MOSCOW, Oct. 25, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Under a strategic partnership
agreement between Yandex and Samsung, Yandex's Search will be
preinstalled as a default search engine on all Samsung bada-powered
smartphones for the CIS countries. Yandex's services for mobile devices
will also be integrated into these smartphones. Samsung smartphones
with Yandex's services will be available for purchase beginning in
November.

Yandex began customizing its services for bada immediately after the
platform appeared on the market. Yandex.Maps, Yandex.Mail,
Yandex.Metro, Yandex. Market and a number of other popular Yandex apps
currently available for this platform will be preinstalled on the new
bada-powered smartphones. This will allow users to instantly find the
place they are looking for, check the traffic map, or read an urgent
email, while a widget on the phone's main screen will inform them about
current traffic conditions, weather and currency exchange rates. And of
course, Yandex's Search will provide answers to any kind of questions,
even the most difficult ones. Yandex's front page will also feature as
the default home page in the browser on Samsung smartphones.

"The mobile sector is one of our key priorities. We are developing and
have introduced various mobile applications for all major platforms.
It's exciting for us to work with a high-potential platform such as
bada. With Samsung as a strategic partner, we can now offer bada fans a
whole range of our services including mobile search," says Tigran
Khudaverdyan, Head of Web Portal and Mobile Services at Yandex.

"When choosing a smartphone, one of the important criteria is the
availability of localized software for a particular model," says Sergey
Pevnev, Marketing Director at Samsung Electronics Russia. "In summer
2011, Samsung Electronics became the leader in the smartphone market in
Russia. Our partnership with Yandex, the leader of the Russian search
market, is a natural step that will allow us to reinforce our
position."

According to Samsung, bada-powered smartphones currently account for
40% of the company's smartphone sales in Russia. In August 2011, the
sales of bada-powered smartphones grew more than 10 times from August
2010. In November this year Samsung will release three new models of
its Wave series - Wave 3, Wave M and Wave Y. Based on bada 2.0, each of
these devices features Yandex's search engine along with other
services.

About Yandex

Yandex (Nasdaq:YNDX) is the leading internet company in Russia,
operating the country's most popular search engine and the most visited
website. Yandex also operates in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus and
Turkey. Yandex's mission is to answer any question internet users may
have.


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