By 2015, the company had sold around 450,000 devices worldwide / Vertu Swedish private group EQT has sold Vertu, which makes luxury smartphones handcrafted with precious metals, leather and sapphire glass, to Chinese investors, further highlighting the popularity of luxury brands in Asia. Vertu said the business was acquired by Hong Kong-based Godin Holdings and “international private investors.” Vertu and EQT did not disclose the terms of the deal.

05 November 2015, 09:06 / Finance / Economics The Bitcoin rate jumped to its maximum level due to the unprecedented popularity of MMM in China Vedomosti Created in 2008 by a programmer or group of programmers known as Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin, one of the most popular alternatives to traditional currencies, is a software code that is not regulated by any country or banking regulator in the world. It does not have a single emission center.

November 05, 2015, 10:40 / Business / News Football club Zenit will receive 5.5 million euros from UEFA for reaching the play-offs of the Champions League undefined Vedomosti The St. Petersburg football club Zenit will receive 5.5 million euros from the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for reaching the 1/8 finals of the Champions League. Information about prize money for tournament participants is posted on the official UEFA website.

05 November 2015, 17:36 / Auto Takata shares lose a quarter of value after Honda withdraws products undefined Vedomosti Shares of Japan's Takata, a supplier of airbags for cars, fell 25% in Tokyo trading on Thursday after the company lost its largest customer, threatening its continued existence, Bloomberg reports. Over two sessions - November 4-5 - the price of Takata securities collapsed by a record 35%.

04 November 2015, 23:21 / Finance Uralsib was assigned to Dr. Kogan The Central Bank allocated 81 billion rubles for the financial rehabilitation of the bank and entrusted it to a former official and banker of Vladimir Putin Tatyana Voronova The Central Bank chose the rescuer of Uralsib until late evening / E. Razumny / Vedomosti Many people were interested in Uralsib: Moscow Credit Bank ( MCB ), Alfa Bank , VTB 24, AFK Sistema .

04 November 2015, 22:31 / Management How to reward employees if there is no money for bonuses and shares are getting cheaper High-tech companies are introducing new long-term reward schemes Elena Gorelova Yuliana Verbitskaya (Petrova) A. Taranin Our companies are also introducing share bonus schemes as a long-term incentive for employees. announced the launch of new programs this year In particular, Yandex , Mail.ru Group and Qiwi .

On Thursday, November 5, shares of Uralsib Bank more than doubled after it became known that businessman Vladimir Kogan would acquire a controlling stake (82%) in the credit institution. On the Moscow Exchange, by 16:50 Moscow time, the price of Uralsib shares rose to 0.0832 rubles (+146.88%). The exchange raised the upper limit of the trading corridor twice on Thursday - first to 0.07 rubles, and then to 0.1 rubles per share due to the rush demand.

05 November 2015, 22:22 / Business Russians began to travel around the country more Domestic tourism increased due to the annexation of Crimea and the devaluation of the ruble Vedomosti With the annexation of Crimea to Russia, the flow of tourists within the country increased sharply / D. Abramov / Vedomosti The tourist flow within Russia increased by 20% in 2015 (data as of early November), said the head of Rostourism, Oleg Safonov.

04 November 2015, 22:46 / Finance Japan Post Holdings raises $12 billion in largest IPO The company has been preparing for placement for 10 years Tatyana Bochkareva The total size of the IPO was 1.44 trillion yen ($12 billion) / Shizuo Kambayashi / AP Japan privatized the parent company Japan Post Holdings and its subsidiaries, Japan Post Bank and Japan Post Insurance (see infographic), offering investors 11% shares of each. The total size of the IPO was 1.44 trillion yen ($12 billion).

05 November 2015, 20:16 / Business The Kremlin learned about the IAC's decision to revoke the certificate of the Boeing 737 from the media undefined Vedomosti The Kremlin learned about the IAC's decision to revoke the certificate of the Boeing 737 from the media, press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov told reporters during a briefing. “Of course, [we are] aware. But we also [learned] from media reports.

Facebook's third-quarter profit and revenue once again beat analysts' forecasts, driven by strong mobile advertising sales and growth in emerging markets, the BBC reports . The company's net profit rose 11% to $891 million, up from $806 million a year earlier. The social network's quarterly sales amounted to $4.5 billion, while analysts surveyed by Bloomberg expected this figure to be on average $4.37 billion. The network's daily audience amounted to 1.01 billion.

The cost of the bridge reconstruction, according to officials, has increased due to inflation / E. Egorov / Vedomosti The Committee for Transport Infrastructure Development (KRTI) has announced a tender for the reconstruction of the Tuchkov Bridge for the second time, and has increased the maximum contract value by 130 million to 2.46 billion rubles. Applications for participation were submitted by Pilon CJSC and Mostostroy-12 LLC from the Tyumen Region.

Russia has delivered Pantsir-S1 anti-aircraft missile and gun systems and Buk-M2E medium-range anti-aircraft missile systems to Syria. They will protect the Russian airbase in Latakia from possible terrorist attacks from the ground and air. This was reported on Thursday, November 5, by Interfax, citing its own source in military-diplomatic circles.

04 November 2015, 22:26 / Business "Baltic Coast" and "Russian Salmon" initiate their own bankruptcy The reasons are the increase in the ruble cost of loans in euros and the massive death of fish Polina Gritsenko The main reasons are the situation in Russian Salmon: the total losses from the increase in the ruble value of foreign currency loans and the death of fish amount to more than 1.5 billion rubles.

The Russian Union of Cognac Producers (Soyuzkonyak) has proposed banning government purchases of imported cognac. This was reported on Thursday, November 5, by Interfax, citing a letter from the organization to the Ministry of Agriculture. Soyuzkonyak is preparing a proposal to include cognac in the list limiting state purchases of imported products, the document says. The organization's chairman, Valery Parfenov, believes that domestic cognac has proven its viability and competitiveness.