Sberbank increased rates on yuan deposits on March 6, authorities approved the sale of Yandex for 457.3 billion rubles, Valve completed beta testing of the updated shopping cart and the private games function on Steam and others events on March 6.
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OpenAI, in response to Elon Musk’s accusation of commercializing the startup, indicated that the businessman wanted to merge the company with Tesla and achieve full control over the activities. OpenAI cited letters from Musk in which he urged the need to raise “much larger sums” than the company initially wanted to announce.
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An American startup with Russian roots has attracted investment from a Swiss business angel. The startup is developing a platform to scale businesses in the field of professional services. The project was founded in 2021 by Alina Trigubenko, Suren Avundzhiyan and Adam Miller.
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The Ministry of Digital Development proposed not to grant accreditation to IT companies with a proportion of foreigners greater than 50%. The agency also adjusted the procedure for confirming accreditation and relaxed measures to obtain it in some regions.
Finance
- Starting March 6, Sberbank increased rates on yuan deposits, an increase of up to 1 percentage point. The maximum income from a yuan deposit can be obtained by opening a deposit for one year in the amount of 1 million yuan, writes Forbes.
Business
- The authorities approved the sale of Yandex for 457.3 billion rubles. This is 17.7 billion less than announced.
- The Russian clothing brand for the whole family Sela has opened a cafe in the Metropolis shopping center in Moscow. Vigge cafeteria is a small space with drinks and food in takeaway format.
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Russian wine producers asked for duties on wines from NATO countries to be 200%, the association’s executive secretary, Alexei Plotnikov, told RIA Novosti.
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Lamoda has made structural changes to the company and announced new appointments. Leadership positions were also held by former top managers of large companies. For product culture and to bring new solutions to the market, Lamoda has created a new structure: a product direction.
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Leroy Merlin changed the name of his legal entity in Russia to Le Monlid. No decisions have yet been made about the rebrand. A year ago, the French group ADEO decided to transfer its Russian business to local management.
Services and technologies
- Skyeng has developed a solution based on artificial intelligence that allows determining the level of English from a person’s speech. It is reported that the 15-minute test allows evaluating the student’s current level with an accuracy of 95%.
- American computer game developer and publisher Valve has completed beta testing of the updated shopping cart and private games feature on Steam. The new features are available to all users.
- The Yandex Real Estate service has updated its platform: Classified received a new home page and introduced a new logo. Service functions took a priority position on the main page of the site and were combined into a common “turnkey” communication framework.
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The Megamarket market began selling cars. Initially, the service is available for users in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. The site currently stocks Haval, Land Rover, Hong, Zeekr cars and the line will be expanded in the future.
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