bne_Tech_11_2020

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November 2020 www.intellinews.com @bneintellinews
Top Stories
Sberbank's joint project with Mail.ru
is in limbo 2 Russian police unveils $720mn
AI-focused digitalisation scheme 3
Leaders 5
Sberbank's joint project with Mail.ru is in limbo
Following the high-profile divorce between Russia's largest, state- owned lender Sberbank, and tech giant Yandex earlier this year, the future of the bank's partnership with another local tech company, Mail.ru Group, is now also in danger of collapsing.
A $1.6bn joint venture between Sberbank and Mail.ru, which is best known as the owner of Russia's most
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Czech companies dominate this year’s Deloitte Technology Fast 50 CE Russia’s first AI-powered harvesting successes open the way to a wave of agritech innovation
IPO of Russian Ozon aims for $0.5bn
Investment
Estonian cleantech startup Skeleton Technologies raises €41.3mn
Russian sovereign fund RDIF invests telemedicine platform, targets 100mn potential users 9 EIB invests $80mn in Lithuania’s
SME Finance 10 Ex-official’s electric vehicle start-up
valued at $5.4bn 10
Fintech & E-commerce 11
Russian payment system Qiwi ups
profit 73% in 3Q20 11 Estonian fintech firm to install cardless ATMs in Moldova 12
Telecom 14
Hrvatski Telekom launches Croatia’s
first commercial 5G network 14 Russia's MTS ups revenues 5% in 3Q20 14 Russian telecom major Rostelecom
shows solid 3Q20 results 16 Mobile operator O2 Czech Republic
reports 7% increase in profit in 9M20 17
NIBs 18
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Russian police unveils $720mn AI-focused digitalisation scheme
Russia's interior ministry has presented to the government
a RUB55bn ($720mn) digital transformation programme that has a heavy focus on artificial intelligence (AI).
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