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WASHINGTON, July 19 (Reuters) – The United States and Germany are expected to announce a deal resolving their longstanding dispute over Russia’s $11 billion Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline in coming days, sources familiar with the matter said on Monday. U.S. President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Angela Merkel failed to settle their differences over the undersea pipeline when they met last week, but agreed Moscow must not be allowed to use energy as a weapon against its neighbors. A deal… Source link

Yandex.Rover autonomous delivery robot on a snow-covered route to transport online food orders … [+] Russia’s largest internet company, Yandex NV, is deploying suitcase-sized robots that seek to provide takeaway despite a winter snowstorm.Photographer: Andrey Rudakov / Bloomberg © 2020 Bloomberg Finance LP Yandex, a Russian technology company working on self-driving systems, has partnered with GrubHub to deploy a fleet of delivery robots on selected university campuses in the United… Source link

MOSCOW, RUSSIA and AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS / ACCESSWIRE / July 8, 2021 / Yandex (NASDAQ and MOEX:YNDX) today announced it will report its financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2021, on Wednesday, July 28, 2021. On that day, management will hold a conference call and webcast at 8:00 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time (3:00 p.m. Moscow time, 1:00 p.m. London time) to review and discuss the Company’s results for the second quarter. Second Quarter 2021 Financial Results Conference Call Wednesday,… Source link

Jio Platforms, run by India’s richest man (Mukesh Ambani), and Google on Thursday unveiled the JioPhone Next, an affordable Android smartphone, as the top Indian telecom operator makes further push to expand its reach in the world’s second largest internet market. The Indian firm, which secured $4.5 billion investment from Google (and another $15.5 billion from Facebook and others) last year and shared plans to work on low-cost smartphones, said the JioPhone Next is aimed at… Source link

(Pocket-lint) – Google has updated the Google Phone app with a new feature: Caller ID announcement. With enabled, the app can announce who’s calling when your phone rings. The feature, first spotted by 9to5Google, is now rolling out. Here’s how to set it up when it becomes available to you. How to set up Caller ID announcement When setting up Caller ID announcement in Google’s phone app, you can reportedly… Source link

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are making big moves to expand their business empire — one year after exiting the royal family. Riding the momentum from a blockbuster televised interview, the couple made several announcements this week, including a new partnership with Proctor and Gamble (PG), the same company a young Meghan Markle called out over sexist ads 28 years ago.  The multi-year, global initiative was publicized through the couple’s Archewell Foundation, and is set to “focus on… Source link

Five fellows for the 2020-21 Black List and Google Assistant Storytelling Fellowship were announced Monday. The program will provide financial and creative support to five writers in the development and execution of a new original feature film script or TV pilot under the condition that the project tells a contemporary story from the perspective of historically underrepresented communities. Each of the five scribes will be awarded $20,000 (two are part of one writing team and… Source link

Microsoft (MSFT) co-founder Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, will separate after 27 years together, the billionaire announced on Monday, ending a marriage that launched an influential globe-spanning philanthropic and humanitarian empire.  Via Twitter, Gates — one of the world’s wealthiest men — said that he and his wife remain committed to their “mission” as philanthropists, but “we no longer believe we can grow together as a couple in this next phase of our lives.” The philanthropic… Source link

Bloomberg SoftBank Nears End of $23 Billion Buyback, Imperiling Rally (Bloomberg) — Masayoshi Son has run almost all the way through $23 billion allocated to buy back SoftBank Group Corp. shares, raising concerns that his stock’s bull run will end without rapid intervention.The Tokyo-based company purchased more than $20 billion worth of its own shares over the past year through March, according to SoftBank filings, an unprecedented effort that more than doubled the value of the stock. Now,… Source link

The Telegraph Royal family release unseen pictures of Duke of Edinburgh surrounded by great-grandchildren Until now it had remained a cherished family photograph, unseen by the rest of the world. Showing the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh surrounded by seven of their great-grandchildren at Balmoral Castle, the precious image had been kept under wraps. But Prince Philip’s death at the age of 99 on Friday has prompted the 94-year-old monarch to open the treasured royal family album in memory of… Source link