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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian search engine giant Yandex on Thursday reported a 53% jump in full-year revenue to 800.1 billion roubles ($8.72 billion), driven by organic growth across the business, from search and advertising to e-commerce and ride-hailing. Yandex’s Nasdaq-listed and Dutch-registered parent, Yandex NV, last week agreed to spin off some assets in a cash and shares deal worth $5.2 billion, a far cry from the company’s value before Moscow sent its army into Ukraine in February… Source link

It’s not a stretch to say that Yandex has a claim to be Russia’s most successful and innovative company. Even Google’s founders were interested in buying it at one time. The company strove to preserve its independence for 25 years, but now that part of its story seems to have reached its end. The Kremlin has long courted the company and soon, in place of founder Arkady Volozh, Yandex will have an entirely new, Kremlin-approved leadership and ownership team. The real beneficiaries of… Source link

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

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

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

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

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

Yandex is set to be sold to a group of Russian investors. Yandex NV, the Dutch parent company of Yandex, announced today that it has reached a $5.21 billion deal to sell most of its Russian operations to a consortium led by investors with ties to Russian oil giant Lukoil. Under the terms of the deal, a new investment fund, Consortium.First, will acquire Yandex”s leading search, advertising, ride-hailing, and other services that generate over 95% of its… Source link

By Alexander Marrow LONDON (Reuters) – A $5.2 billion cash and share deal to sell the key Russian assets of technology group Yandex, often labelled as “Russia’s Google”, to a consortium of Russian investors was announced on Monday after months of negotiations. Here’s why the deal is significant. RUSSIA’S LARGEST TECH ASSET Moscow has long sought to gain more influence over Yandex, set up in the dotcom boom in the late 1990s, as it became a key player in online services such as search and… Source link

By Mariko OiBusiness reporter Getty Images The owner of Yandex, often referred to as “Russia’s Google”, has said it will pull out of its country of origin. Its Dutch-based parent company sold the operation in Russia for 475 billion roubles ($5.2bn; £4.2bn), much lower than its estimated market value. 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… Source link