In a move illustrating growing demand on the Russian online advertising market, Yandex announced its rates for display advertising will increase next year by an average of 28%, Russian business daily Vedomosti reported yesterday based on exchanges with advertising agencies. Yandex confirmed the news as well as the fact it revises its display advertising rates …
Former Mail.ru Group Executive Vice President Global Operations François Esculier has gained a seat on the Board of Directors of luxury private shopping club CollectionPrivee.ru. He recently shared with East-West Digital News his vision of the global integration of the Russian Internet, speaking his mind on the management issues domestic players faced as well as about …
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The Russian mobile operator MegaFon has revived an OTT TV project that had previously been frozen earlier this year. The news was given by Denis Nochevnov, the company’s director of new technologies and services, and quoted by AKTR and Digit.ru. Work on the OTT project, which also involved the software company Netris, began in 2010 …
RTP Ventures, the recently created US arm of the Russian venture fund Ru-Net, announced yesterday it made no less than four investments in the last two months, including two infusions of seed funding and two Series A investments. RTP Ventures invested in Tinfoil Security, a website security solution provider, Cake Health, which offers solutions to …
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Paris, December 1st, 2011 – GlobeCast announces today the expansion of its satellite capacity overRussia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) with a new Ku-band platform on the Yamal-201 satellite. Offering significant opportunities to penetrate the cable market throughout the CIS, GlobeCast’s capacity provides full coverage of this area to regional and international channels.
The scent of Silicon Valley wafted in the air on Tuesday at the Russian Youth Innovation Convention in Moscow. In addition to gathering over 800 aspiring entrepreneurs from all over the country, the event attracted such international celebrities as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Gmail creator Paul Bucheit, Angry Birds founder Peter Vesterbacka and Virgin Galactic …
Russian search giant Yandex took yet another step towards international expansion yesterday, announcing that Seznam.cz, the largest web search engine and information portal in the Czech Republic, had launched a video search service using its technology.
The Russian IPTV platform Beeline TV, which is owned by leading mobile operator Vimpelcom, now has over 500,000 subscribers. Launched in Moscow in May 2009 and currently present in 34 large Russian cities, its take up has grown five-fold in less than a year. Beeline TV has proved to be a driver for the company’s …
The Russian mobile content market could reach as much as $1.8 billion this year, according to a report from consulting company J’son & Partners quoted by news agency RIA Novosti. The figures includes ringback tones and other audio content for $766 million, mobile applications for smartphones for $355 million – up 106% from 2010 – …
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Mail.ru Group, a leading Russian Internet group listed on the London Stock Exchange, is in negotiations with Internet Invest Group, Ukraine’s largest web hosting service provider, for the rights to the mail.ua domain name. The deal is expected to be completed at the end of this year or early next year. This domain will be …
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In a move reflecting emphasis on its mobile strategy, Yandex, the dominant player on the Russian search and contextual ad markets, announced today its acquisition of SPB Software, a major developer of mobile software with offices in Russia, Taiwan, and Thailand. Referring to sources close to the deal, TechCrunch reported the price was set at …
Russia’s leading international Internet fund DST Global has begun to look at Internet companies in India for potential investment, according to Indian online investment publication VCcircle, citing “sources familiar with the development” earlier this month. DST opened its Asia office in Hong Kong earlier this year. It also invested in Chinese e-commerce leader 360buy.com and …
