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Acquired byGoogle
Price$140M
Date7/08

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Websitebegun.ru/begun/en...
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ZAO Begun

ZAO Begun offers contextual advertising services and products to advertisers, Web sites, and advertising agencies. It operates as an advertising network in the Russian sector of the Internet, as well as distributes ads. The company is based in Moscow, the Russian Federation. As of August 8, 2007, ZAO Begun is a subsidiary of Rambler Media, Ltd.

ZAO Begun was acquired by Google in July 2008 for $140 million.

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Artur - July 22, 2008 at 6:50am
Rambler is one of the top Russian search engines with Begun as a subsidiary (it is very similar to Google's AdSense). The acquisition is definitely the way to go for Google on Russian market, since Google there is being challenged by Yandex.ru.
wisdom - July 21, 2008 at 11:04am
I wonder what google plans to do with this.
DEREK - July 21, 2008 at 9:39am
maybe it's a good news for Russian.$140 million.....

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  1. Google Buys Russian Contextual Ads Service for $140m (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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