Mail.Ru Group (
London Stock Exchange listed since November 5, 2010) is a
Russian Internet company. It was 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. As of 2013, according to
comScore, websites owned by Mail.ru collectively had the largest audience in Russia and captured the most screen time. Mail.Ru's sites reach approximately 86% of Russian Internet users on a monthly basis and the company is in the top 5 of largest Internet companies, based on the number of total pages viewed. Mail.ru controls the 3 largest Russian social networking sites. It operates the second and third most popular Russian social networking sites,
Odnoklassniki and Moy Mir, respectively. Mail.ru holds 100% of shares of Russia's most popular social network
VKontakte and minority stakes in
Qiwi, formerly OE Investments (15.04%). It also operates two
instant messaging networks (Mail.Ru Agent and
ICQ), an e-mail service and Internet portal Mail.ru, as well as a number of online games.
