“Runet today”, May 14, 2012. Experts of the issue: Andrei Chechin, Dmitry Danilenko
In the studio “Finam FM” - Andrei Chechin, commercial director of Ozon.ru; Dmitry Danilenko, Deputy General Director of GURU Corporation. Together with the moderator, Maxim Spiridonov, they talk about how the recent political events of recent days in Runet are reflected, about the closure of the Ukrainian representative office of the Begun advertising service, about the major acquisition of the LinkedIn social network, and about Facebook’s intentions to launch its own online application store.
1. Socio-political activity in early May, associated with the inauguration of President Putin, was reflected in the real cyberwar, unfolding in RuNet.
- DDoS attacks have become a full-fledged policy tool? - How will the attacks on Ustream and Bambuser affect the IT-image of Russia? ')
2. Russian service of contextual advertising Begun will close its Ukrainian office.
- How will the market of contextual advertising of the Runet develop further? - Comment: Stanislav Mushkat, General Director of Begun Company.
3. LinkedIn Corporation, which owns the eponymous social network, has announced the acquisition of SlideShare digital content distribution service.
- Why did LinkedIn acquire SlideShare? - Is there a future for business social networks?
4. The social network Facebook announced the launch of an online app store AppCenter.
- AppCenter - a competitor for the AppStore and Android Play or a partner and aggregator? - Facebook 4 days before the IPO.