Tech in Moscow #20 (18 - 24 January 2021)

ICT.Moscow

Bank of America: The cost of taxi rides from online aggregators in Russia increased by 50-70%

Kommersant

Self-isolation Index by Yandex won the gold prize of the Eurobest festival

Yandex

Former AI evangelist at ABBYY Ivan Yamshchikov became Chief Strategy Officer at SkillFactory

RB.ru

Rosstat plans to launch an analytical platform “Population” with free access for business

Kommersant

Research: 70% of companies using AI say technology is effective

Rostelecom

Yandex launched an ad service Yandex.Ads

Yandex

Yandex has integrated a new neurotechnology into its search engine

CNews

Yandex.Taxi launched an analogue of Yandex.Lavka in Israel

RB.ru

Riki Group will release cartoons using Yandex cloud platform

Kommersant

Longread: will LO-shot revolutionize machine learning?

ICT.Moscow

Yandex plans to expand taxi service in Finland

PRIME

Research: more than 40% of companies in Russia plan to increase the number of cybersecurity specialists

RBC

Yandex and Tinkoff terminated negotiations on the deal

Yandex

Oleg Tinkov is negotiating with MTS on the sale of Tinkoff Bank

The Bell

Herman Gref, CEO of Sberbank, is stepping down from board of directors of Yandex

RBC

Digest about AI in Russia: top news in September

ICT.Moscow

Yandex is purchasing 100% of the online advertisement automation company K50

Kommersant

Yandex introduced services in the field of machine learning and speech recognition

ICT.Moscow

BCS: Yandex and Tinkoff Bank ecosystem can bring $1.1 billion in profit in 2021

Izvestia

Yandex tentatively agrees to buy Tinkoff

VC.ru

Moscow Department of Transport and Yandex plan to test self-driving trams in Moscow

Moscow Department of Transport

Sberbank renamed Yandex.Money to YuMoney

Sberbank

The winners of the acceleration program in travel industry will receive assistance in bringing their IT solutions to the Moscow market

TASS