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S16 Angel Fund launches a community of founders to invest in other founders
Ten years ago a group of young tech founders in Moscow decided to get an apartment together, at Shmitovskiy Lane 16. In time, the ecosystem around the group swelled to the point where today it now enc
Apple, Opera and Yandex fix browser address bar spoofing bugs, but millions more still left vulnerable
Year after year, phishing remains one of the most popular and effective ways for attackers to steal your passwords. As users, we’re mostly trained to spot the telltale signs of a phishing site,
The Station: Yandex spins out self-driving biz, Ike takes the SaaS road and a solid-state battery startup strikes SPAC
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Daily Crunch: Peloton might expand its product lineup
Peloton’s product lineup is both getting cheaper and more expensive, Nintendo announces a new retro device and Palantir reveals more about its governance plans. This is your Daily Crunch for Sep
Yandex spins out self-driving car unit from its Uber JV, invests $150M into new company
Self-driving cars are still many years away from becoming a ubiquitous reality, but today, one of the bigger efforts to build and develop them is taking a significant step out as part of its strategy
DuckDuckGo still critical of Google’s EU Android choice screen auction, after wining a universal slot
Google has announced which search engines have won an auction process it has devised for an Android “choice screen” — as its response to an antitrust intervention by the region’
Yandex is now testing a self-driving sidewalk cargo delivery robot
Add another one to the list of companies piloting small, wheeled, autonomous robots for small-package and food delivery: Yandex. Russia’s search and services giant has expanded its ambitions in
US search market needs a ‘choice screen’ remedy now, says DuckDuckGo
US regulators shouldn’t be sitting on their hands while the 50+ state, federal and congressional antitrust investigations of Google to grind along, search rival DuckDuckGo argues. It’s put
Russia’s Yandex introduces an Echo Dot-style smart speaker
In May of last year, Yandex launched the Yandex.Station. The $160 smart speaker was a clear logical step for the so-called “Google of Russia.” This week, the company is back with the next-next log
With Y Combinator’s seal of approval, MyPetrolPump raises $1.6 million for its car refueling business
Even before pitching onstage at Y Combinator, Indian car refueling startup MyPetrolPump has managed to snag $1.6 million in seed financing. The business, which is similar to startups in the U.S. like
Yandex-Uber JV MLU acquires regional rival Vezet for shares and $71.5M in cash
On-demand transportation giant Uber made its name in part by aggressively entering new markets on a path of organic growth, but in recent times, it has shown itself more amenable to the concept of exp
‘Crypto exchange’ Goxtrade caught using other people’s photos on its staff page
Alleged cryptocurrency exchange Goxtrade bills itself as a “trusted platform for trading bitcoins,” but its staff page is filled with photos of people pulled seemingly at random from the i
EV startup Rimac scores $90M investment from Hyundai and Kia
Rimac Automobili, the European EV startup that landed an investment from Porsche last year, has again gained the backing of traditional automakers after Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Motors jointly in
Nuro dreams of autonomous lattes, what is a metamaterial, Volvo takes the wheel
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Yandex inks deal with Hyundai to build self-driving car tech for its Mobis OEM division
On the heels of Hyundai becoming the latest investor in Ola, today another key deal was revealed that underscores Hyundai’s ambitions in next-generation automotive services. Yandex, the Russian
Yandex gets in the smartphone game
“The Google of Russia” is a fairly apt description, as far as those things go. Yandex has its hand in just about everything internet in its native Russia. Recent additions include a Prime-style se
Google and Yandex may collaborate on a real-time blacklist of all known pirated works
A meeting on the status of anti-piracy efforts at search engines has produced a collaborative approach to better addressing the issue of pirated works appearing in search results. An international col
Russia’s Yandex unveils Plus, a Prime-style service for $2.75/month, ‘Station’ smart speaker and Alice skills
Russian search giant Yandex is sometimes described as the “Google of Russia”, but maybe it should be described as the Amazon of Russia, too. The company today took the wraps off Yandex.Plu
Yandex shows off the first tests of self-driving cars on Moscow roads
Russian search and internet services giant Yandex has been working on its autonomous driving program, and its most recent achievement is a public self-driving pilot of its self-driving test car in Mos
Yandex bakes ad-blocking into its Russian browser
Yandex has added a native ad-blocking feature to its browser in Russia.