Yandex.Taxi was accused of monitoring customers

Gett complained about Yandex in the FAS. A month later, the department should approve the merger of Yandex.Taxi and Uber.

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On the way uber

The Gett taxi service suspected Yandex.Taxi that it borrows dubious techniques from his new Uber partner, using hidden functions for surveillance of passengers.

• Gett complained about Yandex in the FAS after the service customers began to notice that after installing the Gett, prices in the Yandex.Taxi appendix on the same device are sharply reduced. The study conducted by Gett showed that the price of a trip to Yandex.Taxi is 60% lower, if the Gett application is installed on the phone.
• The representative of Yandex.Taxi refutes Gett’s statements: according to him, the service “exactly the same as Gett has, access to information about smartphone users”, and the established applications do not affect the price of the trip.
• In July, Yandex.Taxi agreed to unite its Russian business with Uber, the new company was estimated at $ 3.7 billion. FAS should approve the deal until November 17.
• In September, the FBI offered Uber in the United States similar accusations: using a program with a Hell name characteristic of Uber (“Hell”), the company followed the drivers of the main opponent, Lyft.

What am I to me?

The price wars between online services led to a drop in taxi prices (at least in Moscow) at times. After the Yandex and Uber deal, many were afraid that prices would begin to grow back, but experts warned that the competition was not finished yet, and the rest of the market participants would continue price wars with the new leader. Gett's complaint, which is very reminiscent of the promotion of its own application, is the excess of this reference.

TV channels refused to advertise Matilda

Russian television channels, including “First”, “Russia” and NTV, refused to broadcast the already paid commercials of the film “Matilda”, said the director and producer of the film Alexei Teacher. The channels did not explain the reasons for the refusal, but they returned the money, the director said.

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The premiere of Matilda is scheduled for October 26. In early September, the largest united network “Formula Cinema” and “Cinema Park” in Russia refused to rent a film, but most other cinemas will show the film , despite the threats of Orthodox activists.

Published a record of Cuban acoustic weapons

The AP agency managed to get a recording of a mysterious sound that caused health problems among employees of the American embassy in Havana - the State Department called them an "acoustic attack." 22 employees of the embassy who heard the sound turned for medical help. Most of the embassy employees were evacuated, and Donald Trump went to aggravate relations with Gavana, sending 15 Cuban diplomats from the United States.

What am I to me?

AP compares the sound with a chatter of a large number of crickets or scratching nails on the school board. But you can listen to yourself and draw your conclusions (we warn you: the sound is really unpleasant).

MONEY

Small business tax will grow by 3.9%

From January 1, 2018, for the first time in three years, the UTII bet or the so -called “simplification” will grow - a tax on which a significant part of the Russian small business works. The tax at a single rate of 15% is paid not from the real, but the so -called imputed income, which is calculated from the size of the enterprise and several coefficients. The increase is insignificant: the Ministry of Economy offers to change one of the coefficients so that the total amount of the company's tax on the “simplification” will grow by 3.9%.

Mixed reality for $ 1 billion

The most mysterious American technological startup of Magic Leap in the new round of investments attracted up to $ 1 billion, and its estimate was $ 7 billion. The company creates a “mixed reality” system (projecting virtual objects into the real world), which is almost nothing to be known to the general public, but Gogle and Alibaba are invested, and CEOO is invested Google Sundar Pichai is part of her board of directors. In September, Bloomberg sources reported that the company could start supplying its first device for $ 2 thousand to a limited circle of buyers within six months. Magic Leap laid out the last demo-video a year ago, since then the technology had to step forward:

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PRACTICE

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Citizenship for bitcoins

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Fun

We got to Pokemon

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Peter Mironenko, The Bell