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0 After Raising $100 Million, Russia’s Amazon (OZON) Acquires Russia’s Zappos (Sapato)

OZON, often dubbed the 'Amazon of Russia', has acquired 100% of Sapato.ru, often dubbed the 'Zappos of Russia'. I hope I don't really need to remind...

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0 Russia's Top 5 Web Startups Of 2011 Mostly Rip Off U.S.'s

In America, 240 million people are wired...to the Internet. And in Russia, 60 million people are online. That's nearly half of Russia's population of...

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0 Google Chairman Takes An Interest In Backing Russian Startups

TomorrowVentures, the investment firm founded by Google chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt has partnered with Digital October, a Moscow,...

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0 DST Sets Up New Fund, Joins Huge Rounds For Spotify And China’s 360buy: Reports

According to Russian business newspaper Vedomosti (via Quintura), star investor Digital Sky Technologies has set up a new fund dubbed DST Global - 2....

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0 AOL Sells ICQ for $187.5 Million

Once upon a time, ICQ was synonymous with instant messaging. While ICQ doesn't have this kind of clout anymore, it is still very popular in Russia and...

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0 UK Visual Search Company Plink Acquired by Google

Visual search was the talk of the town circa 2007, with startups such as Quintura showing great promise; then the buzz died down slightly, only to...

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0 Russian Investment Firm DST Now Owns 5% of Facebook

A couple of days ago, we wrote that Russian venture capital firm Digital Sky Technologies (DST) had invested around 180 million dollars in Zynga, the...

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0 Russian Investment Group DST Ups Its Facebook Stake To 5%+, Wants More

Digital Sky Technologies, the Russian investment group founded by Yuri Milner and Gregory Finger, has increased its stake in social networking leader...

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0 Google, DST Make Play For AOL’s ICQ

A number of companies are pursuing AOL's ICQ instant messaging product, we're hearing. Russian press is saying DST (a recent Facebook investor) is...

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0 Bad News For Yandex: Google To Power Search For Mail.ru In 2010

It's all over the news in Russia this morning: Mail.ru, the leading Internet portal in the country, will reportedly be replacing Russian search king...

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0 Mystery Buyer Coughs Up $1.5 Million For Russia.com

The domain name russia.com has been purchased by an undisclosed buyer for $1.5 million through marketplace Sedo, reports Yakov Sadchikov over on the...

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0 Russian Social Strategy Game Raises $5 Million

We all know social games are hot right now, and that's as true in Russia - a large and growing market - as anywhere else. Now Russian online game...

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0 TA Associates Shells Out $200 Million For Minority Stake In AVG Technologies

Private equity firm TA Associates has acquired a 25 percent stake in security software company AVG Technologies for $200 million. According to...

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0 YouTube Search Goes Visual With the Wonder Wheel

Although many alternative search engines, like Quintura and Viewzi, have tried to make search a more visual experience, Google has been quite cautious...

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0 Facebook, Russia’s Largest Internet Deal Comes from DST (Digital Sky Technologies)

The largest Russian internet investor, Digital Sky Technologies (DST), which owns stakes in Russian and Eastern European market leading social...

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0 Renaissance Partners Sells 2 Percent of DST to Alisher Usmanov

Renaissance Partners, the merchant banking arm of Renaissance Group, has sold a half of its 4 percent stake in Digital Sky Technologies (DST) to...

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0 Keep Kids Safe Online with Quintura for Kids

PCWorld.com blogger Rick Broida has reviewed Quintura for Kids in his article “Keep Kids Safe Online: The Quintura Search Engine” on the blog:...

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0 Odnoklassniki.ru and Vkontakte Investor Seeks Board Seat at Facebook

Yuri Milner, the founding partner of Internet investment holding Digital Sky Technologies (DST), whose social networks in portfolio companies have...

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0 Maria Verchenova Strives to Become First Golf Queen from Russia

First, its was the tennis star Anna Kournikova who became a top 10 WTA player. Then, it was Maria Sharapova who won Wimbledon in 2006 and US Open in...

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0 Quintura’s Search Cloud vs. Google’s Wonder Wheel

Google has introduced several new search options on its search engine including Wonder Wheel, a map to see related searches and refine searching....

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