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Yandex Updates Smart Email Sorting Tool
Yandex, sometimes called the Google of Russia, has updated a smart sorting tool within its email system that helps people take actions on a variety of emails like meeting invites and e-tickets. Just 10% of Emails are Personal Correspondence Because so much of email today consists of automatic reminders and
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Yandex Adds Actionable Context to Search Results with Islands
An example of Yandex' new search "island." Yandex is the latest search engine to announce new revisions designed to make it a faster, more useful tool as Russia’s largest search engine announced the launch of “islands” this week. Unlike Solzhenitsyn’s archipelago, this grouping of islands is intended to offer
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New Android Foundation Seeks to Reduce Time for Multiple Appstore Distribution
From the One Platform Foundation's website Android developers have had more flexibility in choosing the stores through which they could deliver their apps than developers for the platform of a certain fruit-named company. While Google Play is the biggest Android outlet, it’s not the only one.
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Yandex Android App Store Debuts
Russian search engine company Yandex has opened its own app store version for Android devices, and it has 50,000 paid and free apps at launch. Yandex is partnering with Kasperskey Labs to help check any prospective apps for malware, while several companies are already integrating the Yandex.Store into their devices.
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Microsoft's Bing Looks Over Shoulder, Sees Yandex Passing By
In the monthly race for search queries worldwide, Microsoft’s Bing search engine was beaten in November and December by… Yandex. If you’re asking, “What is Yandex?”, you obviously do not live in Russia.
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Do 1 billion Users Mean the Open Web is Dead?
After one week in the Apple App Store, Facebook has blocked a Yandex app called Wonder from accessing user data in the social search app's quest to help friends find what each other are doing, listening to and reading. Open web...yea right.
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Facebook Not Being So Friendly, Blocks Yandex, Voxer and Vine
Is 2013 the year social media goes to war? We've already seen Twitter disrupting Facebook's Instagram app integration, now Facebook is blocking access from Twitter's newly-launched Vine app and other services to further muddy the social scene.
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Yandex Gets Personal with Search Results
Russian search engine provider Yandex is now offering its users search personalization as part of a new search platform Kaliningrad. Search personalization means Yandex will track the search preferences and behavior of individual users to provide links and search ranking tailored to their interests.
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Russia's Yandex Launches Its Own Browser & a Mobile App Store
When you’re the top search engine and most visited website in Russia, as Yandex is, you don’t want Google coming in and eating your virtual lunch. To help keep its lunch for itself, Yandex is launching two new products.
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Yandex Maps Integrates with Apple iOS6, Where's Google?
Leading Russian search engine Yandex is entering into a major partnership with Apple. As reported in Businessweek, Yandex, the Russian equivalent of Google, will have its Yandex Maps location service integrated with Apple iOS6-based devices sold in Russia. Saying Goodbye to Google Apple has been phasing the Google Maps location
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Yandex, Twitter Partner to License 'Firehose' Data for Search
Social media sentiment is increasing in importance, so much that Google has started indexing Google+ content. The search giant is even updating its results pages to likewise reflect content from its home-grown social network.
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Russia Search Giant Yandex Goes Public; Raises US$ 1.3 Billion
Russia's leading search company -- and the world's seventh-biggest search engine -- has recently completed its initial public offering, opening at higher-than-expected US$ 25 per share and raising US$ 1.3 billion in the process. The Yandex NASDAQ IPO will involve about 52.2 million Class A ordinary shares, 15.
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