SPB Software

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| foundation = {{Start date and age|1999}}

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| key_people = Sebastian-Justus Schmidt (CEO)
Vassili Philippov (COO)
Yaroslav Goncharov (CTO)
Juggs Ravalia (VP)
Olga Steidl (CMO)

| industry = Mobile application development

| products = user interfaces for mobile devices, system, communication, business, multimedia software, games

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| parent = Yandex

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| homepage = {{URL|www.spbsoft.com}}

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SPB Software, a division of Yandex, is a Russian IT company which operates the largest search engine in Russia. In November 2011, Bloomberg Businessweek reported that Yandex acquired SPB Software after its own initial public offering{{cite news |last1=Shatalova |first1=Ekaterina |title=Yandex Acquires SPB Software Developer to Expand Mobile Products |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-11-28/yandex-acquires-spb-software-developer-to-expand-mobile-products |access-date=18 March 2023 |work=Bloomberg |date=28 November 2011 |language=en |url-access=subscription |archive-date=16 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220116183843/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-11-28/yandex-acquires-spb-software-developer-to-expand-mobile-products |url-status=live }} debuted on the NASDAQ as the fourth largest IPO of 2011.{{cite news |last1=Harrison |first1=J.D. |title=The United States' biggest IPOs in 2011 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-small-business/post/the-united-states-biggest-ipos-in-2011/2011/12/29/gIQASCQUQP_blog.html |access-date=18 March 2023 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=30 December 2011 |archive-date=13 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150513071115/http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-small-business/post/the-united-states-biggest-ipos-in-2011/2011/12/29/gIQASCQUQP_blog.html |url-status=live }}

SPB Software's most popular solution{{buzzword inline|date=April 2021}}, the SPB Shell 3D, has been described by The New York Times as an application that makes for a much more user-friendly phone.{{cite news |last1=Tedeschi |first1=Bob |title=Unhappy With Your New Smartphone's Home Screen? Try Customizing It |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/technology/personaltech/20smart.html |access-date=18 March 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=20 November 2008 |id={{ProQuest|897195579}} |page=B6 |archive-date=6 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180106060149/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/technology/personaltech/20smart.html |url-status=live }} SPB Shell 3D utilizes SPB Software's SPB UI Engine, a cross-platform modular plugin for building hyper-realistic 3D interfaces on a variety of devices.{{cite press release |title=SPB Software Launches SPB Mobile Shell 5.0 |id={{ProQuest|759459026}} |publisher=SPB Software |date=6 October 2010}} The SPB UI Engine is written in native C++.{{cite news |last1=P. |first1=Daniel |title=SPB UI Engine is a promising cross-platform solution for building 3D user interfaces |url=https://www.phonearena.com/news/SPB-UI-Engine-is-a-promising-cross-platform-solution-for-building-3D-user-interfaces_id15481 |access-date=18 March 2023 |work=Phone Arena |date=21 December 2010 |archive-date=4 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230204233657/http://www.phonearena.com/news/SPB-UI-Engine-is-a-promising-cross-platform-solution-for-building-3D-user-interfaces_id15481 |url-status=live }} SPB also develops software running on Android, iOS, Symbian, Bada, BlackBerry, Maemo, MeeGo, webOS, Windows Phone 7, and the Windows Mobile operating systems.{{Cite press release|id={{ProQuest|818683694}}|title=SPB Software Launches TV for WebOS |location=Jacksonville |publisher=Close-Up Media |date=9 April 2010}}