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Showing posts with label giant. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Russian giant Yandex search gets social news startup Tweeted times»

Robin Wauters is currently staff writer for TechCrunch and lead editor of Virtualization.com. In addition to its activities, professional blogging, he is an entrepreneur, the organizer of the event, from time to time the Council consultant and an angel investor, but most importantly champion full launch. Wauters lives and works in Belgium, a tiny country in Europe. He can often be found from his home or ... ? Read More

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Yandex, one of the leading Internet companies in Russia, has acquired a startup enterprise "Times" Tweeted that lets people create custom online "newspaper" of their Twitter accounts. Financial terms of the purchase were not disclosed, but ESPN Sports said it aims to continue to offer social news service and that the whole team "Times" Tweeted to join search engine company.

Tweeted once co-founded Maxim Grinev and Maria Grineva, computer scientists at ETH Zurich, Switzerland and others.

Its users include celebrities like Snoop Dogg Alyssa Milano and Lance Weiler.

Yandex, which became public in May and is currently estimated at just shy of 10 billion dollars, plans to use the technology acquired from The Times, Tweeted to increase its search and content services with information from social networks.

This is the third Company Yandex acquired in the past nine months – his most recent purchases include single sign-on plugin maker Loginza and WebVisor in technology of analysis of behaviors and commands.

Tweeted once, formerly called the Twitter times competes with social news curation service Paper.li, which itself has raised more than $ 2 million in funding.

Another company operating in this space — Summify.


Yandex is an Internet technology company that operates in Russia and CIS countries. This is the largest Russian and seventh largest in the world of Internet searching. "Yandex" is an acronym for. ..

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Saturday, August 13, 2011

Daily transactions giant Groupalia M $ 26 points in the financing, seeks to 2011, the turnover to $ 175 m

Robin Wauters is currently staff writer for TechCrunch and lead editor of Virtualization.com. In addition to its activities, professional blogging, he is an entrepreneur, the organizer of the event, from time to time the Council consultant and an angel investor, but the most important champion of the full launch. He lives and works in Belgium, a small country in Europe. He can often be found work from their home or ... ? Read More

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Purchase online Launcher Groupalia Panel provided another $ 26 million in funding, bringing the total capital raised approximately $ 63 million, after landing 15 million dollars investment earlier this year.

The company, which enjoys growing operations throughout Latin America, as well as in Spain and Italy, has raised new capital from all of its existing shareholders: NAUTA capital, Caixa capital Risc, private investors, Lucas Carné and José Manuel Villanueva, as well as VC firms General Atlantic, Insight venture partners and Index Ventures.

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Groupalia, founded in Barcelona in 2009, is an online site that offers daily deals ...

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