Where in Russia patriotic smartphones will get, did Jeff Bezos investors failed and whether Fiat knew about CEO's disease

Do you want to see only domestic applications in your smartphone? Details - in the mailing of The Bell

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Starting next year, sellers of smartphones and computers in Russia may oblige domestic analogues of browsers, mail, audiopleers and other applications to them. The devices themselves can eventually rise in price.

• The author of this bold idea is the Federal Antimonopoly Service. According to Kommersant, such a proposal is in the final version of the “road map” for the development of competition for 2018–2020. Legislative initiative should be issued by April 2019.
• The most famous conflict about the pre -installation of applications and services in 2015 occurred between Google and the FAS on the complaint of Yandex. But in the case of Russian developers, there will be no restriction of competition, officials say, because pre -installed Russian applications can be safely deleted if necessary.
• FAS desire to help Russian developers can understand, but new requirements for equipment will lead to new costs by companies, experts surveyed by publication say. In addition, it is not clear how global vendors of equipment will comply with the requirements for prescribing applications for the local Russian market. As a result, the final price of smartphones and computers is likely to grow, they warn.

What am I to me?

Many Russian applications are convenient and are in great demand among Russians-in 2017 they took 11 seats in the TOP-20 in the number of downloads. But this does not mean that you will really like to find in a brand new smartphone instead of something familiar to a dumb browser of a domestic developer.

MONEY

Competitor Alibaba

The Chinese retail market is inexhaustible. The Shanghai retailer Pinduoduo, whose sales is organized through the most popular WeChat messenger in China, joined the well -known AliExpress and JD.com. The other day, the company spent (English) successful IPO, after which it immediately rose by 40%. Despite the fact that startup had not yet been profitable, he managed to attract almost $ 1.6 billion, the whole company now costs more than $ 60 billion, and its founder is the former Google engineer Colin Juang will now definitely become one of the youngest participants in the Forbes list (now he is 38 years old). Startup is only three years old, but its average monthly audience already exceeds 300 million people, and the number of sellers is 1 million. How did Pinduoduo be supplanted by its huge competitors? The company sells mainly clothes, food and home goods, but relies on the smallest and offers discounts when buying in small wholesale.

Bezos did not fail

After the record collapse of the Facebook capitalization, the market was awaiting Amazon's reporting. And the company did not fail - its results for the second quarter were much better than analysts' forecasts. Despite the fact that on the revenue of Amazon he did not justify his hopes a little, his quarterly profit after many years of losses and very modest results amounted to a record $ 2.5 billion, twice the market expectations. The capitalization of the corporation after the publication of the report increased by 4%.

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PRACTICE

A difficult conversation

An unexpected news of a serious illness, and almost immediately - about the death of the former head of Fiat Chrysler Sergio Marcionne forced the market to discuss the difficult issue of how and when the leaders of large companies should warn the board of directors and shareholders about serious health problems. In the case of Marcionne, as the company assures (English), his family reported this just a few days before his death, although from the subsequent message of the hospital in Zurich, we can conclude that Marcionne was seriously ill and treated for more than a year .

Gadgets for the forever young

While Russians are worried about the inevitable increase in retirement age, progress does not stand still. Deloitte conducted a study (English) and found out that the rapid development of the market for portable electronic devices - from smart glasses and bionic costumes to exoskeletons - helps us to work longer, faster and safer for our own health. Thanks to this, by 2036, 37% of people in the age category of 65-69 years will continue to work actively, in 1996 this share was only 22%.

Irina Malkova