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Russia: Broadband & Recession; Yahoo! & Russia

Categories: Eastern & Central Europe, Russia, Digital Activism, Economics & Business, Technology

Svetlana Gladkova of Profy reports [1] that “broadband access growth twice lower than expected due to recession in Russia.” In another post, she notes [2] that after reading an interview with Marvin Liao, director for Yahoo!'s Sales Development, Emerging Markets Group, she got “a very strong feeling that we will see some kind of an acquisition of a local player – [by Yahoo! in Russia] – even though not exactly soon.”