Lack of warehouse equipment, expenses for the development of microelectronics in 800 billion rubles – the main thing November 15

Russia

• In October, 25% fewer individual entrepreneurs were registered in Russia than in September. Thus, the number of open companies turned out to be less than the number of closed ones.
• In Russia, a shortage of warehouse equipment is brewing – it is due to the departure of European and Japanese brands and the complication of supplying equipment from China. This does not cover business needs.
• Yakov & Partners (McKinsey’s former Russian subsidiary) estimated the cost of developing microelectronics in Russia at 700-800 billion rubles over the next 17 years.

Business

• Japanese communications group Dentsu will sell Russian assets to local partners after a deal has been reached with regulators.
• Advertising groups ADV, NMi Group and Media Direction Group are negotiating with the National Advertising Alliance (which controls the sale of more than 90% of advertising on Russian television) on post-payment for the placement of commercials on Russian television.
• The brokers asked the Central Bank and the Federal Service for Technical and Export Control not to consider their information protection and security systems as critical infrastructure. Otherwise, companies will have to deal with re-equipment, which will cost amounts incomparable with the income of intermediaries.
• Large Russian electronics retail chains began to ditch Apple-branded areas, replacing them with storefronts for Chinese and Turkish manufacturers.
• Nike is preparing to launch a metaverse store and platform for virtual sneakers. Third party designers may be involved in creating digital collections.

services and means

• Twitter CEO Elon Musk has fired two of the company’s IT staff after they opposed him on the social network. The businessman wrote that the Twitter app is slow to load on Android devices, and two of his employees disagreed with this statement.
• The social network “VKontakte” wants to add a mini-application for ordering a taxi to the “Services” section. Company representatives are looking for partners.
• VK has added RuStore, the official Russian Android app store, to its Bug Bounty program. For the vulnerabilities found in RuStore, users will receive rewards from the company from 3 to 60 thousand rubles, depending on the threat level.
• A subsidiary of MTS, MTS Travel, has launched a hotel reservation service in Russia. About 14 thousand hotels and inns are represented on the site, payment is possible in rubles with a card of a Russian bank of any payment system.