Moscow and Amsterdam – Yandex (NASDAQ: YNDX), one of the largest European internet companies and the leading search provider in Russia, today announced it is embarking on a new B2B venture developing custom-made big data solutions for businesses – Yandex Data Factory. Yandex Data Factory, an international project with offices in Moscow and Amsterdam, will provide services …
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Amsterdam and Moscow – Yandex (Nasdaq:YNDX), one of Europe’s largest internet companies and the leading search provider in Russia, today announced its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2014. “Q3 was another strong quarter notable for an acceleration in growth of our owned and operated properties and excellent cost control,” said Arkady Volozh, …
The Russian Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) has informed Facebook, Gmail and Twitter that they must register in Russia as “organizers of distribution of information,” according to Russian legislation. “We informed them and one way or another we will force them to follow the law,” …
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Yandex, the Russian search giant, has launched an online marketplace for household services. The new platform encompasses a variety of services ranging from appliance repairs and installations, to home cleaning, computing assistance and courier services. The marketplace lists service providers’ information, including their prices and client reviews. Consumers can leave their feedback and also rate the quality of …
Yandex has re-launched Yandex.Music, its music streaming service. The newly revamped service now offers a system of personal recommendations for Yandex.Music users to discover new songs and artists every day. Yandex.Music recommendations are based on users’ personal preferences, music that their friends on VK.com or Facebook listen to, as well as the latest new hits, …
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Last week Yandex, the Russian search giant, announced the acquisition of ADFOX, a Russian technological platform for ad serving, independent statistics and advertising campaign analysis. The terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Founded in 2005, the platform enables advertisers to place banners, mobile ads, videos and other popular formats. ADFOX claims to serve more than …
Just five years ago, a movie goer may arrive at a Russian movie theatre to watch whatever movie was playing at the time. While anything playing in theaters was advertised in advance, the movie playing at a given time was subject to change. Since then, movie showtimes acquired a much stricter and more consistent schedule. Moreover, Internet …
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Translation apps on mobile devices are extremely helpful when people are travelling to countries where they don’t speak local language. However, most of translation apps have been working only over the internet, and their use might be quite paintful when in roaming with no good wi-fi connection abroad. Yandex.Translate, an app launched two years ago, now …
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Yandex, the Russian search giant, has purchased mobile development company Any Void. The Any Void team, along with its head Yury Podorozhny will start work at Yandex from today. They will be responsible for the company’s Geo services. When asked why it had chosen to buy Any Void above the many other teams of developers …
Earlier this week Russia’s online search giant Yandex announced significant changes this month at the senior board level, which will come into effect from September 1. Alexander Shulgin, currently the group’s Chief Financial Officer, has been appointed Chief Operating Officer of Yandex’s Russian business. Greg Abovsky will be promoted to Chief Financial Officer to replace …
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Yandex has launched a new speech recognition cloud service called SpeechKit Cloud. It is designed for developers who want to make their products respond to human voices. The company says that integrating the Yandex technology is very simple. All you need to do is read a few pages of documentation and write a couple of lines …
The Russian search engine marketing (SEM) market is unique and, to a large extent, different from the SEM-markets of other countries. The main difference lies in the fact that most of the search traffic is concentrated on the local search engine Yandex. According to various estimates, Yandex’s share of search engine traffic in Russia ranges …
