The following 8-video Decade Rewind 2000s series is a pretty impressive display of creativity and execution from the WatchMojo.com team, a 2000s decade recap and review where we rewind the events of the past 10 years in the Auto industry, Business & Technology, Entertainment, Fashion, Music, Politics, Science & Space and Video Games. continue reading...
Wining and dining Nigerian diplomats? $10,000.
Paying off Nigerian government for the Black Gold? $2,500,000,000 (that’s $2.5 billion) continue reading...
I want to run this man’s fan club, seriously.
Russian online media company raises an additional $5M in funding:
Moscow Venture Fund, a $30 million venture capital fund that is managed by Allianz Rosno Asset Management, has invested more than $5 million for an additional 24 percent stake in Tvigle (Tvigo Entertainment), a producer and distributor of content for Internet TV and mobile entertainment, reported business newspaper Kommersant. The consulting company ADJ Consulting acted as financial adviser to Tvigo. continue reading...
Call me crazy, but if I were Russia, I would not want an overly ambitious American company dominating the Web market either (or aspiring to, anyway). Especially when you consider that Russia is the Web’s fastest growing Web market.
How would the US government feel if a foreign company sought to control and dominate in wireless, TV, radio, print, billboards or… the Web? It would not. The US government invented the Internet, so it seems logical that it has a hands-off approach on the Web… but I really do not see why we’re calling Putin et al. out for this. This is perfectly expected. continue reading...
Quintura’s Yakov Sadchikov is a fine example of an entrepreneur and executive who maximizes blogging to the fullest to bring visibility to his company.
As a Russian writer and entrepreneur, he has a front row seat on one of the most dynamic and exciting markets in the world (not talking merely web markets or economic market, we’re talking market for products, but also people and ideas…) continue reading...
Russia’s answer to Michael Arrington, search engine Quintura’s CEO Yakov Sadchikov comes across some interesting figures on the Russian online advertising market, estimated at $260 million from January to June 2008. This is up 73% year-over-year, according to a report from MindShare Interaction. More interestingly is the fact that contextual advertising accounted for $161 million (or 62% of total online advertising spending), while display advertising accounted for $99 million (38%) of total online spending.
The business daily Kommersant breaks down the top 10 online display advertisers in Russia, including: continue reading...
Russia is flush with riches of a rising oil price. It’s no wonder that the nation is experiencing a boom in venture capital fundraising. But there is much merit to the money, Russia is Europe’s fastest growing Web market. This data is from November, 2007.
It’s impressive: Russia grew 23%, according to comScore. Germany remains the largest market, but you have to figure that over time Russia just might become the largest country, by far, in terms of web audiences. continue reading...
“We predict internet advertising to pass three milestones over the next three years,” ZenithOptimedia’s forecast said. “We expect it to overtake radio advertising in 2008; to attain a double-digit share of global advertising in 2009; and to overtake magazine advertising in 2010, with 11.5% of total ad spend.”
In 2008, Worldwide internet ad spending will climb to $44.6 billion from about $36 billion, as such, the Internet will overtake radio to become the fourth largest medium with 9.4% of global advertising share; and in 2010, it will overtake magazines to become the third largest medium with an 11.5% share. continue reading...
