К чему РБК покупать невыгодный мессенджер QIP? Скорее, они вложились в "выращивание" новой версии. Просто идея "выращивания" не укладывается в головах местных любителей одноразовых сенсаций. Но день Всех Влюбленных - хороший повод промыть головы.

Ad campaign for dating service Loveplanet.ru affiliated with RBC Holding may cost up to $10 mln. According to press it became 5th top-advertiser on TV among mobile content providers including the telecom monsters MTS and Beeline. Yet the representatives of Finam, the major investor of the most popular Russian dating service Mamba, say they don't regard Loveplanet.ru as a competitor to Mamba network by now. Anyway, Mamba is not alone anymore.

Founders of BlogLenta.ru, 'the first Russian blog-based information buro', launched a banner network for stand-alone bloggers Bloglife.ru. They aim to expand promotional opportunities of those who lack advantages of popular blogging platforms, such as LiveJournal.com. By now LJ got about 600,000 Russian subscribers while stand-alones count 8500 only. The network uses Bannerbank technology with 15% comission.

Spam percent in Russian mail traffic reaches 70-80% according to Anna Vlasova, the head of analysts group for Kaspersky Lab, who reported on 2006 spam trends in Russian segment of the Web. Generally she admitted spam to become more diverse in subjects - law and audit consultancy, realtors, printing houses arrived - and more criminal. This year also made way for mobile spammers via SMS. Most spam in Russians' mailboxes origins from Russia (22%), US (20%) and China (11%) promoting medicines with Viagra on top and educational offers. Anna Vlasova also pointed at rising 'graphic' component in those messages which now score to 50% of the whole electronic garbage.