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Yandex introduces Twym online payment system for Twitter-based transfers

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Yandex introduces Twym online payment system for Twitterbased transfers

Russia's Yandex has been in the online payment business for more than a decade now with its Yandex.Money service, but it's branching out into some slightly more uncharted territory with its latest addition. Dubbed Twym, the company's new service will let folks send actual rubles to other Twitter users with nothing more than a tweet like the one above. Before that transfer takes place, though, both the sender and receiver of the money will need to link their Twitter and Yandex.Money accounts, and there are expectedly some limits on the amounts that can be transfered. 100,000 rubles (or roughly $3,300) is the maximum limit allowed by Yandex, but that can be changed by each user. You can also thankfully keep things private via direct message if you'd rather not broadcast your money transfers to all your followers.

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Yandex passes Bing to become fourth largest search provider according to comScore

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Yandex passes Bing to become fourth largest search provider according to comScore

Bing, Microsoft's attempt to take on Google directly. When it first launched there was quite a bit of fanfare and its market share grew quickly. It didn't exactly hack away at Mountain View's dominance, but it certainly made a small dent. Since then, things have slowed down and other players have asserted themselves in the global search battlefield. While Baidu has been riding high for quite some time, Yandex is a relative new-comer to the leader board. And, somewhat surprisingly, has already surpassed Microsoft for global market share according to stats provided to us by comScore. Though the margin is small, the Russian company saw more searches performed through its site than Microsoft in both November and December of 2012. The difference is small enough that those positions could swap again but, where as Bing has seen its numbers plateau over the last six months, Yandex has continued to grow. Of course, neither is anywhere near challenging Google which accounts for roughly 65 percent of the search traffic according to comScore's numbers and both only see about half the traffic of the number three competitor, Yahoo. Microsoft can still claim one victory over Yandex in the number of unique searchers, though. If you're curious for more we've put the entire chart after the break.

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Via: DailyTech, Search Engine Watch

Vine’s friend-finding feature already blocked by Facebook

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Vine's friend-finding feature already blocked by Facebook

Facebook obviously isn't interested in welcoming new social media players, and not long after stopping Yandex's Wonder app from combing its precious data, it's decided to block the friend-finding feature in Twitter's Vine video embed app. Using the "find people" option in Vine now presents users with an error message, essentially killing that labor-saving option. Facebook, as we all know, is notorious for keeping rivals' noses out of its database, and let's not forget it pulled Instagram Card support from Twitter last year. We've contacted the social network for comment, and will update you if we get a response.

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Source: The Telegraph

Yandex launches Wonder, a voice-controlled social search app for the US market (update)

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Yandex, the Russian search giant, has just launched its first product for the US market: a voice-controlled social search app called Wonder. Available on iOS, the app pulls data from your Facebook, Foursquare, Instagram and Twitter accounts to answer questions like "What music do my friends listen to?" Essentially, it's a mobile version of Facebook's new Graph Search, which also uses data from your social network contacts to answer questions. Wonder uses Nuance's speech-recognition tech to record and convert your words into text, and Yandex's own language software then processes those words (you can also type your queries, if you're so inclined). According to TechCrunch, which spoke with the company about the new app, Wonder is launching as a "pure experiment," with the intent to collect feedback as well as data from English-speaking users. Currently, the app is only available in the US, and it only supports questions about places, music and news. If you're packing an iDevice, you can click through to the App Store to download Wonder for free. Make sure to check out a video demo past the break, too.

Update: Facebook has thrown a spanner in the works, preventing the new app from accessing its API. The two sides are now discussing a way out of the impasse, which would need to meet Facebook's requirement that outside search engines only access its data with written permission. TechCrunch has more.


Wonder by Yandex Labs from Maxim Grinev on Vimeo.

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Source: Yandex Wonder (App Store)

Russian technology firms agree to avoid poaching each other, keep salaries in check

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Russian technology firms agree to stop poaching each other, keep salaries in check

American companies that reach no-poaching agreements do so behind closed doors, as it's considered illegal and anti-competitive. No such reservations appear to exist in Russia, as several of the country's top technology giants have openly admitted to reaching an unprecedented verbal deal: Acronis, Epam, Kaspersky Labs, Parallels and Yandex have all promised not to actively recruit each other's staff. They contend to CNews that it's a way to prevent salaries from getting out of control as staff are lured away, and that fear isn't entirely without justification -- there's a well-known salary war between Facebook and Google in Silicon Valley, for example, that makes it tough for smaller companies to attract the same talent. Whether or not the pact stands may be another matter. There's no history of Russian court action versus anti-poaching deals, but concern exists that the truce may not be strictly above-board.

[Image credit: Jennifer Boyer, Flickr]

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Source: CNews (translated)

Yandex launches its own browser targeting Russian market

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Yandex launches its own browser

How many browsers is enough? Between Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer, (not to mention, Baidu, Amazon, Maxthon, Dolphin, etc...) you'd think we'd have plenty ways to surf the web. Not according to Yandex. The Russian search company has just released its own branded browser built around a Webkit base using Chromium as a starting point. This isn't its first foray into the world of software though, it's been offering a customized version of Firefox for some time, with Yandex as the default search engine. The new entry into the crowded browser market also borrows threat scanning technology from Kaspersky and Opera's Turbo for quickly loading content on slow connections. Tigran Khudaverdyan, head of mobile services at the company, even suggested to Business Week that a mobile version was in the works. For now it's only available for OS X and Windows, however. Check out the PR after the break and hit up the source link to download it now.

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Yandex launches its own browser targeting Russian market originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 02 Oct 2012 02:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Firefox demotes Yandex, makes Google the default search engine in Russia

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Firefox demotes Yandex, makes Google the default search engine in Russia

It looks like you can chalk up one more win for Google in its bid to be the number one search engine in as many places as possible. When the next version of Firefox rolls out in Russia, Google will be the default search engine, ousting local site Yandex from its long-held spot (though it will still be the second listed in the search bar). In a bit of a preemptive move, though, Yandex has also put out a press release to remind folks that it will continue to offer its own customized version of Firefox, in which it will remain front and center.

Firefox demotes Yandex, makes Google the default search engine in Russia originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 08 Jun 2012 08:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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