Getty Images In 2015, global GDP was about $74 trillion, according to PwC. By 2030, it will grow by about $15.7 trillion, of which $6.6 trillion will come from increased productivity through automation and artificial intelligence. The rest of the growth will come from changing consumer demand: shoppers will consume more personalized and high-quality goods. It turns out that labor productivity and its increase is the key to economic growth and prosperity.

Social networks “VKontakte”, “Odnoklassniki” and the mobile application Boom (part of the Mail.ru Group) have reduced the time for free listening to music in the background to half an hour, a representative of the United Media Agency (UMA, enters into licensing agreements on behalf of Mail.ru Group). The restriction came into force on November 1, he says. In order to listen to music for longer than 30 minutes, the user can sign up for a subscription, for which he must pay 149 rubles monthly.

Employees of the Krymgazseti company discovered through mechanical damage during an inspection of gas pipelines that failed on October 31 and November 1, TASS reports . As Yulia Maksimenko, head of the company's press center, told the Rossiya 24 TV channel, the damaged sections of the pipe were cut out and handed over to the investigation. Gas supply to the pipeline has been partially resumed, 1,210 households remain without gas.

Bare Conductive sells paint through online hobby stores and retailers such as RadioShack in the US / Bare Conductive Matt Johnson was raised by entrepreneurs – his parents had their own landscape architecture firm, Civitas – but he had no intention of setting up his own business. That was until he began working on a degree in industrial design at London's Royal College of Art and invented conductive paint that could be used to create electrical circuits on walls.

The growth or decline of economic activity in Russia can be predicted based on media publications, and not just official statistics, according to Central Bank analysts. The first such indicator is presented in a study published by the regulator (may not reflect the official position of the Central Bank). The leading indicator of economic activity in Russia is based on daily analysis of news sites using machine learning.

"London Professor" Joseph Mifsud at a session of the Valdai Club / Valdai Club / AP The London professor through whom Donald Trump's foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos tried to arrange a meeting with Russian officials is Joseph Mifsud, a 57-year-old Maltese-born academic, The Telegraph reports , naming him as the honorary director of the London Diplomatic Academy, affiliated with the University of Stirling in Scotland.

Roskomnadzor head Alexander Zharov did not rule out that the agency could require Twitter to localize the personal data of Russian citizens in accordance with the law before mid-2018. This could be a mirror response to the US actions in relation to RT and Sputnik. Zharov promised to monitor the development of the situation with RT and Sputnik. At the same time, the decision on this issue will be made collectively.

The potential for construction in industrial zones according to approved planning projects in Moscow is about 38 million square meters of real estate, Sergei Levkin, head of the capital's department of urban development policy, told journalists. “68 planning projects for the development of territories within the boundaries of old industrial zones have already been approved,” Levkin said. According to him, the developed documentation covers about 3,800 hectares.

The family of traffic police inspector Sergei Grachev, who was fatally hit on Novy Arbat by a Mercedes with AMR license plates, has no claims against anyone after receiving substantial compensation, Moskovsky Komsomolets wrote, citing Grachev's relatives. According to the newspaper, the widow was given a comfortable three-room apartment in a new building and 6 million rubles from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB.

November 01, 2017, 16:58 / Business / News Deliveries of Turkish tomatoes to Russia will begin in five to seven days undefined Vedomosti The first batches of tomatoes from Turkey will arrive in Russia in five to seven days, TASS reports citing a message from Rosselkhoznadzor. For now, Turkish tomatoes will enter Russia through three checkpoints: Bryansk Pogar and New Yurkovichi and the seaport of Gelendzhik in the Krasnodar Territory, said Rosselkhoznadzor press secretary Svetlana Zemchenkova.

Respondents do not like the way Sobchak behaves and that she swears (10%), 8% are irritated by her obsession and tendency to “meddle in everything”, 7% chose the option “nobody likes it” / Vyacheslav Prokofiev/TASS Ksenia Sobchak's name is familiar to 98% of Russians, but only 8% consider it possible to vote for her. This was shown by a VTsIOM poll conducted on October 21-22, 2017 by telephone among 1,200 people.

The leader in productivity in the world is a dwarf state in the center of Europe, Luxembourg. It is followed by oil and gas-rich Qatar and Asia's gambling capital, China's Special Administrative Region of Macau. Growth points are located in the North of Europe, Africa and Asia. What else do international productivity statistics tell us? Read on vedomosti.ru Leaders and statistics Why is Luxembourg, a state with an area of ​​approximately 2500 square meters.

The Kremlin condemned the terrorist attack that took place in New York the day before. As the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov stated, the terrorist's actions were inhumane. "We are sorry, it's a tragic attack," he said. On October 31, a truck veered onto a bike path in Manhattan and ran over everyone in its path until it crashed into a school bus. The perpetrator was arrested.

01 November 2017, 16:27 / Management How to properly split a business How is legal fragmentation different from illegal in the eyes of tax inspectors? Ekaterina Ryadnova , lawyer at the law firm “Pleshakov, Ushkalov and Partners” In 2003, preferential tax regimes appeared in tax legislation: simplified taxation system (STS) and unified tax on imputed income (UTI). Since then, companies have begun to actively use business splitting to obtain tax benefits.

The checkpoints on the Crimea-Ukraine border are closed from the night into Wednesday, the border department of the FSB of Russia reported. "Since the night, all checkpoints have been temporarily closed for technical reasons," the department told TASS, without specifying the nature of the technical reasons. Around 11:00 Moscow time, the FSB reported that the checkpoints had resumed their work. There are three border checkpoints in the north of Crimea - "Kalanchak", "Chongar" and "Chaplynka".