Yandex News

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UK rapid grocery company Yango Deli – which is owned by Kremlin-linked tech giant Yandex – has resisted repeated calls to speak out against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Russia’s largest technology company – which was banned in Ukraine in 2017 due to security concerns – launched its ultra-fast delivery service in 2019 in Moscow, and soon expanded into Tel Aviv and Paris. The 15-minute app-based grocer arrived in London in October last year. Yandex – which operates… Source link

Ohio State University will pull the plug on robots that deliver meals for GrubHub on campus after the meal service ended its partnership with Russia-based Yandex SDG. “Ohio State affirms and supports GrubHub’s decision to end their partnership with Yandex. We are in the process of ceasing the rover delivery option after completing any deliveries that are currently out on campus,” the university said in a statement. Grubhub had contracted with Yandex to provide about cooler-sized robots… Source link

Ohio State University will pull the plug on robots that deliver meals for GrubHub on campus after the meal service ended its partnership with Russia-based Yandex SDG. “Ohio State affirms and supports GrubHub’s decision to end their partnership with Yandex. We are in the process of ceasing the rover delivery option after completing any deliveries that are currently out on campus,” the university said in a statement. Grubhub had contracted with Yandex to provide about cooler-sized robots… Source link

Grubhub has canceled its contract with Russian company Yonder following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Credit: Kathleen Jones | Lantern Reporter Grubhub will end its partnership with Yandex, the Russian company that supplies on-campus food delivery robots at Ohio State. Grubhub is working with its campus partners like Ohio State to find alternate service options as the company shifts away from Yandex over time, Grubhub spokesperson Katie… Source link

Yandex, a Russian technology company, supplies the on-campus food delivery robots through Ohio State’s partnership with Grubhub. Credit: Tom Hanks | Lantern Reporter Following the invasion of Ukraine, some Buckeyes are wondering what the future holds for the Russian-made food delivery robots on Ohio State’s campus. Yandex, a Russian technology company, supplies the on-campus food delivery robots through Ohio State’s partnership with Grubhub. The robots remain operational —… Source link

Aas said sanctions have the greatest effect when they are enacted with all the EU member states, but the government is still discussing a ban. “Today, the Estonian government has not imposed any additional restrictions in addition to the European Union’s sanctions, but discussions on these possibilities will certainly continue in the government in the coming days,” the minister said. At the beginning of February, the Data Protection Inspectorate advised people to avoid using the app-based… Source link

It comes as platforms around the world take action against Russia’s state-backed media. The former head of news at Russia’s largest tech company has called on past colleagues to quit, accusing the business of censoring the invasion of Ukraine. Lev Gershenzon wrote in a Facebook post on Tuesday (1 March) that Yandex, which is behind one of the biggest search engines in Russia, is “a key element in hiding information about the war”. “Today is the… Source link

President Vladimir Putin (R) and Yandex CEO Arkady Volozh visit the Yandex headquarters in Moscow TASS via Getty Images Arkady Volozh, the tech entrepreneur behind Yandex—the Russian equivalent to search engines like Google and Yahoo—has seen the value of his stake in Russia’s top tech giant fall by over 60% since last Thursday, the day Putin attacked Ukraine. Volozh himself lost more than $400 million that day, as Russia’s wider business community… Source link

The former head of news at Yandex, a Russian search engine giant, urged his former coworkers to quit. Lev Gershenzon wrote on Facebook that Yandex is hiding info about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. He urged former coworkers to “stop being accomplices to a terrible crime.” … Source link