Marketing Sherpa have released a useful white paper on Website Globalisation, you can download this free of charge until the 11th April. Web globalization isn’t just for large multinational corporations anymore. Companies of all sizes are capitalizing on the Internet to expand beyond their countries and into new cultural groups
The 2nd Internet and Business conference will take place in Moscow on the 18th-20th of April. Some of the topics set to be covered include: Exponential growth of internet in Russia Contextual advertising/pay for placement systems and future developments Electronic payments, problems and solutions Mobile internet Applying the lessons of
Google is celebrating their first anniversary in Russia at the moment and according to 3dnews.ru, they are marking the occasion by opening a new office in Moscow. In 2006, Google set up two development centers in Moscow and St. Petersburg. They have managed to sign partnerships over the last year
Yandex, the leading Russian search portal, has released a new report on the state of e-commerce in Russia. The results are promising, up 42% in 2006, racing ahead of the 25% rise seen in western markets. As expected, Moscow leads the way with 61% of the sales for the country
Yandex announced today that they have acquired the popular networking sites for professionals, MoiKrug.ru. The social network site MoiKrug.ru which translates as ‘my circle’ in English, helps to maintain and build business contacts, find classmates, peers and colleagues. In a similar way to LinkedIn.com the service allows members to grow
Russian search company Rambler has announced the appointment of former Yahoo! Europe chief, Mark Opzoomer, as General Director (CEO). This move is seen by many analysts as a positive step for the search company. While Rambler were the first search engine in Russia they have lost placement over the years
Yandex, the largest of the search engines in Russia have introduced conversion/goal tracking to their engine this week. Site owners can place the JavaScript on their pages and conversions will be listed in their reports for PPC advertisements. The goal itself can either be a specific page in the web
According to research carried out by Begun.ru, Rambler and Yandex’s turnover in contexual advertising in 2006 was $110m. The market has risen 2½ times since the 2005 figure of $45m. The turnover of media advertising in 2006 amounted to $100m, showing a growth of 1.6 times compared to 2005. This
According to Cnews, plans by ICANN to delete some of the more ‘outdated’ domain extensions in their index have been derailed. They had opened a public discussion in San Paulo with a view to removing these extensions, which ended last month. Top of their list of their list for deletion
Yandex, the leading Russian search engine, have announced their preliminary financial results for 2006. Revenue is reported to total $72m (USD), more than double that reported for 2005. “Our internal research indicates that 2006 was the first year that search/context advertising accounted for more than half of Russia’s total online