Mail.ru Group, the Russian Internet services company which is the owner of a stake in Facebook, is placed to produce an adversary to Twitter in the native country, based on a study.
Business newspaper Kommersant [Russian language report] cites insider sources at Mail.ru as proclaiming that in a Twitter rival is at the whole shebang, which may integrate with the organization s existing qualities and permit a person s microblog messages to look on their own profile pages on other services.
Mail.ru Group is really a major pressure in Russia, possessing not just a popular free email service, however the MyWorld social networking and blogging, video and photo discussing services among many more. It is the owner of IM service ICQ, and it is 2010 annual report declared a couple.33% stake in Facebook, 1.41% stake in Zynga and 4.63 stake in Groupon.
While Mail.ru hasn t confirmed the report that it's to go in the microblogging market, it might put it in direct competition having a growing audience of Russian language�Twitter customers. The American company�launched a local language service for that country in April this season, while a study in the country s search giant Yandex captured mentioned that the amount of Twitter accounts tweeting in Russian had surpassed a million.
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