While TikTok struggles to survive in the United States and Google is fixing Wi-Fi on its new campus, in Russia the proportion of women in IT is growing, demand for housing is falling and online scammers are becoming more active sooner. on March 8. , and RB continues to monitor news that is interesting for entrepreneurs.
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- Suez Canal revenues fall by 50%
- Dubai has introduced a 20% tax on all foreign banks operating in the emirate.
- The leaders in global flower exports in 2023 were the Netherlands, Colombia and Ecuador. In total, they sold 6.6 billion dollars, of which 4.6 came from Holland, which sold 552,000 tons of flowers.
- In February 2024, 4.1 thousand transactions were recorded in the primary real estate market within the boundaries of Old Moscow (+0.7% compared to January 2024, but -8% compared to February 2023 (“NDV Real Estate Supermarket.
- On the eve of the holiday, 39% of Russians ended up on phishing sites imitating well-known markets and gift shops; In total, 75% of Russians have suffered from fraud: fake deliveries, pranks, etc. (“Vyberu.ru”).
- Media mogul Rupert Murdoch plans to marry Elena Zhukova, 67, a molecular biologist and mother of Roman Abramovich’s ex-wife, in June (The New York Times).
- 57% of housing mortgage loans in the Russian Federation are granted to women and 43% to men (“Etazhi”).
- The share of women in IT in 2023 increased from 18 to 23%, in the transport sector it grew to 18%, in construction to 25% (Avito Services).
- Rivian has introduced three new compact electric SUVs: R2, R3 and R3X.
- TikTok called on Americans to fight to preserve the right to use the social network in the country, defending the “constitutional right to freedom of expression.”
- And at Google’s Bay View campus in San Francisco, built just a year and a half ago, Wi-Fi has not been working reliably for several months; employees use Ethernet connections (Reuters).
Author:
Ekaterina Alipova
Source: RB
I am a professional journalist and content creator with extensive experience writing for news websites. I currently work as an author at Gadget Onus, where I specialize in covering hot news topics. My written pieces have been published on some of the biggest media outlets around the world, including The Guardian and BBC News.
