"Yandex" bought a social network "My Circle"

The company "Yandex" announced the acquisition of the largest Russian-language social network for professionals "MyKrug.ru" . From today, the service is fully transferred to servers in Yandex data centers. The team of managers and developers, including the founders of the Internet service, also moved to the new company.



“Despite the fact that Yandex is a large company for a long time, it has surprisingly managed to preserve the culture of a startup. We liked really cool specialists and a creative atmosphere similar to ours, ”says Ilya Shirokov, co-founder and head of the MyKrug.ru service. “Since now we have received a lot of resources for the development of the project, we are expanding the team and inviting talented developers to us with our own ideas and desire to develop MyKrug.ru.”



“In Yandex, we make services that are used by the employees themselves. That is why MoKrug.ru came to our attention: more than 150 Yandex employees use it. The service is convenient for managing professional contacts - there are already more than 100 people in my first round, ”says Roman Ivanov, head of communications services at Yandex. “In the future, our joint work with the new team will make other Yandex services more social."



The new owner does not plan to change any of the principles of the project, except that it will implement on the website MoiKrug.ru authorization for logins from Yandex.