Yandex, Russia's largest Internet company, has agreed to sell most of its Russian operations to a consortium. The deal marks Yandex NV's exit from Russia amid tensions over the invasion of Ukraine.
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Mozilla has removed Yandex and Mail.ru as the default search engine options in its latest Firefox release. It's currently unclear if this is due to an anti-Russia stance or something else entirely.
Microsoft has issued a warning about a highly dangerous malware family infecting Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Yandex to insert ads into search results. On Firefox, it also steals user credentials.
It has been revealed that Yandex was attacked in October and November last year with Regin malware that is thought to be developed by Five Eyes nations including the United Kingdom and United States.
Users of the Russian search engine Yandex are about to get enhanced search results over the coming weeks as its new neural net algorithm, Korolev, kicks in and starts delivering improved results.
After reaching an out-of-court settlement, Google has now made its Chrome browser display a prompt to Russian users of Android devices, asking them to select their preferred search engine.
Google has reached an out-of-court settlement with the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation and will open up Android to competing search engines and applications in Russia.
Google, and its parent company Alphabet, has found itself in hot water with regulators once again. Russian authorities found the Android-maker abused its market position by being anti-competitive.
The Russian government wants to force US technology companies like Apple and Google to pay taxes on apps and services sold online. It also wants to ban Windows from government machines.
Yandex Browser is a simple and easy-to-use internet browser. Its clutter-free interface gives you plenty of space for viewing webpages. Webpages load rapidly even with low connection speeds.
Google must change its default and bundled app agreements with Android hardware producers by mid-November, following a new ruling by Russia's antitrust body that says its practices are uncompetitive.
Google was recently seen abusing its power in Russia, by forcing OEMs to pre-install Google services, as well as preventing the installations of third-party products such as competitor Yandex.
Bing has been surpassed in global search engine rankings, falling to the #5 spot as Russia's Yandex soars into 4th pace. Unsurprisingly Google still retains place #1 with over 65% market share
Russia and Turkey are receiving a different default engine to most WP8 handsets, with Yandex coming as standard on both. The partnership could help gain some control for Yandex within Turkey.
Apple is partnering with Yandex to use the Russian search giant's APIs in its new in-house Maps app, and is said to be discussing making Yandex the default search provider for Russian iOS devices.
Although Google has been the default search engine on popular web-browser Firefox's search bar (located right next to the address bar) for as long as many can remember, Russian users will soon find a new...
