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(Adds background, Kudrin detail) By Alexander Marrow MOSCOW, Dec 30 (Reuters) – The co-founder of Russian internet giant Yandex, Arkady Volozh, said goodbye in an internal message to staff on Friday ahead of a corporate restructuring that could see ownership of many of the firm’s core services change hands. Volozh stepped down as CEO and left the board of directors after the European Union included him on its list of sanctions against Russian entities and individuals in June. Volozh called the… Source link

STORY CONTINUES BELOW THESE SALTWIRE VIDEOS By Alexander Marrow MOSCOW (Reuters) -The co-founder of Russian internet giant Yandex, Arkady Volozh, said goodbye in an internal message to staff on Friday ahead of a corporate restructuring that could see ownership of many of the firm’s core services change hands. Volozh stepped down as CEO and left the board of directors after the European Union… Source link

By Alexander Marrow MOSCOW (Reuters) -The co-founder of Russian internet giant Yandex, Arkady Volozh, said goodbye in an internal message to staff on Friday ahead of a corporate restructuring that could see ownership of many of the firm’s core services change hands. Volozh stepped down as CEO and left the board of directors after the European Union included him on its list of sanctions against Russian entities and individuals in June. Volozh called the EU’s decision “misguided”. Yandex, often… Source link

Florida and Georgia issued a joint statement on Sunday morning condemning an antisemitic message that was projected onto the exterior of TIAA Bank Field after the Bulldogs’ 42-20 win over the Gators. The message positively referenced Kanye West’s antisemitic remarks earlier this month. The statement from the school not only denounced what was projected onto the stadium but “other antisemitic messages” in the city of Jacksonville. “We strongly condemn the antisemitic hate speech… Source link

Nearly every day this week, a new lawmaker has lined up behind the growing effort to codify into law a fundamental rethinking of the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia. On Monday, Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), the influential head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released a statement calling for the US to “immediately freeze all aspects of our cooperation with Saudi Arabia.” Later in the week, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Rep. Ro Khanna released a bill to temporarily halt… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Thursday, September 22, 2022 Today’s newsletter is by Jared Blikre, a reporter focused on the markets on Yahoo Finance. Follow him on Twitter @SPYJared. Stocks are finally listening to Jay Powell and the Federal Reserve. In a highly anticipated move Wednesday, the Federal Reserve hiked its benchmark interest rate by 0.75 percentage points after… Source link

U.S. stock futures sank lower to start the week, extending a sell-off that began Friday after a hawkish speech by Fed Chair Jerome Powell at the central bank’s gathering in Jackson Hole. Futures tied to the S&P 500 tumbled 0.9%, and futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by roughly the same margin, or 290 points. Contracts on the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite shed 1.2%. Meanwhile in the bond market, the benchmark 10-year Treasury note surged above 3%, and the 2-year Treasury yield… Source link

Will Android and Apple ever play nice? Photo: Florence Ion / Gizmodo This week, alongside a massive unveiling of brand new foldable devices and accessories from Samsung, Google put out its own ad campaign in an attempt to rally the troops against Apple’s tyrannical reign on messaging. Google’s #getthemessage campaign hopes to stoke the flames of millions of bothered Android fans so that Apple might be encouraged to support RCS messaging, the cross-platform standard recently adopted by… Source link

Back in January, on the day when two of his schools (Georgia and Alabama) would again compete for the national championship, SEC commissioner Greg Sankey made a final pitch for the establishment of a new College Football Playoff. It featured 12 teams. The field would be made up of six guaranteed bids to the top six conference champions, plus six more selected by a committee. The top four champs would receive a first-round bye. The opening-round games would be played on the campus of the… Source link

Russian search engine Yandex has many US investors, and is being used by Vladimir Putin to spread propaganda on a global scale. (Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images) Yandex, Russia’s equivalent of Google, is being used by more than half a dozen Russian-language news sites to post ads in articles that spread false claims about the Ukraine war, according to a recent report by the… Source link