SDEK will start delivery of oversized goods, wage arrears amounted to almost 327 million rubles: the main thing on July 26

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• Kazakhstan ticket service Ticketon Yandex Afisha broke off cooperation due to non-compliance with agreements. Russian company bypasses its partner became a sponsor of the music festival Live park in Almaty.

  As a result, due to the involvement of a company from the Russian Federation, some artists refused to perform.

Russia

• Fellow blogger and founder “Like Center” Ayaz Shabutdinov included in international wanted list. The measure was chosen in relation to General manager of the company ayaz — Vasily Alekseev. Earlier, the court seized property of both defendants in the criminal case worth 100 million rubles.

• The court rejected the rapper. Large baby ribbon in the recovery of 185 million rubles from Warner MusicThe musician filed a lawsuit for copyright infringement.

• The Bank of Russia has allowed the transfer of 30 million rubles in a single transaction. Since May 1, the Russian Federation has allowed you to transfer up to 30 million rubles a month to other banks without commission, but banks independently set a limit of 1 million rubles for a single transfer.
• The government has approved a list of programs that must be pre-installed on devices sold in the Russian Federation. There are 19 of them, including the paid service Mir, Gosuslugi and the Russian app store Rustore.
• Google LLC’s property in Russia was valued at 14.9 million rubles. “YouTube buttons” – souvenirs based on the number of subscribers – were priced at 1 ruble each. The assessment was made by the trustee responsible for the company’s bankruptcy proceedings.

Investments and finances

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  At a meeting on July 26, the Bank of Russia decided to raise the key interest rate by 200 basis points to 18% per annum. The Central Bank noted an acceleration of inflation and significantly revised its forecast.

• TMT Investments, Trado Capital and business angels invested €700,000 in Estonian fintech startup Enty. The company closed its seed round on July 25, 2024.
• 46% of Russians believe that real estate investments are not profitable. Another 77% believe that mortgages will become less affordable after the abolition of the preferential state program.

• The first venture capital fund issue in Russia was held on the Atomize platform and raised 83.5 million rubles. The funds will be used to develop the food technology startup Qummy.

Business

• As of July 1, 2024, wage arrears amounted to 326.9 million rubles. The total debt decreased by 42% compared to the same period last year.
• Tatyana Bakalchuk announced new appointments in the joint venture Wildberries and Russ. These are the director of public relations, the head of the department for communication with the media industry and others. Previously, the joint venture of the two companies appointed heads of product development for partners and interaction of entrepreneurs with Wildberries.

Services and technologies

• According to the results of the first half of 2024, game developers received 1.6 billion rubles from Odnoklassniki, which is 10% more than in the same period in 2023. This amount includes revenue from advertising and in-game purchases.
• Wildberries has decided to expand its Bug Bounty program for finding vulnerabilities; now you can get up to 500 thousand rubles for a found vulnerability. The company notes that no one has yet managed to hack the personal account of a test seller.
• SDEK will launch delivery of large-sized goods to markets and individuals in late 2024 and early 2025. In the first stage, the service will be available in Moscow and the Moscow region.

• Hoff, in partnership with Yandex, has launched express delivery within two hours. You can order goods from furniture retailers on Yandex Food, Delivery and Market. While it concerns textiles, tableware and kitchenware, Yandex services will soon start delivering small-sized furniture.

• Russian Railways has introduced a ticket purchase service with in-train transfers. If tickets for the entire route are sold out, the service will offer the option of travelling from available seats on the same train on different sections of the route. Now the option is available on southern routes.

• Startup Magicly (formerly Retomagic) announced a neural network for generating videos based on text descriptions. The startup partially trained the neural network using its own computing resources. Previously, Magicly launched a solution for generating images from text in any language.