Yandex is negotiating the purchase of the ABC of Taste. Why is the Internet giant expensive supermarkets and how can they change? Yandex is negotiating the purchase of a network of expensive “ABC Taste” supermarkets, the Bell found out. The meaning of the transaction is in synergy with the delivery service of the Yandex.Lavka products. One of the largest shareholders of the ABC of Taste is Roman Abramovich, who has recently been a minority shareholder of Yandex.

Yandex is negotiating the purchase of a network of expensive “ABC Taste” supermarkets, the Bell found out. The meaning of the transaction is in synergy with the delivery service of the Yandex.Lavka products. One of the largest shareholders of the ABC of Taste is Roman Abramovich, who has recently been a minority shareholder of Yandex. Analysts estimate the market value of the alphabet at the level of up to 20 billion rubles.

The website of the opposition leader Alexei Navalny published material that, according to the team of the politician sitting in the colony, proves that the authorities initially had all the information to initiate a criminal case on the poisoning. But then a blood test, which directly indicated organophosphorus poison, disappeared from Navalny's medical record. The case has not yet been opened.

Corporate healthcare service BestDoctor has raised $26 million from several international funds, including Winter Capital Partners, writes . Forbes The founders of the project told the publication that BestDoctor closed the fourth round of funding and raised $26 million. With this money, the startup plans to create a health management platform that will unite all BestDoctor products.

A group of copyright holders has filed a lawsuit against the gaming and social platform Roblox for at least $ 200 million, writes The Wall Street Journal. The plaintiffs include Universal Music Publishing, Concord Music Group and several other companies that own the rights to music by artists such as Ed Sheeran, Ariana Grande and the Rolling Stones. They claim that their rights were violated by the in-game service Boombox.

Journalist Yury Dud has been charged with drug propaganda and faces a fine of up to 1.5 million rubles. Earlier, rapper Morgenstern received a fine for promoting illegal substances. Information about the case against Dudya (it was opened under part 1.1 of article 6.13 of the Code of Administrative Offenses “propaganda of drugs using the Internet”) appeared in the electronic filing cabinet of the Zyuzinsky Court of Moscow.

The leaders of the G7 countries are actively discussing the most radical transformation of the automotive market in history: in 10 years (and preferably earlier), more than half of the passenger cars sold should not run on gasoline or diesel fuel, found out Bloomberg . The ambitious plan is part of a climate change package. The G7 governments will strive to ensure that more than half of the cars sold are not equipped with internal combustion engines.

The Moscow court fined Facebook and Telegram 17 and 10 million rubles for not removing prohibited content, RBC learned from the press service of the court. Taking them into account, the amount of fines for non-removal exceeded 60 million rubles.

Global plastic production in 2020 fell only for the third time since World War II due to the coronavirus pandemic, but was not significant, according to AFP. Global plastics production fell to 367 million tonnes last year from 368 million in 2019, according to industry federation PlasticsEurope, a 0.3% decline. According to the organization, in Europe plastic production last year decreased by 5.1% to 55 million tons.

How did the marketing change during the pandemic and what new marketing tools should be adopted to help brands develop? This was said by the participants of the annual forum "Today Marketing Tomorrow" organized by Effie Russia. The Effie Award is the most prestigious in the world a reward in marketing, which is awarded for the main achievement in the field of advertising and marketing communications - efficiency.

Two large oil traders, Vitol SA and Mercantile & Maritime Energy, have invested in the Vostok Oil project of Rosneft, the reported . press service of the oil company Rosneft and a consortium of traders consisting of the Dutch Vitol and Mercantile & Maritime Energy have signed an agreement to sell 5% of the Vostok Oil project, the release says. The deal is subject to regulatory approval.

Two of the 11 members of the FDA's expert advisory committee have resigned after the agency approved Biogen's first Alzheimer's drug in decades, adacanumab . One of the resigned - a participant in clinical trials of the drug, neurophysiologist David Knopman from Mayo, the largest clinical research center - told WP that he was protesting against the "showcase process" in such a way.

The administration of US President Joe Biden will donate hundreds of millions of doses of the American Pfizer vaccine against COVID-19 to the poorest countries. The plans are to send 500 million doses by June next year, 200 million of which will arrive by the end of 2021.

Scam (a type of deception in which the victim is misled and forced to reveal data or give money to scammers) has become the dominant type of fraud on the Internet, according to a report by Russian cybersecurity company Group-IB. Scams account for more than half - 56% - of all cybercrimes on the Internet. Scam and phishing (17%), which together make up fraud, account for three-quarters of such crimes.

In Russia, the incidence of coronavirus is growing again. Across the country, 11,699 cases of COVID-19 were detected over the past day - this is the maximum since February 24. In Moscow, the number of cases was 5245, reaching the highest values ​​since mid-January. The growth rate of patients with COVID-19 has increased from 0.2% to 0.23% since yesterday, in Moscow it is almost twice as high - 0.43%. 383 people died in Russia in a day, 10,096 were discharged.