Yandex News

Russian search engine Yandex has many US investors, and is being used by Vladimir Putin to spread propaganda on a global scale. (Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images) Yandex, Russia’s equivalent of Google, is being used by more than half a dozen Russian-language news sites to post ads in articles that spread false claims about the Ukraine war, according to a recent report by the… Source link

A Russian tech giant mostly owned by western investors is helping websites pushing false claims about the war in Ukraine to make thousands of dollars every day through digital advertising. Yandex is considered Russia’s equivalent to Google, running both a search engine and an extensive digital advertising business. Its deputy CEO, Tigran Khudaverdyan, resigned this month after the European Union imposed sanctions on him. The Bureau for Investigative Journalism has discovered… Source link

Sutt said Tuesday that: “Companies related to the Russian regime do not have a place in the Estonian marketplace.” A key factor in the sanction decision is that Yandex is required to share personal data with Russian data authorities, at the latter’s behest, Sutt added. He said: “In order to use Yandex NV’s services, it is a requirement access to a large amount of personal data processed on the company’s servers in Russia is granted. In essence, Russia’s special services and political… Source link

The invasion of Ukraine by Russia sparked a major response from Western countries, including penalties against the aggressor that had never been seen before. In addition to government-imposed banking and trade restrictions, a number of corporations have delayed or abandoned their operations in Russia. The West’s scrutiny of Russian technology has also risen. One example is Kaspersky. Another is Yandex, which is collecting app data from millions of iPhone and Android users around the… Source link

Russian search engine company Yandex is harvesting data from millions of Android and iOS app users and sending it to Russia, a new report from the Financial Times has claimed. Yandex is regarded as Russia’s answer to Google. The firm is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and offers a variety of services, including search engine and advertising tools. Thousands of apps with millions of customers use the Yandex SDK which is capable of collecting user data from iPhone and Android… Source link

Now/Now app We have already mentioned the Now service in our other publications, designed to become a Russian alternative to the blocked Instagram. Now let’s talk more about this project. Channel 24 tried to find the differences between Now and Instagram. The Russian fake copies the design of one of the most famous social networks in the world as much as possible. Now import substitution Now is a new social network… Source link

Over the weekend, Elon Musk said something outlandish. I know what you’re thinking: Be more specific. Well, this time the Tesla CEO indicated he might launch a social network — or, at the very least, wouldn’t rule it out. “Am giving serious thought to this,” he replied to a Twitter user who asked whether Musk would consider building his own rival platform. Musk had earlier criticized Twitter. “Given that Twitter serves as the de facto public town square, failing to adhere to free… Source link

Urian B., Tech Times 29 March 2022, 09:03 am A Russian multi-billion dollar company, Yandex, laid off about two dozen US-based workers. The company reportedly had a small autonomous vehicle fleet in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It said that the state suspended their vehicle licenses, but Michigan denied… Source link

A report today says that ‘Russian Google’ Yandex is sending data harvested from millions of iOS app users to Russia – whether or not you use the company’s apps. Laws there could compel the company to make the data available to the Russian government. Your data can be grabbed from a wide range of third-party apps which use a developer tool created by Yandex. Developers save time and money by using the Yandex API AppMetrica to obtain analytics data for their app, while the… Source link

Yandex, the multi-billion dollar Russian tech company that’s been operating a small fleet of autonomous vehicles in Ann Arbor, Michigan, laid off over two dozen US-based workers earlier this month, claiming that its vehicle licenses were suspended by Michigan’s state regulators, The Verge has learned. But Michigan says this just isn’t true. In the days following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Yandex paused its AV testing in Ann Arbor, as well as its tests with six-wheeled delivery… Source link