This past Wednesday Yandex and Google, the two archivals of the Russian search market, announced a “mutually beneficial strategic partnership agreement” in the field of online display advertising sales. As a result of the integration of Google’s and Yandex’s real-time bidding (RTB) systems, Google’s advertising clients will gain access to the advertising inventory offered by …
Barcelona, Spain – Maxthon, a global software company that develops state-of-the-art web browsers, today announced it is expanding its partnership with Yandex, Russia’s dominant search and web services provider. In a new agreement, Maxthon and Yandex will work together to offer Maxthon web browsers to Russian desktop and mobile users pre-loaded with several of Yandex’s top …
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Yandex, the NASDAQ-listed Russian search giant, announced yesterday its financial results for the fourth quarter and the full year that ended December 31, 2013: the company’s revenue jumped to 39.5 billion rubles ($1.2069 billion), up 37% from the previous year. On a like-for-like basis, the year-on-year growth actually attained 39% when tallied without Yandex.Money, the …
Earlier this week Yandex announced the opening of an R&D office in Berlin – the 16th office globally and the third office in Western Europe of the NASDAQ-listed Russian search giant. The airy office space in Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse has enough room for up to 130 people, Yandex stated. It will be progressively filled with 30-40 work …
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.
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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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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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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Yandex’s mapping service Yandex.Maps has seen a major revamp. Russia’s most popular mapping service now runs on a unified platform, which allows the company to support and update unlimited amounts of data without relying on external sources. In addition, Yandex.Maps now features detailed maps supporting the route planning feature for the majority of large cities …
Yandex, Russia’s leading search engine and major Internet group, announced yesterday that it acquired KinoPoisk (in Russian: “Cinema Search”), the largest Russian language portal on movies, TV programs and celebrities. This site’s database contains 100 million movie descriptions and ratings with associated trailers, user commentaries and advertising. Each month, it attracts nearly 16 million unique …
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Eleven months after its first attempt to map Europe, Yandex, the Russian search giant, introduced a debugged and improved version last week, showing a more in-depth map of the continent and enabling users to look for itineraries and route trips. The improvements have indeed been dramatic since the previous versions if judging by the map …
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