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Mail.ru’s DST may have spent $187.5 million taking ICQ off AOL’s hands, but it’s in no rush to make a direct return on the veteran IM servic… Read More »
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Online ad spend in Russia grew 56 percent through 2011, surpassing print media to become the country’s second-largest advertising medium. Read More »
Ozon, often called the “Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) of Russia”, is looking to consolidate its lead over local rivals by buying one of the country’s largest online retailers, shoe store Sapato.ru. Read More »
One of the more popular instant messaging mobile apps is taking a $10 (£6.32) million investment from a Russian investor. Read More »
Nokia’s Mexico, Hungary, Finland Phone Assembly Goes To Asia; 4,000 Jobs Go
By Ingrid Lunden
Feb. 8, 2012, 2:24pm
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Today brings news of yet another round of capital-intensive cost-cutting for the challenged mobile phone maker Nokia: the company today anno… Read More »
Carriers Have Only Around 100 Million Pay-TV Users, Less Than 60% Via IPTV
By Ingrid Lunden
Jan. 24, 2012, 7:06am
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Some numbers out today that underscore the challenge telecoms operators have had in attracting customers to their pay-TV platforms, includin… Read More »
Russia’s big Mail.ru portal is trying to ape Chinese companies’ microblog boom by launching its own Twitter clone. Futubra launched in beta… Read More »
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Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia, an investor in media titans News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) and Time Warner (NYSE: TW… Read More »
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