A war is brewing between Russian online retailers over the law on the pre-installation of Russian applications on smartphones. It will become mandatory for marketplaces from March 2022. The government has already developed rules according to which the application of one, maximum two players will be pre-installed on all smartphones of Russians.

Since March, the application of one of the Internet market players will be preinstalled in the smartphones of Russians. This prospect provoked a real war between them Between the Russian online retailers, war brews due to the law on the preset of Russian applications to smartphones. For marketplaces, it will become mandatory in March 2022.

Facebook fell nearly 5% to its July lows after warning that Apple's new privacy policy would weigh on the social network's third-quarter results. on Facebook's official blog The company admits that Apple's policies have made it harder for it to measure the effectiveness of targeted ads and guarantee customer returns. At the same time, in some cases, the mistake was in the direction of customers - the actual conversion rates were 15% higher than the reported ones, the social network notes.

Half (9 out of 18) Fed members expect the first rate hike as early as 2022, follows from the Fed's release. According to the results of the June meeting, only 7 members of the Fed expected to increase rates next year. The quantitative easing program may begin to decline in November. The Fed, as expected, kept rates at the same level and did not curtail the asset buyback program.

The train of scandals associated with personal data leaks and the spread of misinformation forced Facebook to approve the new strategy for interaction with the outside world, the newspaper The New York Times found out. According to the sources of the publication, familiar with the company's plans, in order to improve its own image, Facebook plans to actively advertise itself among users and distance from the reputation strikes of the general director Mark Zuckerberg.

The energy crisis in Europe continues to grow in consequences: today, two more British energy companies working with end consumers announced a stoppage of work due to record prices. According to Bloomberg, Avro Energy and Green Supplier announced the stoppage of work. Avro served about 580,000 customers, Green about 250,000 British consumers.

Alfa-Bank has entered into a settlement agreement with the Prosecutor General's Office on the debt of the companies of the former Minister for Open Government Mikhail Abyzov. This is stated in a press release on the website of the credit institution.

Roskomnadzor announced the beginning of the formation of a register of social networks. It is provided for by a law adopted this year, obliging the sites themselves to identify and block prohibited information. According to the agency, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Likee, Youtube, VKontakte and Odnoklassniki are still included in the register. Telegram is not on the list yet.

The service of automated distance work with business documents Pandadoc has become a “unicorn”. The size of the new investrae is not disclosed due to the friction of the company with the authorities of Belarus, where its founders come from. During the round of Pandadoc, the Pandadoc rating exceeded $ 1 billion, TechCrunch said , not caring the amount of investment and accurate estimate. However, in the previous round, $ 36 million (in August 2020) was estimated at $ 255 million.

Today, activist Alexander Ionov announced that he had sent a statement to the Prosecutor General's Office with a request to check the funding of The Bell and recognize him as a foreign agent. Ionov's statement mentions Polestar Digital Ventures Inc., which received funding from the American Investigative Studios Inc.

The exchange price of AI-95 gasoline updated its historical maximum: it increased by 0.6% to 60.18 thousand rubles per ton. Not so long ago, due to rising wholesale prices for fuel, the Russian authorities thought about a ban on the export of gasoline. The last peak of the price for AI-95 was recorded on July 22 - 60.03 thousand rubles per ton. Today, AI-92 gasoline also rose in price on the stock exchange: its stock index rose by 0.2% to 56.21 thousand rubles per ton.

Moscow will abandon its own system of electronic voting, said the head of the Central Election Commission Ella Pamfilova. An alternative would be a single federal platform. The law allowing a separate online voting system for Moscow is “not infinite,” Pamfilova says. According to her, now the city authorities can independently analyze issues related to the results of the DEG, including many hours of delay.

Following numerous politicians and activists, the decision of Google top management to remove the Navalny application with access to the Smart Voting project was criticized by employees of the IT giant itself, found out Bloomberg . The company is accused of making unquestioning concessions to the Kremlin. Google employees express dissatisfaction on internal forums and share memes. Bloomberg gives an example of ridiculing the company's corporate culture.

The Lithuanian Ministry of Defense recommended that citizens not only avoid buying Chinese smartphones, but also get rid of the existing ones due to the censorship built into them, writes Reuters. Flagship phones sold in Europe by Chinese giant Xiaomi have the built-in ability to detect and censor phrases such as "Free Tibet", "Long live Taiwan independence" or "democracy movement", totaling almost 450 Chinese phrases, it said on Tuesday Lithuanian authorities.

In the Khabarovsk Territory, an An-26 military transport aircraft with a crew on board disappeared from radar. He was performing a technical flight, but suddenly stopped communicating. The rescuers who flew to the place could not find the board due to bad weather and dark time of the day. An-26 was conducting a technical flight 40 kilometers from Khabarovsk, when it suddenly stopped communicating and disappeared from the radar, a source in the air traffic control services told Interfax.