Wait for the introduction of new quarantine restrictions in Moscow Moscow hung between summer relaxation after a “victory over coronavirus” and the prospect of new quarantine restrictions due to the growth of the curve of official incidence. So far, new measures have limited themselves to extending the school holidays and an urgent recommendation to the elderly and chronic patient to sit at home.

Billionaire Leonid Boguslavsky's fortune grew by almost $300 million in a few hours after the announcement of a partnership with Microsoft by the American cloud application monitoring service Datadog, writes Forbes. “Nothing new, except that a successful investment has become even more successful,” Boguslavsky himself told the publication. On September 30, Datadog announced a strategic partnership with competitor cloud business platform Microsoft Azure.

Mosconcert stopped selling tickets for all events for the whole of October. “At the moment, we have stopped selling tickets for events on October 1-31. Tickets will not be sold for all our events - both concerts and performances, ” TASS quotes the Mosconcert press service. This week, the incidence of coronavirus in Moscow returned to the levels of early June, steadily exceeding 2,000 people a day.

The Ministry of Finance, which failed to force all state-owned companies to pay dividends of 50% of net profit, decided to change the approach to their calculation: it will be necessary to give half, but not from net, but from adjusted profit, RBC .

In the new economy rescue plan, spending on major infrastructure projects has been cut by 2% to 8.4 trillion rubles. But this does not mean a proportional reduction: for some projects, costs have only increased, found out . Forbes Doubled (from 54 billion rubles to 111 billion rubles) spending on the power grid complex of the Crimea.

Rambler Group plans to combine the content of all the media included in the holding - Lenta.ru, Gazeta.ru, Afisha, Championship and RNS - into a single portal. According to RBC, among the proposed names of the media platform - “rocket”, “wave” and “Rambler”. The initiative of the Rambler Group is prepared in the context of a new media strategy. It is planned that the materials of all publications of the holding will be placed on a single portal, which is now under development.

The European Union approved for widespread use a 15-minute coronavirus test by the American Becton Dickinson. Rapid testing could be one of the important factors that will make it easier for Europe to get through the second wave of coronavirus, writes Bloomberg. The fact that the Becton Dickinson rapid test received European Economic Area (CE) approval was announced by the company itself. Its quotes rose by almost 3%.

Yandex, whose ecosystem includes both car sharing and taxi, conducted a study according to which, with almost any reasonable run in Moscow, car sharing is more profitable than personal cars more than 3 million rubles, and with small runs - and mass, such as Renault Logan. Approximately the same conclusions belong to a taxi.

In Russia, the second coronavirus vaccine developed by the Vector center has been patented - it was called EpiVacCorona, the press service of Rospatent said. This is the first drug developed by Vector, which received a patent. The first registered coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V was developed and patented by the National Research Center named after N. F. Gamaleya.

The largest US bank JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay a fine of $920 million to settle the claims of the US authorities. The Ministry of Justice and the federal Securities and Exchange Commission accused the credit institution of a special type of manipulation (spoofing) in the precious metals and securities markets.

The Bell and the Business University Berkeley business school, together with Winning by Design, has prepared a new educational course for leaders. We called it "Art of Sales. The path to big transactions. " The topic is the construction of sales. The course will be conducted by Chris Denia, a professional instructor in the Lean Startup methodology in Berkeley Haas, a certified coach of Winning by Design. Classes start on October 20.

China is preparing to launch an antitrust investigation against Google - the authorities of the country will check whether the company used the Android operating system to suppress the free competition of smartphone manufacturers, Reuters writes , citing sources. The investigation proposal comes from US-sanctioned IT giant Huawei Technologies and has been submitted to China's State Council Antitrust Committee.

The new hero of the project "Russian norms!" - Economist, professor of Yale University Oleg Tsyvinsky. He told Elizabeth Ossetian what would happen to the Economics of Belarus in the event of an opposition losing, why economic modernization is now impossible in Russia, when and how the hegemony of the dollar will end and how to enter Yale as an ordinary Russian. - Who do you feel like - Belarusian, American or Russian [economist]?

The leader of the Belarusian opposition, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, has begun forming a shadow government, according to a message on her Telegram channel. She has already appointed representatives for human rights and economic reform. The Belarusian lawyer and human rights activist Harry Pahanyaylo, who has been the Deputy Chairman of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee for more than 20 years, became the Human Rights Representative.

The authorities will allocate 1.4 billion rubles to the platform, which will have to monitor phishing (fraudulent) sites and leaks of personal data, Kommersant learned . The platform should monitor the information systems of state bodies and accounts of citizens of the unified identification and authentication system (used on the public services website). The compromised data will fall into a single database, and the resources using it must be automatically blocked.