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Yandex

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

As of March 2013, Yandex had about 61% of the Russian search market (source: 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; cloud storage; news service; spam-free email and many others.

In 2012, Yandex’s revenue totaled to $947.1 million while net income jumped to $288.7 million. Contextual ads accounted for 87% of the company’s revenues as of Q4 2012.

Recent Milestones

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  Yandex — Yandex releases the new search tool for scientists at CERN (1/31/13)
  Posted 3/26/13 at 9:47am via yandex.com
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  Yandex — Yandex sells 75% of its Yandex.Money division to Sberbank (12/19/12)
  Posted 3/26/13 at 9:53am via thenextweb.com
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  Yandex added Mehmet Ali Yalcindag as CEO at Yandex.Turkey. (7/1/12)
  Posted 3/26/13 at 9:55am
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  Yandex — Tech Meets Geo-Tech: Russia’s Search Giant Yandex Takes $1M, 25% Stake In Seismotech (6/22/12)
  Posted 6/22/12 at 6:33pm via techcrunch.com
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  Yandex — Yandex Buys Stake In Russian Online Crowd-Editing Application Developer Citrea (4/17/12)
  Posted 4/18/12 at 1:33am via invest-iq.net
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  Yandex added Bernard Lukey as Director at Yandex.Europe. (3/10/12)
  Posted 3/26/13 at 6:09am
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  Yandex added Vladimir Isaev as Head of International Media Relations. (1/23/12)
  Posted 3/26/13 at 9:27am
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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 invested in Blekko. (9/29/11)
  Posted 9/29/11 at 4:48pm 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 — Yendex financed Zenmoney.ru (6/8/11)
  Posted 6/9/11 at 9:34pm via ewdn.com
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  Went public with stock symbol NASDAQ:YNDX. (5/24/11)
  Posted 5/9/11 at 7:19pm
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  Yandex — Russian Search Giant Yandex Prices $1.2B IPO At $20 To $22 Per Share (5/9/11)
  Posted 5/9/11 at 7:26pm via techcrunch.com
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  Yandex — Russian Search Giant Yandex Seeks To Raise Up To $1 Billion In IPO (4/28/11)
  Posted 4/28/11 at 7:15pm via techcrunch.com
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  Yandex — Yandex creates Yandex.Factory to invest in Russian and foreign startups (4/1/11)
  Posted 5/13/11 at 10:46am via ewdn.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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Products

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People's Map

Yandex Advertising Network

Yandex Search

Yandex for mobile

Yandex.Amenities

Yandex.Auto

Yandex.Browser

Yandex.Catalog

Yandex.Direct

Yandex.Disk

Yandex.Fotki

Yandex.Garderobe

Yandex.Images

Yandex.Job

Yandex.Mail

Yandex.Mail for domain

Yandex.Maps

Yandex.Market

Yandex.Metrics

Yandex.Money

Yandex.Music

Yandex.News

Yandex.Realty

Yandex.TV

Yandex.Taxi

Yandex.Timetable

Yandex.Traffic

Yandex.Trains

Yandex.Video

Yandex.Weather

Yandex.Widgets

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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. EDGAR [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]
Yandex Buys Smilink (company.yandex.com) [edit]
Yandex Acquires GIS Technologies (company.yandex.com) [edit]
Yandex Offers Golden Share to Sberbank (invest-iq.com) [edit]
Yandex Follows up WebVisor Deal With Acquisition of Loginza (invest-iq.com) [edit]
Yandex Follows up WebVisor Deal With Acquisition of Loginza (invest-iq.com) [edit]
Russian Search Giant Yandex Seeks To Raise Up To $1 Billion In IPO (techcrunch.com) [edit]
Russian Search Giant Yandex Prices $1.2B IPO At $20 To $22 Per Share (techcrunch.com) [edit]
Yandex to invest in Russian and foreign startups (ewdn.com) [edit]
Yandex history, from startup to IPO (ewdn.com) [edit]
Yandex invests in personal finance startup (ewdn.com) [edit]
Yandex Buys Stake In Russian Online Crowd-Editing Application Developer Citrea (invest-iq.net) [edit]
Tech Meets Geo-Tech: Russia’s Search Giant Yandex Takes $1M, 25% Stake In Seismotech (techcrunch.com) [edit]
Yandex Joins CERN openlab (company.yandex.com) [edit]
Yandex sells 75% of its online payment service to Russia’s largest bank Sberbank for $60 million (thenextweb.com) [edit]

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