Yandex against retailers, the Kremlin’s hopes for Trump and the secrets of beliefs from the FBI

Yandex is drawn into a competitive war with retail networks. Details - in the morning newsletter The Bell

The Yandex plan to become Russian Amazon could not but affect the company's relations with large Russian retailers. In the fall, Yandex plans to start selling its own smartphone in Russia, but cannot agree on the conditions of cooperation with retail networks. Prior to this, according to The Bell, the situation has a similar situation with the sales of the Yandex.STAMA smart column. Retailers, in turn, refuse to work on Yandex.Market.

• The fact that Yandex is preparing to launch its own smartphone became known in April this year. According to Vedomosti today, the company plans to import the first batch of 20,000 phones to Russia in the fall, but cannot agree on sales conditions with retailers. According to the newspaper, Yandex insists that the NECCESS of networks when selling a smartphone for 16,990 rubles should not exceed 3-8%-several times lower than the standard with such volumes. Retaillers do not agree to such conditions.
• The first gadget that Yandex was released is not for sale in retail networks - the smart column of Yandex.STASION with a built -in voice assistant to Alice. You can buy it only in the Moscow company store in the Yandex office. Sources familiar with the history of its launch told The Bell that Yandex planned the retail sales of the Station and conducted negotiations with retailers, but could not agree for the same reason - the requirement of a low margin. “Yandex” did not comment “Vedomosti” to Vedomosti, the company's representatives were not available this morning.
• Relations with electronics sellers and the aggregator of the Yandex.Market online stores do not develop. The largest seller of electronics, M. Video, left Yandex.Markete back in 2014, and in July this year, the second largest retailer DNS announced the departure from the site. But this week it became known that Yandex.Market will become the first third-party platform on which the Tmall online Chinese online store will sell its goods in Alibaba Group.
• In May of this year, Yandex in partnership with Sberbank launched its own Beru online market. Partners received 50%in the project, Sberbank invested 30 billion rubles in it. The project should realize the long -standing dream of the head of Sberbank German Gref about the creation of the Russian Amazon. The launch of successful Yandex gadgets is a logical part of such a plan. For the American Amazon, the launch of the Echo smart column was the most successful project in 2017.

What am I to me?

In the short term, the advantage of networks is such a competitive position in retail as Amazon, Yandex does not even have close, and it is difficult to imagine a new smartphone without sales in retail networks. But in the future, it will be difficult to deal with the largest technological platform, behind which is the largest state bank.

MONEY

The withdrawal of profit will be considered in a record time

After the start of the scandal around the letter of Andrei Belousov about the seizure of 513 billion rubles of superprofits, the author assured that it was only a theoretical sentence that has yet to be worked out. But for the abstract idea, Belousov’s proposal turned out to be very short -term consideration: according to TASS, all interested departments will present their position tonight, and already on August 17 the government should form a “general vision of the issue”.

American bonds will still be useful

Having got rid of the majority of investments in American government bonds, Russia still decided to leave a 15% package, it should be from half -year statistics of the US Treasury. In June, Russia for the first time in four months did not sell its “trezeling”, and its package remained at $ 14.9 billion. Before that, from March to May we sold 85% of our US bond package for $ 80 billion. However, a new exacerbation of relations between countries began in July, and there are still no statistics for this month. The decrease in investments in dollar instruments was one of the element of the plan for the fight against sanctions prepared by the Ministry of Finance.

Signals

Kremlin hopes for Trump

The Russian authorities still hope that good relations with Donald Trump will help improve relations with the United States as soon as the American president has a “political window of opportunities”, Bloomberg writes with reference to anonymous Russian officials. The Kremlin hopes that the Trump administration will be able to soften the strict anti -Russian proposals of the Congress, and therefore refrain from response to the latest American sanctions, Bloomberg interlocutors say.

PRACTICE

Gratitude in a year

We are used to the fact that the letter with gratitude, for example, for the gift received should be sent immediately or at least the next day - delay is considered impolite. However, the psychologist Adam Grant claims, when other people make our lives better with the help of intangible things - advice, instructions, help in searching for work - it is better to express gratitude in a week, a month or even a year later to feel changes in your life. After all, the most sincere “thank you” is possible only after awareness of the benefits of help - and this most often does not happen at once. How this strategy works - Grant explains Quartz.

Secrets of beliefs from the FBI

The FBI employee Chris was working for 15 years with a negotiator - and participated in more than 150 hostage rescue operations. His example shows that any person in any household situation can be convinced to do what you need (or simply change your opinion), without a direct team or the use of force - and with the help of emotional influence. For this, it is very important to develop three key skills of emotional intelligence (the ability to understand the emotions and intentions of other people) - knowledge of their own character and feelings, self -control and awareness of the problems of society, to which the “processed” person belongs. Business Insider provides an excerpt from a book about the art of emotional conviction, in which the author analyzes the principles of OSS - and explains how to apply them in his life.

Peter Mironenko