19 Nov 2013 13:15
19 November 2013 For immediate release
MAIL.RU GROUP LIMITED
From Russia with Love: Leading Russian Internet Company Mail.Ru Group Launches
My.com for the U.S. Market
Mail.Ru Group Opens Silicon Valley Office to Enter the U.S. Mobile Internet Market
Moscow, Russia - Mail.Ru Group Limited (LSE: MAIL, hereinafter referred as "the Company" or "the Group"), one of the largest Internet companies in the high-growth Russian-speaking Internet markets, today unveiled its first U.S. initiative, a startup called My.com that provides a suite of communication and entertainment apps now available for U.S. users. These apps will make it easier and more exciting to manage email, communicate with friends and family and discover captivating new games. Mail.Ru Group's U.S. subsidiary, My.com, is based in Mountain View, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Since Mail.Ru Group first began offering services 15 years ago, it has become a preeminent player in the European Internet market, with a full suite of email, social networking, games and messaging products. Led by Dmitry Grishin, Mail.Ru Group currently has 3,000 employees and an audience of more than 100 million monthly users. Mail.Ru Group is publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange (LSE:MAIL, listed since November 5, 2010).
Dmitry Grishin, Co-founder and CEO of Mail.ru Group commented:
"I'm happy to introduce our new products to the competitive U.S. Internet market. Russian developers tend to have outstanding backgrounds in mathematics, physics and engineering, which have propelled Russian companies to the forefront of the domestic Internet market. Now we will use all the skills and experience we've earned to enter the U.S. market."
Today My.com introduces 3 products: myMail, myChat, and myGames.
myMail is a mobile email client with intuitive UI that let user manage all email accounts including Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook.com, AOL, etc. Available for iOS and Android devices, myMail lets users customize and enable real-time push notifications even if email providers don't support them. myMail brings a sleek and clear interface specifically designed for easy email management. Additionally, 100% native code and traffic compression technology make myMail fast, stable and secure, whether for sending work emails on the commuter train or vacation photos to friends and family.
My.com also launches myChat, a mobile messaging service for free text messaging, voice and video calls. myChat's conversation-centric interface allows for ongoing, streaming chat and sharing of media, like photos and pre-recorded video messages. Voice and video calling are seamless no matter what platform users are on - iOS or Android. myChat makes instant messaging as dynamic and deft as meeting a friend for coffee.
My.com's games service, myGames, is a growing collection of fun, free mobile games, already available in the U.S. myGames' title Jungle Heat is a Top 25 Android bestseller; it has already generated nearly 1.5 million downloads on the iOS platform and 6 million downloads on the Android platform. The current collection of games also includes Poker Arena and Lucky Fields, which has seen more than 1.2 million Android installs since being soft-launched in August.
To find out more about My.com and its apps, visit the site. myMail, myChat, and myGames' Jungle Heat and Poker Arena are now available for free download both at the Apple App Store and Google Play market. myGames' Lucky Fields is available at the Google Play market.
About Mail.Ru Group
Mail.Ru Group (LSE:MAIL, listed since November 5, 2010) is a leading Internet company in the high-growth Russian-speaking Internet markets (Russia is Europe's largest Internet market measured by number of users, comScore). Mail.Ru Group's sites reach approximately 86% of Russian Internet users on a monthly basis (comScore, August 2013) and the Company is in the TOP-5 largest Internet business, based on the number of total pages viewed (comScore, June 2013).
In line with the Communitainment (Communications + Entertainment) strategy the Company is moving rapidly to build an integrated communication and entertainment platform. The Company operates two of the three largest Russian language online social networking sites (Odnoklassniki and Moi Mir (or "My World")). The Company also operates the two largest Instant Messaging networks in Russia (Mail.Ru Agent and ICQ), Russia's leading email service and Russia's largest Internet portal Mail.ru, and the Company operates Russia's largest online games platform.
The Company holds minority equity stakes in VKontakte (39.99%) and Qiwi (10.4%). The Company also holds a number of small venture capital investments in various Internet companies in Russia and Ukraine.
Investor Relation Contacts:
Matthew Hammond
Mail.Ru Group
Phone: +971 505 56 1315
E-mail: hammond@corp.mail.ru
Press Contacts:
Ksenia Chabanenko
Phone: +7 916 0906626
E-mail: ks@corp.mail.ru