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Mail.ru takes full ownership of vKontakte social network

September 18, 2014
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Russian internet firm Mail.ru acquired 52% of social network vKontakte in 2007, but now it owns the other 48%, having paid $1.47bn for the shares from Blesmir Development and Palagon. TechCrunch notes that as part of the deal, Mail.ru has negotiated a cessation of litigation between those companies and vKontakte founder Pavel Durov, over who...

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