Facebook’s New Russian Shareholder Planning Its Own IPO
Facebook may not be rushing to go public, but Digital Sky Technologies, the Russian investment fund that just paid $200 million for 1.96 per… Read more »
More russia Stories
Interview: Facebook’s London Investor Tamas: ‘People Are Obsessed With IPOs’
Digital Sky Technologies London partner Alexander Tamas and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg (pictured, right) met with a steady stream of repor… Read more »
Ukrainian e-Commerce Platform UAProm.net Sells Majority Stake
By Patrick Smith
Eastern European e-commerce group MIH Allegro — owned by South African publisher Naspers — has bought a 51 percent stake in Ukrainian onli… Read more »
{"source":"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/tag\/russia\/page\/5\/wijax\/b959f4af7e82222223ac4cb50ea2d81d","varname":"wijax_9fed9c05015d7f21fdd5f26f9f315c30","title_element":"h2","title_class":"widget-title","title_before":"%3Ch2%20class%3D%22widget-title%22%3E","title_after":"%3C%2Fh2%3E"}
Advertisement
Apple’s New Plans For Wireless Downloads
By Tameka Kee
*Apple* already sells iPods through kiosks in airports and stores, but the company also has plans for units that will let people load up on… Read more »
Russian Software Developer 1C Seeks $100 Million Private Equity Placement
By Patrick Smith
Some of the pre-credit crunch rules still apply to the digital economy: Russia is experiencing massive growth and private equity houses fund… Read more »
Updated: US Marketer iCrossing Signs Partnership With Russian Digital Agency Ingate
By Patrick Smith
Update: iCrossing’s release corrects Yakov’s earlier report that iCrossing was acquiring Ingate — the companies stress that the deal is a p… Read more »
Russian Online Shopping Club KupiVIP.ru Secures $8 Million VC Funding
By Patrick Smith
This is turning into a genuine investment trend across Europe: online shopping club KupiVIP.ru has managed to raise $8 million (£5.49 milli… Read more »
Meet Zeebo: The Cheaper, Downloadable Video Game Console
By Tameka Kee
You couldn’t pick a more inopportune time to launch a new gaming console: video game sales remain strong, but the global financial slump has… Read more »
Next-Gen TV Platforms: Virgin Media-Avinity; NDS-Comstar; BBC HD
By Patrick Smith
However most people watch TV now, it’s a fair bet they will be watching it in a different way in 12 months’ time. With the Cable Congress se… Read more »
European Roundup: MediaEquals; Digital Sky Ventures; French Piracy Law; Sellaband
By Patrick Smith
– Mediaequals: Digital ad-trading platform MediaEquals MD and co-founder Gary Goodman is the company’s new CEO for Europe as part of its pl… Read more »
{"source":"http:\/\/pro.gigaom.com\/wijax\/a206c64880c8215b985ab24ebe90eafd","varname":"wijax_d269eebc26af5b39ec3c65bb7948e7ce","title_element":"h2","title_class":"widget-title","title_before":"%3Ch2%20class%3D%22widget-title%22%3E","title_after":"%3C%2Fh2%3E"}
Advertisement
iPhone Bits: 5 Apps Median For Smartphone Users (iPhone Included); Inquisitor; App Store; Patent
By James Quintana Pearce
Everyone knows that Apple’s App Store is a huge success — at the beginning of December it was announced that 300 million applications had b… Read more »
Whither iTunes Downloads? Band Releases Entire Discography Through App Store
Here’s a novel one – the Presidents Of The United States band has released all four of its albums to the iPhone – not just as music download… Read more »
Russia's Rambler CEO, Board Members Quit To Spend More Time In London
As predicted last month, the CEO of Rambler Media Group, one of Russia’s top web outfits, is stepping down after two years at the helm. The… Read more »
WMG, Sony And Others Sell Their Russian Online Music Distributor To Ru-Net II
By Patrick Smith
Russian digital investment company ru-Net II has bought online music and film distribution platform Digital Access from joint owners includi… Read more »
RuNet Ad Spend Reached £292 Million Last Year; But Could The Boom Be Over?
By Patrick Smith
We knew Russia’s online economy was booming compared to the rest of Europe, and now here’s an extra slice of proof: the online advertising m… Read more »
Russian Business Net E-xecutive.ru Selling For $1 Million: Report
E-xecutive, a Russian professional networking site that’s like a LinkedIn for the most senior execs, will be sold in the next few weeks, Rus… Read more »
Russia’s Mail.ru Invests $5 Million In Horror Film
By Patrick Smith
As new media companies diversify into other areas to counteract a downturn in advertising spend, Russia’s third-biggest internet company Mai… Read more »
Google’s Russian Fortunes: May Lose Ally, Snubbed By Firefox
In the fast-growing Russian internet scene, one of the big three portals, Rambler, could be about to lose its CEO, after dropping market sha… Read more »
Confirmed: Apple Dropping DRM Across iTunes, New Pricing Structure, 3G Downloads
Just before Tony Bennett sang goodbye to the Moscone Center faithful with “I Left My Heart In San Francisco,” Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) confirmed a… Read more »
LiveJournal Lays Off San Francisco Staff, Will Operate From Moscow
LiveJournal’s Moscow-based owner Sup yesterday laid off most of its remaining San Francisco staff in a restructuring that will also involve… Read more »
Wasabi Adds White-Label; Sign Of Tough Times For Social Nets?
By Patrick Smith
Wasabi, the social network formerly called Passado and whose owner is suing to claim ownership of Russia’s leading social network, will offe… Read more »
Mail.ru Investor Offloads Stake; IPO Looks Less Likely
While you were off for Christmas, the ownership of Russia’s top website (according to TNS) shifted a little. Tiger Global Management hedge f… Read more »
Disney Forms JV To Launch Russian TV Channel
By David Kaplan
Even though the global financial meltdown has been affecting Russia as well, media companies still see enough growth potential to make enter… Read more »
Russia’s New Video Ad Network Videonow Set For Launch
By Patrick Smith
Some smart people are taking advantage of Russia’s relative boom in digital fortunes by setting up a video ad platform in the world’s bigges… Read more »
Russia’s TVigle Gets Further Investment For Web Video Production
Russian online TV maker Tvigo Entertainment (TVigle) is getting an investment of about $5 to $6 million. The outfit has sold another 25 perc… Read more »
192.com Says It Owns Russia’s Top Social Net, Contests In Court
192.com directory owner i-CD is suing a former director, claiming ownership of Russia’s most popular social network Odnoklassniki.ru. The ne… Read more »
VC Watch: MyOnID Funded, Evernote Bags $5 Million
– MyOnID The Munich-based web people search engine has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Deutsche Telekom’s T-Online Venture Fun… Read more »
Evernote Gets $5 Million Second Round For Web Clip Service
Evernote, a web- and app-based personal info storage service, has raised a $5 million second funding round from Russia’s Troika Partners. Th… Read more »
Google May Power Search, Ads For Russia’s Odnoklassniki Social Net
Russia’s top social network Odnoklassniki.ru is testing Google’s search box, both companies confirmed to business paper Kommersant, in a pos… Read more »
Beatles Tracks Not Coming To iTunes Any Time Soon; McCartney: Talks At An Impasse
By David Kaplan
Sir Paul McCartney has thrown some cold water on hopes that Beatles’ recordings would finally make it to iTunes, saying that negotiations wi… Read more »
Updated: Onexim Group Buying Forbes Russia?: Mixed Reports; Forbes Issues Denial
By David Kaplan
Update: Forbes representatives, responding a day later, deny that Forbes Russia has been sold to Onexim. They said, “Forbes absolutely denie… Read more »
Updated: Onexim Group Buying Forbes Russia?: Mixed Reports
By David Kaplan
Update: Forbes representatives, responding a day later, deny that Forbes Russia has been sold to Onexim. They said, “Forbes absolutely denie… Read more »
Russian Portal Rambler Lays Off 50 Percent Of Staff After Blocked Google Deal: Reports
By Patrick Smith
Rambler, one of Russia Read more »
Music Sellers Try Fighting iTunes With ‘MP3 Compatible’ Kitemark
Could this be the first serious threat to iTunes Store’s retail dominance? Seven other online music sellers have formed an alliance to promo… Read more »
Russia’s Biggest Social Net Odnoklassniki To Charge New Users For Entry
By Patrick Smith
A frequently asked question of the times is ‘how do you make money from social networking?’ Russia Read more »
‘What Downturn?’ Russian ’08 Web Ad Spend Could Reach $1.5 Billion: Forecast
By Patrick Smith
Online marketing spend in Russia will total between $1 billion (£610 million) and $1.5 billion (£920 million) this year as spending on mos… Read more »
Google’s Russian Ad Buy Blocked On Technicality; Putin’s Spanner In The Works?
By Dianne See Morrison
Russia’s FAS anti-trust authority has blocked Google (NSDQ: GOOG) from gaining a foothold in the country’s booming online advertising busin… Read more »
Russian Search Radar: Yandex Buys Ad Seller, Quintura Targets US
Fresh from buying traffic info service SMIlink and opening a Silicon Valley R&D lab, Russia’s largest search site is buying display advertis… Read more »
Veoh Lays Off 15 — Not 40 Percent As Rumored; Russia Office Closed
By Rafat Ali
Online video site Veoh, backed by about $70 million in funding including from Michael Eisner, did about 15 layoffs from its St Petersburg, R… Read more »
iTunes TV Show Downloads Top 200 Million; Apple Store Now Includes HD From All Four Major Nets
By Tameka Kee
Guess it’s a good thing that Apple made nice with NBC (or vice versa) so that NBC’s TV shows would be available on iTunes again, because the… Read more »
Follow @paidContent for more stories like this.
You're subscribed to our newsletter. If you'd like, you can update your settings
