Rafat Ali
Jun 19, 2008 11:14 PM
Vish Makhijani, the SVP and GM of Search at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is joining Yandex, the number-one Russian search site, as the CEO of Yandex Labs, a new Silicon Valley research facility, our sources say. This new facility in Silicon Valley will be a small one to begin with, with…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Jun 11, 2008 1:24 PM
Forticom, an Estonian company that runs major Lithuanian social net One.lT, has acquired a 70 percent stake in Russian Nasca-Klasa, for $90 million (PLN 200 million), reports Warsaw Business Journal, with some help on deciphering from Quintura. Forticom also owns major stakes in two leading Russian social nets: Odnoklassniki.ru and…
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Robert Andrews
Jun 5, 2008 2:19 AM
Marketing and comms group Aegis’ digital agency Isobar is buying Russia’s 76-employee AdWatch, which does online ad buying, planning and digital PR for clients like Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Canon. FT says the buy gives Isboar 23 percent of a Russian market that will see $351 million digital ad spent…
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Robert Andrews
Apr 18, 2008 3:29 AM
Veteran blog host LiveJournal has joined the wave of social media sites trying to win larger audiences by opening a formal developer effort. Launched last night, LJ Labs will usher in APIs and support for Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) OpenSocial application platform and, I’m told, includes some of the first products…
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Robert Andrews
Apr 11, 2008 10:48 AM
WiFi-sharing community Fon has raised a $9.5 million third round of funding to take the service to Russia and upgrade its product offering. Spain-based Fon, launched in February 2006, lets some 170,000 worldwide participants share each others WiFi connections. BT (NYSE: BT) took an undisclosed stake in the company last…
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