Social networks & apps

Social photo discovery service Cooliris partners with Yandex for Russian market

January 30, 2013

Cooliris, a California based publisher of mobile apps for “immersive media experiences,” launched yesterday an international version for Russia. With its photo sharing platform Yandex.Fotki (Yandex Photos), Yandex, the Russian search giant, was chosen as a local photo hosting partner. This integration enables Yandex.Fotki’s 10 million users to browse, experience and share all of their …

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Russian social commerce solution provider Ecwid asserts leadership on Facebook

May 22, 2020

Ecwid, a leading provider of social commerce solutions based in Ulyanovsk, Russia, and US social commerce pioneer Payvment, have announced that Payvment will refer its 200,000 Facebook merchants to the Ecwid platform. The move comes as a consequence of the acquisition of Payvment by Intuit, a Silicon Valley software publisher. Intuit was essentially interested in …

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ZeptoLab and AlterGeo walk away with top awards at The Europas

January 29, 2013

Russia’s Zeptolab and AlterGeo were honored last week in Berlin at the finale of The Europas, a contest for technology startups that attracted over 1,000 companies this year from all over the world. The two companies have been judged as the “Best Russian Startups,” with Zeptolab getting two additional awards – the Best Gaming or Social …

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Yandex builds powerful data mining and search app for social networks

January 15, 2013

Yandex, Russia’s leading search engine, is developing a voice-activated search application that retrieves and displays relevant data from Facebook or other social network content, TechCrunch reports from unnamed sources. The new mobile app, codenamed “Wonder,” will enable users to see results – including images – that feature places where their friends have checked in or posted …

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Mobile social networks attract 12.5 million Russian users

December 31, 2012

J’son  & Partners, a management consultancy covering telecom and IT markets in Russia and other countries, has released a report on Russia’s small but rapidly-expanding mobile social networks market. The popularity of mobile social networks is growing in Russia in the same way as elsewhere in the world, the report notes, driven by the increasing …

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Vkontakte.ru ownership saga: Usmanov now plans to increase Mail.ru Group’s stake

December 28, 2012

A mere two weeks after an executive of his management company stated the opposite in an exchange with Bloomberg, Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov, the main shareholder of the Mail.ru Group, said he was willing to increase his group’s stake in Vkontakte.ru, Russia’s leading social network also known as VK.com. “If there is a reasonable market …

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Mail.ru Group closes microblogging service Futubra

December 28, 2012

Futubra, a microblogging service with advanced multimedia, news group and comment functions, is closing down less than a year after its launch in early 2012. The termination announcement on the Futubra website contains no substantial explanation; however, Mail.ru Group CEO Dmitry Grishin had publicly conceded this past July that Futubra’s audience was not meeting expectations.

Mail.ru Group considers selling its stake in Vkontakte

December 6, 2012

Mail.ru Group, an LSE-listed Russian Internet group partly owned by Russian billionnaire Alsiher Usmanov, may consider selling its 40% stake in VKontakte (VK.com), Russia’s most popular social network. This possibility was discussed earlier this week by Ivan Streshinskiy, chief executive officer of the company that manages Usmanov’s assets, USM Advisors LLC, in an interview with …

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Yuri Milner takes part in Prismatic’s $15 million Series A funding

December 6, 2012

Yuri Milner, co-founder of the prominent Russian Internet fund DST Global, is among the investors in Prismatic, a San-Francisco based startup that attacks the difficult task of creating personalized news feeds based on users’ interests. Also participating in the Series A funding, which amounts to $15 million, are Jim Breyer and his fund Accel Partners, …

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Russian video sharing startup ClipClock secures $2.5 million from Runa Capital.

November 8, 2012

ClipClock, a Russian video sharing startup,  announced yesterday a $2.5 million funding by Runa Capital, a Moscow-based venture fund operating internationally. The investment will be used to develop advanced functionalities, increase the startup’s user base, and prepare global expansion.

Russian Internet users experiment with social traveling

October 8, 2012

As major online booking sites deploy millions of venture dollars in a fight for leadership, a startup founded just three months ago is bringing a fresh concept to the Russian online travel market. iknow.travel collects, supports and encourages primary social networking among travelers. Users can discover interesting destinations based on the actual traveling experiences and …

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