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Mail.Ru
VK, known as Mail.ru Group until 12 October 2021, is a Russian technology company. It started in 1998 as an e-mail service and went on to become a major corporate figure in the Russian-speaking segment of the Internet. VK operates an e-mail service, an Internet portal Mail.ru, and popular Russian social networking platforms VK, Odnoklassniki and Moi Mir. Additionally, VK manages various e-commerce, transport and communication platforms. It also offers business-oriented products, including a corporate email and communication system. In 2014, VK's sites reached approximately 86% of Russian Internet users on a monthly basis and the company was in the top 5 of the largest Internet companies based on the number of total pages viewed. In October 2021, Mail.ru Group was renamed VK Company Limited, after its most popular product, VKontakte. History The business was originally owned by Port.ru, a company founded in 1998 by Eugene Goland, Michael Zaitsev and Alexey Krivenkov as a sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VK (company)
VK, known as Mail.ru Group until 12 October 2021, is a Russian technology company. It started in 1998 as an e-mail service and went on to become a major corporate figure in the Russian-speaking segment of the Internet. VK operates an e-mail service, an Internet portal Mail.ru, and popular Russian social networking platforms VK, Odnoklassniki and Moi Mir. Additionally, VK manages various e-commerce, transport and communication platforms. It also offers business-oriented products, including a corporate email and communication system. In 2014, VK's sites reached approximately 86% of Russian Internet users on a monthly basis and the company was in the top 5 of the largest Internet companies based on the number of total pages viewed. In October 2021, Mail.ru Group was renamed VK Company Limited, after its most popular product, VKontakte. History The business was originally owned by Port.ru, a company founded in 1998 by Eugene Goland, Michael Zaitsev and Alexey Krivenkov as a sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dmitry Grishin
Dmitry Grishin (born 15 October 1978) is a businessman, investor and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known as the co-founder and former Chairman and CEO of Mail.ru Group. Grishin also made significant contributions to Russia’s internet presence, Runet, in its early days. Early life Dmitry Grishin was born in 1978 in Kapustin Yar, a Russian rocket launch and development site in Astrakhan Oblast. His father was a designer of radar systems for the MiG-29 jet fighter. At the age of 12, Grishin saw a VCR for the first time and the mechanics of the machine sparked his lifelong interest in robotics. Technology Career and Mail.ru While attending Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Grishin started working for the U.S. software company Axiom Int, overseeing programmers in Florida from his student hostel in Moscow. He worked as Design Engineer, Senior Software Developer, and IT consultant while with Axiom. In March 2000 he began to work for netBridge as head of the project devel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allods Team
Allods Team is a Russian video game developer and a subsidiary of Mail.Ru Games. Founded in September 2006, it was previously known as Nival Online and Astrum Nival. On February 24, 2010, Mail.Ru announced the 100% acquisition of Astrum Nival from its former owners. From that point, Astrum Nival acts under the name of Mail.Ru. On September 29, 2011, the studio was renamed to Allods Team. The offices of Allods Team are located in Moscow, Voronezh and Bishkek. Activity Allods Team is a developer of online video games and mobile applications. The studio created '' Allods Online'', the first major Russian MMORPG, and later ''Skyforge''. Both games continue to be supported with regular updates. The team has also released ''Allods Adventure HD'', a puzzle game for iOS devices. The core of Allods Team includes industry veterans who developed acclaimed games including ''Evil Islands'', ''Etherlords'', ''Silent Storm'' and ''Heroes of Might and Magic V''. Professionals that played an inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allods Online
''Allods Online'' is a free-to-play 3D fantasy MMORPG developed by Allods Team, formerly Astrum Nival, and published by Mail.Ru Group globally, with the international version operated by their subsidiary My.com. The game was originally released in North America on May 11, 2011. Following on from '' Rage of Mages'', '' Rage of Mages II: Necromancer'', '' Evil Islands: Curse of the Lost Soul'', and '' Evil Islands: Lost in Astral'', ''Allods Online'' takes the RPG elements of the original games and presents them in an MMORPG. Developed with a $12 million budget, it is available as a free online game with a simple registration required to play and while no ongoing subscription is required to play, some items are only available in the Items Shop, which allows the developers to profit through a system of microtransactions. Gameplay ''Allods Online'' has many traditional MMORPG elements such as quests, NPCs, dungeons and pay to boost. It also has an element that is fairly unusual – th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuri Milner
Yuri Borisovich (Bentsionovich) Milner (russian: Юрий Борисович (Бенционович) Мильнер; born 11 November 1961) is a Soviet-born Israeli entrepreneur, venture capitalist and physicist. He is a cofounder and former chairperson of internet company Mail.Ru Group (now VK) and a founder of investment firm DST Global. Through DST Global, Milner is an investor in Byju’s, Facebook, Wish, and many others. In 2012 Milner's personal investments included a stake in 23andMe, Habito, Planet Labs, minority stake in a real estate investments startup, Cadre in 2017. Early life Born into a Jewish family Wired Magazine: "How Russian Tycoon Yuri Milner Bought His Way Into Silicon Valley" By Michael Wolff 21 October 2011 on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vkontakte
VK (short for its original name ''VKontakte''; russian: ВКонтакте, meaning ''InContact'') is a Russian online social media and social networking service based in Saint Petersburg. VK is available in multiple languages but it is predominantly used by Russian speakers. VK users can message each other publicly or privately, create groups, public pages, and events; share and tag images, audio, and video; and play browser-based games. , VK had at least 500 million accounts. As of Novemer 2022, it is the sixth popular website in Russia. The network was also popular in Ukraine until it was banned by the Verkhovna Rada in 2017. According to SimilarWeb, VK is the 16th most visited website in the world. History VKontakte was incorporated on 19 January 2007 as a Russian private limited company. Founder Pavel Durov launched VKontakte for beta testing in September 2006, shortly after his graduation from St Petersburg State University. The following month, the domain name ''vko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VK (service)
VK (short for its original name ''VKontakte''; russian: ВКонтакте, meaning ''InContact'') is a Russian online social media and social networking service based in Saint Petersburg. VK is available in multiple languages but it is predominantly used by Russian speakers. VK users can message each other publicly or privately, create groups, public pages, and events; share and tag images, audio, and video; and play browser-based games. , VK had at least 500 million accounts. As of Novemer 2022, it is the sixth popular website in Russia. The network was also popular in Ukraine until it was banned by the Verkhovna Rada in 2017. According to SimilarWeb, VK is the 16th most visited website in the world. History VKontakte was incorporated on 19 January 2007 as a Russian private limited company. Founder Pavel Durov launched VKontakte for beta testing in September 2006, shortly after his graduation from St Petersburg State University. The following month, the domain name ''vko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VK (social Networking)
VK (short for its original name ''VKontakte''; russian: ВКонтакте, meaning ''InContact'') is a Russian online social media and social networking service based in Saint Petersburg. VK is available in multiple languages but it is predominantly used by Russian speakers. VK users can message each other publicly or privately, create groups, public pages, and events; share and tag images, audio, and video; and play browser-based games. , VK had at least 500 million accounts. As of Novemer 2022, it is the sixth popular website in Russia. The network was also popular in Ukraine until it was banned by the Verkhovna Rada in 2017. According to SimilarWeb, VK is the 16th most visited website in the world. History VKontakte was incorporated on 19 January 2007 as a Russian private limited company. Founder Pavel Durov launched VKontakte for beta testing in September 2006, shortly after his graduation from St Petersburg State University. The following month, the domain name ''vko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odnoklassniki
Odnoklassniki ( rus, Одноклассники, t=Classmates) is a social network service used mainly in Russia and former Soviet Republics. The site was developed by Albert Popkov and launched on March 4, 2006. The website currently has more than 200 million registered users and 45 million daily unique visitors. Odnoklassniki also currently has an Alexa Internet traffic ranking of 56 worldwide and 7 for Russia. Odnoklassniki is the second most popular social network in Russia, behind VK (VKontakte) but ahead of Facebook, which is in 3rd place. History The Odnoklassniki project was launched on March 26, 2006. The creator of the site, Albert Popkov, who lives in London and works in the field of telecommunications, took part in the creation of similar projects in other European countries. From March to November 2006, the project existed as a hobby and was commercially mentioned only in a friendly advertising agency as a platform for advertising. The number of users who regi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor Linshits
Igor Linshits (born 18 December 1963) is a Georgian-born, London-based entrepreneur, founder of Delin Capital, Delin Property, and Delin Ventures. Early life and education Igor Linshits was born into a family of engineers in Rustavi, Georgia. After finishing school in Rustavi, Linshits moved to Moscow to study chemical engineering at the Lomonosov Institute of Fine Chemical Technology, graduating in 1988. Career in Russia In 1988, Linshits established his first business manufacturing hairbrushes and combs. In 1990, he and his partners started a business in trading and processing oil products that quickly grew into one of the largest businesses of its kind in Russia. In 1993, he spun off from his partners to establish his own business, Neftyanoi. Neftyanoi initially focused on trading commodities, especially oil products such as wheat and cotton, before moving into direct investments. Its most prominent deals involved Lukoil-Neftekhim and mail.ru. In the late 1990s, Linshits ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DataArt
''For Data Art as an emerging art form, see Information art''DataArt is an IT consultancy company. The firm designs, develops and supports software solutions. DataArt operates from 20+ locations in the US, Europe (Armenia, Bulgaria, Germany, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Poland, Romania, Switzerland, Ukraine and the UK), Argentina, and the UAE. History DataArt was founded in 1997 in New York City. It started as and remains a U.S. (New York) corporation. In 1998, DataArt's team, based in St. Petersburg, developed experimental mailbox software. Later it became the basis of Mail.ru. In 2001, the company opens a London office. In 2007, DataArt received Microsoft Gold Certified Partner status, this was attained by participating in the Microsoft Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI) program where the company received high customer ratings and earned the status of Small Business Specialist. From 2010 to 2018, the company was ranked in the Inc. 5000 List of the fastest-growing private U.S. compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skyforge
''Skyforge'' is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Allods Team in collaboration with Obsidian Entertainment, and published by My.com. Set on the planet Aelion, Skyforge fuses elements of Science fiction and fantasy in its visuals and storytelling, and sees players exploring the world as an immortal who must strive to become a god and defend the planet from alien invasion from other worlds. The project started development in 2010 and received an open release for Microsoft Windows in July 2015, with PlayStation 4 and Xbox One releases following in 2017. The latest major content update, "Ignition", was released on all platforms in September 2019. A Nintendo Switch version was released in February 2021. Gameplay In ''Skyforge'', players assume the role of an immortal with incredible celestial powers who must protect the planet Aelion from invaders who threaten the world and its population. Character progression within the game is not level base ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
