The first official advertising appeared in Telegram - but only small channels advertise themselves. What does all this mean and how much does it cost? As promised by Pavel Durov, on holidays in large channels in Telegram, the first official advertising began to appear, which is sold through the new media platform of the company.

This weekend, the first official advertising began to appear in major channels on Telegram, which is sold through the new media platform of Pavel Durov's company. The fact that advertising appeared is not surprising, Durov warned that Telegram was starting to experiment with monetization. But buyers of advertising while cause continuous questions. Let's talk about what we found out.

Google's parent company, Alphabet Corporation, hit a $2 trillion market value for the first time. The company leads the top five US technology companies this year with over 70% growth. Today, at the maximum during trading, the value of the company's shares reached $3,020 (+1.2%). As of 20:30 Moscow time, Alphabet securities were up 0.23% and traded at $2,984.

The Ministry of Justice added several more individuals to the register of media-foreign agents, among them lawyer Ivan Pavlov, who represents the interests of ex-journalist Ivan Safronov accused of treason. This is the first time that an acting lawyer has been included in the list. In addition to Pavlov, the Ministry of Justice also added four more people to the list of foreign agents: Valery Vetoshkina, Maxim Conspiracy, Maxim Olenichev and Elena Skvortsova.

Beijing plans to ease its policy on the country's online education sector: EdTech companies will again be able to provide paid tutoring services, but in return, industry giants will have to provide free extracurricular classes for schoolchildren, the WSJ learned .

Tesla quotes on Nasdaq on Monday, November 8, fell at the opening of trading by 5.3% (at 18:30 Moscow time - minus 2.7%). Elon Musk promised to sell 10% of his stake in the company over the weekend, if the users polled by him on Twitter decide so - and they decided to sell.

In the ventricular investment market, a boom: against the background of a pandemic, new players of a very different scale came to the industry and brought new money with them. As a result, funds have accumulated record liquidity - only in the United States about $ 260 billion, and new “unicorns” are now born almost daily.

The capitalization of the global cryptocurrency market for the first time exceeded $3 trillion. All seven of the largest crypto coins have risen over the past week, writes Bloomberg. According to data from CoinGecko, which tracks cryptocurrencies, as of 16.15 Moscow time, the total market capitalization grew by 3.7% and reached $3.01 trillion.

Sales of new passenger cars in Russia fell by 18.1% in October, according to the Association of European Businesses (AEB). The index has been declining for the fourth month in a row. In total, according to the results of October, 126,204 passenger cars and light commercial vehicles were sold in Russia, which is 18.1% less than in October 2020. Since January, sales have amounted to 1.3 million cars, which is 10.5% more than in the same period last year.

Alcohol retailer Red & White announced Wednesday the details of its imminent initial public offering (IPO) on the Moscow Exchange. The company could be valued at up to $13 billion, less than originally anticipated, but still enough to make it the largest placement in Russia this year. Mercury Retail Group, which owns Red & White (as well as liquor store chain Bristol) said the indicative IPO price range was $6–6.50 per global depositary receipt (GDR).

The death of businessman Boris Alexandrov last year triggered a battle for control of his confectionery company, Rostagrokompleks. Alexandrov’s former partner, Yuri Izachik, finally went public Tuesday with his version of how the corporate conflict over Rostagrokompleks has unfolded. Izachik, who currently lives in Kansas, was put on an international wanted list last month in connection with the dispute.

Senior Communist Party official and parliamentary deputy Valery Rashkin could face up to two years in jail for poaching after being detained last month with the carcass of an elk in the trunk of his car. Rashkin, one of the most anti-Kremlin voices in Communist Party, said he was set-up. Police were reportedly alerted 29 October to reports of shots fired in Saratov Region (about 560 miles from Moscow).

The former vice-president of Rosneft Pavel Fedorov will become the lifter leader Tinkoff Bank, together with Oliver Hugues, RBC recognized . The company explained that they expand the composition of the leadership for the international expansion of the group. In TCS Group, uniting Tinkoff Bank, Tinkoff Insurance, Tinkoff Mobile, Tinkoff Capital and other assets, another chief executive director (CO-EO) will appear, the holding himself said.

Europe does not see Gazprom pumping gas into underground storage, spot prices have risen again to 80 euros per megawatt-hour (or $960 per thousand cubic meters), writes the Financial Times. President Putin has instructed Gazprom to fill Russian UGS facilities by November 8 and start pumping into European UGS facilities, but on Monday there are no signs of an increase in flows to the European direction, the FT notes. Nor did Gazprom book an additional monthly transit through Ukraine.

Japanese conglomerate SoftBank posted its first quarterly loss in a year and a half. The company began to lose money after Beijing's crackdown on the country's IT sector caused a sharp sell-off in shares, writes WSJ. SoftBank posted a loss of 398 billion yen, equivalent to about $3.5 billion, for the most recent quarter ended Sept. 30. The chief executive officer of the investment group, Masayoshi Son, has already explained that the reason is the pressure on Chinese tech stocks.