“Runet today”, April 16, 2012. Experts of the issue: Stanislav Protasov, Pavel Alashkin

In the studio “Finam FM” - Stanislav Protasov, co-founder of the company Parallels; and Pavel Alashkin, director of marketing and advertising service Gismeteo. Together with the presenter, Maxim Spiridonov, they are talking about the updated main page of the Mail.Ru portal, about serious personnel changes in the largest Russian media holding, about the new service from 1C-Bitrix, and also about the loud deal between Facebook and the Instagram photo app.

1. Mail.Ru Group Corporation introduced a new interface for the main page of the Mail.ru portal.

- Comment by Anna Artamonova, Vice-President for Strategic Projects of the Mail.Ru Group.
- What made Mail.Ru Group change the appearance of the portal's main page?
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2. The Board of Directors of the media group “RosBisesColsalting” decided to terminate the powers of the general director of the holding, German Kaplun.

- How will these personnel changes affect RBC web services?
- Comment of the former general director of the company MediaMir, which is included in RBC, Mikhail Gurevich?

3. The company “1C-Bitrix” presented a “cloud” service for organizing collaboration and running a business.

- Comment by Sergey Ryzhikov, Director General of 1C-Bitrix?
- Why are foreign versions of Seris cheaper than Russian?

4. The social network Facebook has acquired Instagram photo app.

- What trend does this deal reflect?
- Will such purchases lead to market overheating?

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