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In September 2008, the company acquired the rights to the Punto Switcher software program, an automatic Russian-to-English keyboard layout switcher. In 2009, all services of were localized for the Ukrainian market. They developed search software together under the company name Arcadia. In August 2011, Yandex acquired The Tweeted Times, a news delivery startup. In June 2011, Yandex and Rambler signed an ad network deal to freeze out Russian competitors. At that time, Baring Vostok Capital Partners owned a 35% stake in the company and Tiger Technologies owned a 15% stake. (now called Nebius Group), raised $1.3 billion in an initial public offering on NASDAQ, the biggest initial public offering for a dot-com company since Google's offering in 2004. The company was acquired by Facebook in 2012 and Yandex received $5.7 million and 142,479 shares of Facebook for its stake. In January 2009, Firefox 3.5 replaced Google with Yandex as the default search provider for Russian-language builds.
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- In June 2012, the company acquired a 25% stake in Seismotech for $1 million.
- The company was acquired by Facebook in 2012 and Yandex received $5.7 million and 142,479 shares of Facebook for its stake.
- In 2018, the company launched Yandex Games, an Internet gaming platform accessible via browser and mobile.
- In March 2022, Tigran Khudaverdyan resigned as executive director and deputy CEO after being sanctioned by the European Union for "hiding information" from the Russian public through the manipulation of search results.
- In October 2019, the company unveiled the second smart speaker of its own design—"Yandex. Station Mini." Also in October 2019, Yandex Taxi acquired Partiya Edy ('The Party of Food').
- The company argued that it was impossible to comply with the relevant law without compromising its users' privacy.
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In October 2024, the company announced plans to invest $400 million in Turkey. However, it is speculated that the publicly identified owners are intermediaries for others. The publicly identified investor group includes Alexander Chachava (25%), Pavel Prass (15%), Lukoil (15%), Alexander Ryazanov (10%), and senior management (35%). In June 2023, the company launched a test of its first self-driving taxi in Moscow.- In June 2014, the company acquired Auto.ru, an online marketplace and classified advertising website for automobiles, for $175 million.
- In December 2015, the company acquired Internet security company Agnitum.
- In 2012, Yandex initiated research and development in the field of natural speech processing.
- In October 2024, the company announced plans to invest $400 million in Turkey.
- In June 2022, the company published the source code for the YDB database management system.
- In June 2023, the company launched a test of its first self-driving taxi in Moscow.
