WhatsApp allowed users to send marketing messages and began to share data from Facebook, according to the messenger blog. Although the updated confidentiality policy does not say anything about receiving money, Bloomberg calls this the first step towards monetization.

The costs of Russian mercenaries from the private military company Wagner in Syria amounted to from 5.1 billion rubles to 10.3 billion rubles, RBC writes with reference to its own calculations. According to the interlocutors of the publication, in the Middle East country there are up to two and a half thousand PMC fighters. The salary of each in Syria, according to the officer of the Ministry of Defense, rarely exceeded 300 thousand rubles, in Russia fighters received from 80 thousand rubles.

The Ministry of Finance has developed an additional package of tax seizures for oil workers in 2017. This was reported by Vedomosti with reference to three federal officials and participant in discussions from the industry. According to the publication, next year a one -time increase in taxes on oil companies, which was supposed to operate only in 2016, will be extended. Thus, 200 billion rubles will be seized. Another 170 billion rubles are planned to be collected from Gazprom.

The Shamalov family, which is associated with the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, first fell into the RIGHT FAMILY FAMILY RIGHT FORBES rating and immediately took fourth place, according to the magazine website. The combined state of Nikolai Shamalov and his son Cyril is estimated at $ 2.4 billion. The Shamalov Sr. Forbes calls Putin’s friend and a member of the Lake Cooperative, Kirill Shamalov, the media was previously called the husband of President Katerina.

As a result of the earthquake in Central Italy, at least 247 people died, Reuters reports with reference to local authorities. As the agency was informed in the civil defense department of Rome, according to the calculations of officials, 190 people died in the province of Rieta and 57 people in Askoli-Permen. Earlier, the authorities stated that at least 159 people were killed and reported that they were continuing to search for bodies.

Entrepreneur Aram Petrosyan, detained on August 24 for the capture of hostages in the Citibank department in Moscow, explained that he intended to draw attention to his bankruptcy in this way. This was reported by TASS with reference to the senior assistant to the head of the Main Investigation Department of the IC of the Russian Federation for Moscow, Julia Ivanov.

The jury in Seattle found the son of a deputy of the State Duma of Roman Seleznev guilty of cyber abbess, RIA Novosti reports . Seleznev was charged with 40 episodes of theft of bank cards. Crimes are regulated by four articles: cyber abundance, intentional damage to the secure computer, obtaining information from a secure computer, storing more than 15 unresolved devices for access to secure computer networks, theft of personal information under aggravating circumstances.

The state -owned shares of Bashneft can be sold both in a single lot and in parts. This was stated by the head of the Ministry of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev, Interfax reports. “Until now, we have talked and talk about a package of 50.08%. It can be proposed by one lot, can be offered by several lots. But we are talking about all this package, ”the minister explained.

The suspect in the capture of the bank in Moscow on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street in Moscow fully pleaded guilt, Interfax reports with reference to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. “During the interrogation, the defendant fully pleaded guilty and gave the aware of himself the capture of the hostages,” Yulia Ivanova, senior assistant to the head of the capital's head of the capital, told the agency.

The world's first taxi autopilot service has been launched in the world, Associated Press reports . The service works on the software developed by Nutonomy. So far, six cars are driving on the autopilot, by the end of the year their number will increase to ten. In addition, the service is available only within the One-North business apartment with an area of ​​6.5 square kilometers, and you can only sit down and land in certain places, but trips are free during the test period.

The net profit of Sberbank in IFRS in the second quarter of 2016 increased 2.6 times to 145.4 billion rubles. This was reported in the press release of the bank. For the first six months of 2016, the bank’s net profit amounted to 263.1 billion rubles against 85.2 billion rubles for the same period of 2015. According to Reuters , in this way Sberbank set a new record of the quarterly indicator of net profit.

The President of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) Kirsan Ilyumzhinov was not allowed on the flight of the American airline Delta Air Lines on the Moscow-New York route. Ilyumzhinov himself said this on August 25 "Interfax." “The airline’s employee informed me before the landing of the plane that the entrance to the United States was closed to me, and the airline will return the money for a ticket,” he explained.

The airborne troops of the Russian Federation do not intend to take part in the construction of the Zenit Arena stadium in St. Petersburg. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Airborne Forces. “They are surprised by the statements of the vice-governor of St. Petersburg Igor Albin about the new use of the Airborne Forces in construction,” the department noted.

State procurement and municipal contracts in the amount of more than 1 billion rubles will be held by public discussion, the corresponding resolution was signed by the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev. According to Medvedev, this is necessary in order to “eliminate unnecessary ineffective expenses, the costs should be transparent and justified” (quote for Interfax ).

Proxima b ESO / M. KornMesser / Reuters On August 24, an international group of astronomers officially announced the opening of exoplanets (planets outside our solar system) in the orbit of the nearest star - proxima centaurus. And although over the past decades, the astronomers have opened more than two hundred exoplanets similar to the Earth, the Proxima B planet gives hope that extraterrestrial life can finally be found.