Donald Valentine, the founder of one of the most famous venture investment funds, Sequoia Capital, has died at the age of 87. Today's tech giants, such as Apple and Cisco, grew with the money from his fund. What is known about Valentine. He was one of the "generation of leaders" who founded Silicon Valley, and a true embodiment of the American dream. Valentine grew up in the family of a milkman and a housewife, and studied chemistry at the not very prestigious Fordham University.

U.S. President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudolph Giuliani accidentally called an NBC reporter twice and left messages on his answering machine where he could be heard talking to someone who was in the same room with him. Bloomberg suggests that Giuliani just sat on his phone unsuccessfully, and he accidentally made two calls. According to NBC, Giuliani left two messages about some foreign deals, in addition, Giuliani laments the lack of cash. “I want you to take care of Bahrain tomorrow.

The Alfa Capital investment company announced the departure of the deputy general director and member of the board, Yevgeny Zhivov, after allegations of violence against his wife and daughter. Whether Zhivov was fired or left of his own free will is not specified. The top manager himself denies the allegations. Details.

The theme of the issue is sovereign Runet in action. On November 1, a set of amendments known as the “sovereign runet law” comes into force.

The Sovereign Runet Law will partially enter into force next week, November 1, 2019. The text of the law itself - only a framework, whether it will work or not - depends on by-laws, decisions of the authorities and the development of technologies. Because of this, users and businesses have a lot of questions - The Bell answered the most important of them. This article was written specifically for The Bell's weekly tech newsletter. You can subscribe to it for free here .

Economy Minister Maxim Oreshkin, answering questions from RBC readers, said that he himself was not opposed to paying a higher income tax, but it was premature to discuss the transition to a progressive taxation scale in Russia - “everything needs to be carefully calculated.” What's happened? Oreshkin answered questions from RBC readers live on Friday evening. One of them concerned the introduction of a progressive scale of taxation in Russia.

Half of the top 50 banks increased lending to the population in September. So they prepared for the entry into force of the restrictions of the Central Bank, because of which it became more expensive for banks to issue loans to people with loans. What's happened? In September, Russian banks issued 17.7 trillion rubles of loans to individuals, which is 1.6% more than in August, the National Rating Agency (NRA) calculated based on the Central Bank's materials.

Since the beginning of the 2010s, Africa has become one of the main goals of Russian economic and foreign policy expansion. This week, the “African project” reached the highest level - the “Russia -Africa” summit with the participation of Vladimir Putin and 43 African leaders was held in Sochi. The United States and China consider Russia as the main competitor in the region, but in terms of trade with Africa south of Sakhara, we are still 18 times behind China.