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Google announced the acquisition of the biggest Russian service contextual advertising

Pavel — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:53:27 +0000

Show must go on! The battle between Russian leading search engine «Yandex» and world leading SE «Google» continue. Today was announced the next step of this battle - «Google Inc.» announced the signing of an agreement with «Rambler Media» on the acquisition of «Begun» - a leading contextual advertising service in Russia - for 140 million U.S. dollars.

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Russian Dotcoms on global expansion: Yandex Labs in Silicon Valley

Pavel — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:02:16 +0000

Yandex announced the formation of a U.S. technology and business development facility. The new organization, “Yandex Labs,” will be located in the San Francisco Bay area. Vishal Makhijani, formerly SVP and General Manager of Yahoo!’s Search Group, has been appointed as President and CEO of the new organization, reporting directly to Arkady Volozh, CEO of Yandex.

“We did not hesitate to go the extra mile to find this rare talent,” said Arkady Volozh, CEO of Yandex, the parent company. “We are excited to add a leading technology and business veteran in Silicon Valley to the Yandex team. Vish and his group at Yandex Labs will help to develop and improve Yandex’s core technology capabilities including the quality of algorithmic search for the Russian audience.”

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Virgin Group enters Russia through WIMAX

Pavel — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:22:20 +0000

Virgin Group enters Russia through the new broadband company operated by Trivon. Today they announced the nationwide launch of its high-speed broadband WiMax network under the brand «Virgin Connect».

As well as the international experience contributed by its shareholders, Trivon believe in strong local knowledge. In accordance with this belief, a highly experienced local team has been hired from Russia, led by Rostislav Gromov, as General Director of Trivon’s Russian operations.

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Yandex is the third Search Engine in EUROPE

Pavel — Mon, 05 May 2008 02:26:17 +0000

According to the analytical company comScore Inc., the world leader in the measurement of web sites, Russian search engine Yandex became the third European search engine, ahead of Yahoo! and Microsoft.

Eastern European market is significantly differs from the Western European, as has the most dynamic structure by the rapidly growing Russian Internet. Russian segment comScore found the fastest growing segment of the European Internet.

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BEELINE - the World Roaming Leader

Pavel — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 08:47:15 +0000

The Russian Mobile Operate Company Beeline has become the world leader both by the number of roaming partners and by the number of roaming countries, analysts at J’son & Partners believe.

Vimpelcom specifies that currently they are cooperating with 497 partners in 205 countries. ‘We have been actively developing the given business line recently, concluding agreements with various operators all over the world to enable our subscribers to stay in touch in any part of the world’, - says Yekaterina Osadchaya, Vimpelcom’s press secretary.

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One Day content STRIKE on LiveJournal

Pavel — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:51:27 +0000

Multilingual community of Livejournal.com - one of the leading world blog-hosting platforms, owned to Russian company SUP, decided to make one day content strike. The reason for such actions was decision of SUP to cancel an opportunity of registration new basic (advertisement free) accounts.

According to plans, the strike will take place on Friday, March 21 from midnight to midnight GMT.

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Gmail Russia advertisement

Pavel — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:31:55 +0000

Advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi Moscow created new Viral video for Google Russia to promote Gmail.

Beautiful example of WOW-marketing.

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Yandex in Europe

Pavel — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:19:38 +0000

The biggest Russian search engine and internet-service portal Yandex announced that it placed its networking equipment in Frankfurt at an Internet Exchange Point (DE-CIX).

DE-CIX provides direct traffic exchange between its participants. Having connected to DE-CIX in Frankfurt am Main, Yandex reduced the number of transit providers carrying its traffic to Europe and shortened the service response time for its Russian speaking users living abroad.

The company rented a dedicated channel to Frankfurt and set up its networking equipment within its Local Network program announced on December 10, 2007. According to the official information, besides Frankfurt, Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Yandex has its server equipment in Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Kiev.

This is very logical and strategically right sound decision - Yandex have more 290 000 users from Germany every week and more 1,7 millions other international users.

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Offices: Yandex

Pavel — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:57:34 +0000

Offices like alive symbols of brand - sometimes they can show the creative spirit of company even much more better then all official words about mission, corporate values or data about market shares. Here you will find photos from offices of the most interesting Russian and international Dotcoms.

I would like to start this collection talking about the company Yandex - leading Internet portal in Russia today and one of the biggest sites in the world.

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