Russian Business Forum

According to the agency, the volume of the market reached 6.6 billion rubles (exclusive VAT), 5 per cent up compared with the same period of the previous year. This figure includes only costs for placement of search and display ads.

Total expenses for ATL advertising came to 2.5 billion rubles. "In the second quarter of 2009, Internet advertisers became more active in this sphere and neutralized the negative dynamics shown in the first three months ...

The basic search engines of the world Internet - Google, Yahoo!, MSN - are seriously eyeing the Russian Internet segment for the game is worth the candle. The Russian web market is interesting for the West from the commercial point of view, general director of the biggest Russian search portal Yandex Arkadi Volozh told the press conference. Growth is noted in every segment of the Russian Internet. The volume of Internet adverts in 2007 increased ...

Spam is flooding the Russian web. It made 35 per cent of entire e-mail, to increase to a half last year, and is expected to bloat to 80 to 85 per cent this year, warn experts.
The Russian anti-spam software market is only emerging. Still, it has scored certain victories. Russian-designed programs better cope with Russian-language spam than their imported analogues.
It takes automata to keep lightning spam attacks at bay-the human brain is powerless ...

The Russian web search company Yandex is to open a subsidiary -Yandex Laboratories - in the U.S.'s Silicon Valley, the company said in a press release on Friday.
It said Yandex Laboratories would be headed by Vish Makhijani, a former Yahoo executive.
Yandex, Russia's most popular Internet search resource, has reportedly been valued at $5 billion for an initial public offering at the U.S. Nasdaq trading floor in the fall. Yandex intends to float $1.5-2 ...