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Tatiana Akhmedova in London in March 2018. Photographer: David Mirzoeff/PA Images/Getty Images Photographer: David Mirzoeff/PA Images/Getty Images Google was ordered by a U.S. judge to turn over the content of emails of the… Source link

One of Russia’s most successful technology companies, Yandex, has launched an online grocery delivery service in Israel as part of its international expansion program. The service, which has expanded greatly in Russia since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, will operate in Israel under a new brand, Deli, according to the company’s statement. Read more … Source link

By Anna Rzhevkina, Alexander Marrow GDANSK/MOSCOW (Reuters) – The coronavirus crisis has helped fuel a surge in online shopping in Russia that has put even the remote icy expanse of Chukotka on the e-commerce map. FILE PHOTO: A Yandex.Eats food delivery courier wearing a protective face mask rides a scooter amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Moscow, Russia April 12, 2020. Picture taken April 12, 2020. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo The windswept region in Russia’s far… Source link

on November 17, 2020 at 8:00 am Russian internet provider Mail.Ru has teamed up with smartphone maker Prestigio to release a new smart speaker. The Prestigio SmartVoice, called a ‘smart column’ by the Russian companies, is the second built with Mail.Ru’s Marusya voice assistant after the Capsule smart speaker released earlier this year. Mini Column The SmartVoice comes in the semi-standard cylinder form, with buttons on top and a fabric covered middle… Source link

An archive photo VITEBSK, 22 October (BelTA) – The Belarusian TV manufacturer Vityas has designed and is about to start making smart TV sets powered by a multimedia platform of the… Source link

The recently proposed merger between Yandex, a major Russia-based tech firm, and banking challenger Tinkoff will not be finalized because the bank’s founder Oleg Tinkov has walked away from the deal. Tinkoff’s management confirmed that all negotiations between the two parties have now been “terminated, effective immediately.” Yandex and Tinkoff had previously reached an agreement “in principle” which would have led to the tech giant acquiring the challenger bank in a $5.5… Source link

Tinkoff, Russia’s leading online bank, has pulled out of a $5.5bn sale to search giant Yandex that would have represented a major shake-up to the country’s tech and finance industries. Yandex said on Friday that “it has not been able to agree definitive transaction terms with the core shareholders of Tinkoff” and that the parties had decided to conclude the negotiations. The collapse ends a year and a half of talks over what would have been a substantial tie-up at a… Source link

Yandex and Sberbank’s fight to gain control of Russia’s finance and technology industries is being billed as the corporate showdown of the decade. “Sberbank versus Yandex: The battle of the super platforms has begun,” declared Russian business daily Vedomosti last week. Novaya Gazeta went further, dubbing it a “war of the ecosystems.” The clash — which has been brewing in the background for years — took center stage last week when… Source link

Shares of Russian internet major Yandex jumped by 14% on the Moscow Exchange on September 23, on top of 11% gain on September 22, to record-high RUB5,300 ($69) per share on the announcement of the acquisition of Russia’s only pure online bank Tinkoff from the banking TCS Group.  As reported by bne… Source link

A visitor walks past a logo displayed in the reception area at the headquarters of Yandex NV in Moscow. Photographer: Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr./Bloomberg Photographer: Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr./Bloomberg Months after… Source link