Russian e-commerce giant Ozon.ru is considering the aquisition of online footwear retailer Sapato.ru, having received the green light from the antimonopoly authorities on February 1st. Ozon has not yet made a final decision, and is also considering other acquisitions, the company’s PR manager Maria Nazamutdinova told Russian business information site Marker.ru.
RTI, a large Russian group of high-tech research and production companies, announced on Tuesday the acquisition of NVision, a Moscow based system integrator with regional representative offices in Ekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Nizhny Novgorod, St. Petersburg, as well as in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. RTI will pay $200 million in exchange for a 50% stake in NVision, while …
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The Russian Antimonopoly Service allowed Rostelecom, the national telecom operator, to acquire 100% of the shares of Enter, a provider of fixed broadband Internet access in Siberia owned by the Dutch company Consumer Enter B. V. Established in 2005, Enter serves 22,000 customers in Barnaul, Novokuznetsk and Tyumen, three major Siberian cities.
The Russian Anti Monopoly Service allowed MTS, a leading Russian operator, to acquire 100% of the shares of SkyNet, Russian business daily Vedomosti reported yesterday. The target of the acquisition provides Internet access as well as fixed line telephony services in St. Petersburg. MTS competes with other players such as mobile operator Megafon and telecom operator Rostelecom, …
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The Rambler-Afisha group invested “hundreds of thousand dollars” in Ichiba.ru, Rambler founder Anton Terekhov told the RIA Novosti news agency last week. Launched in April of last year, Ichiba.ru is an e-commerce marketplace allowing any merchant to present and sell its products online easily. Ichiba claims its catalog includes 3.5 million items from over 400 …
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Russia’s leading WiMax provider Scartel, working under the Yota brand, has sold 100% of its stake in Yota Del Peru, a subsidiary it created in 2010 with Multinet Group, a discrete Russian company operating 4G networks in African and Asian countries, among other telecom activities. The acquiring parties included ICT Group, one of the largest …
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MegaFon, a major Russian mobile operator, made a further step last Friday towards business diversification and regional expansion by acquiring Yugratel, a broadband Internet and cable TV provider operating in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District of Western Siberia. Yugratel was sold through an auction sale by the local authorities for 2.4 billion rubles, or approximately $76 …
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Media3, a major media publishing, commercial printing and distribution group, announced on Monday its acquisition of Delovoy Mir, Russia’s fifth largest publisher of online classifieds. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed, but Delovoy Mir Online Brand Manager Marina Zeitina told East-West Digital News that Media3 obtained a 90% stake, leaving the remaining 10% …
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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 …
Canadian e-book software and firmware provider Evident Point, which has a separate development team in Moscow, has been acquired by LANIT, a major Russian company providing a diversified range of systems integration and other IT services. Neither the terms of the transaction nor general future plans of the two companies were disclosed.
Russian Navigation Technologies (RNT), a leading manufacturer and integrator of fleet management solutions and other telematics systems, is continuing its international expansion. The company is holding buyout talks with several Eastern European firms to enter the regional market, RNT General Manager Ivan Nechaev told CNews.ru, a resource covering the IT and telecom markets.
Russia’s national telecom operator Rostelecom is interested in acquiring mobile operators in Russia’s neighboring countries, Alexander Provotorov, the company’s president, said yesterday during informal remarks given at the ITU Telecom World 2011 forum in Geneva. “There isn’t much left to buy in Russia, so we are looking at CIS countries,” news agency RIA Novosti quoted …
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