In late 2012, Group's plans for buying two-letter domain My.com became known. Full migration to the use of 's own engine occurred in the summer of 2013. In November 2012, it was reported that would discontinue using Google search services. On, Dmitry Grishin stepped down as chairman of the board of directors and non-executive director of the company There were no other changes to management or to the Board. Dmitry Grishin was elected to the board of directors and appointed as chairman of the Board while retaining his CEO position. In March 2012, Milner stepped down from the role of Chairman of and from the board of directors. Major shareholders at the time included Alisher Usmanov, Group's corporate sibling Tencent Holdings, Tencent's largest shareholder Prosus, and Tiger Management. After the public offering, the global operations of Group continued as the privately held company DST Global. The company hired Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley and VTB Capital to run the listing. The subsidiary included about a quarter of the group's shareholding in Facebook, stakes in Russia's two biggest social networking sites and. The IPO offered a stake of about 17% of the subsidiary. In October 2010, Group announced plans for an IPO via the London Stock Exchange listing of a subsidiary – also called – worth more than $5bn. The studio is known for developing Allods Online and Skyforge. On 29 September 2011, the studio was renamed to Allods Team. From that point, Astrum Nival acts under the name of. In February 2010, announced the 100% acquisition of the video game developer Astrum Nival from its former owners. Dmitry Grishin became one of the Group co-founders. In September 2010, DST changed its name to Group. In 2006 Igor Linshits sold his stake in to Tiger Fund and Milner's DST for more than $100 million. In 2003 Milner resigned from and subsequently set up another internet venture, Digital Sky Technologies (DST). Before that time its brand name was owned by. The company began to operate as on 16 October 2001 and was headed by Dmitry Grishin. In connection with the merger, Milner became CEO. Igor Linshits subsequently took an active role in the development of the business. In 2001, Yuri Milner, at the time managing NetBridge (the owner of several internet brands), persuaded the entrepreneur Igor Linshits to back a merger of the business with NetBridge. ![]() Attempts to fund the company's expansion in 2000–2001 were thwarted by the collapse of the technology bubble and had to seek merger partners. The business expanded rapidly to reach the No. It received an initial investment of US$1 million from investor James Melcher. The business was originally owned by, a company founded in 1998 by Eugene Goland, Michael Zaitsev and Alexey Krivenkov as a spin-off from DataArt. In October 2021, Group was renamed VK Company Limited, after its most popular product, VKontakte. In 2014, VK's sites reached approximately 86% of Russian Internet users on a monthly basis and the company was in the top 5 of the largest Internet companies based on the number of total pages viewed. It also offers business-oriented products, including a corporate email and communication system. Additionally, VK manages various e-commerce, transport and communication platforms. VK operates an e-mail service, Internet portal, and Russian social networking services VK, Odnoklassniki and Moi Mir. It started in 1998 as an e-mail service and went on to become a major corporate figure in the Russian-speaking segment of the Internet. VK, known as Group until 12 October 2021, is a Russian technology company.
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