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Google’s Russian Ad Buy Blocked On Technicality; Putin’s Spanner In The Works?

Oct 24, 2008 4:01 AM

Russia’s FAS anti-trust authority has blocked Google (NSDQ: GOOG) from gaining a foothold in the country’s booming online advertising business. Top-three portal Rambler in July agreed to sell its Begun contextual advertising firm to Google for $140 million. But the authorities on Thursday said Google did not provide all the…

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Posted In: Advertising, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, Google, Countries, Europe, Russia, begun

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