While Google faces dying accounts and other media giants think about paid subscriptions that give the right to view the feed without advertising, Russians spend money on courses in esotericism and self-medication, businessmen fill warehouses with products in an attempt. to competently respond to pent-up demand (causing an increase in rental costs), and the government submits a new bill to the State Duma, which would remove a number of commercial violations from police control. RB remains attentive to current developments for entrepreneurs.
- Rating agency Moody’s lowered its outlook on the US credit rating from stable to negative due to the budget deficit and lower debt affordability, Reuters writes.
- Reuters also learned that the allocation of 20 billion euros to Ukraine will be discussed further: not all EU members are willing to continue financing.
- The government has submitted to the State Duma a bill that would limit the powers of the police in controlling businesses: the competence to supervise a number of administrative offenses committed by businessmen will be placed under the jurisdiction only of the relevant departments.
- In September, the deficit of the consolidated budget of the Russian Federation decreased by 432.6 billion rubles (1 trillion 37.2 billion rubles) compared to the January-August figures (1 trillion 469.8 billion rubles): for the January-September period, revenues amounted to 40 trillion 851.5 billion rubles, expenses – 41 trillion 888.7 billion rubles (Interfax).
- Average rental rates for metropolitan warehouses by the end of the year may increase up to 43.4% (up to 8.1 thousand rubles per square meter per year), almost 2.5 times higher than forecasts (17.7%) . The increase in cost is associated with the desire of companies to make maximum inventories due to pent-up demand.
- Russians spent 904 million rubles in 2023 on esoteric study courses, according to calculations by GetCourse and Tochka Bank.
- Google warned owners of accounts that have been inactive for more than two years about possible data loss in three weeks (if the account is not updated) – the tech giant intends to delete millions of Gmail accounts.
- The Alexa voice assistant cost Amazon another $46.7 million: this is the amount the company must pay in court for violating four patents of VB Assets (formerly VoiceBox Technologies), owned by Nuance Communications. Its similar product Alexus entered the market six months before Alexa.
- Meta (recognized as extremist in the Russian Federation and banned) reported that in the spring of 2024, European users may have the opportunity to opt out of advertising on Facebook and Instagram for $20 per month.
- Deputy Director of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Viktor Evtukhov promised Russians that during the New Year holidays there will be no shortage of sparkling wine.
- And CNN reported the death of the world’s first chimera monkey with two sets of DNA from different primate species (“the firstborn” lived only 10 days due to respiratory problems).
Author:
Ekaterina Alipova
Source: RB
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