Members of the Apple board of directors are already discussing options for Steve Jobs to step down as head of the company, although they are not yet looking for potential successors to the CEO, who is on a long vacation. reported this on Wednesday The Wall Street Journal , citing informed sources. According to the publication, there has been no talk yet about specific managers capable of replacing Jobs at the head of the company.

OJSC "Platform Yutinet.ru", specializing in the field of online trading in computer and household appliances, placed shares during the IPO on the MICEX at a price of 195 rubles per share, which corresponds to the upper limit of the preliminary price range of 145-195 rubles.

LUKOIL Overseas (operator of LUKOIL’s international upstream projects) has reached an agreement to acquire from Oranto Petroleum 49% in the agreement for the exploration and development of the offshore deepwater block SL-5-11 in the waters of the Republic of Sierra Leone, according to a press release from the Russian company. The mandatory geological exploration program under the agreement provides for the drilling of one exploratory well until 2013. Block SL-5-11 with an area of ​​4022 sq.

photo: Itar-TASS Play in two acts member Forbes rating and co-owner of Domodedovo Airport Dmitry Kamenshchik held his first press conference in several years. The declared topic of “export of air transport services” faded into the background as soon as the main question was asked: “Who is the owner of Domodedovo?” Russian President Dmitry Medvedev asked this question , but the Prosecutor General’s Office never found an answer .

First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Igor Shuvalov joined the All-Russian Popular Front (ONF). Vladimir Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov announced this on Wednesday. Previously, the media called Shuvalov one of the contenders for the post of leader of the Right Cause party, which was eventually headed by Mikhail Prokhorov. The First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation is not a member of United Russia, recalls RIA Novosti .

First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov announced that he accepted the offer to head the list of candidates of the United Russia party in the Volgograd region in the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation. “Thank you for your trust, I agree to go first,” Zubkov said on Wednesday, July 20, in Volgograd at a meeting with the initiators of his nomination. He is quoted by the Interfax agency . “This is a great honor and serious responsibility for me.

The government commission for control over foreign investment, chaired by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, on Wednesday approved the application of Miracle CJSC for preliminary approval of the transaction for obtaining 100% of SIBUR Holding CJSC. This was announced by Deputy Head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service Andrei Tsarikovsky. Miracle is a structure of one of the main shareholders of Novatek, Leonid Mikhelson (No.

Sberbank intensified its work with collection agencies and began selling problem loans to individuals. reports this Interfax with reference to a participant in the collection services market. According to him, Sberbank, which had not previously sold debts to agencies, recently sent them offers to take part in the acquisition of a large loan from an individual. “Recently, Sberbank received an invitation to purchase the debt of an individual,” the source confirmed.

Barack Obama expressed support for the plan put forward by a group of congressmen to reduce the US budget deficit. Achieving a compromise between the White House and Parliament on this issue is necessary to raise the country's debt ceiling. Otherwise, the US faces a short-term default. According to Reuters , the plan was developed and proposed by a group of six senators, including both Democrats and Republicans.

A special court in Belgrade on Wednesday decided to extradite the arrested ex-president of the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina Goran Hadzic to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). As expected, Serbia’s “last war criminal” may be extradited to The Hague by the end of the week, Reuters reports. The court decided that all necessary conditions were met for Hadžić's extradition to the ICTY.

A UTair Tu-134 passenger plane, flying on the Irkutsk-Novosibirsk-Ekaterinbur route, made an emergency landing at Yekaterinburg Koltsovo airport on Tuesday, July 19. No one was injured as a result of the incident. about this on Wednesday.

OJSC Russian Venture Company (RVC) will invest up to 10 billion rubles in the creation of 10-15 new venture funds in the Russian Federation. This was announced by the director of the investment and examination department of RVC, Yan Ryazantsev. “This is a very substantial amount for our authorized capital,” RIA Novosti quotes a company representative .

Sales of passenger cars on the Russian market in the first half of 2011 increased by 85% - to $27.2 billion. Such data were reported on Wednesday by PricewaterhouseCoopers, Interfax reports . At the same time, the market for new imported cars increased by 82%, to $13.5 billion, and Russian-made foreign cars - by 104%, to 10.2 billion. Sales of Russian cars increased by 51% to $3.5 billion.

Net profit of the American Internet company Yahoo according to US GAAP increased in the second quarter of 2011 by 11% to $237 million compared to the same period last year. This is stated in a press release published on the company’s website on Tuesday, July 19. Yahoo's earnings per share were $0.18, down from $0.15 a year earlier. The company's revenue for April-July 2011 decreased by 23% to $1.23 billion.

VTB, its two subsidiaries, the Bank of Moscow and the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) signed an agreement on Wednesday to support the capital's bank. This is stated in a joint message from VTB and DIA. On behalf of the state bank, the agreement was also signed by VTB Debt Center and VTB Pension Administrator. The document defines the procedure and conditions for interaction between the parties when implementing the action plan for the financial rehabilitation of the Bank of Moscow.