Tag Archives: Russia

Robots from Yandex, a tech giant which is kind of like Russia’s Google, have started making restaurant deliveries in the Russian cities of Moscow and Innopolis, the company announced in a corporate blog post today. The Yandex.Rover robots are six-wheeled, cooler-sized robots similar to those from Starship and Kiwibot. They work in conjunction with Yandex.Eats, the company’s restaurant and grocery delivery service that has more than 30,000 merchants across 166 cities. Via the… Source link

A common defense of President Trump’s refusal to concede the 2020 election is that he’s simply taking revenge on his liberal opponents, in particular those who doubted the legitimacy of the 2016 election because of Russian interference. “The media gave Russia Collusion 3.5 years. We can give Team Trump three and a half weeks,” tweeted Jenna Ellis, a member of the Trump campaign’s legal team that has failed to provide any evidence in court of cheating in the 2020 election. Ellis was… Source link

MOSCOW, November 24. /TASS/. IT company Yandex topped the rating of the 50 best employers in Russia according to the Forbes magazine, according to the rating published by the magazine on Tuesday. The rating includes companies that have received the maximum scores on the following metrics: salary, working conditions, social package, in-house training, job creation, investment in infrastructure, demand, concern for the environment, and charity. Also this year, a survey of experts had an… Source link

The payment service Yandex.Checkout is changing its name outside Russia to YooMoney. The company will complete the transition after 15 December, and, up to that date, the new brand and the old one will be used simultaneously.  YooMoney serves 120,000 online platforms and mobile applications from 75 countries, according to Ivan Glazachev, the CEO of YooMoney. It was the No. 1 online payment service provider in Russia and CIS according to the 2019 statistics provided by… Source link

Operator Tele2 Russia has launched a service delivering SIMs by taxi drivers taking bookings through Yandex.Taxi, reports Tdaily.ru. The service is available in the city of St Petersburg, as well in almost ten municipalities in the St Petersburg region, including Vyborg, Vsevolozhsk, Gatchina, Kingisepp, Krasnoye-Selo, Pushkin and Sosnovy-Bor. Cab drivers get the address of the closest Tele2 Russia shop to collect a SIM, as well as the address of the customer. During daytime hours,… Source link

Yandex‘s (NASDAQ:YNDX) stock recently dipped after the Russian tech company posted mixed third-quarter numbers and warned of rising COVID-19 cases across the country. Its revenue rose 30% year-over-year to 58.3 billion rubles ($732.1 million), which missed expectations by $21.8 million. On a like-for-like… Source link

Workers at the Wildberries distribution center in Podolsk, Russia.  Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg Covid-19 has driven a projected 10 million more Russian consumers online,… Source link

Workers at the Wildberries distribution center in Podolsk, Russia.  Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg Covid-19 has driven a projected 10 million more Russian consumers online,… Source link

Clara Ferreira Marques is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering commodities and environmental, social and governance issues. Previously, she was an associate editor for Reuters Breakingviews, and editor and correspondent for Reuters in Singapore, India, the U.K., Italy and Russia. Read more opinion … Source link

Following last week’s reports, Swedish music-streaming leader Spotify (NYSE:SPOT) has officially launched in Russia, along with a dozen other markets in Eastern Europe. The other countries are Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia,… Source link