Evernote CEO Phil Libin / Bloomberg Explosive growth Evernote had 11 million users in July 2011, more than doubling its October 2010 user base of 4.5 million. Evernote Internet company. Founded in 2005. Co-owners: Stepan Pachikov (founder), funds managed by Troika Dialog Management Company, Sequoia Capital, Morgenthaler Ventures and other funds. Does not disclose financial indicators.

The management of Russia's largest oil company, OAO NK Rosneft , must prepare for the privatization of the company so that it will bring benefits to the state, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said at a meeting with the company's president, Eduard Khudainatov. "In the privatization of large and very large companies, like Rosneft, we must prepare so that it will be profitable. Of course, we will not sell anything just like that," the president said.

The Moscow Committee for Architecture and Urban Development (Moskomarkhitektura) has announced an auction for the right to conclude a state contract for the development of a planning solution for the upper-level highway along the power transmission line route on the section from the Third Transport Ring to the Moscow Ring Road, taking into account the Elcity concept, the state procurement website reports.

Belarusian motorists in the center of Minsk are protesting against another increase in prices for petroleum products, which was announced today. As part of the "Stop Gasoline!" campaign, cars with white ribbons drove onto the capital's Independence Avenue - this is the symbol of today's event. The participants of the campaign are protesting against the rise in gasoline prices with horns.

The Union of Consumers of Russia has filed a lawsuit against the mobile operator Megafon , which on July 18 allowed SMS messages sent through the company's website to leak into the public domain, the organization's chairman, Petr Shelishch, reported. "Today we filed a claim in the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow, where the company is registered," Shelishch said.

It is unacceptable to provide unique characteristics of processors in tender documentation that are inherent only to the products of a specific manufacturer – this is the rule formulated by the FAS for government customers. If the customer agrees to purchase equivalent products from a competitor, he must specify by what parameters the product should be equivalent.

The cargo turnover of the Big Port of St. Petersburg in the first half of 2011 was 28.2 million tons, 7% more than in the same period last year, the port administration reported. Despite the growth in transshipment volumes, the port still did not reach the record set in the first half of 2008, when 29.6 million tons passed through its berths. cargo. Coal transshipment has decreased the most radically – by 75% to 282,100 tons, according to data from the port administration.

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The maximum increase in housing and communal services tariffs for the next year will be set at no more than 11%. This was announced by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, answering journalists' questions at a meeting on preparations for winter. He emphasized that 11% is "a preliminary estimate that has been worked out but has not yet been accepted by the government." "We will try to do everything possible to make it [this figure] even lower," Kozak assured.

A passenger plane Tu-154 of Gazpromavia airlines aborted takeoff at Krasnodar airport on Thursday after the plane's captain felt a malfunction in the landing gear, the press service of Basel Aero, the company that manages airports in Krasnodar Krai, reported. 142 passengers were unable to fly on this flight, all of them were taken to the airport.

Rospotrebnadzor may allow the resumption of vegetable imports from nine more EU countries, the head of the service, Russia's chief sanitary doctor Gennady Onishchenko said on Thursday. "We still have nine countries on the list, including France, Germany and others, to which we are not yet allowing imports. We are currently reviewing this situation," Onishchenko said.

July 21, 2011, 13:52 / Business Sobyanin’s wife was not found among the suppliers of paving slabs for Moscow The city's total costs for the project will be about 4 billion rubles. Elena Vinogradova Anastasia Zubar S.Porter Who is participating in the Moscow program for installing tile sidewalks?

July 21, 2011, 00:40 / Finance The minority shareholder demanded an explanation from VTB regarding the deal with the Bank of Moscow Former MTS President Vasily Sidorov complains that he lost about $400,000 on investments in the state bank Natalia Biyanova A. Makhonin “I have been trying for several months to draw the attention of other members of the Constitutional Court to the material consequences of the deal with BM, but the letter reflects only my personal position,” says Sidorov.

AP "I was betrayed" News Corp Minorities Outraged Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz al Saud, News Corp's second-largest shareholder after Murdoch, is demanding that those responsible be found and investigated. He told the BBC: "I will have no dealings with a company that employs people who have the slightest doubt about their integrity." Opinion Aram Gabrelyanov, CEO of News Media Publishing House.

Moody's on Thursday downgraded Belarus' sovereign credit rating by one notch to B3 from B2 and does not rule out further downgrades, the agency said in a statement. The country ceiling was also downgraded to B3 from B1. All of the ratings listed may be downgraded further. Belarus is experiencing serious economic problems.