“Yandex.Market” will sell goods from foreign sellers, drone attack – the main thing on July 24

Russia

• Two drones attacked Moscow around 4:00 Moscow time. The blows fell on non-residential buildings: the house number 17 on Komsomolsky Prospekt and a business center on Likhachev Prospekt. There were no casualties or serious damage, said the mayor of the capital, Sergei Sobyanin.
• Unmanned aerial vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked Crimea, there was a hit in the ammunition depot in the Dzhankoy district, said the head of the region, Sergey Aksenov.

Finance

• The Worldcoin cryptocurrency from the creator of ChatGPT has grown exponentially after being listed on exchanges. As part of the beta test of the crypto wallet, users who passed verification with Orb scanners received project tokens. Now they have the opportunity to sell them.

• The Bank of Russia has registered an increase in the number of financial pyramids masquerading as online economic games. More than 22% of them work on the principle of “pay and earn”, reports Izvestia.

Business

• A Rosatom subsidiary, Rener, bought about 23% for 6.2 billion rubles in JSC Kama, the developer of Atom electric vehicles.
• The volume of the hotel market in Russia will grow by 10-25% year on year due to the development of domestic tourism due to reduced opportunities for Russians to relax abroad, Kommersant learned.
• Until the end of 2023, Yandex.Market plans to attract approximately 1,000 sellers from EAEU countries, China, Turkey, and South Korea. The companies will mainly sell electronics, clothing, shoes and household items on the site.

• The court in the bankruptcy case of mobile game developer Game Insight seized the bank accounts and real estate of the founders of Mail.es Group. The bankruptcy trustee believes that these people controlled Game Insight. We are talking about 75.9 million rubles – these are the requirements of 271 company employees for salaries included in the register of creditors.

Technologies and services

• The x.com domain will now automatically redirect users to Twitter. The new logo of the microblogging service will be unveiled on July 24.

• Yandex Go has added payment for taxi rides through the Fast Payment System (FPS). SBP with a bank account is now available for iOS users and will appear later in the Android app.

• The iconBIT brand of electric scooters received the most positive evaluation from Russians, and Halten received the most negative comments. RB.RU got acquainted with the results of the Semantex study: the company analyzed the interest in this type of transport and compiled a list of the most discussed brands of electric scooters.