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...VK, the state-controlled social media giant, will take over Yandex’s media assets in exchange for food delivery app Delivery Club....
...Boris Dobrodeev, chief executive of VKontakte’s parent company VK, said on Friday he was stepping down, a day after Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov’s USM Group said it had sold its interest in VK to...
...Boris Dobrodeev, VK’s chief executive, stepped down....
Deal values UK company with 1,300 pubs at about £1bn
...The buyer, Tavern Propco, is owned by Davidson Kempner Capital Management, a Texas-based fund with over $31bn in assets under management....
...Internet freedom advocates — including VK founder Pavel Durov, developer of messenger Telegram — have criticised Mr Usmanov over Mail.ru censoring posts on VK and providing data that have been used to jail...
...Pavel Durov, who left Russia in 2013 to found Telegram with the proceeds from selling his social network VK, said on Wednesday he would comply with requests from Russia’s communications watchdog....
Court orders Russian social network to prevent unauthorised upload of companies’ sound recordings
...In 2013, VK reported revenue of Rbs3.8bn, a 14 per cent growth from the previous year and a net profit of Rbs53m....
...Mr Osmond, who also founded Punch Taverns, is paying £37m for the Strada brand and 43 restaurants from the Café Rouge owner, Tragus Group....
Pavel Durov leaves after selling stake to oligarch
...After PizzaExpress, Mr Osmond co-founded pub group Punch Taverns and life assurance vehicle Pearl, later known as Phoenix....
More geek than oligarch, the Russian internet eccentric is taking his talents abroad
...Mr Sergeev said: “We remain committed to ensure protection of all VK users from discrimination based on sex, ethnicity or lifestyle....
Investors can find it hard to put money in and take it out
...It is more than can be said for Greenlight’s abortive bet on Punch Taverns – a rare foray into the UK stock market, which had gone awry before the authorities got involved....
...regulators are seeking to fine a former Bank of America Merrill Lynch broker about £350,000 for his role in hedge fund manager David Einhorn’s improper trading ahead of the 2009 equity raising by Punch Taverns...
Fine imposed on the hedge fund manager is not a simple morality tale
...And there’s a virtuoso split-screen action sequence, a stunt-choreographed tavern fight as elaborate and OTT-suspenseful as a Brian De Palma set piece. It all deteriorates at the end....
...venture would be a successor to the Horizon acquisition vehicle floated last year floated by Mr Osmond who made his name with investments in companies such as restaurant chain Pizza Express, pub group Punch Taverns...
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