Mozilla Corporation came close to the production of smartphones for $ 25: according to the company’s press release , the devices will appear on the market this year. Smartphones at the price of simple phones will begin to be sold in India (and Indonesia, according to WSJ ) “In the next few months,” said Mozilla. The company demonstrated a model of the device at the Mobile Asia Expo exhibition in Shanghai.

The Ministry of Health of Ukraine (Moz) reported on the number of those who died during the armed conflict in the Donetsk region. This was reported by Donbass News. According to the agency, which refers to regional emergency medical services, 220 people were killed during the confrontation, of which two children under the age of 18 were killed. More than 1,200 people turned to medical assistance during military operations.

The Foundation for Combating Corruption (FBK) of Alexei Navalny launched a service that allows everyone to anonymously send materials for investigations. The new site was called Black Box (English - Black Box, Slon ), according to Navalny's blog. “All files are transmitted by safe connection, we get them, encrypt and send them to a protected server, access to which only employees of the investigation department have.

The American S&P 500 Stock Index to today played 143.4% of its fall caused by the financial crisis (that is, now it is traded at higher levels than before the crisis). This follows from the schedule published on the Chart of the Day website. So, at the closure of the last session, he reached 1950.79 points. The pre -crisis peak occurred at 1565.15 points (recorded on October 9, 2007), and the lowest level, 676.53 points - March 9, 2009.

The largest Amazon online retailer will become a trading platform for household services, such as plumbing, transportation, repair, cleaning, tutoring and so on. The company's plans are reported by Reuters . Trade platforms will be localized, in every city the consumer will be able to quickly find the services that he needs without using search engines and without looking at dozens of sites.

On May 21, the Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences took place “New York: Set City” by Vladimir Belogolovsky, creator of Intercontinental Curatral Project, a Tatlin American magazine correspondent. Slon publishes fragments of the expert’s speech. In 2012, the two hundredth anniversary of the New York grid was celebrated. Before its occurrence, New York was called the city of hills, and the main function of the grid was just the alignment of the landscape.

The California company GOPRO, a manufacturer of video cameras for filming in extreme conditions, plans to attract more than $ 427 million during the preparatory IPO. The startup estimated himself at almost $ 3 billion, according to Fortune . The company plans to sell 17.8 million shares of class “A” at a price of $ 21 to $ 24 each, according to documents prepared for American regulators.

The Chekhov City Court transferred Mikhail Kosenko a convicted person in the “swamp case” for home treatment. This was reported on his twitter by RAPSI correspondent Maria Gusarova. Kosenko will have to be observed by a psychiatrist as part of compulsory outpatient treatment. The prosecutor's office announced the intention to appeal the court decision. Since the end of April 2014, Kosenko has been undergoing forced treatment in a psychiatric hospital No.

Brazil is a favorite of the World Cup that begins tomorrow in this country. This is evidenced by statistical studies (for example, the recent Goldman Sachs report ), almost all bookmakers put it on it. The result of one football match may depend on a variety of factors: on the physical form of players, on the tactics chosen by coaches for the match, on the support of the fans, from the decisions of the arbitrator and, in the end, from good luck in the implementation of the assembled moments.

Slon is conducting a joint project with the international network of scientists “ Ponars Eurasia ”, whose participants are developing new approaches to politics and security in Russia and Eurasia. As part of this project, we publish analytical articles of Ponars, among which are famous political scientists, historians and sociologists from the USA, Europe, Russia and other CIS countries. This is another view of Russia, its policy and its politicians.

Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo starred in the opening bank’s commercials, which will be shown on television as part of the broadcasts of the World Cup in Brazil. This is written by "Vedomosti" . Vasily Utkin voiced the videos. Advertising with Ronaldo will be shown on the first channel and “Russia 1” several times per game. The amount of the transaction is not disclosed.

Brazil is a distant country and some kind of too frivolous to pay close attention to it, so only scraps of a common image fly from there to Russia. Previously, it was a new southern giant, the most promising economy, a counterbalance of the United States in the Western Hemisphere, uniting with which we will squeeze the dollar out of international circulation together in Brics. But now it's all in the past.

On Wednesday, June 11, the Feedly cloud service announced that he had undergone DDOS attacked. A group of unknown hackers invited the leadership to pay a ransom so that the increased load on the company's servers stops, according to a message on a corporate blog . Prior to this, other similar online services have been subjected to similar attacks. As of 17:30 Moscow time, access to the Feedly accounts for users was still closed.

No meetings or negotiations on gas issues between the presidents of Russia and Ukraine are not planned today or in the near future. This was stated by the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, RIA Novosti reports . “The Russian side did not receive invitations about meetings or negotiations,” Peskov explained. He added that the Russian side intends to clarify what Gunther Ettinger had in mind in energy.

The abolition of the order from Emirates for 70 aircraft has become the largest in the history of the European air concert The Dubai Emirates airline, one of the largest Middle Eastern carriers, refused to buy 70 A350 liners. This is stated in an official press release from the European Air Conceived. According to Bloomberg, the unexpected abolition of the order from Emirates has become the largest Airbus in the history.