Mail.Ru Group
| OOO Mail.Ru
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|---|---|
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| legal form | OOO |
| founding | 2005 |
| Seat |
Moscow , Russia
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| management | Dmitry Grishin |
| Number of employees | 3.122 |
| sales | 37990000000 RUB 476.6 million EUR |
| Branch | Investment company |
| Website | www.corp.mail.ru |
| As of December 31, 2015 | |
Mail.Ru Group (formerly Digital Sky Technologies , DST ) is a Russian investment company headquartered in Moscow owned by billionaires Alisher Usmanov , Juri Milner and Grigori Finger and several shareholders. The company is one of the largest investors in the Russian and Eastern European Internet market. The Mail.ru Group operates some of the largest Russian websites, such as Mail.Ru, Vkontakte.ru , Odnoklassniki.ru or Forticom.
history
In September 2010 the company changed its name from Digital Sky Technologies (DST) to Mail.ru Group.
Economic situation
IPO in November 2010
With the initial listing of its shares on the London Stock Exchange in early November 2010, Mail.ru Group achieved around $ 912 million. The unit price of the around 33 million shares on offer (17 percent of the share capital) was $ 27.7, which means that the company is valued at a total of $ 5.71 billion.
Holdings
The Mail.ru Group holds 1.47 percent in Zynga , 5.13 percent in Groupon and also has a stake in a Russian payment service provider. The instant messaging provider ICQ was acquired by AOL in 2010 for $ 188 million . A year later, a $ 400 million stake in Twitter Inc.
Since 2007, $ 3.6 billion has been invested to achieve a majority stake in Vk.com , one of Russia's leading social networks , in 2014 .
In June 2019, Alibaba , Mail.ru Group, the Russian Direct Investment Fund ( RDIF ) and Megafon announced that they would set up the joint online trading platform AliExpress Russia.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Mail.Ru Group 2015 Annual Report , accessed on August 23, 2016
- ↑ Converted at the rate on the balance sheet date, December 31, 2015
- ↑ BUSINESS WIRE: Digital Sky Technologies (DST) Changes Name to Mail.ru Group. (No longer available online.) September 16, 2010, archived from the original on April 19, 2011 ; Retrieved November 16, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ RIA Novosti: Russian Internet company takes 912 million US dollars on IPO in London . RIA Novosti. November 5, 2010. Retrieved November 17, 2010.
- ↑ Facebook shareholder mail.ru increases stake in Russian online network vKontakte.ru. RIA Novosti, November 17, 2010, accessed November 17, 2010 .
- ↑ Andreas Wilkens: Russian investor pumps money into Twitter. heise online, August 2, 2011, accessed on August 2, 2011 .
- ^ Pro-Kremlin Tycoon Usmanov Buys Up Russian Social Media , Radio Free Europe, September 16, 2014
- ↑ Alibaba, Mail.Ru, Megafon form AliExpress Russia JV to double down on e-commerce in CIS. In: TechCrunch. Retrieved June 25, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ Alibaba, Megafon, Mail.ru and RDIF informed about their joint venture - russland.CAPITAL. Retrieved June 25, 2019 (German).
