Robert Andrews
May 19, 2010 6:01 AM
Russian visual search vendor Quintura says it’s raised $1 million to make in-roads in to mobile search. Quintura CEO Yakov Sadchikov didn’t disclose the investor’s identity. Why the money? “We are going to shortly launch Quintura search apps for mobiles (iPhone/iPad, Nokia/Symbian, HTC/Windows Mobile, HTC/Android, etc.) as well as turn…
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Rafat Ali
Feb 15, 2010 6:42 PM
The race to buy IM service ICQ from AOL (NYSE: AOL) is heating up. Last week came the news about some possible buyers: Russian investment group Digital Sky Technologies, which has investment in Facebook and Zynga; South African media giant Naspers, which holds a 30 percent stake in China’s Tencent;…
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Robert Andrews
Feb 10, 2010 5:09 AM
A Russian search engine is going after Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and others it says are breaching its patent on a search technique. Quintura has been operating a visual search engine interface, which shows results in a relational, contextual cloud format, since 2005 and was last year awarded the latest of…
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Robert Andrews
Oct 22, 2008 3:28 AM
Fresh from buying traffic info service SMIlink and opening a Silicon Valley R&D lab, Russia’s largest search site is buying display advertising agency Mediaselling, the target company’s boss Lev Gleyzer wrote on his blog, allowing Yandex to bolster display ad solutions on top of its contextual options. Mediaselling sells banners…
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David Kaplan
Sep 5, 2008 12:15 PM
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 hopes this latest capital infusion will attract additional investors. It also hopes to grow its audience reach from its current…
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