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Yandex caves to Russia’s federal censor in dispute over Internet piracy

August 30, 2018

Roskomnadzor, the Russian telecom and Internet regulator, threatened to block Yandex’s video service, following an August 24 verdict by the Moscow City Court ordering the website to remove all hyperlinks to pirated content from its search results. Earlier this month, several television stations filed lawsuits against Yandex, where links to pirated copies of their content …

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Yandex leaks internal Google Docs apparently shared by Russian banks, state officials, and Internet trolls

July 6, 2018

On the evening of July 4, Russian Internet users realized that the search engine Yandex has been indexing a surprising array of information stored on Google Docs, including files containing passwords, credit card numbers, and corporate documents. Yandex’s press service says the company’s actions were perfectly legitimate, but within hours of Wednesday’s discovery the search …

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Driverless cars to be tested Moscow-Saint Petersburg highway

May 14, 2018

On May 4, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev requested that driverless cars be tested on a segment of the Moscow-St. Petersburg highway by November this year. The project involves the Federal Road Agency (‘Rosavtodor’) and state company Russian Highways (‘Avtodor’) as well as a working group that includes Yandex — the Russian search giant which unveiled its …

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Yandex releases new AI-based search algorithm

August 24, 2017

Earlier this week Yandex, the Russian search giant, released a new search algorithm inspired by neural networks to better understand users’ intent and handle long-tail queries. The new algorithm is named after Korolyov, the lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer in the 1950s and 1960s. ‘Korolyov’ significantly improves upon its predecessor, ‘Palekh,’ the neural network-inspired algorithm …

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Yandex and Sberbank agree $500 million JV plan to create “leading e-commerce ecosystem” in Russia

August 14, 2017

Yandex, the NASDAQ-listed Russian search giant, and Sberbank, Russia’s state-owned national savings bank, announced today their plans to join forces and create “a leading e-commerce ecosystem” based on the Yandex.Market e-commerce marketplace. The deal, if confirmed, would mark the biggest e-commerce investment in Russia’s history. According to a non-binding term sheet — which will ultimately be …

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Yandex deploys Big Data and AI technologies across Europe, eyes South American market

August 1, 2017

Yandex Data Factory, a B2B business unit which Yandex launched in 2014 to develop custom-made Big Data solutions, has developed significantly both in Russia and abroad, its CEO Jane Zavalishina said in an exchange with tech blog 150.com at an industry conference. From its offices in Moscow and Amsterdam, Yandex Data Factory aims to make Yandex’s technologies – …

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Yandex acquires regional car classifieds sites from Hearst Shkulev Digital

July 11, 2017

Auto.ru, one of the leading online auto classifieds sites in Russia, and its owner Yandex, have agreed a “strategic partnership,” with Hearst Shkulev Digital, a leading publishing house in Russia, as reported by the Russian business daily Kommersant last week. As part of the deal, Yandex is acquiring HSD’s car classifieds sites across Russian regions. These include E1.Auto …

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Yandex and Baring Vostok invest $5 million in house-call doctor service

June 6, 2017

The Russian house-call doctor service DOC+ is announcing the completion of a $5.5 million Series B round involving Yandex, the Russian search giant, and Baring Vostok Capital Partners, a major Moscow-based investment fund. The two investors had already injected $5 million in the startup less than one year ago. The company’s first funding, in 2015, amounted to …

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Yandex.Taxi unveils driverless car prototype

July 13, 2017

Yandex.Taxi, the on-demand transportation service of the Russian Internet search giant Yandex, has just unveiled the prototype of its autonomous car project. The prototype has been developed as “a step towards a comprehensive set of driverless technologies for application across a wide range of industries.” The driverless car incorporates Yandex’s own technologies, such as mapping, …

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Yandex’s co-founder Arkady Volozh discusses monopoly, Google, Ukraine, censorship, and robots

June 3, 2017

Arkady Volozh, the co-founder of Yandex, the NASDAQ-listed Russian Internet giant, doesn’t like giving interviews to the media. However, he made an exception this week, following the recent settlement between Google and Russia’s Antimonopoly Service over a lawsuit brought by Yandex. Speaking to Anastasia Golitsyna, a correspondent for the business daily Vedomosti, Volozh answered questions …

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Yandex raises revenue forecast, talks up dividend prospect

April 28, 2017

Russia’s largest internet group, NASDAQ-listed Yandex on Thursday raised its sales outlook for the year after settling a dispute with Google over product distribution on the U.S. company’s Android operating system. Google announced a deal with Yandex and Russia’s competition watchdog on April 17, pledging to stop requiring manufacturers of Android-based devices to pre-install its …

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Yandex’s news service almost blind to mass anti-corruption protests

March 29, 2017

On Sunday, as Russia was witnessing mass anti-corruption protests, Yandex’s local news feed for Moscow prominently featured trivialities such as weather reports and promotions for the city’s “Spring Festival.” On the national level, protests were overshadowed by news like Russia’s reaction to Kiev banning its Eurovision contestant, reports The Moscow Times. It’s no secret that …

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