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10 million kilometers in challenging conditions | by Yandex Self-Driving Team | Yandex Self-Driving Group | Mar, 2021

10 million kilometers in challenging conditions | by Yandex Self-Driving Team | Yandex Self-Driving Group | Mar, 2021

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

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Is Yandex (NASDAQ:YNDX) Using Too Much Debt?

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

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bne IntelliNews – Russia’s Yandex maintains e-commerce ambitions, ecosystem seen as key

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

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bne IntelliNews – Russia’s Yandex maintains e-commerce ambitions, ecosystem seen as key

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

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Tricolor secures FNL football in deal with Yandex – Digital TV Europe

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

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Russian Tech Firms Yandex, Mail.ru Group, Ozon, Wildberries to Establish Fintech Businesses that may Compete with Incumbents

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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