Did you ever imagine the day when students organize and filter their college interests on one portal? That day has come in Turkey. Most of us remember how overwhelming the college application process felt but thanks to the recent launch of Yandex üniversite, Turkish students now have a comprehensive online guide to the college decision process.
Yandex has announced its participation in the preparation of an experiment at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) to confirm the existence of dark matter, RBC daily reports. Yandex is to provide scientists at CERN with big data processing technology and human resources. The Yandex School of Data Analysis (SDA) has partnered with CERN …
As part of a large set of actions that are designed to lessen Russian reliance on foreign technology and digital services, government agencies in the Irkutsk region (Siberia) were ordered last month by the presidential administration to stop using the services of Google. The ban concerns the use of Google’s web resources for the storage …
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Last week Yandex announced to its Russian users that it will stop supporting its blog hosting service Ya.ru “by the end of this summer.” “About 0.3% of the journals opened on the service are now updated once a month. On average, just 1500 comments are added in a day,” the Russian search giant explained. “Obviously, the …
Last week, Russian online local-search service Yell.ru announced that it has secured $11 million, which includes $8 million from Vostok Nafta and $3 million from current investor AB Kinnevik. In addition to providing a search engine, Yell.ru offers user reviews about local companies and services. “More than a third of all online Russians will use …
Yandex (NASDAQ: YNDX) is launching a service for search and selection of companies and organisations in Russia’s cities. Called Yandex.City, it helps users choose restaurants, beauty salons and a wide range of other businesses whose services they might need. The service, currently available only in Russian, is accessible on city.yandex.ru, as well as on applications for …
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Yesterday Yandex, the NASDAQ-listed Russian search giant, announced its plans to acquire Auto.ru, one of the leading online auto classifieds sites in Russia, for approximately $175 million in cash. The transaction, which remains subject to certain pre-closing conditions, is expected to be completed in Q3 2014. Yandex will purchase 100% of Auto.ru’s issued shares.
Last week TMT Investments, a UK-headquartered venture fund backed by Russian businessmen, announced the completion of a $200,000 investment in Whale Path, a Sunnyvale, California-based startup that offers an on-demand business research platform for companies. Whale Path says it typically delivers fully customized reports to its clients three times faster and at half the price compared to traditional business research …
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Trading of Yandex shares on Moscow Exchange started yesterday in Russian rubles under symbol “YNDX”. Shares also continue to trade on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, where the search company was introduced in 2011. Sberbank CIB1, the corporate and investment banking business of Sberbank, acted as financial advisor to Yandex. In addition, Morgan Stanley & Co. …
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Last week Rostelecom, the Russian national telecom operator, rolled out the beta version of its long-awaited new portal last week, offering visitors what the developer believes to be an easy-to-use and reliable combination of search, news and ‘life navigation’ capabilities. Available in Russian only, Sputnik.ru is a service and search portal designed to “improve the users’ …
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Reverse image search – or searching not by words but by visual content – has just become available to users of Yandex.com. This feature works on computer vision technology created by developers at Yandex. We’ve named it “Sibir” (Russian for “Siberia”), from the acronym CBIR, which stands for “content-based image retrieval”. The technology transforms pictures, submitted by users …
Earlier this month, Russian search engine Yandex made big news by nominating German Gref, the head of state-owned Sberbank, to its Board of Directors. Some may see this as yet another attempt by the Kremlin to crackdown on the Internet. But it wasn’t. Yandex looks as strong as ever as one of the world’s very …
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