Copying other people's ideas and marketing on the brink of a foul allowed Biglion to become a leader in the rapidly growing discount coupon market, ahead of the founder of the Groupon industry. But market stagnation is not far off. What will the pioneers of collective purchasing in RuNet do? Text: Nikolay Grishin In just two years, an industry with a volume of 8-12 billion rubles appeared on the RuNet - the coupon market.

Andrey Sviridenko taught modern phones to transmit voice and show video. And then vendors learned to do without Sviridenko. His new clientele are mobile operators, which he helps compensate for losses. After all, today traffic goes to free providers like Google and Skype. Text: Dmitry Kryukov Two vice presidents and a dozen engineers came to a meeting with Andrei Sviridenko at the California office of Apple Corporation. They didn't look too friendly.

Hyundai Santa Fe There are about a hundred geographical objects in the world alone bearing the name Santa Fe, and yet for some reason we know it better as the name of the Korean crossover of the Hyundai brand. The new, already third generation of the car has acquired a more dynamic, expressive appearance and, with the same base, has become longer, wider and lower than its predecessor.

DIY retailer Stroydepo was not very lucky at the start: crisis, losses, problems with suppliers, change in positioning. However, today the network’s growth rate is twice that of the market. Where did such agility come from? Text: Yulia Fukolova "Hi, my name is Ivan. I can tell you how to perform electric arc welding." A rustic man in a helmet offers clients of the Stroydepo network virtual consultations on the website. The logo with the same character also hangs on store signs.

President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived at Manezhnaya Square in Moscow, where the May Day demonstration is taking place. Kommersant FM correspondent Nikita Batalov told presenter Nikita Nelyubin about how the procession was taking place along Tverskaya Street. – How is the demonstration going? I understand that you haven’t reached Manezhnaya yet? –– Yes, I’m still in the Pushkinskaya area.

James Robinson Text: Alexey Gostev 15 years ago, Jared Diamond asked the question, "Why do some nations prosper?" - and wrote a book about it, “Guns, Germs and Steel.” And economist James Robinson wrote a best-selling book asking an even more interesting question: “Why do nations decline?” The book, which is called that, is full of examples from various periods of world history - from the Mayan civilization to North Korea.

Infiniti LE The luxury electric vehicle segment is still empty, but this, as it turns out, does not mean that premium automobile brands do not have plans for it. Infiniti, for example, is already developing its first electric car, and the new LE (Luxury Electric) concept car demonstrates the ideas embedded in the future car.

Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin took part in a trade union rally in the center of Moscow. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, about 120 thousand people took part in the action. Presenter Oksana Barykina learned the details from Kommersant FM correspondent Nikita Batalov. -- Where are you now? Is the procession over? –– I am now near the Arbatskaya metro station, and people who took part in the procession are leaving here.

A letter was sent to the editor's email. Maniacs who make money by lying in the bushes and catching new cars undergoing secret tests with their lenses offered to buy “spy photos” of the updated Opel Insignia model. Like, “new optics, new bumpers, reduced carbon dioxide emissions, hi-res on request...” But we, of course, did not buy these photographs. There were several reasons. Firstly, encouraging this kind of photo hunters is the same as buying stolen goods.

to the Russian soul What needs to happen for everyone to suddenly start talking about Russian cars or Russians in cars? This will probably happen when Vitaly Petrov wins the Monaco Grand Prix. When Elton John decides to collect cars again and buys a Marussia for his collection. When Lada Granta will receive the title of Car Of The Year. When will more than two yo-mobiles be released? When will our president start driving not a Mercedes-Benz, but a ZIL.

Former French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen said she would vote with a blank ballot in the second round of elections, without making a clear choice between Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande. Meanwhile, the vote of her supporters could be decisive for the victory of one of the candidates.

Mercedes-Benz G-Class The Germans titled the message about the release of the updated Mercedes-Benz G-Class: Forever Young - “forever young”. The model went into mass production in 1979 and has since experienced many updates, the last of which was a couple of years ago.

British oil and gas corporation BP plans to invest about $4 billion in projects in the Gulf of Mexico this year and expects its investments in the region to remain at approximately the same level in the coming years, PRIME reports, citing Dow Jones.

and his volunteer promoters Alexander Petrov All we know about Soviet automobile exports is that they consumed more than half of the production of our factories, creating a shortage of cars on the domestic market. Well, and a story about the renaming of “Zhiguli” into “Lada” due to the dissonant similarity with the word “gigolo”, the meaning of which not all working people of the Soviet countries knew.

According to U.S. Circulation Bureau data for the six-month period ending March 31, 2012, The Wall Street Journal remains the most widely read newspaper in the United States, with a daily circulation of approximately 2.1 million copies. The publication's indicators remained virtually unchanged compared to the same period last year. Next come USA Today (1.8 million copies, a drop of 1%) and The New York Times (1.6 million, an increase of 73.1%), AP reported on May 1.