Electronic cigarette maker Juul will pay employees $2 billion in proceeds from a deal with tobacco giant Altria (which also owns maker Marlboro). Each of Juul's 1,500 employees will receive an average of $1-1.3 million. Payments will be processed as a bonus. Why pay? As reported by Axios, some employees were unhappy with the deal with Altria.

The Moscow cafe "AnderSon" near the metro station "Tulskaya", the capture of which by "bandits" the founder of the network Anastasia Tatulova announced on Thursday, resumed work on Saturday. about this spoke Tatulova herself . However, the conflict has not been settled, and the cafe may close again at any moment, the entrepreneur says. More.

The Slack messenger will no longer block the accounts of users who used the messenger in the regions under sanctions (the list also includes Crimea). More. As follows from the message of the messenger, the practice of deactivating user accounts if they logged in from the IP addresses of regions under sanctions was recognized as erroneous and inconsistent with the principles of the company. In the future, Slack plans to only restrict access to the service in such territories.

The former owner of the Russian version of Forbes, Alexander Fedotov, borrowed 150 million rubles and did not return them on time, Vedomosti reports . The creditor was billionaire Igor Rybakov . More details . According to the publication, Rybakov provided Fedotov with a loan of 150 million rubles for a period of six months. Fedotov returned only a small part of the debt (the amount was not specified), and in November Rybakov assigned the rights to claim this loan to Sergei Popravka.

Russian billionaires will lose less in 2018 than big businessmen in other countries. The combined wealth of the 25 richest Russians will decline by only a few percent by the end of the year, while the overall decline in the Bloomberg billionaire rating (it includes 500 people) will exceed 10%. The exception is Oleg Deripaska. He lost most of his fortune. Read more .

Foreign powers including Russia, China and Iran tried to influence voters in the 2018 U.S. midterm elections, but there is no evidence of any penetration into U.S. voting systems, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coates said . Friday Read more . No details of what these attempts to interfere in the elections were, Coates did not provide. From his words, all that is known is that Russia, China and Iran were promoting their strategic interests.

Cellular operators MegaFon, VimpelCom and Tele2 have informed subscribers about the growth of tariffs from the beginning of next year. Read more . VimpelCom's website (trademark Beeline) published messages about changes from January 1 to postpaid and prepaid tariff plans, a number of options and the cost of calls to some international destinations.