Yandex
Russian multinational technology company
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| March 2025 | Yandex Eats launched a delivery service for household appliances and electronics (excluding large items) from the M.video retail chain. |
| January 2025 | First quarter financial results showed revenue of 306.5 billion rubles and adjusted EBITDA of 48.9 billion rubles. |
| 2024 | Annual revenue increased by 37% to 1,094.6 billion rubles, with projected full-year revenue growth of 38–40% and EBITDA estimated at 170–175 billion rubles. |
| October 2024 | Yandex announced plans to invest $400 million in Turkey. |
| October 2024 | Yandex.Eats launched operations in Georgia. |
| September 2024 | At an extraordinary shareholders meeting, the company approved its first dividend payment since 2010, amounting to 80 rubles per ordinary share. |
| September 2024 | The Personal Data Protection Service of Georgia fined Yandex Taxi GEL 4000 for illegally transferring personal data of Georgian users to Russia. |
| August 2024 | The company was accused of collaborating with the FSB to direct users to fake websites for the Freedom of Russia Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps, collecting data from potential supporters. |
| July 2024 | Sale of Yandex's Russia-based assets was completed, resulting in increased Kremlin control over the business. |
| July 2024 | Nebius Group sold Yandex's Russian assets to a group of Russian investors for US$5.3 billion, following international sanctions during the Russian invasion of Ukraine and restrictions on foreign ownership. |
| February 2024 | Yandex N.V. announced the sale of the majority of its Russia-based assets to a consortium of Russia-based investors. |
| January 2024 | Yandex received 36,540 requests from the Russian government to disclose user data, a 12% increase from the prior year. |
| 2023 | Yandex Taxi reported an 86.3% market share in Uzbekistan, demonstrating its dominance in the regional ridesharing market. |
| October 2023 | Yandex introduced Yandex SpeechKit, a speech recognition and synthesis technology with a public API for Android and iOS developers. |
| July 2023 | Kinopoisk, a Yandex subsidiary, was fined 1 million rubles for showing films demonstrating non-traditional sexual relations. |
| June 2023 | Yandex was fined 2 million roubles by a Moscow court for repeatedly refusing to share user information with the Federal Security Service. |
| May 2023 | Yandex launched YandexGPT, a neural network analogous to ChatGPT, and implemented it in the virtual assistant Alice. |
| March 2023 | Yandex published the source code for YTsaurus, a platform for working with big data. |
| March 2023 | Yandex.Eats launched operations in Uzbekistan. |
| January 25 2023 | A 44 GB archive containing Yandex's source code was leaked and shared on BreachForums via BitTorrent, exposing sensitive internal technical information. |
| September 2022 | Yandex.Eats launched operations in Armenia. |
| June 2022 | Yandex published the source code for the YDB database management system, which is used in its voice assistant Alice, Yandex.Go, and Yandex Market services. |
| June 2022 | Arkady Volozh resigned as CEO and from the board of directors. |
| April 2022 | CEO Elena Bunina resigned and moved to Israel. |
| March 2022 | During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Yandex was removed as an optional search provider from the Mozilla Firefox browser. |
| March 2022 | Tigran Khudaverdyan resigned as executive director and deputy CEO after being sanctioned by the European Union for manipulating search results. |
| February 2022 | Upon the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Yandex added an online banner warning that some search results may contain inaccurate information. |
| April 2021 | Yandex was accused by the Federal Antimonopoly Service of promoting its own products in search results. |
| February 2021 | Yandex admitted a system administrator enabled unauthorized access, resulting in a data breach that compromised nearly 5,000 Yandex email inboxes. |
| September 2020 | Launched Yandex.Mail 360, replacing Yandex.Mail for domain, which integrates Mail, Disk, Calendar, Messenger, Contacts, and Notes, offering 20 GB of free space. |
| April 2020 | Yandex Search artificially manipulated search results to place negative commentary about Alexei Navalny in top positions, which the company claimed was part of an 'experiment' before reverting to organic search results. |
| March 2020 | Yandex shareholders voted to approve a corporate restructuring that would transfer control of the golden share to a new public interest foundation. |
| February 2020 | Forbes Russian edition valued the company at $14.6 billion, ranking it first in the most valuable Russian internet companies (Runet). |
| February 2020 | Russian news website Baza reported that Yandex.Taxi disclosed an investigative journalist's travel history to Moscow police without a court order, with the company claiming legal compulsion under Russia's 'operative-search activities' law. |
| 2019 | Consolidated revenue increased by 37% to 175.4 billion rubles ($2,833.2 million), with net profit of 11.2 billion rubles ($180.9 million), a 75% decrease from 2018. |
| 2019 | Yandex Eats launched Yandex Lavka, a grocery delivery service that delivers to customers in under 15 minutes, using small warehouses in Moscow and St. Petersburg with about 2,000 items and bike couriers. |
| November 2019 | Sberbank announced it would give up its golden share in Yandex. |
| October 18 2019 | Yandex.Disk began throttling WebDAV support, causing client timeouts and redirecting users to the Yandex.Disk 3.0 client page. The company officially stated that Yandex.Disk is a personal service not intended for infrastructure use, recommending Yandex.Cloud for such tasks. |
| June 2019 | Yandex refused a request by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) to surrender encryption keys for its e-mail service and cloud storage, arguing it would compromise user privacy. |
| April 2019 | Yandex Eda modified its courier break system, allowing couriers to take breaks by simply pressing a pause button in the app, removing the previous requirement of obtaining supervisory permission which could delay necessary rest. |
| April 19 2019 | 21-year-old Yandex Eda courier Artyk Orozaliev died after collapsing following a ten-hour delivery shift. A medical examination determined the cause of death was heart failure, which prompted the company to review its courier break policies. |
| December 2018 | Yandex Eats completed 1 million food delivery orders. |
| November 2018 | Continued cyberattack on Yandex targeting its R&D unit, with sophisticated Regin malware attempting to compromise the company's technical infrastructure and user authentication systems. |
| October 2018 | Yandex acquired Partiya Edy ('Food Party'), a meal kit service operating in Moscow and St. Petersburg, and renamed it to Yandex.Chef. |
| October 2018 | Yandex was targeted in a significant cyberattack using Regin malware, which aimed to steal technical information about user authentication from the company's research and development unit. Kaspersky Lab later attributed the hacks to Five Eyes intelligence agencies. |
| July 2018 | Lithuanian authorities warned that the Yandex Taxi app could be collecting users' personal data, raising significant privacy concerns. |
| February 2018 | Yandex launched its food delivery service, Yandex Eats. |
| February 2018 | Yandex acquired Uber's businesses in Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus and Georgia. |
| December 2017 | Yandex.Taxi acquired Foodfox, a food delivery service in Moscow, expanding its food delivery capabilities. |
| October 2017 | Yandex introduced its intelligent personal assistant, Alisa (Alice), for Android, iOS, and Microsoft Windows. |
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