Confirming that the relations between Ukraine and Russia are currently at their lowest, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko yesterday signed a decree applying sanctions to 468 legal entities and 1,228 individuals from Russia. Among the targeted organizations are the two leading Russian Internet groups — Yandex and Mail.Ru Group — the services of which will be made …
Russia’s largest internet group, NASDAQ-listed Yandex on Thursday raised its sales outlook for the year after settling a dispute with Google over product distribution on the U.S. company’s Android operating system. Google announced a deal with Yandex and Russia’s competition watchdog on April 17, pledging to stop requiring manufacturers of Android-based devices to pre-install its …
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Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) announced today the end of a two-year legal procedure with the involved parties reaching a voluntary settlement in a Moscow arbitration court. “The settlement will help eliminate the violations of the antimonopoly legislation previously detected and will ensure competition on markets of mobile applications, especially mobile search,” stated the FAS. In a case launched in February 2015 by …
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On Sunday, as Russia was witnessing mass anti-corruption protests, Yandex’s local news feed for Moscow prominently featured trivialities such as weather reports and promotions for the city’s “Spring Festival.” On the national level, protests were overshadowed by news like Russia’s reaction to Kiev banning its Eurovision contestant, reports The Moscow Times. It’s no secret that …
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The NASDAQ-listed Russian Internet search giant Yandex today announced its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and the full year ended December 31, 2016. In 2016, the company’s revenues amounted to 75.9 billion ($1,251.7 million), up 27% compared with FY 2015. Its net income of reached 6.8 billion rubles ($111.8 million), down 30%, with a net …
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Earlier this week Yandex, the leading Internet search company in Russian-language countries, announced the creation of its new “Machine Intelligence and Research (MIR) Division.” This division is defined as a “centralized, cross-functional unit to accelerate innovation and unify [Yandex’s] core machine learning technologies.” The MIR division will also transfer research from various Yandex research teams into …
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Earlier this month Yandex Data Factory, a division of the Russian search giant, unveiled ‘Extract,’ a new solution to search and track of business-critical information. One of Extract’s first use case involves Russia’s central bank, which needs to find all cash-loan providers represented online in order to check their compliance with regulations. To address this needs, …
As in year’s past, Russian Search Marketing is glad to share research on the Yandex 2016 top trending searches by category. The top search categories include events, people, premieres, media, and even memes. The top Yandex searches for 2016 show a mix of both domestic and international topics, many of which you readers likely searched …
In late October Yandex, the Russian search giant, launched taxi booking service Yandex.Taxi in Ukraine. The service – which operates exclusively in partnership with taxi companies – is available exclusively in Kyiv (Kiev), but Yandex plans to expand it beyond the Ukrainian capital. “Our next targets are Odessa, Kharkov (Kharkiv) and Dnipro [previously known as Dnepropetrovsk or …
As instant messengers (IM) are getting increased traction — even more than the classic Internet and social networks for certain user categories — Intento offers a new way to explore their content, which is generally ignored by traditional search engines. The startup claims to have developed “the only automatic crawl-and-search engine indexing the content of …
Intento aims to build “the Google for IM and chat bot content” Read More
Yandex, the Russian search giant, is launching today a global partnership program for Android handset manufacturers and telecom operators, covering 15 countries. The move is coming as Yandex is seeking ways to get more traction in mobile, where it is loosing its leadership to Google on the Russian market. Manufacturers of Android handsets and telecom operators are …
Yesterday Google dedicated its daily Doodle to the 100th Anniversary of completion of the Trans-Siberian Railway, which has “helped link a nation with the world.” Russia still depends on this railway to traverse nearly 9,300 kilometers from Moscow, Europe’s largest city, to Vladivostok, which neighbors China, Korea and Japan. “In just seven days, the railway transports travelers and …
