Russian Company Buys ICQ

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday May 1, 2010 @04:13AM from the end-of-a-market-strategy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "AOL has sold ICQ to Digital Sky Technologies (DST), Russia's largest Internet company, for US$187.5 million. DST's offer was apparently more attractive than those of Russia's ProfMedia and China's Tencent. ICQ, originally released in 1996 and bought by AOL in 1998 for US$407 million, was one of the world's first major instant messaging systems. Although largely forgotten in English-speaking countries, it remains widely popular in Central Europe, Russia, and Israel. Moscow News has additional coverage of the deal."

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Let me be the first to say by Anonymous Coward · 2010-05-01 04:26 · Score: 5, Funny

UhOh!
Re:Very popular by Scaba · 2010-05-01 05:02 · Score: 5, Funny

*yawn*, I have a six digit one starting with '2' I don't think it has received a valid non-spam message in three years ago.
double *yawn* I have a negative account number that's also an irrational number. I receive messages from the future.
In Soviet Russia... by Beelzebud · 2010-05-01 05:34 · Score: 5, Funny

In Soviet Russia, Q seeks I.