SEO News  Yandex Buys Social Newspaper The Tweeted Times  by ,
Comments  Russia's top earch engine Yandex has bought a social
newspaper service known as The Tweeted Times. Yandex stated that
it will be using the service to improve their social reporting
capabilities.  The Purchase of the Tweeted Times  The Tweeted
Times Logo  The Tweeted Times is a service that looks at news
content shared by those you're following on Twitter. The stories
are then compiled in a "newspaper" that includes the tweet from
the person who originally shared the content. Founded in 2009 by
Maxim Grinev and Maria Grineva, a pair of Swiss computer
scientists, the service has been fighting to compete with
services like and Flipboard.  While the exact figures of the
deal haven't been disclosed, Yandex did state that the newspaper
creation service would still be offered. Meanwhile,
Yandex announced the technology and team would be used "to
better answer questions about what is discussed in social
networks - that is, almost everything that