The conflict between Jack Ma and the Chinese authorities is acquiring new consequences for the business of the former: according to the WSJ , Alibaba may receive a record fine from the regulator - about $1 billion. Chinese leader Xi Jinping's dissatisfaction with the statements of Alibaba founder Jack Ma led the authorities to start preparing measures against the corporation, sources say.

Vladimir Putin again called on businessmen to invest in Russia. But now the tax will look after this At a meeting with the participation of six dozen large businessmen and heads of state -owned companies, Vladimir Putin set out his idea of ​​how to almost double the volume of investments in Russia by 2030. He strongly recommended entrepreneurs to invest in the country - and now there will be a federal tax service.

The US Congress has approved the American Rescue Plan, a giant new $1.9 trillion stimulus package, and President Joe Biden will sign it on Friday, March 12. A new injection into the largest economy on the planet will inevitably affect not only it, but the whole world. What's in the package? The main part of the new giant stimulus package is social.

Taxi aggregator Gett may go public through a merger with SPAC, although an IPO is also being considered, learned . Sky News According to Sky News, Gett's talks with potential partners and investment banks are at an early stage.

The Moscow Arbitration Court declared bankrupt the founder of the confectionery factory "A. Korkunov" by Andrey Korkunov, writes the agency "Prime". The bankruptcy procedure for Andrei Korkunov was initiated by the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA), which represents the interests of Ankor Bank. Being the main shareholder of this bank, Korkunov took two loans for 1.9 million rubles from it and did not repay them. The court decided to start selling the businessman's property.

Ten representatives of large businesses agreed to invest 1 billion rubles each in the Fund of Funds, one of these entrepreneurs is the head of Phosagro, Andrey Guryev. this Guryev himself announced at a meeting with Vladimir Putin to stimulate investment activity.

Vladimir Putin, at a meeting on increasing investment activity on March 11, said that there is "nothing wrong" in administratively limiting prices and limiting business profits. According to TASS, Putin said that price restrictions "do not reduce the potential of industries." “This is not a reduction in the potential of the industry as such, if we are talking about some restrictions [on prices]. We are talking about the restrictions associated with the extraction of superprofits.

Former managers and employees of the Spar chain of stores, who were detained in St. Petersburg the day before, on March 10, were charged with embezzlement of Sberbank assets, the reports .

Lawyers for the arrested shareholders of one of the largest retailers of computer equipment Merlion filed a counterclaim against former CEO Vyacheslav Simonenko. They accused him of attempted raider takeover of the company and slander. In January, Simonenko outlined to Kommersant his vision of the criminal case, in which Merlion co-owners Oleg Karchev, Vladislav Mangutov, Alexei Abramov and top manager Boris Levin were detained in October 2020.

Denmark has temporarily stopped the use of a coronavirus vaccine produced by the Anglo-Swedish company AstraZeneca. This is due to the signals of severe complications in the form of thrombus formation after vaccination. The fact that Denmark decided to temporarily abandon the AstraZeneca vaccine, the country's Minister of Health wrote on his Twitter.

British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline and American Vir Biotechnology have announced that they have developed a drug against COVID-19 that has shown high efficiency. The main value of the drug is that it allows you to treat people for whom vaccinations do not work or for whom they are contraindicated. According to Bloomberg, the companies are going to immediately apply for an emergency authorization for the use of the drug in the United States.

The Zenia yoga application was created in 2019 by programmers from Samara Alexei Kurov, Denis Sokolov, Dmitry Zausaev and Stas Demidov. They used the rich experience of developing in the field of computer vision and recognition of movements and presented the world's first virtual assistant for yoga with artificial intelligence algorithms (AI). AI ensures that the students correctly repeat the exercises after the teacher and less often get injuries.

Warren Buffett's fortune reached $100.4 billion, which allowed the legendary American investor to become the sixth member of the "club" of businessmen with a fortune of more than $100 billion. The main reason is the record rise in the shares of his financial holding Berkshire Hathaway. Once a favorite at the top of the list of the world's richest people, Warren Buffett has lost ground in recent years amid rising stock prices in technology companies in which he rarely invests, writes Bloomberg .

The electoral rating of United Russia has been declining since the summer of 2020 and by February 2021 fell from 31% to 27%, a showed . regular poll by the Levada Center At the same time, the electoral popularity of the LDPR is growing (in December 2019, its rating was 8%, now it is 12%). The Communist Party reversed the trend of declining popularity, which lasted from the summer of 2019 (11%) to the fall of 2020 (7%), and is now theoretically gaining 10%, sociologists write.

Sberbank, which issues almost half of mortgage loans in Russia, has developed its own version of a mortgage with a floating rate, found out Forbes . It fixes the amount of the payment, but the term of the loan may vary. Sberbank prepared proposals on how a mortgage with floating rates might look like in the fall of 2020, and at the beginning of this year, it issued them in the report "Floating Rate Mortgage", which was studied by Forbes.