Press releases & Industry announcements

Yandex announces its summer school for startups – Tolstoy Summer Camp

November 19, 2014

Yandex’s new startup accelerator, Tolstoy Summer Camp, opens for young entrepreneurs and internet specialists who would like to learn how to start their own startup. The program will bring together young web developers, UI designers and project managers with an idea, but without resources to implement it and present it to investors. We also welcome …

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St. Petersburg’s HackDay: Build a team and develop a prototype in 48 hours!

May 14, 2013

After visiting Kaliningrad, Nizhny Novgorod (Russia), and Almaty (Kazakhstan), HackDay#27 is coming back to Saint-Petersburg on May 24-26. The event will offer a chance to build a team, attend learning sessions, develop a prototype and present it to the city’s IT community as well as to investors and industry experts. All that in just 48 hours – with …

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NTT Communications to offer data center services in IXcellerate’s Moscow datacentre

May 7, 2013

Moscow – NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary NTT Com Russia will offer a wide range of data center services in Russia viaIXcellerate’s Moscow One carrier-neutral data center in Moscow, beginning with colocation services in May, this year. IXcellerate’s recently completed facility offers premium enterprise-class data center services in a …

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TomTom Traffic launches in Russia

May 2, 2013

Amsterdam – TomTom has made its world-class traffic information, TomTom Traffic, available in Russia. For the first time, navigation application providers, automotive partners and government departments will be able to pinpoint the precise location of traffic congestion and minimize delays by re-routing traffic to avoid congested areas. The results of TomTom’s Annual Congestion Index, released in …

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The Next Web and East-West Digital News team up to cover Russian digital innovation

April 23, 2013

As Russia rapidly emerges as a new hot spot on the world’s innovation map, East-West Digital News, the country’s first international resource on digital industries, has teamed up with influential website The Next Web to offer its unique news and insights to TNW’s global readership. While a regular flow of news stories from EWDN is …

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Condé Nast’s 4th Digital Day: A “Window to the Future” in Moscow

April 18, 2013

For the fourth year in a row, Condé Nast Digital Day brings together over 500 leading marketing and communications professionals from the luxury industry. This year’s conference, which was held last week in Moscow, offered a special focus on e-commerce: how to build your sales online, how different is the online customer and its buying behaviour, …

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Yandex revamps its homepage

November 19, 2014

Yandex (NASDQ:YNDX) today unveiled its newly redesigned homepage. The most relevant information is now highly visible and easily accessible in a more streamlined format. The homepage now has less text and feels airier making it easier to navigate. Graphics have replaced some text blocks, and related items have been grouped together – for example, news …

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OZON Group reached $492 million GMV and $250 million net sales in 2012

March 28, 2013

The OZON Group, comprised of OZON.ru, O-Courier, OZON.travel, Sapato.ru and eSolutions, has today announced its financial results for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2012. The company reached $492 million GMV [1] and $250 million net sales, growing by 67% and 55% respectively from the previous year. The announcement highlights the significant growth in revenue of …

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Mobile internet and VAS to expand in Russia in 2013-2014

March 25, 2013

Value added and multimedia services continue to develop in Russia. Telecom carriers seek for opportunities to offer bundles, including pay TV and mobile internet, which allow for both increase ARPU and reduce churn. Among other important segments of the mobile VAS and multimedia market last year were SMS payments and ringback tones, which will be …

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“From Science to Business:” Russian and international experts to discuss globalization of innovations

March 21, 2013

Abstract submission deadline: April 1, 2013 – The VII International Forum “From Science to Business” will take place on May 15-17 2013 in St. Petersburg. Traditionally the Forum gathers representatives of universities, government, business, and institutes of development. This year’s edition is dedicated to the globalization of innovations. The organizers believe that the expansion of …

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Yandex integrates images into contextual ads on its advertising network

November 19, 2014

Yandex (NASDQ:YNDX) today has announced that clients running campaigns on the Yandex Advertising Network will be able to enhance their contextual advertisements with the addition of images. Visuals in contextual ads instantly get the message across to the viewer and drive more potential customers to advertisers’ websites.

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