s guidance suggesting the higher price range but that there isn't an official new price range. Yandex's offering follows the successful debut last week of U.S. social media company LinkedIn Corp. (LNKD), which more than doubled on its first day of trading. Although Yandex is a search engine rather than a social media company, IPO investors in general have been interested in Internet plays this year, with the best first-day performance coming from Chinese firm Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Ltd. (QIHU), (the stock has since given back some of its first-day gains). Like Qihoo, Yandex dominates a market that is at an earlier stage of Internet adoption than the U.S., which offers more growth potential. The Russian company's IPO is "more than 10 times oversubscribed," the person close to the deal said. John Connor, portfolio manager at the Third Millennium Russia Fund, whose fund plans to buy into the IPO, said he attended a presentation in Boston where potential buyers seemed to have no reservations about indicating their interest in the deal. "I didn't get the feeling that there was any unfamiliarity with the company or its products, or any skepticism either," said Connor, the former president of Russia-based web mail service Mail.ru Group Ltd. (MAIL.LN). He remains an officer and director at Mail.ru, which Yandex considers its principal domestic competitor in several of its services. Yandex, the largest Internet company in Russia by revenue, generated 64% of all 2010 search tre," one resident told Reuters. Tanks fired machine guns at protesters, residents told Reuters. An activist said three people were killed in Talbisa and another two in nearby Rastan. More than 100 wounded were also taken to hospitals in Homs, a flashpoint of anti-regime protests. Among those killed at Rastan was "a little girl called Hajar al-Khatib," he said. Another activist, contacted by telephone from Nicosia, said several people were wounded as security forces unleashed "intense gunfire" in Rastan and Talbisa, after tanks sealed off both towns. "Dozens of tanks at dawn encircled the towns of Rastan and Talbisa," the activist told AFP. The towns are located between Homs, which is Syria's third-largest city, and Hama, on a stretch of highway north of Damascus that was cut off by tanks during the operation. Security forces were carrying out searches in Talbisa, where a large crowd took to the streets on Friday for an anti-regime demonstration, said Rami Abdul Rahman, head of the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. On Friday, secu