Russia’s internet giant is considering securing control over the company by the management, Kommersant reports citing sources.
According to the newspaper, Yandex is debating over a plan, according to which 60% of voting rights in Yandex would be transferred to a fund controlled by company founder and CEO Arkady Volozh and a...
MTS, using Huawei equipment, has launched the country's first 5G user pilot network in the 4.9 GHz band in 14 locations in Moscow. The company's subscribers using 5G-compatible smartphones will be able to connect to 5G Internet at speeds up to 1.5 Gbps, according to a company's press release,...
Salvador is the first nation to recognize bitcoin as legal currency. According to Vedomosti, quoting international media, Salvador's president said previously that it would help the country's people save about $400 million in commission fees each year.
There are about 2.5 million Salvadorans that live and work in the United States....
Amsterdam-based telecoms operator Veon has brought back a former CEO after a decade to run its Russian operation, Beeline, the company said, according to Broadband TV News.
Alexander Torbakhov will head Beeline Russia, Veon’s Russian operation, from Monday, the group announced.
He replaces Vasyl Latsanych, who had been CEO of Russian...
Yandex’s self-driving car unit has accelerated through the coronavirus pandemic, becoming one of the world’s top 3 companies for the number of miles driven by automated vehicles, The Moscow Times reported.
In a conference call with investors Tuesday, the Russian technology giant dubbed ‘Russia’s Google’ said its fleet of 130...
The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency BfV has said that Russia was probably behind a widespread cyber attack on German energy providers disclosed last week
Hans-Georg Maassen told the RND newspaper group there were several reasons to believe Russia was involved, including the way the cyber attack was executed.
“The...
A group of Russian nuclear scientists was arrested after it was discovered they used a top-secret supercomputer to mine cryptocurrency.
The scientists were apprehended after allegedly connecting the high-end machine to the internet to use it for “personal purposes,” including cryptocurrency mining, according to Russian news agency Interfax.
The Federal Nuclear Center...
Social media giant Facebook has started its Marketplace platform in the Russian Federation, Facebook press service in Russia announced.
The Marketplace platform is a place where users can sell and make purchases of various products among themselves.
According to Anna-Maria Treneva, the Regional Director of Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger, the new...
Banks in Russia have lost at least 58.4 million rubles ($919,400) through cyberattacks carried out by infamous hacker groups Cobalt and Silence in 2018, according to a survey by Bank of Russia’s FinCERT (Financial Sector Computer Emergency Response Team) said on Friday, according to TASS.
"According to the data provided...
On May 25/26, Moscow will host the international online forum Smart Cities Moscow. The event will have mayors from the world's largest megacities and speeches from heads of leading corporations will speak at the forum.
Speakers of the forum include heads of the world's largest metropolitan areasadministrations, as well...
