While deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation declare their income, vaping is more popular than tobacco and Bollywood movies are watched more than Hollywood ones, SpaceX tries again to launch satellites for the Pentagon and Twitter reveals the code of its content delivery algorithms. RB keeps track of all interesting informational events for businessmen.
- The representative of the State Duma said that “all deputies who are obliged to declare their income have fulfilled this obligation”: exactly on April 1, as prescribed.
- Sberbank equated the fees of stores for accepting payments through the SberPay QR service to the fees for commercial acquisition, that is, payment with cards: in fact, this means an increase in commissions for QR payment (RBC).
- The number of stores and points of sale for electronic cigarettes and vaporizers has increased by 32% since March 2022 (there are more than conventional tobacconists in the two capitals).
- Due to the “shift” of oil markets to Asia, an “oil boom” has begun in the world: since the beginning of 2023, countries have ordered 38 medium-class tankers, a record since 2013 (Bloomberg).
- SpaceX has scheduled another attempt to launch missile attack warning satellites for the Pentagon on April 1 (previous ones were postponed for technical reasons).
- Indian movies have become popular against the backdrop of a lack of Hollywood news: in online theaters, Bollywood movies were watched 10-12% more often in February.
- The Central Bank of the Russian Federation reported that in 2022 the volume of suspicious banking operations in Russia decreased from 105 billion rubles to 100 billion. We are talking about the illegal withdrawal of funds abroad (decreased by 16%), “withdraw money” and other shadow financial services that are most in demand in the construction, trade and services sector.
- As promised by Elon Musk, Twitter has made the code for its tweet recommendation algorithm public on GitHub: now you can learn what factors make or break the likelihood of a tweet appearing in a user’s feed.
Author:
Ekaterina Alipova
Source: RB
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