Bad news haunts Apple, continuing to nail the company's quotes - in the last week alone, it has fallen in price by 10% and today for the first time since spring it was worth less than $800 billion. XS and XR. Analysts suspect that the decision of the Chinese court may be politically motivated, and point out the risks that Apple faced due to the US-China trade war. The ban in China is a consequence of Apple's defeat in a patent war with chip maker Qualcomm.

The market value of Apple for the first time in 8 months fell below $ 800 billion. The company's risks due to the US trade war with China are growing Photo: maxpixel.net / CC0 Public Domain Bad news pursues Apple, continuing to nail the company's quotes-in the last week it fell by 10% and today for the first time since spring cost less than $ 800 billion. Today, Apple shares fell due to the trial for the sale of old iPhones in China, except for recently neglected XS and XR.

The American company Snap bought Teleport Future Technologies, a startup founded by immigrants from Russia and Ukraine, for $8 million. The company has developed an app of the same name for virtual hair coloring. The investor of the project was a relative of the billionaire developer God Nisanov. Company. Teleport was launched in 2017 by programmers Vladislav Urazov and Bogdan Matveev, as well as their mentor Viktor Koch. In the same year, the startup raised $1 million in investments.

In early December, the venture capitalist from the DVCV Foundation Ali Tamaseb, known for creating the first modular “smart” clock, published the first part of his project about the founders of successful startups. He spent 300 hours on collecting data on “unicorns” - startups worth more than a billion dollars. Tamaseb published 100 graphs describing various features of “unicorns”.

Not only the tech giant Uber is preparing for an IPO next year, but also its smaller copy, the startup Lyft. The Wall Street Journal breaks down how companies battling for customers will compete for investor attention and predicts that next year could be the largest IPO by tech giants since the dot-com boom. What is known? Last week, Uber filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Form S-1, the initial document to begin the initial public offering.

The European Union imposed sanctions on nine individuals who organized and participated in elections in the self-proclaimed DPR and LPR, including the new head of the Luhansk Republic, Leonid Pasechnik. Against Denis Pushilin, elected president of the DPR, the EU imposed sanctions back in 2014. The measures include visa restrictions and a freeze of assets in the EU.

to the State Duma At the end of November, the government submitted a package of anti-corruption amendments , which would prohibit doctors and teachers from accepting gifts from citizens, equating them with officials. State employees will have to hand over to the authorities almost all gifts, with the exception of flowers, including alcohol. RIA Novosti This was told to by Dmitry Basnak, Director of the Department for the Development of the Civil Service of the Ministry of Labor.

The Chief Military Prosecutor’s Office is conducting an inspection against the supplier of products for the Russian Guard, the Druzhba Narodov meat processing plant, which opposition leader Alexei Navalny accused in the summer of inflating prices for supplies and called him a participant in a corruption scheme in the Russian Guard. Earlier, RBC found out that the check was initiated at the request of the FSB. More.

The recent data hack of 500 million Marriott hotel chain customers is just another multi-million dollar leak: on average, more than a billion accounts are stolen by hackers per year. In a recent The Bell tech newsletter, we said that the main purpose of the hacks is the wholesale trade of big data.

The theme of the newsletter is the battle of the fifth generation. Limited and unlimited resources of the digital era. In 2019, manufacturers of smartphones, telecom and large technological companies will work on the introduction of fifth generation communication networks - a new communication standard that promises a high -quality transformation of the digital world. We have collected a brief certificate of 5G. What is 5G?

Before the 2016 election, Russians made contact with at least 14 members of President Donald Trump's team, The Washington Post reports , citing court documents investigating Russian interference in the US election. The newspaper first named a Russian who offered Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen to hold a meeting and promised "political synergy" at the government level, it could be Russian weightlifter and now entrepreneur Dmitry Klokov. More.

The State Duma proposed to tighten the regulation of money transfers, mobile payments and online cash desks The fight against laundering reached international money transfers and mobile payments. The State Duma wants to prohibit systems like Moneygram to work in Russia without representation in the country. Electronic payment services (ApplePay, Samsungpay and others), and aggregators connecting online payments to retail outlets will also fall under regulation.

The State Duma and the Central Bank want to regulate the operation of foreign money transfer systems (MoneyGram, Intel Express) and payment services (ApplePay, SamsungPay and others) in Russia. On Friday, December 7, bills were submitted to the State Duma prohibiting foreign money transfer systems from working with Russians without opening a representative office in the country and obliging payment agents of online services to report to the Central Bank. More.

The Liberal Democratic Party and Vladimir Zhirinovsky are demanding a million rubles for asserting that the party was the most successful project of the CPSU and the KGB, its leader is a former KGB agent, and the organization itself was rewarded by “offices in the Kremlin” for neutrality during the events of autumn 1993 in Moscow. This follows from the lawsuit filed by the Liberal Democratic Party and its leader against the Phantom Press publishing house, which The Bell got acquainted with.