A surprisingly explicit retweet sent from Russian President Dmitri Medvedev’s Twitter account yesterday has ignited both the twitterverse and blogosphere with speculation about the behind the scenes mechanisms of the Presidential social media presence. The message, which ran, “If someone uses the expression ‘the party of rogues and thieves’ in his blog, he is a …
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Media3, a major media publishing, commercial printing and distribution group, announced on Monday its acquisition of Delovoy Mir, Russia’s fifth largest publisher of online classifieds. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed, but Delovoy Mir Online Brand Manager Marina Zeitina told East-West Digital News that Media3 obtained a 90% stake, leaving the remaining 10% …
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In a move illustrating growing demand on the Russian online advertising market, Yandex announced its rates for display advertising will increase next year by an average of 28%, Russian business daily Vedomosti reported yesterday based on exchanges with advertising agencies. Yandex confirmed the news as well as the fact it revises its display advertising rates …
The Russian mobile operator MegaFon has revived an OTT TV project that had previously been frozen earlier this year. The news was given by Denis Nochevnov, the company’s director of new technologies and services, and quoted by AKTR and Digit.ru. Work on the OTT project, which also involved the software company Netris, began in 2010 …
Paris, December 1st, 2011 – GlobeCast announces today the expansion of its satellite capacity overRussia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) with a new Ku-band platform on the Yamal-201 satellite. Offering significant opportunities to penetrate the cable market throughout the CIS, GlobeCast’s capacity provides full coverage of this area to regional and international channels.
Russian search giant Yandex took yet another step towards international expansion yesterday, announcing that Seznam.cz, the largest web search engine and information portal in the Czech Republic, had launched a video search service using its technology.
The Russian IPTV platform Beeline TV, which is owned by leading mobile operator Vimpelcom, now has over 500,000 subscribers. Launched in Moscow in May 2009 and currently present in 34 large Russian cities, its take up has grown five-fold in less than a year. Beeline TV has proved to be a driver for the company’s …
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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In a move reflecting emphasis on its mobile strategy, Yandex, the dominant player on the Russian search and contextual ad markets, announced today its acquisition of SPB Software, a major developer of mobile software with offices in Russia, Taiwan, and Thailand. Referring to sources close to the deal, TechCrunch reported the price was set at …
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 …
Canadian e-book software and firmware provider Evident Point, which has a separate development team in Moscow, has been acquired by LANIT, a major Russian company providing a diversified range of systems integration and other IT services. Neither the terms of the transaction nor general future plans of the two companies were disclosed.
Searching for live audio and video streams online could become much easier thanks to Balakam.com, an innovative search engine launched yesterday in beta version by a team from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia’s fourth largest city. Balakam has developed and patented particular search algorithms and an advanced crawling technology to retrieve and index live media streams throughout …
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