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Yandex relaunches its mobile analytics platform with detailed ad tracking

February 14, 2016

Russian internet giant Yandex has revamped its mobile analytics platform with a new name, as well as ad and traffic tracking capabilities. First launched in 2013 as Yandex.Metrica, the rebranded AppMetrica also offers user interaction and crash analytics for Android, iOS and Windows Phone apps in real-time. With the new version, Yandex aims to offer …

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Yandex relaunches e-commerce delivery service aggregator

February 16, 2016

Yandex, the Russian search company behind leading marketplace Yandex.Market, announced yesterday the launch of Yandex.Delivery, a service which aggregates offers from several e-commerce shipment service providers. Yandex.Delivery allows Internet stores to work more easily with several carriers with a unified account and paperwork. E-merchants may install a widget on their site, allowing shoppers to choose the delivery price and …

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Putin signs ‘right to be forgotten’ bill into law

February 28, 2017

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a controversial bill that allows citizens to demand that internet search engines remove links to personal information deemed “false” and “irrelevant,” as well as to that distributed in violation of the law. The law on the so-called “right to be forgotten,” signed by Putin on July 14, …

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Yandex transfers professional network Moi Krug to Thematic Media

June 19, 2015

Russia’s search giant Yandex has “handed over” Moi Krug, a major professional social network which it acquired back in 2007, to Thematic Media (TM), a publisher of several online tech publications. The transaction was confirmed earlier this month by a Yandex representative to business daily Vedomosti, but no details of the deal have been disclosed. Yandex …

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Yandex launches new media player service “Yandex.Radio”

February 18, 2016

Last week Yandex presented its new media player service christened “Yandex.Radio.” With more than 100 stations, Yandex.Radio allows users to tune in to a variety of music styles – energetic, sentimental or fun; music for travel, jogging or a romantic date; songs from the 1950s, or timeless hits from different decades. Yandex.Radio comes as Yandex’s second …

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New Yandex browser offers rich search suggestions while “protecting user privacy”

May 22, 2015

Yandex unveiled yesterday new features of its Yandex.Browser, now in beta testing, including a “high privacy level” for its users. Unlike other browsers, says the Russian company, the private version of Yandex.Browser does not send users’ information to the developer by default: “We do not get any stats or browsing data.” “Sharing users’ information helps developers …

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Yandex announces Q1 2015 financial results

February 25, 2016

Moscow and Amsterdam, Netherlands – Yandex (NASDAQ: YNDX), one of Europe’s largest internet companies and the leading search provider in Russia, today announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2015. “Despite a challenging macroeconomic environment, we delivered good top-line performance with text-based advertising on our own sites growing 14%. The number …

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Google moves some servers to Russian data centers

February 28, 2017

Russia’s state-controlled telecommunications company Rostelecom informed the government that Google Inc. has moved some servers to Russia to comply with a controversial law requiring Internet companies to store Russians’ personal data within the country’s borders, a person familiar with the matter said Friday. Following a meeting in late March with the communications ministry, a Rostelecom representative who attended the meeting said that …

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Yandex jumps 13% as EU and Google scuffle

February 25, 2016

With the European Commission’s antitrust complaint against Google, Russia’s home advantage in Internet search is evident. Shares of Yandex, Russia’s largest Internet search provider,  were up nearly 13% in the last half hour of U.S. trading, while shares of its smaller Russian competitor Mail.ru Group were down 1.7%. Google stock rose 0.6%.

Yandex trims staff amid economic crisis

February 25, 2016

Russian Internet firm Yandex will reduce its staff by 3 percent and slash hiring as the country’s economic crisis forces the company to optimize its operations and expenses, a spokesperson for the company said earlier this month. Around 170 people will be laid off as part of cuts, Yandex spokeswoman Asya Melkumova told The Moscow Times. While this figure is lower than the 750 fired last year …

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