While Disney and Epic hatch plans to conquer the metaverses with a new project, in Russia the cost of short-term rental housing, the average salary and, at the same time, the number of bankrupts increase, new companies attract investments , banks sharing information about profits and new lawsuits, and RB continues to follow interesting news about the lives of entrepreneurs.
- The broad market index S&P 500 closed above the 5,000 point mark for the first time in trading; At the beginning of the week he surpassed it for the first time.
- New formats of the universal transfer document and invoice come into force.
- Rosstat recalculated the average salary of Russians: according to the results of 11 months of 2023, it increased by 13.8%; to 71 thousand rubles, the increase was (taking into account inflation) 7.6%.
- The growth of domestic tourism led to an increase in the cost of short-term rentals by 11-12% annually (the largest increase occurred in Ufa and Samara), and the number of available apartments increased by 1.5 times.
- In January, Sberbank increased its net profit under RAS by 4.5% to 115 billion rubles.
- Russian clients of the Hellenic Cypriot Bank received notifications about the closure of accounts (we are not talking about tax residents of the Russian Federation, but about Russians living in Cyprus with Cypriot documents).
- The capital’s mayoral structures have announced a competition for the supply of 150 “mobile biometric systems” to monitor “emergency situations” and mass protests.
- At the end of 2023, the courts declared 350.8 thousand people bankrupt, including individual entrepreneurs (26% more than the figures for 2022).
- Russian company Postilla (valued at 200 million rubles) has raised 20 million rubles from business angels (Forbes).
- Korean company MStoryLink is looking for partners in publishers and online services to develop the “My Comics” platform for Asian comics.
- VTB filed a new claim with the Moscow Arbitration Court against VTB Capital Plc for 2.38 billion rubles – debt for an overdraft loan (the previous two claims were at the end of 2023).
- The national home goods brand SONNO will raise 100 million rubles from the 3Stream fund of the TealTech Capital group of the Russian billionaire and founder of the Vkusville supermarket chain Andrey Krivenko (Forbes).
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has met with UAE companies in a bid to raise up to $7 trillion to build new chip factories.
- Epic Games and Disney have announced a partnership and the upcoming creation of an “entertainment universe” with cartoon characters: the film studio has invested $1.5 billion in the project.
- Former TikTok executive Katie Ellen Puri has filed a lawsuit against the company: she believes she was fired for age and gender discrimination
- Elon Musk, offended by the Delaware authorities, moved Neuralink’s place of registration to Nevada (Tesla had previously “moved” from Delaware to Texas).
- TikTok was unable to challenge the need to follow EU antitrust rules in court.
- RSHB experts have calculated that Russians drink an average of 100 million liters of mulled wine per year, a drink that is most popular in St. Petersburg.
Author:
Ekaterina Alipova
Source: RB
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