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Mail.Ru Group

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Mail.ru Group was founded by Yuri Milner and is the largest Internet company in the Russian-speaking world. It is one of the largest Internet companies in Russia, and the world’s seventh largest Internet business in terms of page views.

Mail.ru Group operates two of the three largest Russian language social networking sites (Odnoklassniki.ru and Moi Mir@Mail.Ru), the two largest instant messaging (‘‘IM’’) networks in Russia (ICQ and Agent), Russia’s leading email service, Russia’s second largest Internet portal and Russia’s largest online games company.

Mail also holds strategic equity stakes of 32.49% in vKontakte, Russia’s largest social networking site, and 25.09% in QIWI, formerly OE Investments, one of Russia’s leading payment-processing companies. It also holds small minority stakes in Facebook, Zynga and Groupon.

Milestones

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  Mail.Ru Group added Alexander Karavaev as CFO.
  Posted 1/22/11 at 2:14pm
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  Mail.Ru Group added Verdi Israelian as COO.
  Posted 1/22/11 at 2:14pm
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  Mail.Ru Group added Dmitri Grishin as CEO.
  Posted 3/12/10 at 5:00pm
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  Mail.Ru Group received $388M in Unattributed funding. (7/14/10)
  Posted 5/26/09 at 1:20pm via co.za
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  Mail.Ru Group acquired Vatera.hu for $9M. (10/5/08)
  Posted 6/15/09 at 5:39pm via quintura.com
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  Mail.Ru Group — Astrum Online to Merge Under the Mail.ru Brand (1/1/09)
  Posted 3/21/11 at 12:09am via invest-iq.com
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  Mail.Ru Group — DST Becomes Mail.ru Group heading into IPO (1/1/10)
  Posted 3/21/11 at 12:08am via invest-iq.com
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  Mail.Ru Group — Elbrus Capital Exits Mail.ru Group Via IPO (1/1/10)
  Posted 3/21/11 at 12:07am via invest-iq.com
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  Mail.Ru Group — DST Reaches Deal to Acquire ICQ Instant Messaging Service (1/1/11)
  Posted 3/21/11 at 12:06am via invest-iq.com
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  Mail.Ru Group — Tencent Invests $300 million in Mail.ru Group (4/12/10)
  Posted 1/19/11 at 11:49am via tencent.com
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  Mail.Ru Group — Naspers takes a 28.7% stake in Mail.ru Group (7/14/10)
  Posted 1/19/11 at 11:47am via co.za

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Screenshots

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Above: Mail.Ru Group Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 12/26/11

Products

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Games.mail.ru

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Sources

1. Mail.ru Co-Owner Acquires Hungarian Online Auction Site (blog.quintura.com) [edit]
2. NASPERS MAKES STRATEGIC INVESTMENT IN DIGITAL SKY TECHNOLOGIES (DST) (naspers.co.za) [edit]
3. NASPERS MAKES STRATEGIC INVESTMENT IN DIGITAL SKY TECHNOLOGIES (DST) (naspers.co.za) [edit]
4. TENCENT INVESTS $300M IN DST AND ESTABLISHES STRATEGIC PARTNERSHI (tencent.com) [edit]
5. DST Reaches Deal to Acquire ICQ Instant Messaging Service (invest-iq.com) [edit]
6. Elbrus Capital Exits Mail.ru Group Via IPO (invest-iq.com) [edit]
7. DST Becomes Mail.ru Group heading into IPO (invest-iq.com) [edit]
8. Astrum Online to Merge Under the Mail.ru Brand (invest-iq.com) [edit]