free e-education as Universarium comes online Read More
Earlier this week Russian search giant Yandex announced that Facebook has granted it full access to its “firehose” of public data. Thus not only can Yandex search for people and company pages on Facebook, it can also search for content marked “Public” from users in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Turkey. At present, Facebook posts from …
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Russian entrepreneurs with global ambitions tend to dream of conquering Europe or the USA. However, Denis Nemtsev decided to try something more “outside of the box”. He travelled to Thailand to set up HipFlat, a real estate search startup which has just secured $335,000 from international angel investors. The funding round, which was oversubscribed and …
Russian entrepreneur raises $335,000 to launch real estate search engine in Thailand Read More
Moscow, Russia and The Hague, Netherlands — Yandex N.V. (Nasdaq:YNDX) (“Yandex” or the “Company”), one of Europe’s largest internet companies and the leading search provider in Russia, today announced that it proposes to offer US$600 million in aggregate principal amount of convertible senior notes due 2018 (the “notes”), subject to market conditions and other factors. …
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BeSmart.net, a Russian startup that presents itself as a “universal trading platform for Internet users to buy and sell educational and informative materials,” will receive from Hong Kong-based investment fund Education Matrix a total of $4 million over the next three years. After completing its development on the domestic market, the startup plans to start international …
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Keeping with their prior attempts to keep Westerners as far away as possible from Russians’ Internet activity, Russian secret service agents have recently advised regional government officials across Russia to use domestic webmail services and stay away from overseas ones, such as Google’s Gmail. The recommendation, still off the record, came earlier this month from …
Tripadvisor, one of the world’s largest online travel planning sites, has tapped into Yandex.Maps search capabilities to show customers travel destinations and tourist sights in Russia and Turkey. It is the first international Internet major to acknowledge the advantages of the mapping service of the Russian search giant. The global company believes that with its wide …
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