Yandex buys social news company Thetweetedtimes

Sina Science and technology news Beijing time August 26 night, the Russian search engine Yandex announced the acquisition of Social news service start-up company The Tweeted times, the specific amount of acquisition has not been disclosed.　　The Tweeted times allows users to customize news from their Twitter account, and Yandex will continue to provide social news services after the transaction is completed, and the Tweeted Times team will join Yandex. The Tweeted times are jointly created by Maxim Grienev (Maxim Grinev) and Maria Grienev (Maria Grineva), with users including Snoopy Doug (Snoop Dogg), Alisa Milano (Alyssa Milano)　　and Lance Willer (Lance Weiler) and other eminent persons. Yandex in May this year, the current market value of about 10 billion U.S. dollars.　　Yandex plans to use the Tweeted times technology to enhance search and content services. The Tweeted Times is the third company Yandex has acquired in the last 9 months, and the other two are login plugin developer Loginza and tech start-up Webvisor. (Li Ming)