Deal of the year Mail. Ru Group bought VKontakte

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September 16,after long shareholder wars, Mail. Ru Group bought 48 percent of VKontakte from UCP and became the sole owner of the largest Russian social network. The deal was worth $1.47 billion. After its completion, UCP, Mail. Ru Group and Pavel Durov dropped all mutual claims and withdrew lawsuits.

Mail. Ru Group bought MAPS.ME
Mail.Ru Groupboughtpopular mapping service MAPS.ME. Shortly after the deal, the company made it completely free. Previously, the service had a paid version that allowed you to use search, build routes and taiyuan mobile phone numbers database make bookmarks.

Yandex bought Auto.ru
"Yandex"boughtthe oldest automobile portal of RuNet Auto.ru. The approximate amount of the deal was 175 million dollars.

Online Media of the Year
"Jellyfish"
In October, a new media outlet was launched from the old Lenta.ru team — “Jellyfish" In the first half month of its work, the publication's audience reached one million people. The resource continued to gain popularity during the collapse of the ruble in early December thanks to its materials in the genre of "explanatory journalism" - the editors explain complex economic and political topics to readers in simple and understandable language.



RBC
In September, the RBC media holdingrebrandedtheir business media: websiterbc.ru, the RBC daily newspaper, TV channel and magazine. All four of these media outlets were united under one RBC brand. Since 2014, their editorial offices have been working together on content. Over the past year, the holding has hired a large number of well-known journalists, including the creator of the Internet industry publication Yuri Sinodov. All of this has allowed RBC to significantly improve the quality of its materials and the speed of news releases.