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photo Corbis/FOTO SA InvenSense microchips power 70% of Android phones with motion sensors and 80% of tablets with them. How did the company manage to achieve such impressive results? Founded 10 years ago, InvenSense is rarely in the spotlight. But on September 20, when Apple's iPhone 5s hit store shelves, market players decided that the San Jose, California-based component maker had finally hit the jackpot by beating larger rival STMicroelectronics.

The common-law husband of the suicide bomber who blew herself up on Monday on a passenger bus in Volgograd, “Russian Wahhabi” Dmitry Sokolov, disappeared in the summer of 2012 on the way to the mosque, the Investigative Committee of Russia reported on Wednesday. “Currently, the investigation has reason to believe that Asiyalova’s common-law husband, 21-year-old Dmitry Sokolov, who is listed as missing, was involved in organizing the explosion.

photo Reuters What the two largest technology companies will offer their consumers Yesterday, Nokia presented six new products in Abu Dhabi (the event was hosted by President Stephen Elop), and Apple CEO Tom Cook presented his latest innovations in San Francisco. For both technology companies, these presentations were extremely important.

Information published on Monday by the French newspaper Le Monde about the US National Security Agency (NSA) wiretapping telephone conversations in France is “inaccurate and misleading,” writes Le Figaro. US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper announced this on Tuesday. “The report that the NSA has collected data on more than 70 million French telephone conversations is incorrect,” the newspaper quoted Clapper as saying.

The investigative authorities completed the investigation and sent to court a case of a $1.8 million bribe against the former head of the Pension Fund branch for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, Natalya Grishkevich, the press service of the main investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the region reported on Wednesday. 56-year-old Grishkevich is accused under Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale.

Photo by RIA Novosti Despite long discussions, it was not possible to correct the shortcomings of the “fourth antimonopoly package” On October 25, the three-week period expires when the FAS must submit to the government the so-called “fourth antimonopoly package,” revised taking into account the comments of ministries, experts, and “Business Russia.” The latest version of the text, dated October 15, posted on the service’s website, is in some places better than the original version, but

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev relieved Gennady Onishchenko from his duties as head of Rospotrebnadzor due to the expiration of the contract and appointed him as his assistant, the Prime Minister's press secretary Natalya Timakova said on Wednesday. “The corresponding order on the release of Onishchenko from the post of head of Rospotrebnadzor and his appointment as assistant to the prime minister was signed by Medvedev,” RIA Novosti quotes her as saying.

The police identified about two thousand apartments in the capital's Biryulyovo Zapadnoe district next to a vegetable warehouse where migrants lived illegally, RIA Novosti reports . This was stated by the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev during the “government hour” in the State Duma.

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Representatives of the All-Russian Popular Front (ONF) are ready to withdraw their bill on the so-called “golden parachutes” - benefits paid to top managers upon dismissal, as soon as a similar government draft law is submitted to the State Duma, according to a message published on Wednesday on the ONF website.

The leaders of Russia and Belarus Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday, October 24, will hold talks in Minsk as part of a meeting of the Eurasian Economic Council. One of the central topics of the conversation between the heads of state will be the criminal case against the owners and management of the largest Russian producer of mineral fertilizers, OJSC Uralkali. reports this RIA Novosti with reference to Putin's assistant Yuri Ushakov.

The head of Rospotrebnadzor, the chief state sanitary doctor of Russia, Gennady Onishchenko, believes that the media are in vain constructing versions about his professional future, Interfax reports . “Fantasies are inappropriate. All decisions have been systematically thought out and worked out,” the country’s chief sanitary doctor told the agency on Wednesday during a telephone interview on the way to Stavropol.

The creator of Russia's largest social network VKontakte, Pavel Durov, responded to the accusations of State Duma deputies on Wednesday, saying that the administration of the service is not able to bear responsibility for the actions of users, Interfax reported , citing the press service of the social network.

The Scientific and Production Association "Special Equipment and Communications" (STiS) of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has announced a competition for the development of a satellite communication network, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the text of the application. The initial cost of the government contract is almost 900 million rubles.