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AOL in talks to sell ICQ to DST; Bebo also on the block

Dec 14th

AOL is in talks to sell off its ICQ instant-messenger service to Russian investment group Digital Sky Technologies, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
Citing unnamed sources, the Journal said that talks with DST, an investor in Facebook, are still in the early stages. AOL could get somewhere between $200 million and $300 [...]

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Russian investment firm DST merges email and online game companies

Dec 1st

Posted by gizmodose in Hi Tech News

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Digital Sky Technologies, the Russian investment group that invested in Facebook this year, has merged an email portal with an online game developer to try to create an Internet powerhouse.
Moscow-based DST said today that it merged its communication portal, Mail.ru, the biggest provider of free email services for Russian-speaking countries, with Russian online game firm [...]