For the fourth time, Forbes analysts have compiled a rating of companies doing business via the Internet. Having analyzed the revenue for 2013, the experts chose the strongest players in this market segment.
In today's review, we offer you Top 10 largest Internet companies in Russia... The list did not include online stores, to which a separate rating.
10. Avito ($ 60 million)
As of the beginning of February, the site avito.ru posted 17 466 208 announcements of a wide variety of topics. The idea of the project belonged to the Swede Jonas Nordlander. Today Avito is the largest online trading platform in Russia and best free classifieds site, 400 thousand new ads are posted here daily.
9. Superjob ($ 65 million)
One of the most popular Runet recruiting portals was founded in 2000. Superjob has an average of 6 million monthly visitors. In 2013, iOS and Android apps were launched to post jobs and look for work. Thanks to this, the portal entered our ranking of job search sites.
8.2GIS ($ 97 million)
2GIS maps and electronic directories are used by 20 million people. The company was founded in 1999 by a Novosibirsk entrepreneur Alexander Sysoev and his wife Marina. Today, 2GIS cards allow you to navigate in 250 cities of Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Italy and other countries.
7. Game Insight ($ 110 million)
The company develops and publishes its own computer games. A distinctive feature of all Game Insight games is the free-to-play principle. Those. you don't have to pay for the opportunity to play, but bonuses are already available for money.
6.iFree ($ 130 million)
The company is engaged in the creation of mobile applications and other projects in the field of mobile and NFC technologies. IFree products are available in 100 different countries around the world. In 2013, a cooperation agreement was signed with the Chinese company China Telecom.
5. Poster-Rambler-SUP ($ 133 million)
This young company, founded in 2013, has united the well-known and highly profitable projects LiveJournal.com, Rambler.ru, Begun.ru, Lenta.ru, Gazeta.ru and Afisha.ru. Alexander Mamut and Vladimir Potanin became the owners of the company. The operational management of the new brainchild was taken over by Alexander Mamut.
4. RBK ($ 156 million)
More than 50% of the company belongs to the Onexim group of Mikhail Prokhorov. RBC employs 1,500 people. The company owns the information resource Rbc.ru, the business TV channel RBC, the magazine of the same name, and the newspaper RBC Daily. In 2013, the company made money from the sale of the Salon Press publishing house, which specializes in publishing interior publications.
3. VKontakte ($ 215 million)
60 million users visit this social network every day. About 40% of the company is owned by Mail.ru Group, and 48% - by Ilya Shcherbovich's UCP fund. The company's main source of income is advertising, as well as posting various applications on the social network. The company's IPO is planned in the near future.
2. Mail.ru Group ($ 860.5 million)
Founded in 1998, the group of companies today employs 3,000 employees. The main owner of Mail.ru is the NMT group, owned by billionaire Alisher Usmanov. The group of companies owns not only the eponymous mail service, but also the social networks Odnoklassniki and Moi Mir, ICQ and Mail.ru Agent, as well as shares in other projects.
1. Yandex ($ 1,238 million)
The largest Russian Internet company was founded in 2000.Today, Yandex employs 4,500 employees, and the popular search engine processes 250 million queries daily. The largest deal in 2013 was the acquisition by Yandex of the resource Kinopoisk.ru for $ 80 million.