Businessmen Alexander Mamut and Alisher Usmanov, intend to sell part of its stake in the company SUP, which owns blogohostingom LiveJournal, online edition of the ' Newspaper. py ', a sports portal Championat. ru and road service Quto. ru. The newspaper ' Kommersant ' claims that the purchase of shares in the SUP was interested, in particular, the U.S. internet company Yahoo!.
Sources of publication explained that the SUP is interested in strategic partnership with a foreign player, which will allow the company to attract not only money but also the technological expertise.
The combined control should remain with the Russian shareholders, as well as an option of entering the third shareholder SUP would be to issue additional shares.
... In addition, in the spring of the sale of shares in the company's Russian shareholders were from the American SUP Yahoo!, but now they are suspended.
LiveJournal, the main asset of SUP, is the most popular among Russian-speaking users blogohostingom. The number of Cyrillic to LiveJournal accounts is approaching 5 million, and a monthly audience in RuNet than 30 million people.
SUP company was founded in 2006 by Andrew Paulson, an American businessman and a Russian businessman Alexander Mamut.
In the summer of 2008 ID Kommersant has acquired a major stake in the company ' soup ', and that the proceeds bought the online edition of ' Newspaper. py ', formerly owned by ' Kommersant '.
Analysts polled by the newspaper, it is believed that the cost of the whole of SUP may reach $ 100 million.
