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Google tests a feature that calls businesses on your behalf and holds until an agent is available

Google tests a feature that calls businesses on your behalf and holds until an agent is available

Image Credits: Alex Tai/SOPA Images/LightRocket / Getty Images Google is testing a new feature that will place a call to a business on your behalf, wait on hold and then give you a call once a live representative is available, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. The new feature, called “Talk to a Live Rep,” would get rid of the need for users to wait countless minutes, and sometimes hours, listening to hold music trying to get connected to a customer service agent. The… Source link

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Yandex parent company to sell its Russian businesses for $5.2 billion

Yandex parent company to sell its Russian businesses for $5.2 billion

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

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Yandex to sell its remaining Russian businesses for $5.2B — half its market value

Yandex to sell its remaining Russian businesses for $5.2B — half its market value

Image Credits: YURI KADOBNOV/AFP / Getty Images Yandex N.V., the Dutch parent company of the eponymous Russian internet giant, is selling the last of its remaining Russian businesses at a steep discount, following geopolitical pressures that emerged from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine two years ago. The value of the transaction, which will include the sale of all Yandex N.V. businesses in Russia and a handful of neighboring markets, will amount to around 475 billion rubles… Source link

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