Last week, Mail.ru Group, the LSE-listed Russian Internet giant, announced it now fully controls Vkontakte (VK.com), the leading Russian language social network with over 250 million registered ...

Mail.ru Group announced yesterday that it has signed an agreement to acquire an additional 12 percent stake in Vkontakte.ru, the leading Russian-language social network also known as VK.com. Should ...

Ukraine has prolonged its ban on Russian websites VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, Mail.ru and Yandex. In the past, all of them were hugely popular in the country. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ...

Billionaire Alisher Usmanov took full control of VKontakte, with his Mail.ru Group Ltd. buying a remaining 48 percent in Russia’s most-popular social network for $1.47 billion. The all-cash purchase ...

In less than three weeks, Mail.Ru Group has mysteriously changed its attitude to the largest Russian social network, Vkontakte (VK) — from a desperate desire to increase its stake to considering ...

A deal with UMG will allow VKontakte to fully switch to licensed music, replacing user-uploaded tracks and shedding the social network's reputation as the main source of illegitimate digital music… By ...

A media company owned by Kremlin-friendly tycoon Alisher Usmanov has paid $1.5 billion to gain full control of one of Russia's most popular social media websites, VKontakte. Mail.Ru, owned by Usmanov, ...