January 2009
Firefox Drops Google For Yandex In Russia, But Big Loser May Be Rambler
"after months of research and surveys, Mozilla learned that their “Russian users really wanted direct access to the Yandex search.” So in the next build of Firefox, the default search provider will be Yandex for Russian users."
June 2008
Yandex to Open Labs Office in Bay Area [SearchEngineWatch]
"Russia's most popular search engine has officially announced plans to open a labs office in Silicon Valley. This news began to leak last week with the departure of Yahoo SVP and General Manager of Search, Vishal Makhijani. Makhijani will be President of Yandex Labs in the Bay Area, and will report directly to the CEO of Yandex."
May 2008
TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » 2008年最大のハイテクIPOはロシア発：検索エンジンのYandexが最大$2B調達へ
"Yandexが今秋NasdaqでのIPOを準備中で、$1.5B（15億ドル）～$2B（20億ドル）の調達を期待している。ロイターが伝えた。これは同社の企業価値が$5B（50億ドル）となることを意味する。"
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