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Updated Feb 26, 2024, 04:14pm EST Topline Google parent Alphabet lost some $90 billion in market value Monday as controversy over the Silicon Valley giant’s generative artificial intelligence product made its way to Wall Street. significant headaches from his company’s generative AI chatbot. AFP via Getty Images Key Facts Shares of Alphabet fell 4.5% to $138.75 Monday, closing at its lowest price since Jan. 5 and registering its second-steepest daily loss of the last year. … Source link

The Dutch parent of top Russian internet search engine Yandex, often called the “Google” of Russia, has sold the business to a special-purpose Russian mutual fund at a heavily discounted $5.2 billion and is pulling out of the country completely. Yandex has no connection to Google or parent company Alphabet. File Photo by Maxim Shipenkov/EPA Feb. 6 (UPI) — The… Source link

The Netherlands-based parent company of the Yandex group is selling its Russian businesses to local investors for $5.2 billion, the company announced on Monday. Despite a mandatory discount of at least half enforced by the Kremlin, this would be the largest corporate exit from Russia since it invaded Ukraine two years ago. Yandex, often referred to as “Russia’s Google,” was founded in Russia in the late 1990s and went public on the Nasdaq in 2011 via a company called Yandex NV registered… Source link

The parent firm of Russia’s most prominent technology company, Yandex, said it has agreed to sell all its assets in the country for about $5 billion, which would be one of the largest corporate exits from Russia since its invasion of Ukraine. The invasion had roiled Yandex — often referred to as “Russia’s Google” — and turned its attempts to navigate between the Kremlin’s authoritarian policies and a Western blockade of the Russian economy into the most dramatic example of the… Source link

Yandex, N.V. has agreed to sell its Russian assets – including the Yandex search engine – as part of a deal worth 475 billion rubles (roughly $5.2 billion). Reports of a coming sale emerged in November. The sale still will need regulatory and shareholder approval. About the sale. Yandex N.V., the Dutch parent company of the Yandex Group, agreed to sell all of its Russia-based assets, including Search, to a consortium… Source link

The Dutch parent of pioneering Russian tech company Yandex is selling its operations in the country at a steeply discounted price of just over $5 billion to its Russia-based managers and oil company Lukoil By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer February 5, 2024, 8:29 AM ET • 3 min read FRANKFURT, Germany — The Dutch parent of pioneering Russian tech company Yandex is selling its operations in the country at a steeply discounted price of just over $5 billion to its Russia-based managers and oil… Source link

After a year and a half of negotiations, Yandex founder Arkady Volozh and foreign shareholders have reached a deal to part ways with the company’s Russian assets. The Russian IT giant’s Netherlands-based parent company announced Monday that it will sell a large portion of its operations to a consortium of Russian investors before rebranding and continuing to develop its remaining international properties. The Russian investment fund making the purchase, called Consortium.First, includes… Source link

Yandex, often described as Russia’s Google, has sold its domestic businesses at a knock-down price. Bloomberg reports the search and services giant, now headquartered in the Netherlands, has handed off its Russian operations for 475 billion rubles ($5.2 billion) in cash and shares. The new owners include the management group, as well as Russia’s biggest domestic energy company, Lukoil, and Russian businessman and a former executive at Gazprom, Alexander Ryazanov, among others. Now that… Source link

Yandex NV reached an agreement to sell its Russian business, including the nation’s most popular search engine, for about $5.2 billion, the highest-valued deal yet to exit Russia following the invasion of Ukraine. The divorce, which took more than a year to negotiate, opens the way for Yandex, which has been registered in the Netherlands since 2007, to develop some projects abroad after divesting Russian units that had generated most of its revenue. Yandex management will get the biggest… Source link

Yandex is set to be sold to a group of Russian investors. Yandex NV, the Dutch parent company of Yandex, announced today that it has reached a $5.21 billion deal to sell most of its Russian operations to a consortium led by investors with ties to Russian oil giant Lukoil. Under the terms of the deal, a new investment fund, Consortium.First, will acquire Yandex”s leading search, advertising, ride-hailing, and other services that generate over 95% of its… Source link