Apple acquired a new startup - this time the California company Wifislam, which develops a service to determine the location of the object inside the buildings. WSJ considers this acquisition by a sign of an arcening struggle of Apple and Google in the field of cartographic services. Sergei Brin already has Google Maps, which allow you to lay the route not only on the street, but also in places such as airports, stadiums or shopping centers.

Trendy iTunes “Depression is great! Grayness, hopelessness - these are our everyday satellites. Take a photo in the style construction and hopelessness, share photos of your boredom and grayness. And remember, winter will never end, ”Anton Grishin describes his application.

The plan to save Cyprus has been adopted and approved. Having sacrificed its offshore reputation, the island state avoided default: large Cyprus depositors will have to pay for the years of convenient form of work . And the European officials sighed in relief: the next threat of the collapse of the eurozone passed. But is it so? - The economists think. The different economic condition of the EUR zone makes you think: do they really have the same currency?

Dmitry Medvedev approved a long-term (until 2030) forecast of socio-economic development of Russia.

Vladimir Putin has appointed a new (so far - acting) governor of the Vladimir region instead of the last governor from the Communist Party of Nikolai Vinogradov, who remained in power. The former deputy chairman of the Federation Council Svetlana Orlova will be steering almost one and a half million inhabitants of the region. This is what Vladimir needs to know about the new head of the region.

I did not want to raise this topic at the beginning of the Great Lent, but on the contrast of the modest lifestyle of the new Roman pope, accustomed to traveling by public transport, and court reports about the 26-year-old hieromonk-master from Moscow, the owner of a personal car park with a total cost of 15 million and a fascinum of a quick ride, which went to the other world of two and crippling another one, I could not overcome my desire.

Livejournal will launch its own online television ZHZ-TV, said Dmitry Ternovsky, presenter of the first program of the LiveJournal, Yuzer. The first project program called Upper Post will be released on the next Thursday on the main page of the service. It is assumed that high -ranking persons will participate in the program, and the first guest will be the deputy mayor of Moscow on urban planning policy and construction, Marat Khusnullin.

In St. Petersburg, an action was held against the law “On rubber apartments”, which will significantly tighten the rules of registration and responsibility for their violation (now the draft law has passed the first reading in the State Duma). A rally conducted by the youth movement "Spring" became a clear tracing paper of a similar Moscow campaign last a week ago . Only St.

Officials from the presidential administration continue to admit that they are no longer members of United Russia. Last week, it became known that the first deputy head of the department, Vyacheslav Volodin and the head of the Department of Internal Policy, Oleg Morozov, was also joined by the curator of non -parliamentary parties Tatyana Voronova. Izvestia, citing its sources, claim that she is the last official from the presidential administration who put a party card on the table.

More than half of Russians still do not use banking services, and most money transfers are made within the country. These are the main conclusions of the study initiated by Western Union - a company that provides services in the field of money transfers. 54% of respondents have no bank account.

State Duma deputies living in official apartments will not be able to change furniture even for personal money, Izvestia reports . So decided by the Office of the Housing Fund Presidential Administration.

On Sunday, the eurozone expectedly decided to help Cyprus for 10 billion euros. Deposits in banks with the amount of less than 100 thousand euros still will not “cut”, but those that are higher will be taxed with thirty percent tax. Cyprus expropriation was a surprise only for people who are not very good with economic history. The fact that Cyprus is doomed was known for a long time. For example, I also wrote on this subject back in July 2011 on the Banki.ru portal.

The crisis in Cyprus was seriously excited Russian politicians. And although we still have not received a clear answer to the question why they are so worried about the fate of the island, some of the ideas voiced in a panic should be considered. Dmitry Medvedev suddenly suggested creating a “some zone” in the Far East, which would compete with Cyprus, bugams and British Virgin Islands for capital sent from Russia.

Having expressed its dissatisfaction with the Android and Google monopoly on the country's mobile market, the Chinese government has begun to create its own open folk operating system. In April, the National Institute of Defense Technologies already in April plans to release a version of the Linux-Distribution of Ubuntu adapted for the Chinese market. After the desktop version, they plan to develop a mobile OS and “cloud” systems.

Professor of Saint Peter University John Hampton held the post of executive director Risk and Insurance Management Society, Inc. , he is the laureate of the Prize "For an outstanding Book on Business - 2012" ( American Management Association's Handbook of Financial Risk Management ). At the lecture, he will talk about how risk management in the modern economy is valid. The lecture will be given in English (with a sequential translation).