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Mail.Ru Group is the largest Internet company in the Russian-speaking world and one of the leading Internet companies in Russia. Mail.Ru Group comprises the most popular Russian free-mail service and two major RuNet instant messengers, Mail.Ru Agent and ICQ. The company ownes two leading Russian social networks, My World@Mail.Ru and Odnoklassniki.ru, and owns a significant share of the social network VKontakte.
Mail.Ru Group is also a leading player in the online games market and offers a vast amount of different games (either created within the company or obtained under licence) for social networks. Moreover, the Mail.Ru Group portfolio includes dozens of well-known browser and client games, including the company’s own: Allods Online and Legend: Legacy of the Dragons.
More than 40 issue-related media projects targeted at various user types are leaders in their segments and provide the maximum amount of information on a vast range of subjects. The most well-known of these topics are News@Mail.Ru, Auto@Mail.Ru, Lady@Mail.Ru, Billboard@Mail.Ru, Kids@Mail.Ru and Hi-Tech@Mail.Ru.
Mail.Ru Group’s navigation services provide Russian users with effective and high-quality search and navigation tools on the Internet. The most popular of these are Search@Mail.Ru (9.6 million users per month according to TNS), Answers@Mail.Ru (8.5 million users per month according to TNS), Satellite@Mail.Ru, Maps@Mail.Ru and Rating@Mail.Ru.
Mail.Ru Group is also developing e-commerce projects. The major ones are Goods@Mail.Ru, a price-comparison service in Internet shops; Travel@Mail.Ru, a leading travel portal that allows customers to book tickets and travel packages online; Property@Mail.Ru, a resource with a large number of subject-related services for both real estate brokers and individuals. The Money@Mail.Ru payment system, a convenient and quick way of paying for goods and services, is also worth mentioning.
Mail.Ru Group holds 21.35% share of one of the largest Russian payment services - "QIWI". Mail.Ru Group also owns minority interests in the global social network Facebook Inc. (2.33%), in russian social network "VKontakte" (39,99%), in Zynga Game Network Inc. (1.41%), in in Groupon Inc. (4.63%), and in a number of small Russian and Ukrainian internet companies, including e-commerce platform B2B-Center (JSC "Economics Development Center").
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