Dutch go dutch

The Dutch owners of Yandex, the Russian tech giant, have flogged their search engine and other services to a bunch of Russian bosses and oil firm Lukoil for a measly $5.21 billion.

Streets are not paved with gold any more

Cash strapped Russian internet giant Yandex is gradually winding down the Paris operations of its e-grocery service Yango Deli and might have to exit from London.

Sanctions

Russia's Google which creates products ranging from the country's dominant search engine to its biggest ride-hail service, will have run out of hardware in about a year.

All your porn belong to Tsar Putin

Russia's biggest internet company has embedded code into apps found on mobile devices that allows information about millions of users to be sent to servers located in its home country.

Casualty of war

Russia's biggest search engine could collapse as financial fallout from the invasion of Ukraine spreads.

22 million requests per second

A cyber-attack on Russian tech giant Yandex's servers in August and September was the largest known distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in the history of the internet, the company said.

For the LOLs

Hackers working for Western intelligence agencies broke into Russian internet search company Yandex in late 2018 deploying malware in an attempt to spy on user accounts.

Considered them exempt from privacy rules

Facebook documents, found by the New York Times, show that the social network considered Microsoft, Spotify, Netflix, and the Royal Bank of Canada business partners and effectively exempted them from its privacy rules.

Revolution

Russia's biggest search site Yandex has asked the European Commission to investigate Google's Android practices in the European Union.