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Russian Search Ads Provider Quintura Gets Bridge Funding - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 05 Sep 2008 10:15 AM PST

Search optimizer Quintura has raised an undisclosed bridge funding from Mangrove Capital Partners as part of a larger round of financing. In a post on its official blog, Moscow-based Quintura…

Russian Search Firm Yandex Delays IPO Till Next Year - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 01 Sep 2008 11:51 AM PST

Yandex, the big Russian search engine, has delayed its much-anticipated IPO until next year, according to local reports. Earlier this year reports came out that Yandex was planning a US…

Russia’s Online Ad Sector Grew 73 Percent In Last Year - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 07 Aug 2008 04:23 AM PST

Need another indicator on how Russia’s internet scene is booming? Well, in their online advertising market there was 73 percent bigger in the first half of the year than it…

Russian Investors Take Control Of Mail.ru, IPO May Be Off? - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 29 Jul 2008 02:28 AM PST

Russian internet investment fund Digital Sky Technologies has upped its stake in top-two portal and email host Mail.ru to 50.55 percent by buying 15 percent from Tiger Global Management. Business…

Google Buys Russian Contextual Ad Firm From Rambler For $140 Million - 7 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 18 Jul 2008 12:23 AM PST

We have recently written about a flurry of Russian online deals, and this is among the bigger ones that have happened in the last year or so: Google has bought…

Investment Firm Ru-Net Takes Majority Stake In Russian Advertiser IConText - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 01 Jul 2008 09:51 AM PST

Ru-Net, the Russian internet investment firm, has acquired a 51 percent stake in IConText, a Russian contextual ad firm, reports Vedomosti (via Quintura). The deal may be valued around $7…

Russia’s Kommersant Buys Half Of LiveJournal Owner, Gives It Gazeta.ru - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 23 Jun 2008 01:02 AM PST

Russian news publisher Kommersant has acquired half of LiveJournal owner Sup in exchange for giving the blog operator control of its Gazeta.ru news portal. LiveJournal had integrated its features in…

Fortcom Takes 70 Percent Stake In Polish Social Net Nasza-Klasa - 2 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 11 Jun 2008 11:03 AM PST

Forticom, an Estonian company that runs major Lithuanian social net One.lT, has acquired a 70 percent stake in Russian Nasza-Klasa, for $90 million (PLN 200 million), reports Warsaw Business Journal,…

We Can Too: Russian Portal Mail.ru Also Plans IPO, in London - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 21 May 2008 08:25 AM PST

If Yandex can mull a $2 billion IPO, so can Mail.ru: the Russian online portal Mail.ru is planning an IPO on London’s stock market which will value the business at…

Russian Portal Yandex To Do US IPO, Seeking $1.5-$2 Billion: Report - 2 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 20 May 2008 04:12 PM PST

This should make for some fun S-1 reading when it comes out: Yandex, the dominant Russian portal/search engine plans to do a US IPO, according to Reuters. The report says…

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CNBC Tries To Up Video Subs, Seeks EU Syndication - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 10 Apr 2008 12:40 PM PST

From PCUK: Financial news channel CNBC is to target countries including Russia in a new effort to drive subscriptions for its premium CNBC Plus web video offering. The 15-month-old package…

SixApart Sells LiveJournal To Russian Company; All About Growing Up - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 02 Dec 2007 08:11 PM PST

LiveJournal, the pioneering online journal-writing/blogging service which was bought by MovableType parent company SixApart almost three years ago, is now being sold off to Russian online media company SUP. The…