By Alexander Marrow, Darya Korsunskaya and Polina Devitt LONDON (Reuters) – Before Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine two years ago, Russia’s Nasdaq-listed search engine giant Yandex was briefly worth $30 billion. This week, a consortium of domestic investors agreed a deal to buy it for $5.2 billion. In normal times, that would represent a disaster for Dutch parent company Yandex NV and its Western shareholders. But in a world where Western firms have left Russia in droves, sometimes for a nominal… Source link
Read More »Sale of ‘Russia’s Google’ Yandex tightens Moscow’s grip on the internet
Tech giant Yandex — dubbed “Russia’s Google” — has agreed to sell its Russian assets to a consortium of investors for $5.2 billion, the biggest corporate exit from the country since the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The company, which is registered in the Netherlands but conducts most of its business in Russia, said that the government-backed sale includes 95% of its assets, including the country’s most-popular search engine, a ride-sharing application, and an… Source link
Read More »Dutch owner of Russia’s No. 1 search engine Yandex sells for $5.2 billion, exits country
The Dutch parent of top Russian internet search engine Yandex, often called the “Google” of Russia, has sold the business to a special-purpose Russian mutual fund at a heavily discounted $5.2 billion and is pulling out of the country completely. Yandex has no connection to Google or parent company Alphabet. File Photo by Maxim Shipenkov/EPA Feb. 6 (UPI) — The… Source link
Read More »Yandex: Owner of ‘Russia’s Google’ pulls out of home country
By Mariko Oi Business reporter 5 hours ago Image source, Getty Images The owner of Yandex, often referred to as “Russia’s Google”, has said it will pull out of its country of origin. The sale to a consortium of investors means Yandex’s Russian business is now a fully Russian-owned entity. The firm has previously been accused of hiding information about the war in Ukraine from the Russian public. Moscow has welcomed the latest deal which the company said was “the product of an extensive period of… Source link
Read More »Yandex: Owner of ‘Russia’s Google’ pulls out of home country
By Mariko Oi Business reporter 6 February 2024 Image source, Getty Images The owner of Yandex, often referred to as “Russia’s Google”, has said it will pull out of its country of origin. The sale to a consortium of investors means Yandex’s Russian business is now a fully Russian-owned entity. The firm has previously been accused of hiding information about the war in Ukraine from the Russian public. Moscow has welcomed the latest deal which the company said was “the product of an extensive period… Source link
Read More »Yandex parent company to sell its Russian businesses for $5.2 billion
The Netherlands-based parent company of the Yandex group is selling its Russian businesses to local investors for $5.2 billion, the company announced on Monday. Despite a mandatory discount of at least half enforced by the Kremlin, this would be the largest corporate exit from Russia since it invaded Ukraine two years ago. Yandex, often referred to as “Russia’s Google,” was founded in Russia in the late 1990s and went public on the Nasdaq in 2011 via a company called Yandex NV registered… Source link
Read More »Yandex takes a big hit to get rid of Russian assets – TechCrunch
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Read More »Yandex Reaches $5 Billion Deal to Exit Russia
The parent firm of Russia’s most prominent technology company, Yandex, said it has agreed to sell all its assets in the country for about $5 billion, which would be one of the largest corporate exits from Russia since its invasion of Ukraine. The invasion had roiled Yandex — often referred to as “Russia’s Google” — and turned its attempts to navigate between the Kremlin’s authoritarian policies and a Western blockade of the Russian economy into the most dramatic example of the… Source link
Read More »Russia’s tech pioneer Yandex sells on big Kremlin-required discount
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The Dutch parent of pioneering Russian tech company Yandex is selling its operations in the country at a steeply discounted price of just over $5 billion to its Russia-based managers and oil company Lukoil, one of the biggest deals for Western-held companies to exit Russia since the invasion of Ukraine. The price reflects a 50% discount that Moscow imposes on companies from “unfriendly” countries like the Netherlands as… Source link
Read More »Yandex search engine sold in $5.2 billion deal
Yandex, N.V. has agreed to sell its Russian assets – including the Yandex search engine – as part of a deal worth 475 billion rubles (roughly $5.2 billion). Reports of a coming sale emerged in November. The sale still will need regulatory and shareholder approval. About the sale. Yandex N.V., the Dutch parent company of the Yandex Group, agreed to sell all of its Russia-based assets, including Search, to a consortium… Source link
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