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• DST Raises Stake in Facebook to More Than 5%

  
  Quintura blog — Authority: 125
  Russian Internet group DST ( Digital Sky Technologies ), which has contributed more than a half of a $180 million investment in social games company Zynga , has obtained more than 5 percent stake in world’s largest social network company Facebook . In addition to making a $200 million investment in ...
  1 week ago

• DST, Tiger Invest in Zynga to Bring Social Games to Russian Social Networks

  
  Quintura blog — Authority: 125
  Russian Internet group DST ( Digital Sky Technologies ) , which recently help merge leading Russian online portal Mail.ru with online games publisher Astrum Online Entertainment , has led $180 million investment in world’s #1 social games company Zynga , according to NYTimes.com . The other investors in ...
  1 week ago

• Russian Web Search Powered by Google without ‘Powered by Google’

  
  Profy — Authority: 114
  Earlier this month a leading Russian email provider and portal Mail.ru made huge international news due to rumors about the company abandoning Yandex search engine for Google. As of now, web search on the portal is powered by Yandex, the local Russian leader in online search. But rumors everywhere had it that the ...
  1 week ago

• Confirmed: Google To Power Search, Ads On Mail.ru Starting January 2010

  
  TechCrunch — Authority: 873
  Earlier this month, we reported that Google would be replacing Russian search leader Yandex as the default search engine and ad server on Mail.ru , the most popular online destination in the country with more than 50 million unique monthly users. This morning, Mail.ru confirmed (in Russian) that it will be ...
  1 week ago

• Google to Power Search and Ads on Mail.ru

  
  Quintura blog — Authority: 125
  The deal that Mail.ru was going to replace its default search engine Yandex is now confirmed. Mail.ru has announced that Google will power web search and search ads on Russia’s leading online portal Mail.ru from January 2010. In spite of the fact that Google will be used on Mail.ru as “white ...
  1 week ago

• DST in Talks to Acquire ICQ from AOL

  
  Quintura blog — Authority: 125
  Mail.ru and Odnoklassniki.ru major owner and Russian internet investor DST ( Digital Sky Technologies ) is in negotiations with AOL to acquire ICQ for between $200 million and $250 million , reported newspaper Vedomosti . DST invested several hundred million dollars to acquire a stake in Facebook ...
  2 weeks ago

• Google Ready To Advance In Russia With New Search Deal

  
  WebProNews Feed — Authority: 693
  About three months ago, Google Russia lost its CTO to Mail.ru as she became the companys deputy CTO.  Now, it looks like a reunion of sorts may take place, as reports indicate that Google Russia and Mail.ru have reached a search deal. Yandex, the dominant search engine in Russia, has been Mail.rus default search ...
  3 weeks ago

• Mail.ru’s Search Now Powered By Google: Bye Bye Yandex!

  
  Startup Meme — Authority: 440
  Talk about overthrowing the local leader, Google has taken Russia by storm as it replaced Yandex as the search engine for Mail.ru , the leading internet portal of Russia. Well there has been no word from either of the two parties. This is quite a comeback for Google in the Russian market, given that it was ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bad News For Yandex: Google To Power Search For Mail.ru In 2010

  
  TechCrunch — Authority: 873
  Its all over the news in Russia this morning: Mail.ru , the leading Internet portal in the country, will reportedly be replacing Russian search king Yandex as its default search provider and hand over the keys to Google again.While nothing has been official confirmed by either party yet, the information comes ...
  3 weeks ago

• Google to Become Default Search Engine on Mail.ru

  
  Quintura blog — Authority: 125
  Russia’s leading online portal Mail.ru is going to replace its default web search engine and contextual advertising provider Yandex with Google from the beginning of 2010, according to industry sources . As a result, Google will not only increase its search market share in Russia by 40% and reach ...
  3 weeks ago

• Russian investment firm DST merges email and online game companies

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 159
  Digital Sky Technologies, the Russian investment group that invested in Facebook this year, has merged an email portal with an online game developer to try to create an Internet powerhouse.Moscow-based DST said today that it merged its communication portal, Mail.ru, the biggest provider of free email services for ...
  3 weeks ago

• It’s Official: Mail.ru Merges with Astrum Online Entertainment

  
  Quintura blog — Authority: 125
  Russia’s leading online portal Mail.ru , whose H1 2009 financial results were reported by 43%-stake owner Naspers last week, is buying out online games group Astrum Online Entertainment in a combination of cash and own shares, Mail.ru said in the press-release . Both Mail.ru and Astrum Online are ...
  3 weeks ago

• Facebook Investor DST Expands Mail.ru With Astrum Online Merger

  
  TechCrunch — Authority: 873
  Digital Sky Technologies (aka DST), the Russian Internet holding company that holds stakes in several major Russian-language social networking and communication players and notably also recently invested in Facebook , is melting two of its largest portfolio companies together into one online powerhouse. Astrum ...
  3 weeks ago

• Mail.ru Reached Revenues $31 Million, 50% EBITA Margin in H1 2009

  
  Quintura blog — Authority: 125
  Media and internet group Naspers , which owns a 43% stake in Russia’s leading online portal Mail.ru , has reported financial results for H1 2009. Naspers said that Mail.ru reached revenues of 1,028 million Russian rubles (US$ 31.1 million) in H1 2009. It is higher than the revenues of Rambler ...
  4 weeks ago

• Naspers to Acquire Stake in New Company of Astrum Online and Mail.ru

  
  Quintura blog — Authority: 125
  Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of Russia has granted a permission to Naspers / MIH Group to acquire between 38% and 100% stake in online game developer and publisher Astrum Online Entertainment from DST (Digital Sky Technologies), reported newspaper Kommersant. According to the newspaper, the ...
  4 weeks ago

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