Russian portal Mail.ru buys online mobile service
By Alisa Zykova, Monday 15 September 2008 at 18:28 :: Media Ownership :: #2280 :: rss
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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