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Shaping the Future of the Newspaper

Date

Fri - 25.05.2012


Russian portal Mail.ru buys online mobile service

Russian portal Mail.ru buys online mobile service

Russian web portal Mail.ru has bought online resource Smape.com and mobile ICQ service Sm@per, Lenta.ru reported Monday.

Smape.com, a mobile portal with an average of 500,000 visitors per month, redirects Web users to Mobile.Mail.Ru.

Meanwhile, Sm@per operates as it did prior to the venture, and it is still not clear exactly how it will be integrated into Mail.ru. Sm@per's developers have joined Mail.ru, according to Lenta.ru.

Mail.ru owner Nikita Zubov mentioned that the ICQ service might be used as a basis for constructing a mobile version of Mail.ru's messenger Mail.ru@Agent.

According to a source familiar with the event, the deal was signed in June 2008 and cost nearly US$2 million, Lenta.ru reported.

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Author

Alisa Zykova

Date

2008-09-16 03:28

Shaping the Future of the Newspaper


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