Posts Tagged with ‘yandex’

I believe Yandex is the best-known Russian internet company for the English-speaking technology community. The company resembles Google in its operations quite a lot - but a smaller one, playing mainly on the national level and only making its first steps to achieve international expansion, like opening an office in the Silicon Valley and hiring former Yahoo search expert.
For Yandex the main field of business is web search same as it is for Google and both companies rely on [...]

Russia is an interesting country when it comes to the top level domains that the nation uses. Initially Soviet Union was assigned .su domain but soon after that the Soviet Union itself went into oblivion and Russia was granted a separate domain zone of its own - .ru this time.
For what I’ve seen here people never really minded using both .su and .ru domains here in Russia (even without Soviet Union) and when one of the zones is not available [...]

We have recently discussed a lot the possibility of an initial public offering for Yandex, the major Russian search engine and provider of various internet services. Initially Yandex was planning an IPO on NASDAQ for some time this fall - yet we suggested that it was not actually wise with the negative reaction to the conflict between Georgia and Russia.
The opinion that the background was not quite suitable for the IPO was confirmed by an investment fund close to many [...]

Last week we published a post about Yandex, one of the most successful Russian internet businesses. The post was based on an interview with Yandex’ co-founder published in Times of London. The article described numerous successes of the search engine in Russia and the company’s plans for expansion: and the expansion means opening an office in San Francisco, hiring a former Yahoo vice president and announcing plans for IPO. Namely, the article read:
“This autumn Yandex is planning to float on [...]

It is invariably funny to watch people’s reaction when I mention that in addition to having a Russian name I actually happen to work from Russia. People seem to actually want to ask if we actually have any broadband connection here. I believe this is the same for many people outside of the US working in the social media blogging or launching their own startups. And this is why I actually have to admit I am a bit internationally biased [...]

Today we have another proof that Google intends to control internet advertising in any way that it can. Today we are witnessing another acquisition by the global search giant - this time it's the largest contextual advertising company in Russia, Begun.
Begun is currently owned by Rambler, one of the major providers of various internet services to Russian users. Rambler is also one of the best known search engines in Russia as well with its third position in [...]

Today I have seen the new Google's special Valentine's Day logo on TechCrunch - I am sure someone in the company will have a really bad Valentine's day (and not because of being lonely but because of the logo). I think that Valentine's Day must really be a Web 2.0 holiday with so many companies engaged in it - even important enough for Google to use a special logo (definitely created in a hurry but still). I also hope you [...]