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A view shows a fragment of a Hyundai Sonata automobile during an event, organized by Yandex company to present the new generation of its self-driving car developed in cooperation with Hyundai, in Moscow, Russia May 27, 2020. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register March 23 (Reuters) – Russian tech giant Yandex (YNDX.O) is facing heavy criticism online after a data leak exposed the personal details of more than 58,000 people on its food delivery… Source link

Editors’ Note: Arkady Volozh resigned as Yandex’s CEO on June 3, 2022, after the European Union sanctioned him.  Arkady Yurievich Volozh seemed to be in good spirits. It was February 11, his birthday, and the 58-year-old billionaire CEO and cofounder of Yandex, the Russian tech behemoth, was in the sort of open, engaging mood that could be called privetliviy, after the casual Russian word privet for hello. He was speaking from his car in Tel Aviv, bragging about his father—an oil geologist… Source link

Editors’ Note: Arkady Volozh resigned as Yandex’s CEO on June 3, 2022, after the European Union sanctioned him.  Arkady Yurievich Volozh seemed to be in good spirits. It was February 11, his birthday, and the 58-year-old billionaire CEO and cofounder of Yandex, the Russian tech behemoth, was in the sort of open, engaging mood that could be called privetliviy, after the casual Russian word privet for hello. He was speaking from his car in Tel Aviv, bragging about his father—an oil geologist… Source link

Apple has been cutting ties with Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. The iPhone app store still hosts dozens of apps from Yandex, the country’s biggest internet firm. A senior Yandex executive was recently sanctioned by the EU over his close ties to Vladimir Putin. Apple has stopped selling iPhones in Russia and limited the use of its … Source link

The closure of Western social media networks like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter by Russia in retaliation for Western sanctions, following the invasion of Ukraine, creates new business opportunities for Russian media and communications companies like Yandex. Russia’s biggest email account provider VK is reportedly considering reviving the ICQ chat program, developed in Israel in the 1990s and eventually finding Russian owners in 2010, in order to provide social network… Source link

Yandex, the Russian online search giant — also running a variety of other digital services — is exploring different “strategic options, including disvestment, for its news aggregation service and infotainment platform Zen.” The company stated Friday it intended to “focus on developing its other technology-related businesses and products (including search, advertising, self-driving and cloud) and transactional services (including ride-hailing, e-commerce, video/audio… Source link

Russia’s internet giant Yandex has told investors it’s exploring “strategic options” for its media products — including a potential sale of its news aggregator, Yandex News, and a user-generated content recommendation and blogging “infotainment” platform, called Zen. The disclosure confirms our reporting earlier this week — when sources told us Yandex is in discussions to sell Yandex News and Zen. Our sources suggested the move is linked to the risks posed by tighter… Source link

Russia’s internet giant Yandex has told investors it’s exploring “strategic options” for its media products — including a potential sale of its news aggregator, Yandex News, and a user-generated content recommendation and blogging “infotainment” platform, called Zen. The disclosure confirms our reporting earlier this week — when sources told us Yandex is in discussions to sell Yandex News and Zen. Our sources suggested the move is linked to the risks posed by tighter regulations on freedom… Source link

Russian search engine and cloud computing company Yandex confirmed that its sanctioned deputy CEO has resigned. Tigran Khudaverdyan was sanctioned by the European Union this week, meaning he can no longer work at the Netherlands-registered company. The EU said that Khudaveryan attended a meeting of oligarchs at the Kremlin the week of the invasion of Ukraine. “We were… Source link

Putin’s regime continues to tighten its grip on how information on the war in Ukraine is shared in Russia, and in the wake of that, tech giants in the country — which, like Facebook, Google and Twitter, are also major players in the media sphere — are starting to restructure their media assets. Yesterday Russian press reported that Yandex — a local giant often called the “Russian Google” — is in negotiations to sell its media division, with Russian social networking giant… Source link