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Aug 23 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) launched Google Wallet in South Africa on Tuesday, as the tech giant tries to gain a foothold in the country’s rapidly growing digital payments space. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the shift to digital transactions and people increasingly prefer making contactless payments via their smart devices. High smartphone penetration has also helped adoption rates. The Google Wallet app stores a consumer’s credit or debit card information and allows… Source link

Russian tech giant Yandex said Tuesday it has reached a “binding” deal to sell its news platform and homepage to rival VK as war-related sanctions fuel uncertainty over the Russian tech industry’s future. VK said it exited its joint venture with top lender Sberbank to pave the way for the deal with Yandex, once considered the jewel of Russia’s rising IT scene. Yandex said it is pursuing a “strategic exit from its media businesses” with the sale of Yandex.News, Yandex.ru and… Source link

The former head of Russia’s top tech firm Yandex Tigran Khudaverdyan has challenged sanctions against him over the Ukraine war in a European Union court. Khudaverdyan filed a lawsuit on June 7 demanding the European Council lift its “discriminatory and disproportionate” sanctions against him. The lawsuit was first reported by TV channel RTVI on Monday evening.  Khudaverdyan quit as Yandex executive director and deputy CEO in March after being hit with an EU asset freeze and… Source link

All Russian businesses have been affected by the fallout from the war and Western sanctions, but “perhaps the most dramatic events have unfolded at Yandex,” writes TheBell, a respected Russian online publication, in its English edition. While founder Arkady Volozh and head Tigran Khudaverdyan were sanctioned by the European Union, “compromises with the authorities have led the country’s leading IT company into a trap.” Yandex is now divided internally, as “some top managers… Source link

NEW YORK, July 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ – Voyager Digital LLC, the operating platform of Voyager Digital Ltd. (“Voyager” or the “Company”) (TSX: VOYG) (OTCQX: VYGVF) (FRA: UCD2), announced it is temporarily suspending trading, deposits, withdrawals and loyalty rewards, effective at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time today. Voyager Digital, Ltd. (CNW Group/Voyager Digital Ltd.) “This was a tremendously difficult decision, but we believe it is the right one given current market conditions,” said

DirecTV and Yahoo are getting cozy with a strategic partnership to unlock the full potential of addressable TV and streaming inventories. The tie-up will see Yahoo become the exclusive one-stop demand-side platform for advertisers wishing to access the video programming distributor’s content, permitting different ads to be shown to different households while they watch the same program. The pairing aims to restore order to an increasingly fragmented TV… Source link

WASHINGTON, May 26 (Reuters) – Republican Senators want to bar U.S. app stores including Apple and Google from hosting apps that allow payments to be made with China’s digital currency, according to a copy of proposed legislation seen by Reuters, amid fears the payment system could allow Beijing to spy on Americans. The bill to be unveiled on Thursday by Senators Tom Cotton, Marco Rubio and Mike Braun states that companies that own or control app stores “shall not carry or support any app in… Source link

While Google’s I/O developer conference isn’t exclusively dedicated to the digital workplace, there are enough announcements on workplace technologies to make it worthwhile taking a deeper dive, so that will be the focus of our news wrap up this week.  Google made a number announcements this year which look liked interesting additions to any organization operating in Google environments, particularly for those operating in a hybrid environment. So with no further ado, five… Source link

That uproar you hear? It’s SEOs calling out Google today.  Google’s new Digital Marketing & E-commerce certification course, which was announced May 2, includes cringe-worthy SEO advice so shockingly bad that one of Google’s search advocates – Danny Sullivan – is disavowing it. What happened. It all started with a tweet from international SEO consultant Gianluca Fiorelli. In it, he shared this screenshot of a slide discussing how to avoid keyword stuffing: This is Google’s official… Source link

Iván Markman, chief business officer, Yahoo, believes ‘commerce everywhere’ is going to be one of the emerging trends. Iván Markman joined Verizon Media in early 2019 as its chief business officer. Later, when Verizon media became Yahoo again in September 2021, he filled in the same role at the newly constituted Yahoo. After a successful start, there is no denying that Yahoo’s path has been full of twists and turns after many significant changes in the… Source link