Yandex
Ingrid Lunden
Dec 6, 2011 7:24 AM
Following on from its acquisition of mobile software developer SPB at the end of November, Yandex is making one more move to increase its ubiquity among the growing number of smartphone users in the country: the search giant is reportedly planning to launch search apps for Apple’s iOS devices by…
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Ingrid Lunden
Nov 28, 2011 6:07 AM
Taking a page from its search counterparts in the East and West like Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Russia’s Yandex has scooped up a mobile software company, SPB Software, to grow its mobile offerings. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Ingrid Lunden
Oct 17, 2011 6:13 AM
Looks like Russia’s search giant Yandex is following in Google’s footsteps once again. Yandex is taking its services to new screens by inking a deal with Samsung to preload access to Yandex on its line of connected TVs as well as its bada-powered feature phones distributed in Russia and other…
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Robert Andrews
Jun 28, 2011 4:07 AM
Market-leading Yandex has taken share from Google (NSDQ: GOOG) on its home turf in Russia this last year, comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) observes.
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Joseph Tartakoff
Apr 28, 2011 12:12 PM
Yandex has added its name to the growing list of companies that have filed to go public in recent months: The Russian internet company, which controls 65 percent of the search market in that country, says in an SEC filing that it hopes to raise as much as $1 billion…
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Robert Andrews
Feb 21, 2011 7:05 AM
The major Russian digital players continue to shape the online economy farther west.
In the latest examples…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Jan 19, 2011 2:50 PM
Top Russian search site Yandex, which is frequently mentioned as a likely IPO candidate, is laying out a few data points about its business. The company says revenue last year jumped 43 percent to $410 million and that the total number of advertisers it served—180,000—increased by 40 percent. To put…
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Robert Andrews
Sep 27, 2010 12:33 PM
Digital cameras can tell a head from a bed, Facebook organises photos by manually-added face tags, iPhoto tries its best to put a name to a face. But really good technology to auto-identify the people in pictures could have big application on the web.
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Robert Andrews
Aug 4, 2008 8:26 AM
Arsenal football club majority owner Alisher Usmanov is reportedly trying to add to his online investments by buying between 10 and 20 percent of Russia’s top portal Yandex. Business paper Vedomosti (via Quintura) reports one existing shareholder as saying Usmanov wants to take control of the site by buying both…
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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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Robert Andrews
Jun 16, 2008 11:48 AM
Russia’s largest search site, Yandex, has finalised a deal to buy the national road traffic information service SMIlink for an undisclosed amount. Seventy-employee SMIlink, started by VessoLink seven years ago, collects traffic info via phone calls, police sources etc and packages it for media outlets as well as GPS mapping…
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