Some sources in this article are in Russian! Yandex (NASDAQ:YNDX) is a major Russian technological company, whose core product is the fourth-largest search engine in the world by queries. The company also owns taxi, carsharing and food delivery services, an e-commerce platform, media and cloud services etc. Yandex accounts for 59.1% of the Russian market related to the internet search. The company continues to diversify its income thanks to rapid growth of revenue generated by new business… Source link
Read More »Yandex launches new ads service for SMEs
Russian internet search engine Yandex has launched its new service Yandex.Business, an advertising service focused on SMEs. The service facilitates placement of advertising on the internet, even by small businesses. A subscription to the new tool enables customers to launch an advertising campaign on the web without any special knowledge. Ads can be placed on the search engine, on the mapping service of Yandex, as well as on its other platforms and more than 40,000 partner… Source link
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UK: Ocado Retail CEO to be City Food lecturer 2021Organisers of the City Food Lecture have announced that the 2021 lecture will be given by Mel Smith, CEO of Ocado Retail, the world’s largest dedicated online supermarket. Formed in August 2019, Ocado Retail is a 50-50 joint venture between M&S and Ocado Group. It is responsible for ocado.com, online pet store Fetch and Ocado Zoom, a one-hour grocery service. Ocado Retail serves 350,000 households a week and has a 15% share of the… Source link
Read More »Yandex Brings Alice Voice Assistant to Smart TV Platform
on November 24, 2020 at 7:00 am Russian tech search engine giant Yandex has added the Alice voice assistant to its smart TV platform. Alice allows watchers to use voice commands to search and control playback, continuing Yandex’s efforts to make Alice more widely available and continuing a recent burst of new integrations between voice assistants and smart TVs. Alice TV Yandex launched its smart TV platform in April, working with nine television… Source link
Read More »Russian internet giant Yandex launches food delivery service in Israel — RT Business News
One of Russia’s most successful technology companies, Yandex, has launched an online grocery delivery service in Israel as part of its international expansion program. The service, which has expanded greatly in Russia since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, will operate in Israel under a new brand, Deli, according to the company’s statement. Read more … Source link
Read More »Yandex tops Forbes rating list of best employers in Russia – Business & Economy
MOSCOW, November 24. /TASS/. IT company Yandex topped the rating of the 50 best employers in Russia according to the Forbes magazine, according to the rating published by the magazine on Tuesday. The rating includes companies that have received the maximum scores on the following metrics: salary, working conditions, social package, in-house training, job creation, investment in infrastructure, demand, concern for the environment, and charity. Also this year, a survey of experts had an… Source link
Read More »Yandex adds digital assistant Alice to smart TVs
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
Read More »Yandex.Checkout to work under YooMoney name outside Russia
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
Read More »COVID-19 crisis: a shot in the arm for Russian e-commerce
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
Read More »Mail.Ru Partners With Smartphone Maker Prestigio to Launch New Russian Smart Speaker
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
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