http://russia20.com RUSSIA20.COM - Startups, New Media and Marketing from the East Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:44:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://russia20.com/2008/07/google-announced-the-acquisition-of-biggest-russian-service-contextual-advertising-begun/ 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 ... http://russia20.com/2008/06/russian-dotcoms-on-global-expansion-yandex-labs-in-silicon-valley/ 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, ... http://russia20.com/2008/05/virgin-group-enters-russia-through-wimax-network/ 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 ... http://russia20.com/2008/05/yandex-is-the-third-search-engine-in-europe/ 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 ... http://russia20.com/2008/03/beeline-the-world-roaming-leader/ 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 ... http://russia20.com/2008/03/one-day-content-strike-on-livejournal/ Advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi Moscow created new Viral video for Google Russia to promote Gmail. Beautiful example of WOW-marketing. http://russia20.com/2008/02/gmail-russia-advertisement/ 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 ... http://russia20.com/2008/02/yandex-in-europe/ 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 ... http://russia20.com/2008/02/offices-yandex/