Yandex
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Yandex open sources CatBoost, a gradient boosting machine learning library
Artificial intelligence is now powering a growing number of computing functions, and today the developer community today is getting another AI boost, courtesy of Yandex. Today, the Russian search giant — which, like its US counterpart Google, has extended into a myriad of other business lines, from mobile to maps and more — announced the launch of CatBoost, an open source… Read More
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Crunch Report | DraftKings and FanDuel No Longer Merging
Uber is merging with Yandex.Taxi in Russia, DraftKings and FanDuel call it quits on their merger, Amazon is working on a premium Echo Home and Jet.com gives New Yorkers smart locks for their home deliveries. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
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Uber, Yandex combine ridesharing and UberEATS in Russian markets in a $3.72B JV
As Uber works through a huge amount of internal management turmoil, the company is also consolidating and rationalizing more of its international business. Today, the company announced it will be combining its rides-on-demand business and UberEATS, its food ordering and delivery business, in Russia and neighboring markets, with Yandex.Taxi. Read More
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Yandex’s on-demand taxi service debuts its self-driving car project
Russia search and internet technology giant Yandex is showing off the self-driving vehicle prototype developed by its Yandex.Taxi on-demand ride service for the first time, and the video above is the first footage of the car in action. The prototype is meant to help Yandex test its software, which the company thinks it’s uniquely well-positioned to develop for this emerging… Read More
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Google reaches $7.8 million settlement in its Android antitrust case in Russia
Google has reached a settlement with Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) agency in the antitrust case the Russian search rival Yandex had originally filed, claiming Google had violated local competition rules. The case revolved around how Google had required handset makers to pre-load their devices with Google apps and services in order to also gain access the Google Play… Read More
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Zvooq, Russia’s Spotify, sues Yandex for $29M after key staff were allegedly poached
Zvooq, a music streaming service in Russia and CIS countries backed by major Western labels, is suing Yandex for $29 million. It accuses the Russian search giant of poaching key Zvooq staff for its own music streaming service, in contravention of an NDA the two parties allegedly signed in February of this year. Zvooq, which is run out of Moscow but legally based in Cyprus, charges Yandex… Read More
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Yandex woos smartphone makers with AI, browser and launcher partnership programs
After successfully bringing a high-profile antitrust case against Google in Russia over bundling services with the Android OS, the country’s national search giant Yandex is trying to take its competitiveness in mobile up another notch. To grow its business outside of its current core market of Russia, the company launched a new partnership program to work with smartphone handset… Read More
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Russia’s Google equivalent is building a self-driving shuttle
The Google equivalent in every major market where Google doesn’t really play is making a self-driving car of some kind, and Russia is the latest to join the fray. Yandex is the company in question, which operates Russia’s leading search engine, along with a host of other going concerns. Add to that list a driverless minibus, which the tech company is creating in partnership… Read More
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The fintech world beyond Silicon Valley and Europe: Emerging market contenders
According to a recent study by Accenture, investments in fintech hit $5.3 billion in the first quarter of this year (having grown 75 percent in 2015, exceeding $22 billion). These are staggering figures for a still nascent industry, which can have a monumental impact on all sectors, from lending and investments to savings and payments. Read More
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Russia’s Regulators: Google Has Until November 18th To Play Fair
Early last month, Russia’s FAS (Federal Antimonopoly Service) stated that Google had violated Russian competition rules with its stock apps in Android. The folks complaining happen to be Google’s biggest competition in Russia…Yandex. Today, the FAS announced that Google has until November 18 “to eliminate the violation of the law on protection of competition in terms… Read More
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Russia Says Google Has “Violated Competition Rules” With Android, Yandex Stock Jumps
Back in February, the “Google of Russia,” Yandex, filed an antitrust complaint with Russia’s watchdog agency (FAS) over Google’s leverage with what comes pre-installed on Android. Specifically, the fact that Google is the default search engine rubbed Yandex the wrong way. See, Yandex has a 60 percent search hold overall, but Android phones account for 86 percent of… Read More
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Yandex Launches Yandex.Radio, A Curated Free Music Service For Russian Users
Amid reports that Russia will be one of the first countries to get access to the new music service that Apple is reportedly launching next week, Russian search giant Yandex is enhancing its own. Today it announced Yandex.Radio, an ad-supported streaming music service that provides around 100 ready-made “stations” to users organised around moods and themes, initially available… Read More
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Mozilla Extends Its Default Google Search Blockout, Signs Up Yandex In Turkey
Mozilla last November made waves when it swapped out Google as the default search engine in its Firefox browser in the U.S., replacing it with Yahoo, and put Yandex in for Google in Russia at the same time. Today Mozilla announced an expansion of that strategy: Yandex will now also be the default search option in Turkey, once again replacing Google. Relatively speaking, Turkey is not… Read More
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In Russia, Yandex Files Antitrust Complaint Against Google Over Search On Android Devices
More antitrust woe for Google on the international front. Search giant Yandex, often described as the “Google of Russia”, has filed a request with Russia’s antimonopoly regulator to investigate Google over possible violations of Russia’s antitrust laws. Specifically, it wants the regulator to look at Google’s Android operating system and how Google bundles… Read More
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Russia’s Yandex Now Has A Parking App
Russia’s search and Internet services giant Yandex has launched a parking app for iOS and Android, called Yandex.Parking — initially in Moscow where traffic congestion (in)famously makes parking a particular headache. Read More
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