Google to Pay $140M for Russian Contextual Ad Firm

Google said it will pay US$140 million for a Russian contextual advertising company as it seeks to expand its services to advertisers and web site publishers outside the US. The 6-year-old company, Zao Begun but known as Begun, has a search and contextual advertising business, with about 40,000 advertisers and a network of 143,000 Russian-language web sites