Yandex (NASDQ:YNDX) today has announced that clients running campaigns on the Yandex Advertising Network will be able to enhance their contextual advertisements with the addition of images. Visuals in contextual ads instantly get the message across to the viewer and drive more potential customers to advertisers’ websites.
Continuing its expansion into the realm of mobile, Russia’s search giant Yandex officially unveiled its application store for Android-powered devices at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last month. Yandex.Store already has more than 50,000 paid and free apps and is available in Russian, English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Ukrainian, and Turkish languages.
In January 2013, Vkontakte.ru (VK.com), attracted 50.5 million users of 12 to 64 years of age in Russia, or 47.5% of the country’s population of the same age group. The popular social network occupied third place among the Top 10 Russian websites, according to the market research company TNS. In its January report, TNS put Vkontakte right …
Moscow and The Hague, Netherlands – Yandex (Nasdaq:YNDX), one of Europe’s largest internet companies and the leading search provider in Russia, today announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and the full year ended December 31, 2012.
Yandex has announced that it will hand over its ‘Narod’ website hosting activities as early as next month to uCoz, a leading Russian website builder and hoster operating internationally. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed. “Sometimes we discontinue services in part or in full – as is happening now with ‘Narod’ – …
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Moscow – Tinkoff Digital, а Russian developer of innovative internet and mobile advertising technologies, has signed an agreement with Yandex, Russia’s leading internet company, to buy online advertising inventory for its Data Mind real-time bidding (RTB) platform. Anna Znamenskaya, CEO of Tinkoff Digital, said: “This deal is a landmark for Tinkoff Digital, and underscores the …
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Yandex, Russia’s leading search engine, has moved up in the worldwide search engine rankings to reach fourth place, according to the most recent data from comScore qSearch. Google retains a comfortable lead for the top spot, with more than 62% of the market, followed by China’s Baidu with 8.2%, Yahoo with 4.9%, Yandex with 2.8%, …
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A new Vietnamese-language search engine, developed by Russians, was launched last week – almost two years after the idea for the project was first floated and a tentative launch date of April 1, 2011 had been announced. The search engine, christened Côc Côc (which stands for “rat-a-tat” in Vietnamese) is now up and running, and tailored …
Russia’s search giant Yandex has decided to withdraw Wonder, its new voice-activated search application for social networks, from Apple’s App Store, following Facebook’s decision to block it, rendering the app largely irrelevant. Launched just six days ago, Wonder retrieves and displays relevant data from Facebook or other social network content. As The Next Web noted, …
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Cooliris, a California based publisher of mobile apps for “immersive media experiences,” launched yesterday an international version for Russia. With its photo sharing platform Yandex.Fotki (Yandex Photos), Yandex, the Russian search giant, was chosen as a local photo hosting partner. This integration enables Yandex.Fotki’s 10 million users to browse, experience and share all of their …
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Russian search engine Yandex has confirmed in a statement that its just-released Wonder app has been blocked by Facebook. The social recommendation tool that draws information from users of Facebook, Instagram, Foursquare and Twitter in the US was only online for some three hours before Facebook blocked access to its API. “We confirm Wonder app …
Yandex, Russia’s search giant, announced earlier this week that it is now an associate member of the Open Lab of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Under the terms of the recently signed agreement, CERN researchers will be able to tap into Yandex’s computing capabilities and data processing technologies. In exchange, the Russian company …
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