The business agrees to the compromise version of the Gorekin Law, but where the compromise line will take place is incomprehensible. The 13 largest IT companies may be under the blow The business has decided on its attitude to the bill Anton Gorelkin about the restriction of the share of foreigners in Internet companies 20% of capital.

Andrey Andreev, the founder of the Badoo dating service, has sold control of his MagicLab holding, which owns both Badoo and the popular US dating service Bumble, as well as a number of others. The buyer, the American investment company Blackstone Group, valued the dating empire of Andreev, a native of Russia, at $ 3 billion. After Andreev's departure, MagicLab will be headed by Bumble founder Whitney Wolf Heard, who was a co-founder of the competing service Tinder.

The court has seized property from FSB Colonel Kirill Cherkalin, who is under investigation, and from members of his relatives, Vedomosti reports . Among the items seized were a collection of luxury watches from Breguet, Patek Philippe, and Boucheron, as well as 13 bags, including Birkin and Kelly models from the luxury house Hermes.

The High Court of London denied the ex-wife of Russian billionaire Vladimir Potanin in a property division lawsuit. Natalya Potanina wanted to sue $6 billion. Natalya Potanina claimed in court that she received $41.5 million in the divorce. This put her in “difficulties” because the amount did not meet her “reasonable needs”. She stated that her role in the development of the business empire of Vladimir Potanin deserved more generosity.

In October, the outflow of funds of Russians from Sberbank amounted to 79 billion rubles, the funds of individuals in the state bank decreased by 0.6% to 13 trillion rubles, Vedomosti writes. What's happened? Since the beginning of the year, as of October 1, the share of the state bank in the Russian market for managing individuals' funds has decreased from 45.1% to 43.9%. At the same time, the funds of individuals in the bank increased, but slightly - by 0.2%.

The authorities conceived the next reform of the pension system. The current fully did not work. Instead of a funded pension frozen several years ago, a new tool may appear: the state pension plan - GPP. He may be of interest to some, but most Russians are better off to consider alternative ways to provide themselves in old age. The Bell figured out how the most attractive are arranged. What (again) happened to pensions The current pension system does not work as it should.

The fight for the surplus of the National Welfare Fund (NWF), which can be spent from next year, has begun. Russian Post sent an appeal to the government asking for funds from the National Welfare Fund "to finance the infrastructure development of the enterprise," Interfax writes , citing a source in the government's financial and economic block. The amount in question is not named, but in October Dmitry Medvedev instructed the departments to consider this appeal.

The CEO of the clothing retailer Gap, Art Peck, is resigning after a disastrous third quarter, the results of which were much worse than expected, writes Bloomberg . The company's shares then fell by 8%. Details On Thursday, the board of the Gap holding (which includes the chain of stores of the same name, Athleta and Banana Republic) fired its CEO Art Peck, who had held this post since 2015. Instead, Robert Fisher, a member of the Gap founder's family, took the position.

Polish antitrust regulator UOKIK has fined France's Engie Energy PLN 172 million ($40 million) for its "persistent and unreasonable" refusal to provide information to an investigation into the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. Engie is a partner of the Russian "Gazprom" in the project of this gas pipeline bypassing Ukraine. It also includes OMV, Uniper, Royal Dutch Shell and Wintershall. The companies will co-finance half of the project cost - 4.75 billion euros.

The bill of the deputy Anton Gorelkin on limiting the share of foreigners in significant Internet companies will begin to be considered in November. It can be accepted in two versions - the initial (no more than 20% of foreign capital, and point) or softer, proposed by the government and supported by the RSPP commission, which includes potential victims (except for the main - Yandex).

The Federation Council recalled the status of foreign agents for individuals: Senator Andrey Klimov proposed extending the status of foreign media agents to bloggers and promised that the bill would promptly pass the upper house. If it is accepted, a blogger receiving funding from abroad will be required to register a legal entity and label materials.

For the first time in five years, the total wealth of the world's billionaires has declined, according to report prepared by UBS and PwC: in 2018 it amounted to $8.5 trillion, the year before it was $388 billion more. the Billionaires Report-2019 The largest decline in Asia: the combined wealth of China's billionaires fell by 12.3%, the number of billionaires in the region fell by 7.4% to 754 people. They quadrupled five years earlier, so UBS considers this fall a correction.

Sberbank has built the most powerful supercomputer in Russia, which should accelerate the development of services and processes based on artificial intelligence, writes RBC with reference to a statement by David Rafalovsky, head of the Technology block at Sberbank. The supercomputer was developed in SberCloud on NVIDIA solutions for deep neural networks. The car was named Christofari in honor of the first investor of the Russian savings bank, Nikolai Christofari.

After the signing of the first phase of a bilateral agreement (the terms of its conclusion have not yet been determined), the United States and China will begin to gradually reduce restrictive duties - at the same pace and in the same volume, Kommersant writes , citing a statement by Gao Feng, a representative of the Chinese Ministry of Commerce. But discussion of more complex issues of mutual trade will be taken outside the framework of immediate agreements.

The alliance of companies for the development of artificial intelligence (AI) in Russia will initially include six participants, including Sberbank, and the Ministry of Economic Development will oversee the project. Read also Sberbank will lead the fight for artificial intelligence Details. Sberbank President German Gref announced at the AI ​​Journey 2019 conference that the AI ​​development alliance will include Sberbank, Yandex, Gazprom Neft, RDIF, Mail.Ru Group and MTS.