Get inside Wall Street with StreetInsider Premium. Claim your 1-week free trial here. MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian tech firm VK on Tuesday said it had exited its joint venture with top lender Sberbank, paving the way for a deal with competitor Yandex that may have significant ramifications on Russia’s internet industry. Leading internet firm Yandex said it had agreed to sell its news aggregator and yandex.ru homepage to state-controlled rival VK, a move that will likely further limit… Source link
Read More »Russia’s VK drops Sberbank venture as part of Yandex tech deal
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian tech firm VK on Tuesday said it had exited its joint venture with top lender Sberbank, paving the way for a deal with competitor Yandex that may have significant ramifications on Russia’s internet industry. Leading internet firm Yandex said it had agreed to sell its news aggregator and yandex.ru homepage to state-controlled rival VK, a move that will likely further limit Russians’ access to independent media. VK said it had exited its O2O… Source link
Read More »Russia’s VK drops Sberbank venture as part of Yandex tech deal
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian tech firm VK on Tuesday said it had exited its joint venture with top lender Sberbank, paving the way for a deal with competitor Yandex that may have significant ramifications on Russia’s internet industry. Leading internet firm Yandex said it had agreed to sell its news aggregator and yandex.ru homepage to state-controlled rival VK, a move that will likely further limit Russians’ access to independent media. VK said it had exited its O2O Holding joint venture with… Source link
Read More »Russia’s VK drops Sberbank venture as part of Yandex tech deal
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian tech firm VK on Tuesday said it had exited its joint venture with top lender Sberbank, paving the way for a deal with competitor Yandex that may have significant ramifications on Russia’s internet industry. Leading internet firm Yandex said it had agreed to sell its news aggregator and yandex.ru homepage to state-controlled rival VK, a move that will likely further limit Russians’ access to independent media. VK said it had exited its O2O… Source link
Read More »Yahoo Sports’ Chris Haynes set to participate in BIG3 Celebrity Game as part of championship weekend
The BIG3 is going big. As part of the league’s championship weekend, it will hold its first-ever All-Star Game and a Celebrity Game benefiting underprivileged youth. Yahoo Sports senior NBA reporter Chris Haynes will participate in the Celebrity Game at 2 p.m. ET Sunday at State Farm Arena in Atlanta. The game will air on CBS on Sept. 4. The two Celebrity Game teams will be coached by Ice Cube (captain, Rob Gronkowski) and Clyde Drexler (captain, Nelly). Haynes will be joined by other Celebrity… Source link
Read More »Mickey Rourke criticizes ‘irrelevant’ Tom Cruise for playing the ‘same effing part for 35 years’
Don’t expect Mickey Rourke to ever play Tom Cruise‘s wingman. The Wrestler actor, 69, was asked about Cruise’s recent billion dollar box office success with Top Gun: Maverick and gave his honest opinion about his “irrelevant” peer. “That doesn’t mean s*** to me,” Rourke said on Piers Morgan Uncensored. “The guy’s been doing the same effing part for 35 years, ya know? I’ve got no respect for that.” Rourke went on to say, “I don’t care about money and power. I care about when I watch Al Pacino… Source link
Read More »bne IntelliNews – Oil embargo, SWIFT, Yandex CEO and National Depository part of EU’s sixth sanction package
The European Council has officially adopted the EU sixth sanction package for Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine, according to the June 3 announcement and the official EU journal entry. As followed by bne IntelliNews, the EU leaders have agreed in principle to cut 90% of Russian oil imports… Source link
Read More »bne IntelliNews – Oil embargo, SWIFT, Yandex CEO and National Depository part of EU’s sixth sanction package
The European Council has officially adopted the EU sixth sanction package for Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine, according to the June 3 announcement and the official EU journal entry. As followed by bne IntelliNews, the EU leaders have agreed in principle to cut 90% of Russian oil imports… Source link
Read More »bne IntelliNews – Oil embargo, SWIFT, Yandex CEO and National Depository part of EU’s sixth sanction package
The European Council has officially adopted the EU sixth sanction package for Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine, according to the June 3 announcement and the official EU journal entry. As followed by bne IntelliNews, the EU leaders have agreed in principle to cut 90% of Russian oil imports… Source link
Read More »Delaware County judge allows part of case against Google to proceed
Attorney General Dave Yost hailed a Delaware County judge’s decision last week in his case against Google. But the preliminary decision on the search giant’s motion to dismiss was only a partial victory for the state — an invitation to make its case that Google should be regulated as a common carrier. Common carriers have traditionally been thought of as entities that transport people or goods and are generally open to the public — think shipping… Source link
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