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...Franaszek also documented finding TrueView ads on sites that have been criticised for allegedly spreading disinformation, including pravda.ru, a Russian state media site....
...Project Shakespeare In April 2018, a man called Evgeniy Burleev emailed Pavel Karpunin, a partner at Capital Legal Services, one of Russia’s top law firms, from his personal Mail.ru account to inquire about...
...State-run Sberbank, Russia’s largest lender, meanwhile, has also invested heavily with Yandex’s biggest competitor Mail.ru in a joint venture including rival taxi and food apps Citymobil and Delivery Club...
...billion (BBG) Vedanta clashes with hedge fund over $1bn loans deal (FT) BNP Paribas faces anti-corruption questions over Deutsche Bank arm deal (FT) Sberbank’s tech ambitions hit by clashes with Mail.ru...
...“There’s a higher degree of acceptance of being monitored by the state,” said Chong Ja Ian, associate professor of political science at the NUS....
...scooter-sharing service in Brazil in August, has already raised $75m from investors including Silicon Valley fund GGV Capital and Grishin Robotics, the hardware-focused venture capital firm led by Mail.ru...
...Anisha and her friend Milo follow the clues, more hampered than helped by members of Anisha’s family, a rambunctious bunch, from fierce Granny Jas to the bridezilla, Aunty Bindi....
...Mail.ru — which is also backing Yandex Taxi’s fastest-growing competitor, Citymobil — said the announcement was “premature” and required Mail.ru’s written consent under terms of a $15m convertible loan it...
...In November, Time Inc, the publisher of Time, Sports Illustrated and People, was sold to Meredith Corporation in a deal backed by the conservative Koch brothers....
...TI Media, formerly Time Inc, has sold the NME and Uncut, a rock-focused music magazine, to BandLab Technologies of Singapore, which previously owned a 49 per cent stake in Rolling Stone, for an undisclosed...
...Morgan, who manage the other two relevant indices, follow suit, HSBC's Andre de Silva, Pin Ru Tan and Zoe Fang see $297bn potentially flowing into Chinese bonds....
...He also turned down an offer from Mail.ru, according to people briefed on the talks....
...Although Naspers also owns stakes in social media and ecommerce companies across emerging markets, including Russia’s Mail.ru and India’s Flipkart, its $125bn market value remains overshadowed by the Tencent...
...BandLab is a social music platform started by Meng Ru Kuok, son of agribusiness billionaire Kuok Khoon Hong....
...Yandex, founded in the 1990s, has long dominated Russian-language search, with about 56 per cent of total searches, according to statistics from liveinternet.ru....
...However, the latter are on the slide, with the rise of Bants largely supplanting ownership of more established internet names such as Naver, South Korea’s biggest internet portal operator, and Mail.ru, the...
...Technology executives from Facebook, Google, Alibaba, Mail.ru and genetics start-up 23andme founded the Breakthrough prize, which awards seven $3m prizes to experts in mathematics, physics and life sciences...
...JA Solar still faces challenges. Other countries have made comebacks in solar manufacturing, in part because of the US and EU tariffs. The only new plant JA Solar has opened this year is in Malaysia....
...Mr Usmanov partly owns Mail.ru, the Russian internet portal that made hundreds of millions of dollars from investments in Facebook in 2009....
...Ja, it has increased them here and here. Given the franc’s strength, how about moving production from Switzerland? Nein to that. What about acquiring suppliers? Another nein....
...Until now, most victims of the crackdown have been opposition blogs and news sites, including Grani.ru, a website backed by Leonid Nevzlin, a former associate of oligarch-turned Putin foe Mikhail Khodorkovsky...
...Peppered among the new wave, which includes menswear retailer Trunk Clothiers and candlemaker Cire Trudon, are Cadenhead’s Whisky Shop & Tasting Room, woodwind instrument maker Howarth of London and JAS...
...holdings in the traditional Russian bellwethers of Sberbank, Lukoil and Gazprom, whilst those with the lowest allocations, if holding anything at all have tended towards internet stocks Yandex and Mail.ru...
...The letter from Ja Song Nam, North Korea’s UN ambassador, to Ban Ki-moon, UN secretary-general, said the “production and distribution of such a film on the assassination of an incumbent head of a sovereign...
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