US federal prosecutors charged 50 people in six different states of the country with bribery. The amount of bribes involved in the case amounted to $25 million. Hollywood stars, athletes, and designers are among the accused. They paid between $15,000 and $75,000 for their children's high scores on national SAT or ACT exams.

Boeing fell 3% on Wednesday after U.S. President Donald Trump announced he would suspend Boeing-737 MAX flights in an executive order, writes CNBC . The quotes of American airlines flying on these liners also fell. More. The United States was the last to ban the flights of these liners. After all Boeing-737 MAXs in the air land, they will not be released into flight.

The World Matter on Wednesday, March 13, occurred on the social network Facebook and the Instagram service belonging to it. Users in Russia, India, Latin America and the United States could not enter social networks, and sometimes use Facebook messengers. Read more. The failure began at about 19.00 Moscow time and at the peak touched about a third of users. A significant part of them could not even go to the site until midnight in Moscow.

The United States created a special forces for working on sanctions against Russia. Already this year he will have to prove that it is not in vain spending his increased budget The United States has a new decision -making center for sanctions against Russia - a special “strategic impact unit” has been created in the Office for the fight against terrorism and financial intelligence (TFI), which will be engaged in work on sanctions.

Apple on March 25 will hold a new presentation of its products. The slogan of the event is it's show Time. It is assumed that there the company announces a video sabotage service - a direct competitor to Netflix, as well as a subscription to news and magazines. Apple is trying to reduce dependence on iPhone sales, increasing the revenue from services. It is expected that by 2020 the company will annually sell services for $ 50 billion.

Google co-founder Larry Page feared in the early 2010s that his partner Sergey Brin would sell his shares to Google, and Page would not be able to find $8 billion to buy them out - and the founders would lose control of the company, Bloomberg found . out To prevent this, Page fought hard to push through the Google board of directors a new shareholding structure for the company, over which investors sued it for a year and a half.

A D.C. court has sentenced former Donald Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort, a defendant in an investigation into Russian interference in the U.S. election, to another 3.5 years (43 months) in prison and a $6.1 million fine. More. Adding to a sentence handed down five days ago in yet another case , Manafort, 69, will have to spend 7.5 years (90 months) in prison.

Elon Musk monitors the correspondence of employees, controls their phones and even engages in telephone terrorism - all in order to preserve the company's reputation, according to Bloomberg. The internal correspondence that was at the disposal of the media also showed that since February of this year, Musk has been reviewing all potential Tesla employees on his own and making the final decision on hiring.

Google is launching an aggregator of vacancies from various recruiting sites in Russia, learned Kommersant . The Headhunter, Superjob and GorodRabot.ru portals have already joined the new service. It will be possible to view vacancies directly in the search results - for this, the user needs to drive in a request like “work in Moscow”. More.

The US Treasury's Office of Counterterrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI) has created six "Strategic Impact Units" to deal with "highest priority" areas, one of which is Russia. Already this year, TFI will have to prove that it is not wasting its significantly increased budget, which means that new sanctions can be expected. More. The initiative belongs to the chief curator of all anti-Russian sanctions of the US Treasury, Deputy Minister for Financial Intelligence Sigal Mandelker.

Visa and Mastercard blocked the cards of Eurofinance Mosnarbank, against which the US Treasury imposed sanctions for its connections with the Venezuelan state-owned oil company PDVSA, according to the bank’s message . Bank cards are currently unavailable abroad and in Russia. Even the National Payment Card System of the Central Bank, created for this purpose in 2014, could not save internal traffic from blocking. Read more.

In the published annual list of the most livable cities of the international consulting company Mercer, Moscow and St. Petersburg did not make it into the top hundred, taking 167th and 174th places out of more than 230. In an additional study assessing the safety of cities, they are even called the most dangerous in Europe. Mercer believes that the most convenient place to live is in Vienna, and the safest place is in Luxembourg. More.

Russians begin to age much earlier than residents of other countries, according to a study published in the peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet. If on average around the world people develop senile diseases at the age of 65, then in Russia at the age of 59 - a year before the new minimum retirement age. In the ranking compiled by the authors of the study, Russia was in 160th place out of 195. More.

The Federation Council today rejected the law adopted by the State Duma banning the placement of hostels in the residential premises of apartment buildings. This will only delay the collapse of the low-budget placement sector in Russia: the senators are not against the law in essence, but they consider it necessary to give businesses time to adapt. More. The "no" vote was almost unanimous - 151 senators. Only two voted in favor, four abstained.

A member of the accelerator Y Combinator figured out how to help lazy coffee lovers who constantly forget to buy coffee and because of this they are forced to “enjoy” coffee-free breakfasts. Bottomless has learned to track the client's coffee stocks and update them automatically every time they run out. More. Bottomless brings to customers special scales that connect to the Internet and installs them under the grain packaging.