Submitted by Marysam:
AOL that snapped off a huge ‘piece’ of media and entertainment industries seems to be unsatisfied with their position and conducts a rather aggressive policy against Russian instant message services. With the largest broadcasting and publishing businesses included into this enormous holding company AOL is striving to occupy (Read More)
Submitted by Marysam:
Russia's Federal Anti-monopoly Service (FAS) said on Thursday it had refused to let Google acquire 100 percent of the Begun advertising agency. (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
Yahoo today launched a new ad campaign for its search engine that stresses the security and convenience of using Yahoo Search. After relying on outside search providers (including Google) for a long time, Yahoo launched its own search engine in 2003, but even though it has constantly innovated and opened up its search index (Read More)
: Interesting. I have seen recently several search engines advertising themselves offline. F.E. Yandex places image bill boards all over Russia. Ok. Yahoo tries to get a piece of search market share by radio ads. Is there any reason to use traditional channels to promote any search engine?
TechCrunch
Netvibes, the site that lets users customize their homepages with a variety of widgets, has partnered with Rambler.ru to bring its widgets to the massive Russian web portal. Rambler is the Yahoo of Russia, with an estimated 40 million users and 3 billion monthly pageviews. The deal is being described as “multi-year& (Read More)
: Rambler Media is a diversified Russian language internet media and services group which operates or has interests in leading internet brands including the Russian internet homepage and search engine ‘Rambler.ru’, on-line newspaper ‘Lenta.ru‘, product comparison website ‘Price.ru‘, internet catalogue and navigation system ‘Top 100’, instant messaging service ‘Rambler-ICQ’, digital advertising agency ‘Index20’ and contextual advertising company ‘Begun’.
CenterNetworks
comScore has released new stats for European Internet usage based on their World Metrix audience measurement service today. The report shows that Russia is leading Europe in Internet audience growth followed by France, Spain and Ireland. Russia's Internet audience grew 27% from June 2007-June 2008.As for Internet penetratio (Read More)
Submitted by Eristoddle:
Only a few hours ago I wrote a short summary of the things we should expect to be clarified about the first Android-powered T-Mobile G1 phone at the official announcement press conference. We now have to admit - the blogosphere was full of the wildest guesses and the screenshots that had very few in common with reality. (Read More)
PR Squared
A question that comes up frequently among clients is, “Which wire service should we be using?” The query is not necessarily re: the best wire service for Social Media Releases (which we’ve covered, and hope to revisit); they just want some advice on the wire services in general.We tend to be resolutely ne (Read More)
: “Press releases distributed by PR Newswire get used by media more often than copy from competing services and generate more clips when they are picked up."
Submitted by Marysam:
For now, there are about two thousand web-sites in the index base of the search engine, but it is planned to add to the base up to 50 000 of all confessions’ resources by the end of 2009, what will give the possibility to cover the whole Christian Internet of Commonwealth of Independent States and Baltic countries. (Read More)
Submitted by Michaelfidler:
A new software approach from researchers at Carnegie Mellon University could make it easier to identify a person's face in a low-resolution video. The researchers say that the software could be used to identify criminals or missing persons, or it could be integrated into next-generation video search engines. (Read More)
: Not that long ago we started getting worried about GPS chips being inserted in mobile phones, and so creating the possibility for you to be tracked wherever you went. Now Google Images and other technologies show how face recognition can sift through photos and video to locate people. With security cameras saturating London and more and more cities, live cams deciphering license plates, who needs to talk of babies implanted with GPS chips to express worry about a rising surveillance society?
Profy.Com
Russian news outlets report today on a judgment of Saint Petersburg court in a lawsuit against SEO specialists that employed the so-called “black hat” techniques to ensure high ranking for their customers’ websites with search engines. The techniques involved using meta tags that are not supposed to actual (Read More)
Submitted by Marysam:
Russia is one of only four countries where the American search giant fares considerably worse than local Yandex. Interested? Then read more on Yandex in this article. (Read More)
Submitted by Marysam:
For everyone interested in the Russian Internet (runet). Translation of a recent interview by the ex-CEO of Rambler Igor Ashmanov on their deal with Google. (Read More)