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ST. PETERSBURG, June 3. /TASS/. Russia’s digital services provider Rostelecom and IT giant Yandex will present joint cloud services for business and the public sector, according to the joint message of the companies. According to the statement, the partnership between the two companies includes joint development and implementation of solutions using the Yandex.Cloud platform and Rostelecom services for clients in the corporate and government segments. All services will comply with the… Source link

The logo for Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seen at the SIBOS banking and financial conference in Toronto, Ontario, Canada October 19, 2017. REUTERS/Chris Helgren Israel’s government said on Monday it had signed a deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS) (AMZN.O) and Google (GOOGL.O) for a more than $1 billion project to provide cloud services for the country’s public sector and military. A month ago, AWS and Google won a tender, beating out Microsoft (MSFT.O), Oracle (ORCL.N) and IBM (IBM.N) for… Source link

Yandex said on Thursday it had agreed to buy mid-sized bank Acropol for 1.1 billion roubles ($14.8 million), a move that will secure a banking licence for the Russian internet company so that it can develop financial services. Yandex has sought a means to develop its fintech offering after its split from a joint venture with state lender Sberbank last summer meant it ceded control of e-payment service Yandex.Money. In October, a $5.48… Source link

Bloomberg Bonds Beat Stocks at Pension Funds, Turning 60/40 Inside Out (Bloomberg) — The debate over the traditional 60/40 portfolio seems endless, but for pensions at least, it’s over — and bonds won.The retirement funds of the top 100 U.S. public companies, with combined assets of about $1.8 trillion, have ratcheted up their fixed-income allocations to a record level. At the end of their last fiscal year, they held 50.2% of assets in debt, while slashing money parked in equities to an… Source link

Bloomberg Shock and Tears: Behind Vanguard’s Retreat From China’s Market (Bloomberg) — Vanguard Group Inc. staff who dialed into a video call from their desks on the 40th floor of the Shanghai World Financial Center last month were expecting a morale-boosting speech from regional head Scott Conking on how the U.S. fund giant would tackle the Chinese market after years of preparation.Instead, Conking said the $7 trillion money manager was abandoning its push for a mutual fund license. The… Source link

(Adds detail) MOSCOW, April 29 (Reuters) – Yandex said on Thursday it had agreed to buy mid-sized bank Acropol for 1.1 billion roubles ($14.8 million), a move that will secure a banking licence for the Russian internet company so that it can develop financial services. Yandex has sought a means to develop its fintech offering after its split from a joint venture with state lender Sberbank last summer meant it ceded control of e-payment service Yandex.Money. In October, a $5.48 billion… Source link

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(Reuters) – T-Mobile US Inc said on Monday it was winding down its live TV services and would instead offer YouTube TV and YouTube Premium under an expanded partnership with Alphabet Inc’s Google. The company said Live, Live + and Live Zone services would be shut down on April 29 and that it would give the first month of YouTube TV for free to customers who have subscribed for TVision Live. It will also offer YouTube TV to its customer at $54.99 per month, which is $10 below the regular… Source link

T-Mobile will make Google Messages its default messaging app for customers on Android devices, provide new backup and storage options via the Google One cloud service, offer an expanded lineup of Google Pixel devices, and adopt YouTube TV as its default service for premium live TV under an expanded partnership. It’s a major change for T-Mobile’s TVision service, which was launched just a few months ago, including both live and on-demand content. T-Mobile says the… Source link

Google and T-Mobile are announcing a huge partnership today, with the carrier agreeing to showcase a suite of Google’s services on Android phones sold on the carrier’s network. The list includes officially supporting Google’s Android Messages (with RCS) app on all of T-Mobile’s Android phones, dropping T-Mobile’s own TV services for Google’s YouTube TV, showcasing Google One as the default backup service, and expanding support and sales of Google hardware like the Pixel.