Photo by Stephen Webster for Forbes 33-year-old teacher Jim Fowler has become an online education star with an accessible, original and fun math course. How did he manage to bring back the fashion for sines and integrals? Two years ago, when online education became fashionable, eminent professors began releasing video courses on clickable topics like cryptography or startup engineering. Old-fashioned math that no one wanted to teach in the new format was left collecting dust in the corner.

photo Getty Images The close friendship of the two Silicon Valley giants ended with the release of the first iPhone. Why didn't Steve Jobs forgive the Google founders for developing the Android operating system? Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page considered Apple creator Steve Jobs their teacher. There were times when Google and Apple stood together against Microsoft.

Chinese banks, in particular the Bank of China, do not want to jeopardize relations with the West by providing Russia with the necessary financing, writes the British newspaper Financial Times , citing a source in the Chinese bank. “If you expect us to rush and do everything that European and American banks can no longer do, you will be disappointed,” the source said. “We want to develop our Russian business, but we also have to take into account the risks,” he added.

Photo by Maria Pasholok An art curator from London started a neon sign company for artists and became one of the most popular neon sign makers in the British Isles. Vestalia Chilton, 35 years old. She worked for three years in the Russian art department of Sotheby's Gallery, and oversaw her own international projects for Attollo Arts .

Twitter users in France can now make money transfers to their subscribers using “tweets,” writes the Financial Times . Twitter is implementing the new service together with S-money, a division of the second largest French banking group by the number of clients, Groupe BPCE. The funds transfer will be available to all French Twitter users with a bank account. “This initiative is a good example of our innovative payments strategy.

Former "people's governor" of Donbass Pavel Gubarev was taken to one of the hospitals in Rostov-on-Don after an accident that occurred on the territory of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) as a result of his car being shot at by unknown persons, RIA Novosti reported on Monday with reference to Gubarev's associate Miroslav Rudenko . Gubarev’s car, traveling from the Rostov region, was fired upon on the territory of the DPR, Rudenko said.

The euro exchange rate at trading on the Moscow Exchange on Monday, October 13, rose to 51.205 rubles, updating its historical maximum, according to exchange data. At the opening of trading on Monday, €1 was worth 51.033 rubles. The previous maximum of the euro was 51.2 rubles. The dollar exchange rate at auction on Monday rose from 40.2445 rubles to 40.436 rubles per $1.

The Russian telecom operator Megafon, controlled by billionaire Alisher Usmanov , has signed an agreement with the Chinese bank China Development Bank (CDB) to organize financing in the amount of $500 million, according to a report received by Forbes on Monday. The agreement was signed in the presence of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Chinese State Council Chairman Li Keqiang on Monday.

who came under sanctions from the United States and the European Union, Billionaire Arkady Rotenberg, transferred to his son Igor Rotenberg a stake in the Mostotrest company (26.4%), which is engaged in the construction of transport infrastructure, writes on Monday, October 13. the Vedomosti newspaper Arkady Rotenberg left the capital of Mostotrest, a company representative confirmed.

Forbes continues to collect applications for participation in the fifth startup competition “School of a Young Billionaire.” This time - a service for selling bouquets directly from florists Project name: Flowwow.com The essence of the project: a service for selling flower bouquets directly from florists Project leader: Andrey Makeev city ​ Moscow The rules for participating in the competition and submitting applications can be found here

There is enough cash in the banking system to “satisfy any demand,” said the head of the Bank of Russia, Elvira Nabiullina, in an interview with the Rossiya 24 TV channel. “There will be enough currency, of course,” Nabiullina said. In the interview, the head of the Central Bank also spoke out against attempts to artificially fix the ruble exchange rate in order to reduce capital outflow.

The draft law “on mirror property sanctions against the Russian Federation” was registered on Monday in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, according to a document posted on the website of the Ukrainian parliament. The text of the bill has not been published on the website. It is known that its initiator was Alexander Mirny, a deputy from the Svoboda party. On September 10, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko (No.

Non-state pension funds (NPFs) can return frozen pension savings for the second half of 2013, provided that the NPFs spend them on helping companies and banks that have fallen under Western sanctions, RBC reported on Monday , citing sources. According to one of the agency’s interlocutors, there will not and cannot be any directive. We are talking about the mutual desire of the government and funds to invest the resulting savings in securities of sanctioned banks, he said.

The head of Gazprom, Alexey Miller, said that the contract for gas supplies to China via the “eastern route” came into force on Monday, October 13, after the signing of an intergovernmental agreement, TASS reports .

Forbes continues to collect applications for participation in the fifth startup competition “School of a Young Billionaire.” This time - a machine for connecting and servicing cellular subscribers Project name: " Simkomat " The essence of the project: a software and hardware complex that allows you to automate the connection and service of cellular subscribers Project leader: Subbotin Artem City : Izhevsk The rules for participating in the competition and submitting applications can be found