Sber Software, a new company of Rostelecom, a decrease in investments in IT companies: the main thing January 12

Peace

• The Chinese company LeTV presented a “clone” of the iPhone 14 Pro Max. The device repeats all the brand elements of an Apple smartphone, but at the same time it costs only 899 yuan, that is, about 9 thousand rubles at the current exchange rate.
• The world’s largest chipmaker reported a record annual profit of $34 billion. Taiwan Semiconductor managed to achieve such results against the backdrop of the global semiconductor crisis and the failure of its main competitor: Samsung Electronics’ quarterly profit fell 75%.

Russia

• The authorities want to force state-owned companies to buy products from innovative start-ups. This should support the venture capital market.
• The Bank of Russia has developed and presented a roadmap for the development of support for small and medium-sized enterprises in 2023-2024. Among other things, it implies the creation of conditions for the convenience of companies placing shares on investment platforms.
• One in four Russians named allowances, pensions and payments from the state as the main source of income. About half of Russian citizens live on wages, on business income – only 2.4%, according to population census data, which involved 128.6 million people.

Finance

• Consumer advocates have proposed prohibiting banks from including insurance on the body of a consumer loan without an alternative payment method, because lending organizations continue to impose it on customers.
• Sberbank analysts predicted the dollar at 65 rubles at the end of January. The strengthening of the ruble will be affected by the resumption of the budget rule – the Bank of Russia has again begun to conduct foreign exchange transactions on the domestic market.

Business

• Rive Gauche co-owner August Meyer, accused of fraud, was released from the pre-trial detention center on bail of 30 million rubles. Meyer was arrested at the end of 2021, he spent more than a year in a pretrial detention center.
• In 2022, investments in Russian IT start-ups decreased by 57% year-on-year. The number of investment transactions decreased by 56% to 128.
• Telecom operators managed to organize deliveries of telecom equipment. Some companies have started leasing it with the option to buy it later.
• MegaFon has created a line of its own push-button telephones under the Fontel brand. The first model is already available on the company’s website, the price is 790 rubles. In February, Fontel FP 200 will reach all stores in the network.
• Ozon started to develop its logistics infrastructure in Kyrgyzstan. The market opened a representative office and a sorting center in Bishkek. By attracting new sellers, the company plans to expand the range of its global storefront.

Services

• VK opened access for companies to its testing platform VK Testers, previously the tool was used only by the company’s team.
• Twitter is looking at introducing an auction for the sale of unique usernames, which will become an additional source of revenue for the company. Telegram has already acted in a similar way, selling usernames for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Technologies

• Sber has developed its own software to install a banking application on the iPhone. The bank does not install Sberbank Online, but its clone, SBOL, which was blocked twice in the App Store.
• A new company appeared in the structure of Rostelecom – Tdada. It will develop technologies for data storage and processing. Consulting companies use similar developments from SAP and Oracle, which left Russia.