Rafat Ali
Feb 15, 2010 6:42 PM
The race to buy IM service ICQ from AOL (NYSE: AOL) is heating up. Last week came the news about some possible buyers: Russian investment group Digital Sky Technologies, which has investment in Facebook and Zynga; South African media giant Naspers, which holds a 30 percent stake in China’s Tencent;…
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Robert Andrews
Feb 18, 2009 7:18 AM
As predicted last month, the CEO of Rambler Media Group, one of Russia’s top web outfits, is stepping down after two years at the helm. The company is floated on London’s AIM exchange, has all of its business operations run from there. Mark Opzoomer is quitting “in order to pursue…
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Patrick Smith
Nov 7, 2008 5:15 AM
Rambler, one of Russia’s biggest web portals with three million daily users, is to lay off half its staff according to two reports from Russia, via Yakov. The cuts are to come from non-core sub-brands such as Rambler Telecom, Rambler-Foto and Rambler Vision and could affect as many as 255…
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