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“Alisa”, the voice assistant from Russian tech firm Yandex, is now available for Russia’s VTB Bank (MCX: VTBR). She’ll be able to inform consumers about the products, tariffs and the banking platform’s services. She can also go over loan applications and offer advice or suggestion on how to keep savings profitable. In order to use the service, you just have to tell Alice: “Start the skill” VTB Assistant.” As reported by Finextra, this may be done from the Yandex app via a… Source link

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Adventurous Muscovites may soon be able to travel around parts of Moscow in driverless taxis as Russian tech giant Yandex plans to start testing the autonomous vehicles in the city this year, the company said on Wednesday. Yandex, which operates a raft of services from online search to food delivery, has been testing self-driving technology for more than three years in Russia, Israel and the United States. Robotaxis will available through the company’s Yandex.Go… Source link

A view shows a fragment of a Hyundai Sonata automobile during an event, organized by Yandex company to present the new generation of its self-driving car developed in cooperation with Hyundai, in Moscow, Russia May 27, 2020. Picture taken May 27, 2020. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov MOSCOW, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Adventurous Muscovites may soon be able to travel around parts of Moscow in driverless taxis as Russian tech giant Yandex (YNDX.O) plans to start testing the autonomous vehicles in the city… Source link

Google has backtracked on plans to welcome most workers back to its sprawling campus in September, becoming the latest Silicon Valley company to delay reopening amid a surge in Covid cases. The company announced Wednesday it is postponing a return to the office until mid-October and rolling out a policy that will eventually require everyone who returns in person to be vaccinated. The decision sees Google join Apple and Netflix in postponing calling employees back to the office due to concerns… Source link

By David French and Jessica DiNapoli NEW YORK (Reuters) – No calls, no emails and no meetings. That’s the order this week from Aquiline Capital Partners to its staff. The private equity firm is putting all employees on vacation, people familiar with the matter said. It’s an unusual move intended to recognize employees and avoid burnout from the physical and mental pressure of the COVID-19 pandemic and the frenetic pace of dealmaking. Aquiline has more than $6 billion in assets and over 60… Source link

The logo of Google is seen on a building at La Defense business and financial district in Courbevoie near Paris, France, September 1, 2020. REUTERS/Charles Platiau TOKYO, July 13 (Reuters) – Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) has agreed to buy payments business Pring from backers including fintech firm Metaps Inc (6172.T) as the U.S. tech giant pushes into Japan’s rapidly growing market for cashless services. The startup’s three top shareholders – Metaps, software company Miroku Jyoho Service Co Ltd… Source link

By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss (Reuters) – Cryptocurrency company Bullish announced on Friday it had agreed to go public on the New York Stock Exchange through a merger with Far Peak Acquisition, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), in a $9 billion deal. Bullish, a unit of blockchain software company Block.one, plans to launch a regulated crypto exchange later this year. The company is backed by billionaire entrepreneur Peter Thiel’s Thiel Capital and Founders Fund, British hedge fund… Source link

(Bloomberg) — China’s technology giants have seen a combined $823 billion wiped from their market value since a February peak, with Beijing’s expanding crackdown on the sector fueling investor concern that the selloff is far from over. Authorities on Tuesday issued a sweeping warning to the nation’s biggest companies, vowing to tighten oversight of data security and overseas listings just days after Didi Global Inc.’s contentious decision to go public in the U.S. That has put further… Source link

The financial management fund appointed to help oversee Britney Spears’ estate wants to be removed. (Getty) The financial management fund appointed to help oversee Britney Spears‘ estate has asked to be withdrawn from the role.  It’s another development in the controversial conservatorship of the pop star, who described the situation as “abusive” in a testimony last week.  The Bessemer Trust had been appointed as co-conservator of her financial affairs along with her father Jamie… Source link

Members of the South Florida Urban Search and Rescue team look for possible survivors in the partially collapsed 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building on June 26, 2021 in Surfside, Florida. Joe Raedle/Getty Images An engineering firm said it’s “deeply troubled” by the Florida condo collapse. Morabito Consultants documented “major structural damage” at the building in 2018. Officials have confirmed five deaths so far, with 156 people still unaccounted for. Visit Insider’s homepage for… Source link