This past winter, our team hit a major milestone. Our driverless vehicles surpassed 10 million kilometers (more than 6 million miles) in autonomous mode. The majority of these kilometers were driven in Moscow, one of the most challenging cities in the world with many kinds of bad weather throughout the year. Difficult weather conditions pose a challenge for self-driving vehicles. They not only reduce visibility but also make road surfaces more slippery. These conditions create different… Source link
Read More »Is Yandex (NASDAQ:YNDX) Using Too Much Debt?
The external fund manager backed by Berkshire Hathaway’s Charlie Munger, Li Lu, makes no bones about it when he says ‘The biggest investment risk is not the volatility of prices, but whether you will suffer a permanent loss of capital.’ It’s only natural to consider a company’s balance sheet when you examine how risky it is, since debt is often involved when a business collapses. We can see that Yandex N.V. (NASDAQ:YNDX) does use debt in its business. But is this debt a concern to… Source link
Read More »bne IntelliNews – Russia’s Yandex maintains e-commerce ambitions, ecosystem seen as key
Russia’s internet major Yandex is maintaining ambitious plans in the e-commerce space for this year and sees its ecosystem as a key competitive advantage, Sova Capital wrote on March 11 after a call with Yandex executives and investors. As reported by bne IntelliNews, in 2021 Yandex for the fifth year in a row topped the list of most valuable tech and internet companies with a valuation of $23bn. Its investment case now rests on… Source link
Read More »bne IntelliNews – Russia’s Yandex maintains e-commerce ambitions, ecosystem seen as key
Russia’s internet major Yandex is maintaining ambitious plans in the e-commerce space for this year and sees its ecosystem as a key competitive advantage, Sova Capital wrote on March 11 after a call with Yandex executives and investors. As reported by bne IntelliNews, in 2021 Yandex for the fifth year in a row topped the list of most valuable tech and internet companies with a valuation of $23bn. Its investment case now rests on… Source link
Read More »bne IntelliNews – Russia’s Yandex maintains e-commerce ambitions, ecosystem seen as key
Russia’s internet major Yandex is maintaining ambitious plans in the e-commerce space for this year and sees its ecosystem as a key competitive advantage, Sova Capital wrote on March 11 after a call with Yandex executives and investors. As reported by bne IntelliNews, in 2021 Yandex for the… Source link
Read More »bne IntelliNews – Russia’s Yandex maintains e-commerce ambitions, ecosystem seen as key
Russia’s internet major Yandex is maintaining ambitious plans in the e-commerce space for this year and sees its ecosystem as a key competitive advantage, Sova Capital wrote on March 11 after a call with Yandex executives and investors. As reported by bne IntelliNews, in 2021 Yandex for the… Source link
Read More »Tricolor secures FNL football in deal with Yandex – Digital TV Europe
Russian pay TV operator Tricolor has secured rights to show matches from the country’s second-tier football league, the FNL, on satellite through a partnership deal with leading Russian web portal Yandex. Tricolor will show FNL matches on its new Football Channel, which it launched at the start of this month and which is available as part of its Unified package. The deal with Yandex, which held rights to the FNL to stream through its portal, will enable Tricolor customers to watch all… Source link
Read More »bne IntelliNews – Yandex launches Coursera’s first data-labelling course with Toloka
NASDAQ-listed tech giant Yandex, which includes over 90 mobile apps, services and products, is launching the world’s first online course to address the growing need for data labelling, as the use of artificial intelligence (AI) accelerates. The course, titled Practical Crowdsourcing for Efficient… Source link
Read More »bne IntelliNews – Yandex launches Coursera’s first data-labelling course with Toloka
NASDAQ-listed tech giant Yandex, which includes over 90 mobile apps, services and products, is launching the world’s first online course to address the growing need for data labelling, as the use of artificial intelligence (AI) accelerates. The course, titled Practical Crowdsourcing for Efficient… Source link
Read More »Russian Tech Firms Yandex, Mail.ru Group, Ozon, Wildberries to Establish Fintech Businesses that may Compete with Incumbents
Russian technology firms Yandex, Mail.ru Group, Ozon and Wildberries are reportedly creating their own Fintech platforms so that they can potentially compete with some of the largest banks in the country, according to a report from Forbes Russia. Nasdaq-listed Yandex, which was in negotiations to acquire Russia’s digital bank Tinkoff (but the deal failed), has now decided to continue its focus on Fintech so it can offer some type of financial services via mergers and acquisitions or some… Source link
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