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...The warring ecosystems are fighting for a share of the rapidly growing online consumer market in Russia, which has 96m active internet users, the most in Europe. On paper, Sberbank is well-positioned....
...Mail.ru, which bought the 48 per cent stake, repeatedly denied that it was working on behalf of the Kremlin....
...The two will share control over VK, which was known until recently as Mail.ru, as well as other popular brands in its network, such as social media platform Odnoklassniki....
...Four months later a video emerged online of a squat, bald man delivering a pitch to prisoners standing in a courtyard in Russia....
...InoSMI.ru is an online media outlet that translates foreign press articles about Russia and its interests abroad, for Russian-speaking audiences in Russia and eastern Europe....
...Yandex and Mail.ru, Russia’s two largest tech companies, are developing ambitious ecommerce platforms of their own, while Wildberries and Ozon, the country’s two largest online marketplaces, bought banks...
...It takes more than online sales to be a tech stock. Enjoy your week, Elaine Moore Deputy head of Lex...
...It was hosted on Sernia.ru which is now the website of Sernia Engineering....
...Yandex is also quickly growing its online shopping and entertainment streaming offerings....
...Yandex, Mail.ru, state bank VTB and the Sistema conglomerate, which co-owns mobile phone company MTS and the online retailer Ozon, all have similar ambitions....
...In ecommerce, Yandex and state bank Sberbank are challenging rival Mail.ru’s partnership with Alibaba through Yandex Market, an online marketplace....
..., Russia’s biggest bank, as well as tech companies Yandex and Mail.ru....
...Investors have been keen to have a stake in fast growing tech sectors such as fintech — the online trading platform eToro on Tuesday was the latest company to take the Spac route to market....
...However, Nick Onslow, a chartered financial planner with RU Group, suggests she may have less diversification than she thinks....
...Streaming platform ivi reportedly shelved plans for an initial public offering after lawmakers moved to limit online entertainment sites’ foreign funding along similar lines....
...Wildberries, Russia’s top-selling ecommerce company, is fighting off competition from search giant Yandex, a joint venture from China’s AliExpress and Russia’s Mail.ru, and state-run bank Sberbank, which...
...hide’ for Spain’s new megabank as it hunts for profits at home (FT) MasMovil offers €2bn for Basque rival Euskaltel (FT) Asia tech groups tap global equity markets at record pace (FT) Sberbank and Mail.ru...
...*This story has been amended to say that Mail.ru is invested in by Alisher Usmanov rather than controlled by him...
...Investors ascribe little value to its other internet investments ranging from Indian and Brazilian food delivery, online payments, and a stake in Russia’s mail.ru....
...Everett Randle, a principal at the venture capital firm Founders Fund, wrote in an online post that Tiger Global was “playing a different game” compared with traditional tech investors by “breaking many...
...The number of musicians using BandLab to upload music online has boomed during the pandemic, rising to 22m from 12m, according to the company....
...Smart reads Big oil’s secret weapon In 2017, a cluster of pro-fracking and natural gas groups began to speak out online....
...The £299 (€349) Moto g 5G Plus is one of the cheapest devices to offer cutting edge connectivity, according to Ru Bhikha, mobiles expert at Uswitch.com....
...Sberbank has already launched a taxi and food delivery joint venture with Mail.ru, Yandex’s biggest rival....
...It invested $500m in the online shopping venture, Yandex Market, and it owns three-quarters of Yandex Money, an online payments business....
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