Rosstat claims that in March unemployment is the lowest in the Russian Federation, Sberbank announces a call for applications for a scientific competition, MTS intends to buy back shares, Alphabet has once again reached a market capitalization of 2 trillion dollars and the Ministry of Industry and Commerce proposes labeling crackers and peppers. RB continues to share interesting information for entrepreneurs.
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- MTS announced the buyback of 4.2% of its own shares from foreign investors in the amount of 8 billion rubles (95 rubles per share).
- The Smartway service bought the hotel booking portal Bnovo for allegedly 1 billion rubles (“Kommersant”).
- Daily rental of apartments for the May 2024 holidays increased by 20% year-on-year, to an average of 5.6 thousand rubles, especially in Nizhny Novgorod, Volgograd and Kazan.
- The most popular types of fraud during the May holidays were the creation of phishing sites to sell airline and train tickets, book hotels, and distribute tickets to entertainment events.
- The Guardian estimates that Tesla’s Autopilot has caused 13 fatal accidents since 2021.
- Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has reached a market capitalization of $2 trillion. It previously crossed the mark in 2021, but did not stay there, and on Friday managed to close trading at this level (Bloomberg).
- Rosstat reported a record low unemployment rate of 2.7% (2 million people over 15 years old) in March 2024.
- The Ministry of Industry and Trade proposed, starting from July 1, 2024, to conduct an experiment on the labeling of edible products (e.g. condiments, spices, sauces, croutons, chips, seeds, popcorn, etc.) to counter illicit trafficking. of goods.
- Sber announced the acceptance of applications for the “Scientific Prize” with a total prize fund of 60 million rubles in the categories “Physical world”, “Life sciences” and “Digital universe”.
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Ekaterina Alipova
Source: RB
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