Masterhost became co-owner of Webplanet?

"... after some time, the entire project will be sold for a tidy sum - Webblanet is now in very good condition, offers for sale are already being received," Lech Andreev shared his optimism in an interview on Balcony on August 20.

Indeed, it was reported that already in August, one of the co-owners of Webplanet bought a share in the publication of Masterhost for an amount with five zeros (Vladislav Kochetkov from Finam assumes that the transaction value was not less than 300-350 thousand dollars). Redemption share is slightly less than 50%

Masterhost has its own edition of Hostinfo.ru (an informational and analytical daily content edition devoted to various issues related to hosting, collocation, provider and other topics that are of interest to Internet users). His chief editor, like Lech Andreev, Alex Exler, a person well-known in RuNet.

Thus, one of the leaders of the Russian hosting, which is not engaged in media business, has already two Internet publications of IT-topic, and not the last in the market. An impressive media arsenal of public opinion formation tools is likely to go to war with RBC. The latter acquired five hosting providers in mid-August, thus picking off about 20% of the Runet hosting market. Ex-leader Masterhost fell in second place with 13%, in third place ValueHost (5%) is in a significant place.
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Masterkhost preoccupied himself with the struggle for a place under the sun even before these events, by purchasing the SpyLog statistics system, which most analysts unanimously commented on as a step to expand the range of services and attract and retain customers in a highly competitive market with the help of an improved service. About a week before, Masterhost entered the Activist holding, which was co-authored by Leonid Filatov.
Recently, the VTB-Venture state investment fund became a co-investor of the “Activist”. Thus, Masterhost becomes a participant in a big cash game for environmental public funds that spend money on IT development. Having a loyal publication with a significant audience and a solid reputation is almost a prerequisite for successful participation in it.
Especially in light of the competition with RBC. RBC Information Systems holding includes electronic media (RBC daily, Ytro.Ru), print media (RBC daily daily, RBC magazine), Internet resources (RBC-Ukraine, RBC-Credit, RBC-Real "), RBC-TV channel and a number of other media assets.

However, the purchase of "Webplanet" - only the first step. It is not yet clear what system the existing media assets will line up with, what distribution of functions will occur between publications, and the most interesting is which of the two stars and celebrities will become “the most important editor”. The webplanet, apparently, will have to correct the editorial policy, eliminating the positive against RBC and the negative against Masterhost (both among the latest materials can be found without difficulty, so far).

Glavred Webplanet Alexey Andreev called the information about the transaction “rumors”, but he did not give an affirmative answer to the question “is this all true?”

Source of You can also read the not very convincing commentary by Lehi Andreev.