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Yandex

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Yandex is an internet technologies company that operates in Russia and CIS. It is the largest Russian and seventh-largest world internet search engine. “Yandex” is an acronym for the phrase “Yet Another Indexer.”

As of December 2010, Yandex had approximately 64.1% of the Russian search market, compared to Google’s 21.5% (www.liveinternet.ru).

Yandex’s mission is to give the answer to the user anytime and anywhere. Company provides its services for desktop and mobile users and develops embedded solutions as well.

The company specializes on highly-targeted sophisticated web search and information retrieval services based on world-class technologies like a proprietary machine-learning method MatrixNet.

Yandex provides localized services for its users, as well as enables them to search for websites in other languages.

In addition to web search the company offers dozens of free online services, granting access to extensive local, national and international information. The services include maps; traffic jams information; photo hosting; news service; blog search; spam-free email and many others.

In 2009, Yandex’s revenue totaled to $278m. Contextual ads accounted for 86% of the company’s revenues. Display ads comprised 11%.

Milestones

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  Yandex added Erhan Erdogan as Analyst. (4/15/11)
  Posted 9/27/11 at 9:06am
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  Yandex added Alexander Shulgin as Chief Financial Officer.
  Posted 6/2/10 at 1:01am
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  Yandex added Arkady Borkovsky as Chief Technology Officer, Yandex Labs.
  Posted 6/2/10 at 1:01am
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  Yandex added Vish Makhijani as President & CEO, Yandex Labs.
  Posted 5/19/09 at 7:28am
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  Yandex added Nilesh Lakhani as Chief Financial Officer.
  Posted 5/20/08 at 1:00pm
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  Yandex added Ilya Segalovich as Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer.
  Posted 5/20/08 at 1:00pm
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  Yandex added Arkady Volozh as Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer.
  Posted 5/20/08 at 1:00pm
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  Yandex invested in Blekko. (9/29/11)
  Posted 9/29/11 at 4:48pm via techcrunch.com
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  Yandex invested in Vizi Labs. (9/27/10)
  Posted 11/2/10 at 4:03am
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  Yandex invested in Face.com. (9/27/10)
  Posted 9/27/10 at 3:59am via techcrunch.com
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  Went public with stock symbol NASDAQ:YNDX.
  Posted 5/9/11 at 7:19pm
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  Yandex received $5.3M in Series A funding. (4/1/00)
  Posted 5/20/08 at 1:22pm via quintura.com
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  Yandex acquired SPB Software for $38M. (11/28/11)
  Posted 11/28/11 at 3:42am via techcrunch.com
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  Yandex acquired The Tweeted Times. (8/26/11)
  Posted 8/26/11 at 4:34am via techcrunch.com
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  Yandex acquired Loginza. (1/27/11)
  Posted 1/27/11 at 9:45pm via techcrunch.com
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  Yandex acquired WebVisor. (12/24/10)
  Posted 12/29/10 at 1:30am via techcrunch.com

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Products

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People's Map

Yandex Advertising Network

Yandex Search

Yandex for mobile

Yandex.Amenities

Yandex.Blog Search

Yandex.Catalog

Yandex.Direct

Yandex.Fotki

Yandex.Images

Yandex.Job

Yandex.Mail

Yandex.Mail for domain

Yandex.Maps

Yandex.Market

Yandex.Metrics

Yandex.Money

Yandex.Music

Yandex.Narod (Yandex People)

Yandex.News

Yandex.Realty

Yandex.TV

Yandex.Timetable

Yandex.Traffic

Yandex.Video

Yandex.Weather

Yandex.Widgets

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Traffic Analytics

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Compete

Sources

1. Russian Search Giant Yandex Acquires Mobile Software Developer SPB For $38 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Russian Search Giant Yandex Acquires Social News Startup ‘The Tweeted Times’ (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. Yandex Acquires Single Sign-In Service Loginza (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. Yandex acquires WebVisor’s behavior analysis technology, team (eu.techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. Yandex Acquires Display Ad Firm Mediaselling (blog.quintura.com) [edit]
6. Russia's Yandex Acquires Biz Social Networking Site (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
7. Search Engine Blekko Raises $30 Million From Russian Search Giant Yandex And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
8. Cap Funding Report [edit]
9. Facial Recognition Tech Startup Face.com Raises $4.3M From Yandex And Other (techcrunch.com) [edit]
10. Quintura Blog (blog.quintura.com) [edit]
11. Yandex Buys Smilink (company.yandex.com) [edit]
12. Yandex Acquires GIS Technologies (company.yandex.com) [edit]
13. Yandex Offers Golden Share to Sberbank (invest-iq.com) [edit]
14. Yandex Follows up WebVisor Deal With Acquisition of Loginza (invest-iq.com) [edit]
15. Yandex Follows up WebVisor Deal With Acquisition of Loginza (invest-iq.com) [edit]
16. Russian Search Giant Yandex Seeks To Raise Up To $1 Billion In IPO (techcrunch.com) [edit]
17. Russian Search Giant Yandex Prices $1.2B IPO At $20 To $22 Per Share (techcrunch.com) [edit]
18. Yandex to invest in Russian and foreign startups (ewdn.com) [edit]
19. Yandex history, from startup to IPO (ewdn.com) [edit]
20. Yandex invests in personal finance startup (ewdn.com) [edit]

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