Russian search giant Yandex is developing a cloud service to store data from computers and mobile devices, Russian business daily Vedomosti reported on Monday. The service, currently referred to by the working name ‘Yandex.Disk,’ will store and sync files of any type and format, from text documents, to video files and photos, as well as …
In a new move to enhance social networking searches, yesterday Yandex announced it made a deal with Twitter to make available the full feed of all public tweets – a ‘firehose’ of data – to its users. Twitter posts will be available to Yandex users almost instantly, covering users who tweet in Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian …
Russian search giant Yandex introduced the beta version of a new search service yesterday, displaying search results from social network content in a more ordered and convenient way – and a step ahead of Google’s. As before, Yandex’s search results display the public profiles of people with accounts on the country’s popular social networks, from …
Last week, Yandex, the Russian company that dominates the domestic search market, announced a partnership with Skype to promote their respective services among their users, news agency RIA Novosti reported. Users dowloading Skype software will be prompted to install a Yandex search bar add-on on their web browser and make Yandex their default search engine. …
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Mail.ru Group, the London Stock Exchange-listed Russian Internet group, marked a symbolic victory in its battle for leadership over the Russian Internet against search behemoth Yandex. At the end of last year and for the first time since 2008, the group’s portal and e-mail service Mail.ru overtook Yandex in terms of traffic for two successive …
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 …
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.
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 …
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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Russian search giant Yandex is holding talks with Russian banks to negotiate the sale of a stake in its e-currency service Yandex.Dengi (Yandex Money), said Yandex CEO Arkady Volozh in an exchange with journalists last week. Yandex is considering the move as a means of compliance with new legislation on payments systems passed in the …
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Russia’s top Internet search portal Yandex, which outstrips Google on the domestic market with a 62% market share, has been ranked fifth on a global list of Internet search properties prepared by the US research firm comScore, reported news agency RIA Novosti.
As early as next month, Yandex services for mobile devices will come preinstalled on all Samsung Bada-powered smartphones sold in the CIS countries, the Russian search giant announced on Tuesday. In addition to the Yandex search engine, the agreement with Samsung will include the preinstallation of Yandex.Maps, Yandex.Mail, Yandex.Metro, Yandex.Market, and a number of other …
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