The former villa of Oleg Tinkov changed owners, mobile operators began to label incoming calls from companies, analysts recorded an increase in demand for services for working with markets by small businesses – we are collecting the top news for business on October 17.
Russia
- Recruiters named three main trends that will determine the development of the labor market in Russia. This includes a hybrid work format, working conditions requirements and ongoing staff training.
- The Ministry of Industry and Trade proposed expanding the simplified import of electronic products from abroad. We are talking about user and corporate equipment, as Vedomosti learned.
Business
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The court imposed a turnover fine of 115 million rubles on Zoom. The reason was the lack of a branch of the company in Russia. The amount of the fine is 1/10 of the company’s income for 2022. This is the first case of a fine for the fact that a company did not create a branch in the Russian Federation.
- Akashevskaya poultry farm has become the new owner of the La Dacha Astrakhan company, which owns the Volga Dacha villa built by Oleg Tinkov in the village of Vyshka, Astrakhan region, Kommersant reported.
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Vedomosti learned that Tochka Bank acquired a software developer for sellers on the markets. Experts estimate the amount of the transaction at between 200 and 500 million rubles.
- Telecom operators have started dialing incoming calls from businesses; Now the subscriber will be able to immediately find out even the purpose of the call, writes RBC.
- Small businesses are increasingly actively seeking the services of assistants to work with the markets. Thus, the demand for services for the delivery of goods in the markets during the last month throughout the country has multiplied by 2.5.
- The FAS became interested in blocking Yandex.Taxi passengers, writes the Vedomosti newspaper. But experts believe that Yandex is unlikely to even face a fine for this.
Technologies and services
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A dating service for agricultural workers has been launched in Russia. Questionnaires from real people will be placed in fertilizer cans. The creators of the project believe that in this way lonely farmers will be able to find their soul mate.
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MTS has launched a School of Data Analysts, where it will teach free advanced programming in Python, the basics of classical machine learning and tools for working with Big Data, as well as the principles of building ML models.
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