News from Instagram*, since the beginning of the year 11 foreign clothing brands have appeared on the market, the demand for gaming devices and electronics for entertainment has grown up to 60% and other news on May 6.
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Investments
- Private investor Alexey Perelman invested for the second time in the legal service Destra Legal. He increased his shareholding from 0.76% to 5.76%. The details of the agreement are unknown.
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Filipino fintech startup Salmon, founded by former Tinkoff Bank senior managers Georgy Chesakov, Pavel Fedorov and Raffi Montemayor, raised $25 million. The main investors in round A were the International Finance Corporation, which invested $7 million in the project, and the Singaporean. Northstar Group. The startup will use the funds received to develop new credit products and lifestyle banking offerings.
- In April, Russian companies made 147 ruble bond placements worth just over 300 billion rubles, double the result for the same period in 2023, Kommersant reported.
Business
- Since the beginning of 2024, 11 foreign brands of clothing, footwear, electronics and household goods have appeared on the Russian market. They are from Türkiye, China, South Korea, Italy, Spain and Germany.
- Demand for gaming devices and entertainment electronics has increased by 12% to 60%. The May holidays and the cold spring had an influence, writes Vedomosti.
Services and technologies
- State Duma deputy Vitaly Milonov proposed creating a dating section on the Gosuslugi portal. Now, according to Milonov, the online dating industry is “filled with all kinds of applications and services that offer assistance not in finding a reliable life partner and potential spouse, but in satisfying basic sexual needs.”
- In the first quarter of 2024, the number of phishing resources on Telegram increased by 1.5 times compared to the same period last year. Attackers often change their captions, but their goal remains the same: to lure potential victims to a fake messaging authorization page.
- Instagram* has added a Reveal feature to Stories. You can hide both photos and videos this way. To see them it will be necessary to write to the author.
*belongs to Meta, which is recognized as an extremist organization in Russia and is banned
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