Yearly Archives: 2020

Google chief compliance officer Andy Hinton left in March

Andy Hinton, former chief compliance officer for Google. Courtesy Andy Hinton Google‘s chief compliance officer for more than a decade, Andy Hinton, has departed the company, following a wave of executive departures that started in December. Hinton left the company in late March, he told CNBC in an interview. He’s becoming an advisor to a start-up called #NotMe, which claims to allow employees to make anonymous complaints about workplace issues, including the types of complaints Google has… Source link

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Google picks Southaven spot for new operations center in Mississippi

CLOSE This photo taken on August 23, 2018 shows the Google logo on display at the Smart China Expo at Chongqing International Expo Center in southwest China’s Chongqing. (Photo: STR, AFP/Getty Images) Months after announcing plans to open an operations center in northern Mississippi, Google has chosen a location. The new office is expected to open inside a 60,000-square-foot building to be built on what is now a mostly empty lot at 5665 Airways Blvd., about a half mile north of Tanger Outlets… Source link

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Yandex to Announce Second Quarter 2020 Financial Results on July 28th Nasdaq:YNDX

MOSCOW and AMSTERDAM, July 09, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Yandex (NASDAQ and MOEX: YNDX) today announced it will report its financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2020, on Tuesday, July 28, 2020. On that day, management will hold a conference call and webcast at 8:00 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time (3:00 p.m. Moscow time, 1:00 p.m. London time) to review and discuss the Company’s results for the second quarter. Second Quarter 2020 Financial Results Conference Call Tuesday, July 28, 2020 … Source link

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How to best draft positions in Yahoo Best Ball to increase your chance of winning

Special to Yahoo Sports In Yahoo Best Ball, simply picking the right players is not a realistic strategy. We also need to consider the implications of the no-transaction format. A big part of that is roster construction. In other words, how many players at each position should we draft? It’s a simple question with a complicated answer for a couple of reasons. First, our decisions should be dynamic to our positional strength — which is a function of draft capital. If our QB1 is Patrick… Source link

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Yandex and Sberbank Finalize Divorce

Russian corporate giants Yandex and Sberbank finalized the terms of their long-awaited ‘divorce’ late June, in a major shake-up for the country’s technology, e-commerce and online payments scenes. The breakup came with tech goliath Yandex and Russia’s largest bank, state-controlled Sberbank, announcing an agreement “to reorganize their two joint ventures” — Yandex Market and Yandex Money. Yandex will get full ownership of e-commerce platform Yandex Market, while… Source link

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VTB integrates its financial management platform into Yandex.Plus

VTB Capital Investments, Russia’s largest capital management platform, has launched the first comprehensive savings management service for users of Yandex, Russia’s leading technology company, in the country. The new service will enable millions of Russians to invest online in traditional products, in bonds and shares available on the Moscow and St. Petersburg stock exchanges, exchange currencies at a rate close to the stock exchange rate and do many other… Source link

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Yandex’s lockdown delivery pivot is morphing into a new business

Russian technology firm Yandex NV found an opportunity at the height of the pandemic – repurposing its army of ride-hailing drivers to provide deliveries in a country where logistics options are scarce. The venture was a success and the company will make its pivot permanent. Yandex, which also operates the nation’s largest internet search engine, is targeting 1 million daily deliveries in the near future,… Source link

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Yandex Announces Closing of Public Offering and Concurrent Private Placement Nasdaq:YNDX

MOSCOW and AMSTERDAM, June 29, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Yandex N.V. (NASDAQ and MOEX: YNDX) (“Yandex,” “we” or the “Company”), one of Europe’s largest internet companies and the leading search and ride-hailing provider in Russia, today announced the closing of its previously announced public offering of 8,121,827 Class A shares. Prior to the closing, the underwriter exercised in full its option to purchase an additional 1,218,274 Class A shares, and accordingly the Company… Source link

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Yandex’s Lockdown Delivery Pivot Is Morphing Into a New Business

(Bloomberg) — Russian technology firm Yandex NV found an opportunity at the height of the pandemic — repurposing its army of ride-hailing drivers to provide deliveries in a country where logistics options are scarce. The venture was a success and the company will make its pivot permanent. Yandex, which also operates the nation’s largest internet search engine, is targeting 1 million daily deliveries in the near future, Daniil Shuleyko, head of the Yandex.Taxi unit, said in an interview.

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Russia’s Yandex, seeking funds for growth, doubles new share offering

By Nadezhda Tsydenova and Olga Popova MOSCOW (Reuters) – Yandex <YNDX.O> has doubled the size of its new share offering to $400 million, the Russian internet giant said on Thursday, which combined with private placements will raise $1 billion to finance acquisitions and growth. Yandex, co-founded by its Chief Executive Arkady Volozh in the 1990s, grew from a search engine to provide everything from online taxi services to food delivery, cinemas and a market place. This week, Yandex moved to… Source link

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