“Sofa investors” dispersed the shares of their favorite Robinhood service by 82% in a few hours. What next? The exchange failure of the brokerage service Robinhood is rapidly turning into success, and the broker itself, without commissions, into a “memorial action” like Gamestop, AMC and other papers that made Robinhood the main application of the 2021st.

The websites of Open Media and MBKh Media are blocked in Russia and entered into the register of Roskomnadzor. Open Media confirmed that the site was blocked, but the editors did not receive notifications about this from the regulator or the Prosecutor General's Office.

After the high-profile dismissal of one and a half hundred employees by the founder of the Xsolla payment service, Alexander Agapitov, Alfa-Bank and Raiffeisenbank decided to offer them a job for "unproductiveness" at a distance. Alfa-Bank's statement appeared on its official Facebook account. “The main thing is that it doesn’t work like that! Big data is great, but you also need to know how to use it,” the bank’s SMM specialists wrote.

Rich countries should delay their third-dose coronavirus booster to redirect vaccines to the poorest countries, said today. World Health Organization (WHO) CEO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus According to the WHO Director General, 80% of the 4 billion doses of vaccines produced are used in countries with medium and high incomes, and in the richest countries, on average, there are 100 vaccinations (first and second doses) for every 100 inhabitants.

Dmitry Alekseev is a co -founder and president of the largest DNS electronics network. Forbes estimates the state of the entrepreneur from Primorye at $ 750 million. He owns 44.35% of DNS shares, and the company's turnover exceeds the budget of Vladivostok. Alekseev, he said, “followed the computers”: he is a former programmer who turned his enthusiasm into business.

The Russian housing search service Cyan plans to conduct an IPO in the United States, Reuters learned : the placement could take place as early as the fall of 2021. Agency sources say that Cyan has already hired organizers - Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, UBS, Renaissance Capital and Bank of America. The company can choose a double placement - on the US stock exchange (which one, the publication does not specify) and in Moscow.

Singer Rihanna has officially become a billionaire, writes the American Forbes - according to the publication, her fortune is $ 1.7 billion, which makes her the richest female musician in the world and the second richest artist after Oprah Winfrey. But music didn't make Rihanna rich.

Roskomnadzor blocked the most famous online resource for DeviantArt artists in Russia. For some of them, this site is a source of income on orders. “The administration of the DeviantArt resource once again ignored the requirements of Roskomnadzor and did not restrict access to dangerous content, primarily for children, within the allotted time,” writes Interfax, citing the department.

The exchange failure of the Robinhood brokerage service is rapidly turning into success, and the commission-free broker itself is turning into a “meme stock” like Gamestop, AMC and other papers that made Robinhood the main application of 2021. Today, investors from Reddit, taking advantage of the start of option trading, dispersed Robinhood shares by one and a half times, and at the moment the growth exceeded 80%.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, the pandemic hero best known for direct confrontation with Donald Trump, is likely to resign in disgrace or face impeachment. What's happening On Tuesday, the results of an investigation by New York Attorney General Letitia James into accusations against Cuomo of sexual harassment were released.

The founder and CEO of XSOLLA, Alexander Agapitov, fired about 150 employees after analyzing their activity in work chats, mail and other services using Big Data. Ex-employees promised to find a place where they would "get even more and work even less." The screenshot of the letter of Agapitov from July 31 divorced on social networks on August 4.

Every fourth child in Russia (23.6% of all children under 18 years of age) lives in a family with incomes below the subsistence minimum - that is, below 11.2 thousand rubles per person, follows from Rosstat data for 2019. The share is larger than the previous year (22.9%). The poverty rate among children is almost twice the average for the population: at the end of 2019, 18.1 million people, or 12.3% of the country's population, lived below the poverty line (including children).

Manufacturers of medical masks asked Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin to tighten the rules for the sale of personal protective equipment: businesses complain that due to the introduction of a simplified registration procedure during the pandemic, unscrupulous companies supply unsafe respirators to hospitals.

The government will create working groups to study options "to adapt the Russian economy to the global energy transition," learned RBC . This implies a gradual transition from the production and consumption of fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. The groups will be curated by First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov, a source close to the government said. The information was confirmed by a federal official involved in this work.

In the first five months of 2021, vaccine exports from Russia reached a record $303.6 million, according to data from the Federal Customs Service (FCS). This is almost 32 times more than in 2020, and twice as much as since 2018 (over the previous three years in total). Vaccine supply statistics were analyzed by RBC. According to the customs, in January-May 2021, 159 tons of vaccines intended for people worth $303.6 million were delivered to other countries.