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Yandex Debuts Cloud Storage Service with 10 GB of Free Space

Google is not the only one gearing up for a cloud storage service, it seems. Just ahead of Google Drive's launch, which is said to be in the next couple of weeks at most, Yandex, the Russian search engine, has launched Yandex.Disk, a cloud storage site with 10 GB of space offered for free. "Launched" may not ex...

5 April 2012
10:15 GMT

Yandex Partners with Twitter, Adds People Search with VKontakte, Facebook

Yandex, the Russian search engine that dominates the market in its country, has now added a social layer. It debuted an improved people search with data from a number of popular social networks and blogging sites. The company boasts that profiles from site such as VKontakte, Facebook, LiveJournal and Odnoklassniki, s...

21 February 2012
07:51 GMT

Russian Search Engine Yandex Acquires SPB Software

One of the most successful developers of mobile software for smartphones, SPB Software has just been acquired by Russian search engine giant Yandex.   It looks like the main reason behind the acquisition is the SPB Software’s famous user interface, SPB Shell 3D. In this regard, Yandex states that the SPB S...

29 November 2011
04:39 GMT

Windows Phone Trades Bing for Yandex in Russia

When announcing Windows Phone 7 last year and the new Windows Phone 7.5 Mango in 2011, Microsoft stressed a lot on the great Bing integration that its users can benefit from. However, it appears that the company was quick to replace Bing with another search service when bringing its devices to Russia, and made Ya...

26 November 2011
10:51 GMT

Yandex Will Be the Default Search Engine on Windows Phone in Russia

Yandex, the biggest search engine in Russia and the biggest web company in the country, has announced a rather big move, it is now becoming the default search engine on Windows Phone devices selling in Russia.It's a big win and it's very interesting that Microsoft would allow this, after all, it's firi...

25 November 2011
14:41 GMT

Google Is Finally Gaining on Yandex in Russia, but Is Still Long Way Off

Google, in search, has been, for the most part invincible. It has taken over virtually any market it debuted in and is the undisputed king. Except for very few markets in which local players have been able to stave off Google and even dominate.Yandex is one example of that, Russian internet, like the Chinese one, ten...

28 October 2011
11:04 GMT

Russian Search Engine Yandex Invests in Search Startup Blekko

Yandex, Russia's top search engine, has led an investment round in Blekko, the upstart search engine that aims to bring curated results with some help from users and experts.Yandex, joined by other new and existing investors, will pour $30 million, 22 million Euro, into the small search engine. Arkady Volozh, fo...

29 September 2011
14:11 GMT

Russia's Yandex Ventures Out of the Motherland, Launches in Turkey

Yandex, the popular Russian search engine and portal, is expanding into its first non-Russian speaking country, Turkey. While geographically close to Russia, Turkey will be a unique challenge for Yandex which has flourished in its home market, but hasn't tried its luck elsewhere so far, until now. Yandex open...

20 September 2011
10:10 GMT

MegaFon Leaks Confidential SMS Messages

Russian media reports that MegaFon leaked people's personal SMS messages by allowing the Yandex search engine crawlers to index them.MegaFon is the second largest mobile phone operator in Russia with over 30 million subscribers while Yandex operates the largest Internet search engine in the country with over 60%...

18 July 2011
15:55 GMT

Zynga to File for an IPO This Week, Dwarfing both LinkedIn and Yandex in Valuation

Following two very successful web IPOs in the past couple of weeks, it looks like the time is right for hot internet companies to be going public. Investors are clearly hungry for this type of companies and the high valuations they fetch could mean a lot of money for the companies, their founders and existing venture...

30 May 2011
04:50 GMT

Yandex Raises $1.3 Billion in High-Profile IPO

There is a lot of interest in tech companies these days and the initial public offer of Russia's dominant search engine Yandex is yet another indication, after LinkedIn's great start last week. Yandex stock surged 55 percent from the opening price.Yandex, which gets more than 60 percent of the searches in R...

25 May 2011
04:25 GMT

Yandex Revenue Surges to $420 Million in 2010

Yandex, the dominating search engine on the Russian market, boasts record revenue for 2010. This while it's already significant market share continues to grow. The company made no mention of profitability, but Yandex is planning a possible 2011 initial public offering. Revenue increased 43 percent in the last ye...

19 January 2011
10:38 GMT

Russian Search Engine Yandex Rumored to File for a $1.5 Billion IPO

Yandex, the largest search engine in Russia, is mulling an IPO according to rumors, following the successful initial public offer from another Russian internet giant, Mail.ru. The search company is looking to raise about $1.5 billion in the IPO and is considering a listing in London. According to Reuters, the Russian...

30 November 2010
04:50 GMT

Mail.ru Switches to Google as Default Search Engine

Google rules the search market worldwide and clearly dominates in most countries. In a few markets though, it has failed to make too much inroad, especially where the country is being served by a powerful local brand. This is the case in China, where Google is getting trumped by Baidu and has just managed to get to ...

15 December 2009
08:46 GMT

Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 Says Niet to Google in Russia

Come Firefox 3.1 Beta 3, which is currently expected early next month, Mozilla will say goodbye to Google for the Russian market. According to Harvey Anderson, VP and general counsel of Mozilla Corporation, Mozilla has divorced its open source browser from search partner Google in favor of a new marriage with Russian...

19 January 2009
07:35 GMT

Google Not A Tsar Anymore

Although we all expect to see Google's search engine on the first place in every country of the world, the Mountain View-based company has encountered tough competition in some regions. It's already known the fact that the Chinese market refused Google's evolution so Baidu is still the local king of se...

15 April 2008
04:07 GMT


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