Microsoft may knock Google's search results, but its Google that's doing a better job of blocking malicious sites.
Yandex shut down its social search app today, soon after Facebook pulled the plug on the app's data access.
Facebook updated its Platform Policy today to explain why it shut down data access for social search app Wonder.
Yandex says Facebook is denying the company access to its data shortly after it launched social search app Wonder.
Yandex, a Russian search engine, released a new social search app that lets you ask questions like, "What ice cream shops do my friends like?" But in order to escape any Facebook wrath, the company is claiming the app is a "personal assistant."
Serial entrepreneur. Two successful exits. A degree in applied mathematics. Chief executive of the Russia's top search engine, an $8 billion company with more than double Google's share of searches. And ... dead sexy.
Facebook’s rumored interest in purchasing facial recognition startup Face.com may become a reality thanks to some help from an unlikely source.
Russian-based search engine Yandex is said to be mulling the sale of its share in Face.com to the social …
At VentureBeat, we come across a lot of funding news every day. In order to bring you the most information possible, we’re rounding up the quick-and-dirty details about the funding deals of the day and serving them up here in …
It was less than six months ago that RTP Ventures opened its U.S. arm in New York, giving it $100 million out of its $750 million fund to make investments. Now, senior managing director Kirill Sheynkman has added two new …
Popular Russian search engine Yandex has something Google doesn’t: The approbation of Twitter and access to the entire stream of public tweets.
Yandex has signed an agreement with Twitter to license the full feed of public tweets, otherwise know as …
Russia’s Internet search giant Yandex has acquired mobile developer SPB software for an estimated $38 million, according to multiple sources. SPB has 75 employees and develops software for smartphones and tablet devices, with offices in Russia, Thailand and Taiwan.
“Mobile …
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High-value financings for venture-backed private internet and digital media companies seem to be happening at a rapid pace. Dropbox, Tumblr, AirBnB, Foursquare, and Spotify have all raked in big fundings and attained record valuations in recent months. Meanwhile, public investors …
Beerud Sheth, a serial entrepreneur in India, figured out the way to reach the most people was not through computers or smartphones. It was through old-fashioned text messages on aging feature cell phones.
His Mumbai, India-based company, SMS GupShup has …
