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enter the markets of France, Italy and Spain," the statement said.
Buyers will be able to order goods in a separate online store de.wildberries.eu, as well as through mobile applications.
Residents of Germany will have access to about 4mn items from 40,000 brands, and they will be able to receive their orders at 40,000 partner points or by courier delivery.
In 2019, Wildberries launched sales in four new countries: Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine and Israel in addition to Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Armenia, where it is already present.
Wildberries' turnover in January-September 2020 grew by 87% year on year, reaching $4bn.
Nordic Tele2 vows to appeal Swedish court ruling to reject attempts at slashing Kazakhstan related tax bill
Nordic telecommunications company Tele2 has vowed to appeal a judgement by the Administrative Court in Sweden court that partly rejects its attempts to slash a tax bill on losses related to its now divested Kazakhstan joint venture, which potentially landed it with a SEK355mn ($35.4mn) bill.
Tele2 said in a statement on January 6 that the court had turned down part of its claim to cut
its liability due to “exchange losses” related to
a loan agreement signed during the creation of the Kazakhstan joint venture. It was sold in 2019. If the ruling stands unchanged, Tele2 would
be required to pay the SEK355mn bill out of an original tax claim of SEK558mn along with related charges and interest.
Tele2 received a discount on the original sum in September 2019, but did not make a provision in financial statements based on the assumption that the firm would win its appeal and have the
amount reduced further. Its liability stood at SEK349mn at the end of the third quarter of 2019.
Tele2’s latest statement said the company was set to make “a decision” on including a provision for SEK355mn in its quarterly report for the fourth quarter of 2020.
SAS buys UK-Serbian IT startup Boemska
International analytics company SAS has acquired Boemska, a British-Serbian startup, to accelerate AI integration into cloud marketplace and third- party applications, SAS said on January 7. The size of the deal was not disclosed.
Boemska specialises in low-code/no-code application deployment and analytic workload management for the SAS platform. Based in the UK with its R&D centre in Serbia, its clients include SAS customers in financial services, health care and travel.
Following the takeover, Boemska’s assets and operations will be integrated into SAS. According to SAS’ press release, the deal will enhance its cloud-native, advanced analytics platform SAS Viya “with a rich set of capabilities that boost SAS’ goal of supporting the entire analytics life cycle and facilitating customer migration to the cloud”.
“Boemska enables customers to infuse world-class SAS analytics in third-party cloud applications, using purpose-built runtime containers that are designed for greater resiliency and portability across connected cloud environments, resulting in a small footprint runtime for analytics and models,” said Della Rosa, research director for software as
a service (SaaS) and cloud software at IDC.
“We’re excited to join the SAS family and help
shift customers to the cloud in a cost-effective
yet powerful manner. We look forward to collaboratively delivering a portable, small- footprint runtime for analytics and models while improving the ability to migrate to the cloud,” said Boemska chief technology officer Nikola Markovic.