Google has deleted from its search results the links to 446 pages of 106 pirate resources, which had illegally borrowed content owned by Eksmo, a leading Russian publisher. Among the blacklisted sites are Bookmir.ru, Fanknig.ru, and Kniga-free.ru, as well as torrent tracker Torrentino.com, reported Vedomosti, a Russian business daily.
Twitter officially launched new Russian and Turkish language versions of its web and mobile interfaces on Tuesday. The microblogging service launched in the US in 2006 only started to gain notice and popularity in Russia about two years ago.
TomorrowVentures, a US investment fund founded in 2009 by Google chairman Eric Schmidt, announced earlier this week the formation of a strategic partnership with Digital October, a Moscow-based cooperative work space and events organizer. Court Coursey, Managing Partner at TomorrowVentures, agreed to speak with EWDN on the subject of their new partnership.
Digital October, a Moscow-based cooperative work space and events organizer created in 2010, and TomorrowVentures, a US investment fund founded in 2009 by Google chairman Eric Schmidt, announced yesterday the formation of a strategic partnership aimed, in particular, at selecting, financing and promoting Russian startups on international markets.
Google AdWords and Begun, a leading Russian ad network acquired by Google in 2008, have announced further technological integration of their advertising capabilities.
Yandex, Russia’s leading search engine, has launched Webvisor, a service that works with Yandex.Metrica to track and visualize the actions of site visitors. Webvizor is only for sites using Yandex Market, a marketplace for merchants affiliated with Yandex, or Yandex Direct, the contextual ad service of Yandex.
VimpelCom, a major Russian mobile operator, is talking with outsourcing companies about developing an IP telephony product functionally similar to Skype. The news, provided by unnamed sources, was reported last week by CNews.ru, a Russian site covering IT and telecom issues.
Softline Venture Partners and Ecwid have launched Magazinga, a new joint project that represents “an entirely new approach to promoting goods and services through social networks,” claim its creators. Magazinga provides merchants with ready-made e-shops as well as access to its own marketplace of products intended for social network users.
MTS, a leading Russian mobile operator, intends to purchase Bashkortostan’s telecom operator Ufanet, Russian business daily Kommersant reports. In the fall of 2010 Megafon wanted to buy Ufanet but in the last moment changed decision because of the price of $170-$180 million.
State-owned fund of funds Russian Venture Company (RVC) participated indirectly in a round of financing, announced last week, for Sugar Inc., a global media company for women. The investment was made through Russian Venture Capital II LP, a fully owned subsidiary of RVC that registered in the UK in June 2010. A few months later, the …
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Megafon, a major Russian mobile operator, is considering purchasing St. Petersburg Internet provider Web Plus, Russian business daily Kommersant reports. The deal price has yet to be disclosed, but, according to experts, the price will be “symbolic”, since Web Plus is a loss-making firm with $4 million debt, the newspaper said. The seller is Telecominvest.
The Russian office of Microsoft has officially announced the launch of operations of Russia’s first cloud-based business product service, Office 365, which will provide small and midsize companies with remote access to an online repository of documents by the end of the year.
