Summary of survey results: An Internet project director is responsible for dealing with the complex task of building, supporting, promoting and developing a project on the World Wide Web. This includes development strategy, originating the concept and structure of the project”s website, creating content, search optimization, web site promotion, and traffic analysis.
Mail.ru Group is in discussions with other owners of Vkontakte.ru with a view to take full control of this leading social network, said Dmitry Grishin, the group’s general manager.
The Russian Ministry of Economic Development unveiled last week an online map of the country’s investment projects, proposals and sites as well as special economic, socio-economic indicators, logistical infrastructure and educational centers.
Ten licenses for GSM in 1800 MHz standard are to be offered in Kamchatka, the Koryak District, the Chukotka Autonomous District and the Sakhalin Region. Applications for participation have been filled out by seven companies, including leading mobile operators VimpelCom and MegaFon, as well as New Telephone Company (NTC), Tele2 (from Siberia and Chelyabinsk, Ural) …
Leading operators to participate in the first of four contests for GSM-licenses Read More
Yandex.Dengi, a leading Russian electronic currency operator, announced yesterday that users can now register their banking cards to make online purchases using Yandex.Dengi.
Navitel, the leading Russian publisher of navigation software, has reported that total sales in the navigation software market grew by 300% in 2010, according to RBC Daily, a Russian business daily.
Begun announced that it was the most highly trafficked advertising network on the Russian Internet, based on figures provided by TNS Russia. Begun’s audience – 26.6 million unique users in January 2011 – is close to those of Yandex and Mail.ru, the two most visited Russian-language sites.
In 2010 the performance of Mail.ru Group, an LSE-listed Russian internet group, was remarkable in many respects, according to the financial results it released yesterday. The group’s aggregate revenues grew to $324 million, a 64% increase from 2009 – or 58% excluding the impact of the ICQ acquisition completed in July 2010. Its net income …
MTS, a leading Russian mobile operator and retailer, announced yesterday it will offer Foursquare check-in points at its 3,200 outlets throughout Russia, beginning in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Revenues for the leading Russian mobile service providers are expected to grow an average of 10% over the next 3-4 years, according to a JPMorgan report cited by Russian business daily Vedomosti. Operators spent the previous year recovering from the crisis, but from Q3 2009 the average growth rate for revenues increased from 1.5 to …
Revenue for Russian mobile operators to increase up to 10% yearly Read More
Norilsk Telecom (NT), one of the largest fixed-line and broadband operators in the Krasnoyarsk region, is up for sale again. The company’s only shareholder, investment bank KIT Finance, hopes to sell the asset before the year’s end. A few potential buyers have emerged.
According MForum Analytics, Russian sales of touch screen phones increased fourfold in one year, rising from 2.94 million devices sold in 2009 to 11.93 million in 2010. At the end of 2010, touch screen phones accounted for about 30% of all phones sold in Russia, but could reach as much as 50% or more by …
Russian touch screen phone sales quadruple in 2010 Read More
