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become a convenient place for people who are looking for new products, want to buy or sell what they do not need anymore.
The National Taxi Council has lodged a complaint to President Putin about Chinese ride hailing company Didi, claiming that the company’s collection of personal data poses a threat to Russian national security. The council had filed a previous complaint with the Federal Antimonopoly Service. Chief among concerns raised in a letter to Putin was the real time data collection of users’ movement, which is then processed abroad. Didi’s Russian subsidiary has indicated they would seek approval from users prior to transferring data overseas, but the taxi council expressed concerns that this guarantee does not amount to anything. The Chinese internet regulator recently banned new users from joining Didi’s app and ordered the app be removed from Chinese stores, citing data collection violations. Didi recently went public on the New York Stock Exchange. The company is active in 36 Russian cities, and has had more than 2 million passengers in Russia.
Russian online delivery service SberMarket wants to boost its gross merchandise value (GMV) in 2021 to 59.4 billion rubles from 19.8 billion rubles in 2020, according to the service’s presentation for investors seen by PRIME on Wednesday. SberMarket expects its GMV to amount to 21.2 billion rubles in January–June. “In July–September, SberMarket will start actively scaling up quick delivery on-demand,” the service said. GMV jumped by 6.5 times on the year to 9.978 billion rubles, including value-added tax, in January–March.
Yandex announced 6 July, that its autonomous vehicles unit Yandex Self-Driving Group (SDG) agreed on a multi-year partnership with American online food delivery platform Grubhub. Under the partnership SDG’s robot couriers Yandex.Rovers will provide food delivery services for Grubhub’s platform at college campuses in the US. The parties did not disclose the financial terms of this partnership. SDG and Grubhub plan to roll out robo-delivery at select campuses later this fall. Currently, Grubhub is a leading online food delivery platform on US college campuses, serving more than 250 campuses across the US. The parties highlighted that the robot couriers would be especially useful in accessing parts of campuses that cannot be reached by vehicles.
Yandex Self-Driving Group, an autonomous vehicles developer of Russian Internet company Yandex, has signed a multi-year partnership with Grubhub, a U.S. online and mobile food-ordering and delivery platform, for robot delivery on U.S. college campuses, Yandex said in a statement seen by PRIME on Wednesday.
The Russian economy may lose RUB6 trillion ($8bn) by the beginning of 2022 from cybercrime, Sberbank Deputy Chairman Stanislav Kuznetsov said on Wednesday at a news conference. “As to theoutlook, the losses, we’ve always talked not of a loss from a cybercrime, but about losses of the economy, either of Russia or the global economy, from the committed cyberthreats or crime,” Kuznetsov said. “We presume that losses of the Russian economy may now reach 6 trillion rubles by the end of this year–by the beginning of 2022,” he said. A ransomware virus can block supplies of oil or gas, and the economy’s losses “will be enormous”, Kuznetsov said.
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