As said to ITAR-TASS, the Russian Internet holding Mail .ru Group recently became the owner of 100 percent of Russia’s largest social network “VKontakte”. The remaining percentage of shares in the amount of 48.01% was purchased from the fund UCP Ilya Sherbovich for 1.47 billion dollars.
So, Mail.ru Group now owns the social network” Facebook “,” VKontakte “,” My World “, ICQ instant messaging services and” Mail.ru Agent “, as well as share in the Qiwi payment system in the amount of 10.4%. On the world market, the company is represented by brand My.com, which takes place in the depths of the development of the automobile simulator World of Speed from the developers of the series Need for Speed: Shift and tank action Armored Warfare from the creators of South Park: The Stick of Truth and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II.
On the conduct of the final stage of negotiations to buy the remaining stake became known on September 4. According to ITAR-TASS, the buyers could be either Mail.ru Group, or any other party friendly company. It also reported that it was the same pattern CEO “Megaphone”, Ivan Tavrin, in December last year the share was acquired (12%) “VKontakte”, which was at the disposal of its founder, Pavel Durov. Tavrin later resold it Mail.ru Group.
To date, the major shareholders of Mail.ru Group are holding USM Alisher Usmanov (concurrently, CEO of one of the “daughters” of “Gazprom”), the South African media group Naspers and China’s largest Internet service provider Tencent.
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