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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

Russia’s biggest internet company has embedded code into apps found on mobile devices that allows information about millions of users to be sent to servers located in its home country. The revelation relates to software created by Yandex that permits developers to create apps for devices running Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android, systems that run the vast majority of the world’s smartphones. Yandex collects user data harvested from mobiles, before sending the information to… Source link

The 10 people who convened in Moscow in mid-February came from multiple countries and professions but they had one thing in common: They were all directors on the board of Yandex, Russia’s largest internet company. Russia had not yet invaded Ukraine, and though much of the world was on edge, people in Moscow and on the board of Yandex were incredulous that war was coming. Yandex’s board meeting in the Russian capital, the first in-person meeting in two years,… Source link

If you thought Silicon Valley had a problem with politics, spare a thought for Russia’s top internet company. Nasdaq-listed Yandex, which runs the largest Russian search engine and ride-hailing service, is caught between its local customers and regulators on the one hand, and American technology and finance on the other. The latest flashpoint is the potential sale of its media interests, which consist of a news-aggregation service similar to Google News and a social… Source link