The biggest Russian search engine Yandex is planning to obtain funds of 1.5-2 billion dollars by initial public offering at the trading ground in New York. IPO is planed for this fall.
According to the source the evaluation data is based on the tentative price of 5 billion dollars, as this is the limit of Yandex capitalization in case of successful distribution.
The presidential candidate Barack Obama spent about 2.8 million dollars on advertising through Google AdWords. This amount was recorded by the US Federal Election Commission.
The election staff of the candidate chose on-line advertising as one of efficient techniques of promoting the candidate. To attain the aim, besides Google search advertising in Yahoo as well as advertising on DrivePM and Quig from AOL were used.
The users of electronic atlas Google Earth are now able to view information about the predicted climate changes on our planet up to the end of the century. The new project has been named Climate Change in our World and has been the result of joint work of the Google company, British Meteorological Agency and British Society of Antarctic Research.