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Russian internet group Yandex has introduced its digital voice assistant Alice on its smart TV sets. The upgrade will be available on all devices by default. Alice voice commands can be used to search for TV channels, films and video files on the Kinopoisk, as well as on YouTube and Yandex.Video, to respond to questions, announce news, manage smart home services and perform other functions. Yandex introduced its own smart TV platform for entry-level TVs earlier this April. The… Source link

The payment service Yandex.Checkout is changing its name outside Russia to YooMoney. The company will complete the transition after 15 December, and, up to that date, the new brand and the old one will be used simultaneously.  YooMoney serves 120,000 online platforms and mobile applications from 75 countries, according to Ivan Glazachev, the CEO of YooMoney. It was the No. 1 online payment service provider in Russia and CIS according to the 2019 statistics provided by… Source link

By Anna Rzhevkina, Alexander Marrow GDANSK/MOSCOW (Reuters) – The coronavirus crisis has helped fuel a surge in online shopping in Russia that has put even the remote icy expanse of Chukotka on the e-commerce map. FILE PHOTO: A Yandex.Eats food delivery courier wearing a protective face mask rides a scooter amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Moscow, Russia April 12, 2020. Picture taken April 12, 2020. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo The windswept region in Russia’s far… Source link

on November 17, 2020 at 8:00 am Russian internet provider Mail.Ru has teamed up with smartphone maker Prestigio to release a new smart speaker. The Prestigio SmartVoice, called a ‘smart column’ by the Russian companies, is the second built with Mail.Ru’s Marusya voice assistant after the Capsule smart speaker released earlier this year. Mini Column The SmartVoice comes in the semi-standard cylinder form, with buttons on top and a fabric covered middle… Source link

The Russian company Yandex has agreed with the Moscow authorities on the project of a new headquarters. It will appear on the site of the former Korston Hotel on Kosygin Street, the building of which is planned to be dismantled by the end of 2020. This is reported by RBC with reference to Moskomarkhitektura. Related materials 00:03 – July, 12 Place of power How to change cities so that people do not want to escape from there According to the chief architect of the capital,… Source link

Yandex has long been called the Google of Russia. However, it also wants to be Russia’s Uber, Amazon, Netflix and Wolt. Moscow As one on the autumn day of Moscow Darja Sonkinan began to make up the mind of watermelon. Very big, ripe and sweet watermelon. Usually he buys fruit from the hall and the market, but now he was tired and not amused anyway to go in the rain to drag the melon to the car and then to the third floor. So he ordered it from his doorstep online store JandeksLavka. . Source link

A $1.6bn tech joint venture between Russia’s giant state-owned bank Sberbank and Mail.ru, the owner of the country’s largest social network, has been plagued by management and cultural clashes that may lead to a “divorce”, according to several people familiar with the situation. Sberbank and Mail.ru announced the JV last July, pledging to combine their ride-hailing, food apps and delivery services to create Russia’s “leading platform in mobility and food… Source link

UNITED STATES—The digital world is revolutionized by tech giants like Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc. You read and hear about them almost every day in the headlines of the news, on print and electronic media. Word Google has become another name for a search engine. But there is a lot more about the internet than Google, Facebook, and Amazon. No doubt, these American companies are being used by billions of people all around the world, but it does not mean that they are sufficing the… Source link

Yandex (NASDAQ:YNDX) was upgraded by investment analysts at BidaskClub from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a report issued on Tuesday, BidAskClub reports. YNDX has been the topic of a number of other research reports. TheStreet raised shares of Yandex from a “c+” rating to a “b” rating in a research report on Wednesday, October 28th. Zacks Investment Research raised shares of Yandex from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating and set a $65.00 price target on the stock in a research report… Source link

Sonatype security researchers found malicious code in an npm package, which is designed to steal sensitive files from Google Chrome, Brave, Opera, Yandex browsers and Discord application. Sonatype is a security company that offers developer security operations (DevSecOps) services, so it also monitors public package repositories. The company said discord.dll has been downloaded for more than 100 times since it was published over five months… Source link