' Yandex ' and ' Ozone ' hit the top 25 most valuable startups

The publication Silicon Alley Insider published an annual ranking of the most valuable startups, the SAI 25, including two Russian companies there - ' Yandex ' and ' Ozone '.

In addition to the unknown status of the ' startup ' ( according to the text, refers to companies that may soon go public ), raise questions, and the valuation of companies in the peer ratings. ' Yandex ' was estimated at three billion dollars ( 6th place ), ' Ozone ' - 450 million ( 18th place ).

The numbers are absolutely subjective and have little relation to reality, they recognize and creators of SAI 25. For example, the social network Facebook is estimated by experts in the SAI nine billion, while last year a proposal to Microsoft bringing its market value to 15 billion. In this case, the authors propose ranking in ' real time ' to monitor how the value of the rating.

In the top -5, in addition to Zuckerberg brainchild, includes well-known Russians ' Wikipedia ' ( $ 7 billion. ), Bulletin board Craigslist ($ 5 billion. ) And Mozilla Corp ($ 4 billion. ). In the list of applicants for entry into the SAI25 can see no less interesting projects, waiting for their turn: Meebo, Metacafe, Digg and Twitter. However, in comments to the study of Silicon Alley Insider readers have already begun to complain about the lack of a list of some key sites, ranging from completely ignoring China's resources and ending with the lack of Wordpress.

The updated privacy policy and user agreement

Alma Whitten (Alma Whitten), Director of Data Protection, a division of product development and.

A month later, in the privacy policy and user agreement Google will be made. changes. This is a very important point, so we would like to talk about what will change and why, and explain what these amendments mean for our customers.

Let's start with the privacy policy. In 2010, we have. simplified. its. Nevertheless, it remained for more than 70 documents ( yes, you read correctly, 70) on the use of personal information relating to the Google products. Such an approach can not be called simple, and the number 70 itself is contrary to our efforts to link our services and products to each other and make it intuitive.

We have prepared a new, affordable formulated, the privacy policy. It is easier to read, it covers most of our products, and explains what information we collect and how it is used. It's still not a single form: due to legal and other aspects we have retained a number of separate documents. Nevertheless, the new privacy policy combined for more than 60 existing policy.

Regulators around the world have long urged Internet companies to reduce and simplify the privacy policy. The practice of creating uniform rules for the use of various products are already widely distributed on the Web. Updated Google's Privacy Policy shall come into force on March 1. From today, users will receive an email notification of changes. In addition, we placed an ad on our home page.