ABBYY commented on the layoffs, the Federal Air Transport Agency recommended canceling flights to three countries: the main thing is October 2

World

• ABBYY explained the dismissal of employees for “business transformation.” As the company informed RB.RU, within the framework of this process, reorganizations are being carried out in certain regions.
• Bloomberg has discovered that in early 2025 Apple plans to launch a new iPhone SE model without a Home button and with support for the Apple Intelligence artificial intelligence platform.
• Microsoft has stopped producing the HoloLens 2 mixed reality headset amid major cuts to the division that developed the device.
• Unibank and UBPay transfer system have launched a money transfer service between Russia and Armenia. The maximum transfer amount is 5 million drachmas or 500,000 rubles.
• Google has begun developing an artificial intelligence model that can reason like a human. This is reported by Bloomberg citing well-informed sources. The new technology will allow the corporation to compete with OpenAI, which has already presented a similar o1 model, the agency writes.

Russia

• Natural coffee prices in Russia may increase by 25% to 40% by the end of the year. This is due to the increase in product prices around the world, including due to the drought in Brazil.
• The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against the creators of the anonymous payment system UAPS and the crypto exchange Cryptex. Investigators believe they carried out illegal activities in the exchange of currencies, cryptocurrencies, delivery and acceptance of cash, sale of bank cards and personal accounts.
• The State Duma approved in the first reading a bill prohibiting bookmakers and bookmakers from accepting bets from citizens under 18 years of age, persons with limited legal capacity and debtors (including alimony).
• The State Duma of the Russian Federation approved in the first reading a bill prohibiting banks from unilaterally increasing the limit on credit cards. The draft document was published in the legislative support system.
• The Arbitration Court of the Moscow Region, at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation, arrested the accounts of the Bank of New York Mellon and JP Morgan Chase Bank in Russia. This is stated in the court ruling.
• The Moscow Arbitration Court has initiated bankruptcy proceedings for the legal entity of the jewelry distributor Pandora. Information in this regard is contained in the file of court cases.

Business

• T-Bank (formerly Tinkoff) will launch its own advertising platform for businesses. It will unite all the company’s media channels.
• The logistics operator Pony Express will increase prices for its services by 20% until the end of 2024. The company can no longer slow down the growth of staff salaries.
• The X5 group (owner of the Pyaterochka, Prekrestok and Chizhik chains) bought the May24 wholesale food market. The transaction amount could amount to one billion rubles.
• The Ministry of Internal Affairs opened a criminal case against blogger Lerchek (Valeria Chekalina) and her ex-husband Artem Chekalin for transferring currency using forged documents. We are talking about paying blogger marathons through Dubai, a source told RIA Novosti.
• The FAS criticized the draft law on the work of markets and aggregators. The Service prepared more than 40 comments on the document.
• The Russian government is going to introduce a fee for online advertising, the money from which will be used to further finance the national project “Data Economy and Digital Transformation of the State.”
• Alexey Mordashov’s Severgroup bought the assets of Russian tire maker Cordiant. The transaction amount is not disclosed.

• VK bought 10% of the national ticket operator Kassir.ru. RBC reports this. The amount of the transaction, according to the publication, was about 500 million rubles.

• The Prosecutor General’s Office and the Ministry of Industry and Trade are conducting unscheduled inspections of Russian electronics developers and manufacturers to assess compliance with the requirements for subsidies allocated to them.
• The Prosecutor General’s Office appealed to the Russian court demanding the recovery of more than $370 million from the Ukrainian authorities, the local Central Bank and two American banks for the illegal expropriation by Sberbank of its former subsidiary, the International Bank of the Reserve (MR-Bank).
• Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev became Chairman of the Board of Directors of Rostelecom. In this position he replaced the president’s special representative for environmental issues, Sergei Ivanov.
• Starting November 1, 2024, Ozon will increase the minimum billing thresholds for almost all collection points (POIs) by an average of 15%. Because of this, the company claims, the service fee for marketplace partners will be reduced.
• Freight transportation organization service “Fura” purchased a digital carrier from the Trucker group of companies. After closing the deal, Fura expects that in 2024 the turnover will increase to 8 billion rubles, a company representative told RB.RU.

Finance

• Broker Finam will provide qualified Russian investors with access to US billionaire Elon Musk’s pre-IPO SpaceX starting October 2, 2024. The cost of one share of the company is $135 and the minimum investment amount is $10 thousand .
• Non-state pension funds (NPF) will be able to invest pension reserves in shares as part of an IPO if the total placement volume is at least 3 billion rubles.
• The Russian government has proposed changing the methodology for calculating the cost of living starting in 2026. This is indicated in the supplementary bill presented to the State Duma together with the draft budget for the next three years.

Services and technologies

• Telegram has been handing over IP addresses and phone numbers of criminals to authorities since 2018. There is a special bot for this.
• Russian video hosting site Rutube has disappeared from the Google Play app store. The company explained it through sanctions. They noted that they are trying to block the application “in almost all countries except the United States”, but due to a “funny confusion” it became available only in the United States.
• The sexual dating service Pure is going to launch an application on Telegram in which it will be possible to indicate sexual preferences. This was stated by the general director of the platform Olga Petrunina, her message sent to users was cited by the Telegram channel “Caution, News”.

Transport

• The Federal Air Transport Agency recommended that airlines temporarily cancel flights to Israel, Iran and Iraq. After this, Aeroflot, Pobeda, Rossiya and others began to change their flight schedules.
• The Federal Air Transport Agency allowed flights over the territories of Israel, Iraq and Iran, but with temporary restrictions.