The RBC media holding sold the news portal Utro.ru, a source in the company and a source in the media market told Interfax. According to a source in the media market, the transaction amount was 370 million rubles. A source at RBC claims that the transaction amount was lower than the company expected and amounted to about 300 million rubles. He noted that the buyers were private investors.

The holding's Internet business unites news portals rbc.ru, cnews.ru, autonews.ru and quote.ru, as well as non-business resources and services - Smotri.com, Loveplanet.ru, Utro.ru and Qip.ru.

At the end of 9 months of 2013, the revenue of RBC’s Internet division decreased by 2% to RUB 1.7 billion. In the third quarter, segment revenues increased by 11% (to RUB 582 million) due to “high occupancy of key advertising positions on business resources,” the company reported. RBC's total revenue for January - September last year increased by 13% to RUB 3.73 billion.

In addition to Internet resources, RBC OJSC owns a TV channel, the RBC daily newspaper, the RBC magazine, the Hosting Community group (which unites a number of domain name registrars and hosting providers) and a number of other assets.

RBC sold the news portal Utro.ru - Interfax