Sources: Yandex seeks Putin's assent for restructuring, including selling its Russian business and spinning off key global projects in edtech and other sectors
a term denoting high-level political protection, two people said. He is set to meet Putin today — scooop @maxseddon https://www.ft.com/... Max Seddon / @maxseddon : Vladimir Putin is expected to give...
An investigation details an operation by Chinese hacking group APT40 to lure graduates who studied English into translating stolen documents via a front company
Thursday, June 30, 2022 // (IG): BB //Weekly Sponsor: Dataminr Tweets: Max Seddon / @maxseddon : “Chinese students have been lured to work at a secretive technology company that masked the true nature...
Russia expands its entry ban on Americans to include Mark Zuckerberg
Russia on Thursday expanded an entry ban on U.S. officials to include U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris and 28 other American officials, businesspeople and journalists. — The sanctions list, publish...
Russia moves to designate Meta as an “extremist organization”; source says WhatsApp won't be affected as it is a means of communication
WhatsApp is the most popular messenger in Russia, it takes up nearly 60% of all messenger internet traffic. We are talking tens of millions of people having limited access to comms, and for a lot of t...
Experts say Russia could use cryptocurrency tools to lessen the impact of US sanctions, including a forthcoming digital ruble and spoils from ransomware attacks
or Russia Allison Morrow / CNN : Financial sanctions are easier than ever for Russians to evade. Thank Bitcoin Jessica Sier / Australian Financial Review : Russia could use crypto to evade sanctions B...
Ukraine's digital transformation ministry says “all evidence points to Russia being behind the attack”, which took down about 70 government websites
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Russian e-commerce company Ozon says it will apply for a banking license to expand its fintech services, and plans to offer loans to merchants
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How Belarusians turned to VPNs and a private Telegram channel to bypass censorship when its internet was shut down using deep packet inspection
not just in #Belarus but on an international level. https://gizmodo.com/... Barbara Malmet / @b52malmet : Coming to a country near you. https://twitter.com/... Scott Rose / @rprose : Belarus shut down...
COO of Yandex talks about revenue fall in its online ads and taxi businesses due to COVID-19, hopes increased demand for its delivery apps can mitigate losses
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Companies in Vision Fund's portfolio, like Wag and Fair, are struggling; sources say Oyo founder invested $2B in his company with a loan backed by Masayoshi Son
Other companies the huge tech investment fund has backed have struggled lately — SoftBank Group Corp. 's longtime strategy … Tweets: @rolfewinkler , @aaronlucchetti , @second_measure , @maxseddon , ...