UK rapid grocery company Yango Deli – which is owned by Kremlin-linked tech giant Yandex – has resisted repeated calls to speak out against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Russia’s largest technology company – which was banned in Ukraine in 2017 due to security concerns – launched its ultra-fast delivery service in 2019 in Moscow, and soon expanded into Tel Aviv and Paris. The 15-minute app-based grocer arrived in London in October last year. Yandex – which operates… Source link
Read More »After collecting $47 million in Bitcoin, Dogecoin and Ether donations, Ukraine is rewarding its supporters with a special ‘airdrop’
After raising almost $47 million through donations in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, Ukraine announced Wednesday it would reward those who have helped fund the country’s war against Russian invasion through a promotional “airdrop,” distributing crypto tokens directly into user wallets. Usually, a company conducts an airdrop as a promotional tool to increase the number of users for a new token or blockchain project. To unlock the free tokens, recipients are asked to complete a… Source link
Read More »Ohio State Russia Ukraine divest pensions robots meal delivery yandex
Ohio State University will pull the plug on robots that deliver meals for GrubHub on campus after the meal service ended its partnership with Russia-based Yandex SDG. “Ohio State affirms and supports GrubHub’s decision to end their partnership with Yandex. We are in the process of ceasing the rover delivery option after completing any deliveries that are currently out on campus,” the university said in a statement. Grubhub had contracted with Yandex to provide about cooler-sized robots… Source link
Read More »Ohio State Russia Ukraine divest pensions robots meal delivery yandex
Ohio State University will pull the plug on robots that deliver meals for GrubHub on campus after the meal service ended its partnership with Russia-based Yandex SDG. “Ohio State affirms and supports GrubHub’s decision to end their partnership with Yandex. We are in the process of ceasing the rover delivery option after completing any deliveries that are currently out on campus,” the university said in a statement. Grubhub had contracted with Yandex to provide about cooler-sized robots… Source link
Read More »Russian-made Yandex food delivery robots remain on campus, Grubhub ‘considering contingency plans’ amid invasion of Ukraine
Yandex, a Russian technology company, supplies the on-campus food delivery robots through Ohio State’s partnership with Grubhub. Credit: Tom Hanks | Lantern Reporter Following the invasion of Ukraine, some Buckeyes are wondering what the future holds for the Russian-made food delivery robots on Ohio State’s campus. Yandex, a Russian technology company, supplies the on-campus food delivery robots through Ohio State’s partnership with Grubhub. The robots remain operational —… Source link
Read More »Ex-Yandex news boss accuses Russian tech giant of ‘hiding info’ on Ukraine
It comes as platforms around the world take action against Russia’s state-backed media. The former head of news at Russia’s largest tech company has called on past colleagues to quit, accusing the business of censoring the invasion of Ukraine. Lev Gershenzon wrote in a Facebook post on Tuesday (1 March) that Yandex, which is behind one of the biggest search engines in Russia, is “a key element in hiding information about the war”. “Today is the… Source link
Read More »Stock futures rise as investors eye Russia’s war in Ukraine, await Powell
Stock futures opened higher Tuesday evening after sliding for a second straight session during the regular trading day, with jitters over Russia’s war in Ukraine and its implications for the global economy weighing on risk assets. Contracts on the S&P 500 recovered some earlier losses. Earlier, the blue-chip index slid 1.6%, extending Monday’s losses to kick off March trading on shaky footing. The Dow and Nasdaq each also fell sharply earlier, with risk assets reeling as investors… Source link
Read More »Russian tennis player condemns ‘political’ Ukraine invasion
Speaking out against Vladimir Putin as a Russian is a dangerous proposition. Thousands of protestors of the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine have been detained across the country, some of them dragged to vans by police in riot gear. Long before the war, dozens of journalists were brutally beaten or killed across the course of years. So when Russian tennis player Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova spoke out against the “political motives” of the invasion on Monday, she did so with considerably more… Source link
Read More »Stock futures open flat as Russia intensifies attacks on Ukraine
U.S. stock futures were muted in extended trading Monday after another volatile day on Wall Street as investors weighed intensifying Russian attacks on Ukraine and an onslaught of new sanctions by the West against the likelihood geopolitical uncertainty could knock the Federal Reserve off course for an aggressive first bump in interest rates. Contracts on Wall Street’s main benchmarks were flat heading into the overnight session after February’s final trading day marked the Dow and S&P 500’s… Source link
Read More »Google, Facebook, Twitter must combat Ukraine fake news – Polish, Baltic leaders
Facebook, Google and Twitter logos are seen in this combination photo from Reuters files. REUTERS/ Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register BRUSSELS, Feb 28 (Reuters) – Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google and its subsidiary YouTube, Facebook (FB.O) and Twitter (TWTR.N) must do more to tackle disinformation related to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the premiers of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia said. In a joint letter to the chief executives of the four companies dated Feb…. Source link
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