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№1. The hacker group Anonymous has published a video message to billionaire Elon Musk. It accused the head of Tesla of excessive influence on the cryptocurrency market and disregard for the investments of ordinary people, Anonymous reported#Anonymous

№2. Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele announced plans to make bitcoin an official means of payment in the country. He promised to send the corresponding bill to Congress next week, CNBC reports.#Bukele

№3. The new version of the operating systems for iPhone and iPad will have features that will simplify work with several applications, allow better management of notifications and see what information third-party applications collect. This is reported by Bloomberg.#iPhone#iPad

№4. Twitter is close to launching a new Super Follows feature, which will allow the most active authors on the social network with a large number of subscribers to charge a fee for access to additional content. This was reported by The Verge, citing app researcher Jane Manchun Wong.#Twitter

№5. Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter that the company will be ditching its most expensive version of its flagship sedan, the Model S Plaid Plus. The company will focus on the Model S Plaid, which will be the fastest of its production cars.#Twitter

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has developed a model of state support for the introduction of Russian electronics in the domestic auto industry. Support is planned to provide subsidies for both automakers and domestic auto electronics developers, Kommersant writes with reference to the model program, which the ministry sent the industry participants. At the same time, up to 4 billion rubles of subsidies per project per year are provided for car concerns, and for developers - up to 1.5 billion rubles.

Big business has estimated the costs of switching to Russian software at 1 trillion rubles. According to the head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) Alexander Shokhin, the costs of Russian industrial enterprises, banks and IT companies due to the requirements of the Ministry of Digital Development to switch to domestic software and equipment will exceed 1 trillion rubles. He stated this in a letter to Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, which was reviewed by RBC. Its authenticity was confirmed to the publication by a source in a large company.

The Central Bank of Russia has revoked the licenses of three banks in one day. The Central Bank revoked the license of Neiva Bank. According to the regulator, it violated the legislation on combating money laundering and terrorist financing. The bank ranked 188th in terms of assets in the country's banking system. The Central Bank revoked the license of Interprombank. According to the regulator, Moscow-based Interprombank made transactions with non-core assets in order to conceal its real financial position. The bank ranked 151st in terms of assets in the Russian banking system. The Central Bank revoked the license of Nordea Bank. According to the regulator, the basis for revoking Nordea Bank's license was the credit institution's petition sent to the Central Bank of Russia in connection with the decision of the general meeting of shareholders on its voluntary liquidation. The bank ranked 141st in the Russian banking system.

The AvtoVAZ board of directors has approved the decision to appoint Frenchman Nicolas Maure as the company's president, as reported on its website. Maure will take up the post on June 1, when the term of the current president, Yves Caracatzanis, expires. Maure was already president and CEO of AvtoVAZ in 2016-2018. In 2019, he became chairman of the company's board of directors. He will retain the position of CEO for Groupe Renault operations in Russia and the CIS, which he will take on May 1, the report notes. AvtoVAZ is part of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance and the Rostec state corporation.

Nvidia has unveiled its first processor for supercomputers. This is reported on the company's website. The release of the equipment took place at the Nvidia GTC 2021 Keynote event. The new processor is called Grace, it contains more than a trillion transistors and is aimed at working with supercomputers and data centers. It is reported on the Nvidia website that when interacting with Nvidia GPUs, the new chip provides more than 10 times greater performance than modern computer stations based on Nvidia DGX.

#3. Apple is preparing an operating system update for iPhone and iPad. According to Bloomberg, tablets will see the “most significant” change to the “home” screen due to widgets. Smartphones will have different notification modes, and the App Store will have more advertising. New features will be added to iOS 15 and iPadOS 15. According to sources, they will be announced at the World Wide Web Developer Conference (WWDC), which will be held on June 7.

#4The government may create a Fund to support gaming projects to help developers of computer, mobile and online games that popularize Russian culture and history. Such a proposal was included in the latest version of the second package of support for the IT industry, Kommersant writes, citing a version of this document.

#5The People's Bank of China wants Jack Ma's fintech company Ant Group to hand over its consumer lending data to a state-controlled company run by former regulator executives, sources familiar with the negotiations told the Financial Times. The matter concerns "one of the most valuable assets of Ma's Internet empire," the newspaper notes.

№1. Consumer Reports experts said that they easily managed to "outsmart" a Tesla electric car by making it move with an empty driver's seat.

№2. CD Projekt RED returned more than two million dollars to gamers for the purchase of Cyberpunk 2077. The relevant information was published on the website of the Polish company.

№3. By 2040, all vehicles sold by Japanese Honda must be electric, said the CEO of the automaker Toshihiro Mibe. "It will be a tough fight," he noted (quoted by Bloomberg).

№4. Russian brokers will have to close accounts opened with the American company Interactive Brokers, RBK reports citing sources. According to them, this requirement was voiced by the American broker himself.

№5. The founder of the Turkish crypto exchange Thodex, Faruk Fatih Ozer, has gone missing. He fled the country with $2 billion in investor funds, local media reported, Anadolu Agency (in Turkish) reported.

#1. US President Joe Biden intends to propose raising the capital gains tax rate for the rich by almost twofold, to 39.6%. Bloomberg writes about this, citing sources familiar with the plans of the head of state.

#2. Over six years, Sberbank's spending on company purchases amounted to 145 billion rubles. The bank's head, German Gref, said that the bank spends no more than 3% of its capital on purchasing other companies. According to him, for the banking business, this is pennies.

#3. The Mastercard payment system announced plans to acquire Ekata, a company engaged in ID verification in the digital space. The acquisition amount is estimated at $850 million, the MasterCard payment system reported.

#4. Advertising revenue in Chinese mobile games exceeded $1.5 billion in 2020, the Beijing analytical company QuestMobile reported its research results.

#5. The six-wheeled robotic rover Perseverance extracted oxygen from the planet's atmosphere. This happened on April 20, on the 60th day of the robot's stay on Mars, NASA reports.

№1. More than half of crypto investors said that buying digital currencies had a negative impact on their personal lives. This follows from a SurveyMonkey survey conducted for Tech Domains. Its results are cited by Bloomberg.

№2. The Ministry of Digital Development has prepared a draft amendment to the government decree on pre-installation of Russian applications on smartphones, tablets, computers and smart TVs. It requires device manufacturers to ensure the deletion of pre-installed software, Kommersant writes. This requirement applies not only to Russian programs, but to any others, the Ministry of Digital Development noted.

№3. The Soyuz rocket with 36 satellites of the British company OneWeb launched on Monday from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Amur Region. In total, the project provides for the launch of 882 small spacecraft into orbit, which will provide Internet access around the world, Roscosmos reported.

№4. Finnish Rovio Entertainment Corporation, a developer, publisher and distributor of games, including Angry Birds, filed a lawsuit in the Moscow City Court to protect exclusive rights against Tatyana Bakalchuk's Wildberries. The online retailer's platform features products from various sellers with counterfeit images of birds — characters from the Angry Birds game.

No. 5. Top 5 most expensive Runet companies according to Forbes:

1st place: Yandex, worth $22.980 billion;

2nd place: Wildberries, worth $14.523 billion;

3rd place: Ozon, worth $10.581 billion;

4th place: Mail.ru Group, worth $6.084 billion;

5th place: Avito, worth $4.907 billion.

№1. Almost two-thirds of employers in Russia do not support extending the weekend for the entire period from May 1 to 10, RIA Novosti writes, citing a survey by the job search service HeadHunter. The weekend from May 4 to 7, which Vladimir Putin announced in Russia, will not be mandatory for all enterprises, said the president's press secretary Dmitry Peskov, his words are quoted by TASS.

№2. Telegram has introduced the ability to accept credit card payments in any chat, including groups and channels, the company's blog reports.

№3. Electric vehicle manufacturer Elon Musk's Tesla reported a profit for the seventh quarter in a row for the first quarter. The company's profit exceeded Wall Street analysts' expectations, and revenue increased by $4.4 compared to a year earlier, the company said.

№4. Uber's American competitor Lyft will sell its self-driving car division to Toyota subsidiary Woven Plane for $550 million. The companies announced this, CNBC reports.

No. 5. The Accounts Chamber audited the Federal Corporation for the Development of Small and Medium-Sized Entrepreneurship (SME Corporation) for the period from 2018 to 2020. The auditors came to the conclusion that the influence of this development institution on small businesses was small, which cannot be said about the salaries of the corporation's employees. This is reported by RBC with reference to the thematic bulletin of the Accounts Chamber.

#1. Yandex has closed a deal to acquire 100% of the fintech startup Chaevy Prosto, one of the largest electronic tipping services on the market. The founders will stay and continue to develop the service together with the Yandex Go foodtech team. It will be integrated into Yandex.Food and other Yandex services and will be kept as a separate business, the company said.

#2. Google's parent company, Alphabet, reported record sales for the first quarter of 2021. They amounted to $55.31 billion, which is 34% more than a year earlier, when online advertising sales fell due to the coronavirus pandemic, The Wall Street Journal writes.

#3. Apple was fined $12 million in Russia for abusing its dominant position in the mobile app market. The case was initiated based on a complaint from Kaspersky Lab. The FAS imposed a turnover fine of $12 million on Apple, the agency's website reports.

No. 4. Musk reported on Twitter that Tesla sold 10% of its bitcoins to check their liquidity.

No. 5. Chinese authorities have launched an investigation into regulators who approved the failed IPO of Jack Ma's fintech company Ant Group, officials who supported it, and large firms that could have benefited from it. This is reported by The Wall Street Journal, citing informed sources.

№1. Group video calling feature will appear in Telegram in May. This was announced by the founder of the messenger, billionaire Pavel Durov in his channel.

№2. On April 28, Apple announced breakthrough results for the first quarter. The company's revenue grew by 53.7% compared to last year, to $89.58 billion, and profit was significantly higher than Wall Street analysts' forecasts, CNBC reports.

№3. Apple will reduce production of its AirPods wireless headphones by 25-30% this year. According to them, demand for wireless headphones turned out to be lower than the company's expectations, and their stocks in warehouses and stores are growing. This was reported by Nikkei Asia with reference to informed sources.

№4. The company "Sberentertainment" (a subsidiary of "Sber") is launching its own gaming direction "SberGames", the bank's press service reported. The team formation and creation of a production center, publishing house, internal development studio and various gaming services will begin in 2021.

No. 5. The creation of new payment technologies, including the digital currency Deim and the Novi wallet, will become the basis for expanding the trade of Facebook services in its social networking applications. These technologies will appear soon, said Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, CNBC reports.

#1. Telegram has decided to conduct an additional placement of convertible bonds for $750 million, two managers who participated in the previous purchase of securities and received an offer to participate again told Forbes.

#2. The world's richest businessman Jeff Bezos announced the start of ticket sales for his New Shepard spacecraft.

#3. Chinese financial regulators at a meeting with the country's largest technology companies demanded that they change their business practices, which they considered "risky" and violate antitrust laws. This was reported by The Wall Street Journal, citing a statement from the People's Bank of China.

#4. Twitter shares fell more than 11% outside trading on Thursday. The fall occurred after the company reported its first-quarter results and presented recommendations for the second quarter. The growth in the number of social network users and the company's forecasts for further growth were below investor expectations, CNBC reports.

#5. Representatives of IT companies have joined in criticizing the legislation on educational activities. They fear that due to the new rules they will have to abandon the training of personnel in schools and universities, Kommersant has learned.

№1. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced new features of the image and video sharing service in a live broadcast with Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri that will allow content creators to earn more. Zuckerberg and Mosseri did not specify the launch dates, CNBC reports.

№2. The European Union has accused Apple of violating antitrust laws in the field of music streaming. According to the European Commission, the company abuses its position by charging high commissions in the App Store and prohibiting developers from telling customers about alternative ways to subscribe to their services. This is stated in a statement by the EU's highest executive body.

№3. Yandex will launch its taxi ordering service in Norway. RBC writes about this with reference to the company's press service. In the Scandinavian country, the service will operate under the international brand Yango.

№4. Microsoft will reduce the commission for game developers in its app store from August 1. This is reported on the company's website.

No. 5. About 60 Chinese companies plan to enter the US stock market in 2021 through initial public offerings (IPOs). This was reported by the head of the China representative office at the New York Stock Exchange, Vera Yang, CNBC reports. Investors will be cautious and will give preference to companies that can maintain a high valuation of their market value after going public, experts say.

#1. The American space agency NASA has asked billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX F to suspend work on creating the first commercial landing module to send people to the Moon. This was reported by Reuters with reference to NASA.

#2. American billionaire Eli Broad died on Friday at the age of 87, Reuters reports. He died at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after a long illness, said a representative of the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, a charity founded by the billionaire and his wife Edith.

#3. Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk has earned the right to receive stock options worth $32.4 billion, The Wall Street Journal reports. The billionaire received this opportunity after the electric car manufacturer achieved about half of the targets set by the board of directors three years ago.

#4. Berkshire Hathaway, headed by billionaire Warren Buffett F, increased its cash reserves by more than 5% to $145.4 billion in the first quarter, Bloomberg reports. This is close to the record set in the third quarter of last year, when Berkshire Hathaway's "cushion" was estimated at $145.7 billion. By the end of the fourth quarter, it had decreased to $138.3 billion.

No. 5. SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft with astronauts on board landed in the Gulf of Mexico near Panama City in the US state of Florida. This was reported on the website of the American space agency NASA

#1. Max Khodak, who co-founded Neuralink with billionaire Elon Musk, announced on Twitter that he had left the company several weeks ago. He noted that he had “learned a lot” while working at Neuralink and remains a “fan” of the company. Khodak did not specify the reason for his departure.

#2. Google has decided to transform its offices to prepare for the period after the coronavirus pandemic and to take into account the wishes of employees who have already gotten used to working from home and no longer want to come to work all the time. Google told The New York Times about its ideas and inventions.

#3. More than 30 of the largest European banks and financial companies have raised €30 million to create a payment giant that will be able to displace the largest American services in this market, writes the Financial Times.

#4. An application for tracking contacts of those infected with coronavirus leaked data to other programs. Experts from the AppCensus agency wrote about this in their blog.

№5. Xiaomi has released a special version of the Redmi K40 smartphone dedicated to Bruce Lee. This was reported by the Chinese publication MyDrivers.

#1. The price of the Ethereum cryptocurrency has reached $3,530 over the past 24 hours, according to data from the Coindesk online exchange. The world's second-largest digital currency after Bitcoin has surpassed the $3,500 mark for the first time.

#2. Acronis, a cybersecurity company, has raised more than $250 million from CVC Capital Partners VII and other investors. The company's valuation at the end of the round exceeded $2.5 billion. This was stated in a statement from Acronis obtained by Forbes.

#3. Vitalik Buterin, a 27-year-old Russian native and co-founder of the Ethereum blockchain platform and digital currency, has become the youngest cryptocurrency billionaire in the world, according to Forbes USA.

#4. Twitter on Monday began rolling out a new Spaces feature that will allow users to join virtual "rooms" for real-time voice communication with other people. The first to receive the right to create "audio spaces" will be users of social network applications on iOS and Android with a number of subscribers of 600 people, according to the TwitterSpaces account.

No. 5. Facebook has begun notifying iPhone users with the latest operating system about the need to collect their personal data so that the company's social networks remain free. This was reported by The Verge, citing a tweet by IT reviewer Ashkan Soltani.

#1. Online broker Robinhood collected a record $331 million in fees from market makers in the first quarter of 2021. This is reported by CNBC, citing data submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

#2. Facebook's independent oversight board supported the company's January decision to freeze the accounts of former US President Donald Trump on its social networks Facebook and Instagram. This is reported on the board's website.

#3. The Scientific and Industrial Company High Technologies and Strategic Systems (NPK VTiSS), part of AFK Sistema, received a contract from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to study deepfakes - videos in which a person is replaced by an image created using artificial intelligence. This follows from the protocol for summing up the results of the competition announced by the Special Equipment and Communications Association of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

#4. Dogecoin, a cryptocurrency created as a meme, has risen more than 30% in the last 24 hours and more than 11,000% since the beginning of the year, CNBC reports. Analysts expect an even bigger jump in the Dodge rate due to the appearance of billionaire Elon Musk F , a well-known fan of meme tokens, on the late-night show Saturday Night Live.

No. 5. Twitter has acquired Scroll, a service that removes ads from partner news sites for $5 per month. The terms of the deal are not disclosed, but Scroll CEO Tony Hale, announcing the deal, noted that one of the reasons for selling the startup is that “Twitter’s ambitions are bigger than people suspect.”

№1. The voice social network Clubhouse has decided to invest money in supporting pilot audio shows that will be created on the service’s platform. The Verge writes about this.

№2. The global chip shortage that has hit car and mobile device manufacturers has also reached the gaming industry. Japanese Nintendo reported that the semiconductor shortage could cause problems with the production of its flagship Switch console.

№3. Tesla CEO Elon Musk became the highest-paid CEO in the United States last year, Forbes USA calculated. According to the publication, in 2020, Musk received stock options in the automaker, which will allow him to increase his fortune by about $11 billion.

№4. About 20% of Google employees will remain remote on a permanent basis even after the pandemic, according to a statement from Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

№5. Tesla will create a special platform for Chinese customers that will allow them to access the data generated by their cars, Bloomberg reports, citing a statement from the company.

#1. Former US President Donald Trump launched his own social network on Tuesday. So far, it allows Trump to post his comments, images, and videos, and supporters to share the former president's posts on Facebook and Twitter. However, the platform does not have any function for interacting with Trump's posts, Fox News writes.

#2. Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos sold Amazon shares worth almost $2 billion in two days, CNBC reports, citing filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

#3. The prototype of the spacecraft that Elon Musk's SpaceX plans to send to the Moon and Mars landed safely at a landing site in South Texas on Wednesday. This was the fifth high-altitude flight test of Starship, which in several previous test flights exploded either during or after landing, The New York Times reports.

#4. Fintech company Ant Group, controlled by one of China's richest men, Jack Ma, is in talks with authorities about how to transform its Xianghubao health insurance service, which has nearly 91 million customers, into a regulated business, people familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal.

No. 5. Billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his ex-wife Melinda have begun dividing up the property they acquired during their 27 years of marriage after announcing their divorce, Bloomberg reports.

#1. American cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has decided to close its office (former headquarters) in San Francisco in 2022 and switch to remote work. The company announced this on Twitter.#coinbase

#2. The holding company Cascade Investment, created by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, transferred shares in two more companies worth more than $500 million to his ex-wife Melinda. Bloomberg reports this with reference to a report dated May 3 - the day the Gateses announced their decision to divorce.#microsoft

#3. The conflict between Facebook and Apple existed back when Steve Jobs was the CEO of the latter. This is evidenced by Jobs' correspondence with two then-top managers of Apple, dated 2011, which was presented by Epic Games during the trial with the iPhone developer, CNBC reports.#facebook

#4. Twitter has introduced a new feature of the microblogging service — Tip Jar. It will allow users to send money as a reward to their favorite authors on the social network, the company announced in its corporate blog.#twitter

№5. Electronic payment service Square, headed by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, reported its financial results for the first quarter. The company's revenue grew by 266% year-on-year, and bitcoin revenue increased 11 times compared to last year, CNBC reports.#square

#1. Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk said that cryptocurrency is a promising asset, but one should invest in it "with caution." The billionaire wrote about this on Twitter.

#2. SpaceX may soon re-launch the Starship rocket prototype, which made its first successful landing the day before. The head of the space company, billionaire Elon Musk, reported this on Twitter.

#3. Google must comply with the decision of the Moscow Arbitration Court and restore the Tsargrad TV channel account on the YouTube video service by May 20 — or file an appeal. Otherwise, the Russian Google LLC will be charged a progressive penalty in favor of Tsargrad Media: its initial amount will be 100,000 rubles for each day of failure to comply with the court decision, while the amount will double every week, in seven months the amount of the penalty will reach 94 trillion rubles and will almost equal the capitalization of Google's parent company, Alphabet.

No. 4. Tesla engineers, in a conversation with officials, doubted that the company will be able to present the technology of fully autonomous control of its electric vehicles before the end of 2021. They expressed their doubts to representatives of the California Department of Motor Vehicles, Reuters writes, citing a memo from the regulator issued following a conference call on March 9.

No. 5. Telegram has opened a vacancy for a personal assistant to the company's CEO, billionaire Pavel Durov.

#1. Citigroup is considering launching cryptocurrency services for clients in light of growing demand, Itay Tuckman, the bank’s global head of foreign exchange, told the Financial Times.

#2. Goldman Sachs has officially ushered in the era of cryptocurrency trading on Wall Street. The bank formally informed its marketers that its newly created cryptocurrency department had successfully traded two types of derivatives linked to bitcoin, CNBC reported, citing an internal memo.

#3. Apple has begun sending Apple Watch users a questionnaire to find out what health data monitoring apps they use, 9to5mac reported. A screenshot of the questionnaire was provided to the portal by a reader from Brazil, who received it by email on May 7.

#4. Tesla and SpaceX CEO and billionaire Elon Musk admitted that he has Asperger’s syndrome. He said this on the air of the Saturday Night Live TV show on NBC, which he hosted. The Dogecoin cryptocurrency has fallen in price after billionaire Elon Musk mentioned it on the Saturday Night Live comedy show. Bloomberg writes about this.

No. 5. The Clubhouse voice social network has released a beta version of the application for Android users, according to the service's blog. For now, it is only available to US residents, but later other English-speaking countries will gain access, and at the next stage, the entire world will be able to use the Android version of the social network.

#1. Apple filed a lawsuit in the Moscow Arbitration Court to challenge a turnover fine of 906 million rubles, which the Federal Antimonopoly Service imposed on the company in April. The FAS opened a case against Apple last year after a complaint from Kaspersky Lab. The data on this is published on the website of the arbitration cases file.#apple

#2. American Tesla has abandoned plans to buy land to expand its electric car plant in Shanghai and turn it into a global export hub due to tensions in relations between the United States and China, informed sources told Reuters.#tesla

#3. The regulator in Germany has banned Facebook from collecting data from German WhatsApp users, Bloomberg reports. The agency called the company's attempt to force users to agree to the updated terms of use of the application illegal.#WhatsApp

#4. The video service YouTube will launch a special fund within a few months to motivate users to create videos on its new YouTube Shorts platform. This is stated in the company's official blog.#youtube

№5. TikTok is testing a tool that will allow companies to hire new employees, Axios reports, citing sources.#tiktok

#1. For technical reasons, some Yandex.Taxi users may have had problems ordering a car, but the service is currently operating normally. This was stated to Forbes by Yandex.Taxi representative Asya Panoyan.#yandex

#2. The value of the Ethereum cryptocurrency has exceeded $4,100 for the first time in history. Just a week ago, it crossed the $3,000 threshold, which made its creator Vitalik Buterin a billionaire, according to trading data on the Binance crypto exchange.#ethereum

#3. Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi and the US government have agreed to remove the company from the blacklist, which Americans cannot invest in, Bloomberg writes.#xiaomi

#4. The UK will invest £22 million ($31 million) to support cybersecurity systems in "vulnerable countries," including protection from China and Russia, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said at the CYBERUK conference. The transcript of his speech is available on the website of the British Foreign Office.#russianthreat

No. 5. Roskomnadzor has warned Russian WhatsApp users about insufficient protection of personal data, TASS reports, citing the agency's press service.#roskomnadzor

#1. The world's largest cryptocurrencies fell by an average of 10% by the morning of May 13 after Musk announced that Tesla would not sell electric cars for bitcoins. The price of bitcoin itself fell to $46,294 against the backdrop of this news, and the price of Ethereum, which had hit a record high of $4,100 the day before, fell to $3,546, according to data from the Coindesk cryptocurrency exchange.#cryptocurrencies

#2. Facebook-owned WhatsApp will gradually disable some features, including calls and the ability to send messages, for users who do not agree with its new privacy policy from May 15. "Starting from now on, WhatsApp functionality will be limited until you accept the update," the messenger's website says.#whatsapp

#3. Amazon has won an appeal in court against the European Commission, which demanded that the online retailer pay €250 million ($303 million) in taxes in Luxembourg, CNBC reported. The court ruled that the European Commission failed to prove that Amazon received illegal tax preferences in the dwarf state where Amazon registered its European subsidiary.#amazon

№4. Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of the blockchain platform and cryptocurrency Ethereum, has donated more than $1 billion in digital currency to the India COVID-Crypto Relief fund, which is helping India fight the coronavirus, and other organizations, according to the American Forbes.#ethereum

№5. The State Duma IT Committee is completing work on a bill to “land” large Internet companies in Russia. United Russia deputy Alexander Khinshtein wrote about this in his Telegram channel.#telegram

#1. The US Department of Justice and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have launched an investigation into one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Binance. Bloomberg reported on the investigation into the cryptocurrency trading platform, citing sources familiar with the details.#cryptocurrency

#2. Megafon will replace its CEO: the current executive director of the company, Khachatur Pombukhchan, will become the CEO, according to the operator's message on the information disclosure website.#megafon

#3. Google led a group of almost 30 companies and organizations that advocated for maintaining a program that allows spouses of highly skilled immigrant workers to find work in the United States themselves. This was reported on the Google blog by the company's vice president of legal affairs, Katherine Lacavera.#google

#4. Alibaba ended the fourth quarter of its fiscal year, which ended March 31, 2021, with an operating loss - the first time since it went public in September 2014, Reuters writes.#alibaba

No. 5. Roskomnadzor will conduct an inspection of Twitter after May 15, after which it will decide whether to extend the restrictions in force against the service or take other measures, the agency's website says. Roskomnadzor recalled that this period was given to the social network to remove prohibited content.#roskomnadzor

#1. Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk's fortune has fallen by $20.5 billion since he appeared on Saturday Night Live on Saturday, according to American Forbes.#Tesla

#2. Online payment company PayPal reported its first quarter 2021 results. Net profit in the first quarter rose to $1.10 billion from $84 million a year earlier, while revenue rose to $6.03 billion, up 31%, CNBC reports.#PayPal

#3. Legionfarm, a startup that helps gamers play with professionals and improve their skills, has raised $6 million in Series A, TechCrunch reported. The company's valuation is not specified. The startup was founded by Russian Alexey Belyankin, who is on the long list of nominees for the Forbes 30 Most Promising Russians Under 30 in the Entrepreneurs category.#legionfarm

No. 4. The head of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technology, and Communications, Alexander Khinshtein, intends to discuss with Roskomnadzor retaliatory measures against the new WhatsApp privacy policy, which contradicts Russian legislation. He stated this in a conversation with RIA Novosti.#roskomnadzor

No. 5. One of the creators of the joke cryptocurrency Dogecoin, Jackson Palmer, criticized billionaire Elon Musk F , calling him a swindler. This is reported by Business Insider. “Reminder: Elon Musk was and always will be a narcissistic swindler,” Palmer wrote on his Twitter page. He added that he would delete the post in one minute as he had “nothing more to say” and “likes to lead a quiet life.”#Elon Musk

#1. One of the largest US mobile operators AT&T announced the creation of a joint streaming service with the owner of the Discovery TV channel. The new platform will combine the entertainment, sports and news resources of WarnerMedia, owned by AT&T, with Discovery content. Together, the partners intend to create a "new global leader in entertainment."#discovery

#2. Crypto billionaire Vitalik Buterin destroyed most of the Shiba tokens given to him by the creators of the digital currency. According to Etherscan, the founder of Ethereum sent more than 410 trillion coins to a non-existent address, thus removing them from circulation.#ethereum

#3. Roskomnadzor decided not to block Twitter, according to the agency's website.#roskomnadzor

#4. In the summer, the social network VKontakte will launch free group video calls for 2,048 people at a time, which will make it easy to gather participants for online concerts, educational forums or IT conferences, the press service of Mail.ru Group reported.#vkontakte

No. 5. Apple has returned the Parler social network app to the App Store. This was reported by The Verge, citing a statement from the company#parler.

#1. One of the largest US mobile operators AT&T announced the creation of a joint streaming service with the owner of the Discovery TV channel. The new platform will combine the entertainment, sports and news resources of WarnerMedia, owned by AT&T, with Discovery content. Together, the partners intend to create a "new global leader in entertainment." #discovery

#2. Crypto billionaire Vitalik Buterin destroyed most of the Shiba tokens given to him by the creators of the digital currency. According to Etherscan, the founder of Ethereum sent more than 410 trillion coins to a non-existent address, thus removing them from circulation. #buterin

#3. Fraudsters posing as billionaire Elon Musk on social networks stole more than $2 million in cryptocurrency from October last year to the end of March. This is stated in a report published on Monday by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC).#scammers

№4. The Ministry of Digital Development has proposed providing artificial intelligence (AI) developers with paid access to government data. This proposal was presented by the ministry in a draft concept presented at a thematic expert session of the ANO Digital Economy. This was reported by RBC with reference to a copy of the document, the authenticity of which was confirmed by two sources familiar with its discussion.#digitaleconomy

№5. Google presented a beta version of Android 12 and other updates for services and devices at its first Google I/O conference since 2019. The company said it has 3 billion active Android devices worldwide. This is significantly higher than Apple's stated goal of 1 billion iPhones, CNBC notes.#google

#1. One of the largest US mobile operators AT&T announced the creation of a joint streaming service with the owner of the Discovery TV channel. The new platform will combine the entertainment, sports and news resources of WarnerMedia, owned by AT&T, with Discovery content. Together, the partners intend to create a "new global leader in entertainment." #discovery

#2. Crypto billionaire Vitalik Buterin destroyed most of the Shiba tokens given to him by the creators of the digital currency. According to Etherscan, the founder of Ethereum sent more than 410 trillion coins to a non-existent address, thus removing them from circulation. #buterin

#3. Fraudsters posing as billionaire Elon Musk on social networks stole more than $2 million in cryptocurrency from October last year to the end of March. This is stated in a report published on Monday by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC).#fraudsters

№4. The Ministry of Digital Development has proposed providing artificial intelligence (AI) developers with paid access to government data. This proposal was presented by the ministry in a draft concept presented at a thematic expert session of the ANO Digital Economy. This was reported by RBC with reference to a copy of the document, the authenticity of which was confirmed by two sources familiar with its discussion.#Ministry of Digital Development

№5. Google presented a beta version of Android 12 and other updates for services and devices at its first Google I/O conference since 2019. The company said it has 3 billion active Android devices worldwide. This is significantly higher than Apple's stated goal of 1 billion iPhones, CNBC notes.#google

#1. A bill was introduced to the State Duma to create a system for recording all advertising campaigns posted on the Internet in Russia. Its author was LDPR deputy Sergei Zhigarev, who also heads the parliamentary committee on economic policy, industry, innovative development and entrepreneurship.#runet

#2. Telegram founder billionaire Pavel Durov again criticized Apple in his Telegram channel. This time, the entrepreneur expressed his opinion on the technical characteristics of the company's smartphones.#telegram

#3. A bill was introduced to the State Duma to create a unified system for measuring the Internet audience. The document was published on the website of the legislative support system. Forbes sources previously reported on the preparation of such a bill.#runet

#4. Microsoft will finally stop supporting the Internet Explorer browser in the summer of 2022. This is stated in the company's blog.#microsoft

#5. State Duma deputies from United Russia Sergei Neverov and Alexander Ivanov have developed a bill that will allow extrajudicial blocking of websites selling biologically active supplements (BAA) in violation of the law. This was reported by Pharmvestnik, citing a copy of the draft.#runet

#1. The US Treasury Department announced the need to report to the Internal Revenue Service any transfer of funds in the amount of $10,000 or more related to cryptocurrencies. The Treasury Department believes that cryptocurrency transactions contribute to tax evasion, CNBC reports. The fight against tax evasion for the Biden administration is one of the sources of funding for his economic initiatives, including the $1.8 trillion Family Support Plan.#cryptocurrency

#2. Music service Spotify launches paid broadcasts of concerts of popular artists. This was reported by the company's press service.#spotify

#3. There was a failure in the operation of the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, the site's website reports. People had problems withdrawing Ethereum and ERC-20 tokens. CNBC clarifies that the difficulties affected some users of the site and the application who were trying to withdraw their funds. The failure occurred against the backdrop of a collapse in the exchange rate of several cryptocurrencies.#coinbase

#4. Google plans to invest several billion dollars in creating a commercial quantum computer by 2029. This was told to The Wall Street Journal by Hartmut Neven, one of the leading quantum technology researchers at the company, who oversees the Quantum AI program.#google

№5. On May 13, several social media users complained about the hacking of their accounts on the government services website. Diana Zabelina was the first to report this on her Facebook page. She said that on May 12, she received an SMS notification that her phone number on the gosuslugi.ru website had been changed and could no longer be used to log into her account. Zabelina managed to log into her personal account and link her old phone number.#gosuslugi

#1. Colonial Pipeline, the American company that operates the largest pipeline in the United States, has confirmed for the first time that it paid $4.4 million to the hackers who hacked it. This was reported to The Wall Street Journal by the company's CEO Joseph Blount.#colonialpipeline

#2. ByteDance founder and billionaire Zhang Yiming (worth $36 billion, according to Forbes Real-Time) announced that he will step down as CEO of the company that owns the TikTok app at the end of the year. "To be honest, I lack some of the skills needed to be an ideal manager," he wrote in a letter to employees published on the ByteDance website.#bytedance

#3. Google has filed an appeal against the decision of the Moscow Arbitration Court, according to which the company is obliged to return the Tsargrad TV channel page to YouTube. A company representative told Interfax about this.#youtube

#4. Billionaire Zuo Hui, one of the top 15 richest people in China (with a net worth of $14.8 billion, according to Forbes Real-Time), has died of an "unexpected exacerbation of his illness" at the age of 50, according to a statement on the website of KE Holdings, the company he founded and chaired.#keholdings

No. 5. Shares of British billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space company rose more than 20% in premarket trading on Thursday. As of 15:17 Moscow time, they had risen 23.9% to $21.39.#virgingalactic

#1. Google will open its first offline retail store with its devices. This is stated in a message on the company's website. The store will be located in Google's New York office, not far from the Apple store, CNBC notes. It will sell Pixel smartphones, Pixelbook laptops, Fitbit sports bracelets, Nest smart home devices and other company products. The outlet will open in the summer of 2021.#googleoffline

#2. Spotify has entered into a partnership with the Swedish company Storytel, which provides the eponymous streaming service for listening to audiobooks. This was reported by the Spotify press service.#spotify

#3. The social network Twitter announced the launch of a special tool in the account settings that will allow you to send a request to receive an account authenticity icon - a blue and white checkmark. To receive it, the account must meet three parameters - fame, authenticity and activity, the company said in its corporate blog.#twitter

#4. The Central Bank has called DeepFake technology a threat to identifying bank clients via video communication. The Central Bank pointed out the risks of using video to identify clients when opening bank accounts in its review of the draft law of the Association of Russian Banks (ARB), RBK writes. Information security experts note that video identification of clients is an unreliable method of their authorization, which will attract the attention of fraudsters. #centralbank

No. 5. The US Chamber of Commerce in South Korea wrote a letter to the country's President Moon Jae-in, in which it asked for the release from prison of Samsung Chairman of the Board of Directors and one of the company's heirs Lee Jae-yong, the Financial Times found out. The head of the technology company was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for bribery. #samsung

№1. One of the ways to punish foreign technology companies that refuse to open their representative offices in Russia will be a special mark in search results about the violation of laws. This was told to Kommersant by the head of information policy, information technology and communications Alexander Khinshtein.#alexandrkhinshtein

№2. A bill "On the activities of foreign persons on the Internet on the territory of the Russian Federation" was introduced to the State Duma, which obliges foreign Internet resources and IT companies that own resources with a daily audience of more than 500,000 Russian users to create an official representative office in Russia. Information about the document appeared in the State Duma database.#prizimenenieitcompanii

№3. The Clubhouse application for Android has become available for download in Russia. You can download the program on Google Play.#clubhouse

№4. Google's parent company, Alphabet, refused to continue negotiations on providing greater autonomy to the developer of artificial intelligence DeepMind, which belongs to the search engine. The Wall Street Journal reported this, citing sources familiar with the situation.#deepmind

No. 5. Telegram founder billionaire Pavel Durov deleted his Facebook account. This was noted by the RTVI TV channel.#telegram

#1. Facebook, Twitter and other social networks are required to localize databases of personal data of Russian users in Russia by July 1. This was stated by the deputy head of Roskomnadzor Milos Wagner at the final meeting of the board of the agency, TASS reports.#landingITcompanies

#2. WhatsApp has filed a lawsuit against the Indian government over the rules regulating Internet platforms that have come into force. This is reported by the Financial Times.#whatsup

#3. Microsoft, Accenture and Goldman Sachs Group will join forces with the Linux Foundation and climate groups to develop a way to produce software that creates fewer carbon emissions when operating in data centers. For this purpose, they decided to found the Green Software Foundation, Bloomberg reports.#ekopo

#4. The Tagansky District Court fined Facebook 26 million rubles for failing to remove materials banned in Russia, the court's press service reports.#facebook

#5. The Tagansky District Magistrate Court in Moscow fined Google 4 million rubles for failing to remove prohibited content. The company was found guilty of committing two administrative offenses. The organization was fined 2 million rubles for each of them, Zulfiya Gurincuk, press secretary of the Tagansky Court, told Interfax.#google

#1. Streaming service Netflix has started looking for a head of video games, The Information reports, citing sources. The publication notes that the company is thus presumably stepping up efforts to expand its business beyond the production of films and TV series.#netflix

#2. Tim Cook was questioned for several hours in court in the case of the so-called Apple tax - a 30% commission that the iPhone maker takes from app developers. The top manager said that the company cares not about profit, but about users, and reminded that consumers can always choose Android smartphones. Apple's victory after Cook's speech began to seem less likely, Bloomberg believes.#apple

#3. Mail.ru Group bought 100% of the developer of the Playkey cloud gaming platform, Playkey founder Yegor Guryev told Forbes. The first to report on the deal was the Properm.ru website.#mail.ru

#4. Roskomnadzor may take measures to slow down Google services traffic due to failure to remove content banned in Russia. This is stated in a message from the agency sent to Forbes.#roskomnadzor

No. 5. YouTube will update its terms of use from June 1 and will receive the right to monetize videos on all channels, not just those connected to the affiliate program. This is stated in a message from YouTube sent to the editorial office of Forbes.#youtube

#1. Snap, the owner of the Snapchat messenger, is "happy" to pay Apple a 30% commission on every sale of content through the App Store. This was stated to CNBC by Snap CEO and billionaire Evan Spiegel.#snapchat

#2. Ivan Cherevko has been appointed Yandex's Director of Data Protection, the IT company's press service reported to Forbes. In this position, Cherevko will coordinate the work of all Yandex businesses and divisions to protect user and partner data, and will be responsible for employee access to data and the procedure for exchanging it between the company's services.#yandex

#3. The Tagansky District Magistrate's Court of Moscow reviewed six administrative offense reports against Twitter and fined the company 19 million rubles, RIA Novosti writes. Twitter was found guilty under Part 2 of Article 13.41 of the Code of Administrative Offenses ("Failure to delete information to which access should be restricted")#twitter

#4. Facebook will no longer remove posts that claim the coronavirus is man-made. As Politico notes, this decision was made amid calls from the Biden administration for a more thorough investigation into the origins of COVID-19.#facebook#covid-19

No. 5. TikTok launches the first monetization program for content creators in Russia. In 2021, the social network will divide 100 million rubles between authors.#TikTok

#1. Billionaire Elon Musk's electric car maker Tesla is considering buying its own chip factory, the Financial Times reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.#tesla

#2. Nvidia's revenue grew 84% in the first quarter compared to last year. Sales of processors that the company offers specifically for cryptocurrency miners amounted to $155 million out of total sales of $5.66 billion, but the company acknowledged the contribution of miners to business growth, CNBC reports citing an Nvidia report. #nvidia

#3. Roskomnadzor may take measures to slow down Google services traffic due to failure to remove content banned in Russia. This is stated in a statement from the agency sent to Forbes.#roskomnadzor

#4. Delivery Club has launched a cashless tipping service, Delivery Club Tips, for restaurants, the company reported.#deliveryclub

#5. Google's parent company Alphabet and the American national hospital chain HCA Healthcare have agreed to jointly develop algorithms that will improve the efficiency of healthcare, monitor patient treatment, and help doctors make medical decisions. This was reported by The Wall Street Journal, citing both companies. The cost of the project to develop algorithms using patient records is estimated at $3 trillion.#google alphabet

#1. State-owned companies and government agencies in Russia increased their advertising spending on foreign Internet platforms last year. The largest increase in such advertisers was observed on Twitter and Telegram, and they spent the most on advertising on Instagram and Facebook. This was reported by Kommersant, citing a study by the Association of Communication Agencies of Russia (ACAR) on government contracts in social networks for 2019-2020.#twittertelegram

#2. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced that he would step down on July 5. He said this during the company's annual meeting of shareholders, which was held online, CNBC reports.#amazon

#3. Amazon, founded by Jeff Bezos, signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Hollywood film studio MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) for $8.45 billion, including debt. This was reported on the Amazon website.#amazon

#4. Chinese Bitcoin traders remain a significant force in Bitcoin trading, and their participation in the latest cryptocurrency sell-offs is in the nature of a play on the cryptocurrency rate, and is not caused by new restrictions from Chinese industry bodies and authorities, CNBC reports, citing experts interviewed.#bitcoin#china

No. 5. Roskomnadzor does not yet see the need to slow down the work of Google and Facebook in Russia. According to the head of the agency, Andrei Lipov, administrative fines are currently a fairly effective measure of influence on companies.#roskomnadzor

№1. State Duma deputies have identified a list of foreign companies that could potentially fall under the requirements of the "landing" bill, one of the bill's authors, head of the parliamentary committee on information policy, information technology and communications Alexander Khinshtein, reported on his Telegram channel. The list posted by the deputy includes: social networks: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter; video hosting services: YouTube, Twitch.tv; instant messengers/mail services: WhatsApp, Telegram, Viber, Gmail; search engines: Google, Bing.com; hosting providers: Amazon, Digital Ocean, Cloudflare, GoDaddy; online trade: Aliexpress.com, Ikea.com, Iherb.com; Wikipedia.org.#law on grounding

№2. Roskomnadzor has no directive to block the work of foreign and domestic social networks and other Internet platforms. The head of the department, Andrey Lipov, said this in an interview with the Kommersant newspaper. “Blocks should be used as a last resort. Our task is not to turn them off. Our task is to ensure that these services comply with Russian legislation,” Lipov explained.#roskomnadzor

№3. Billionaire Zakhar Smushkin, chairman of the board of directors of the Ilim pulp and paper group, bought a stake in the Viewevo startup. A representative of the startup told Vedomosti about this and the press service of Ilim confirmed it.#zakhar smushkin

№4. Apple is preparing to introduce new basic AirPods headphones this year, and AirPods Pro next year, Bloomberg reports, citing sources.#apple#airpodspro

№5. American Microsoft reported a massive attack by hackers from the Nobelium group, which targeted about 3,000 email accounts at more than 150 US government agencies, research, consulting and non-profit organizations. “Nobelium from Russia is the same actor behind the attacks on SolarWinds customers in 2020. These attacks appear to be a continuation of Nobelium’s multiple efforts to target government agencies involved in foreign policy as part of their intelligence-gathering efforts,” Tom Burt, vice president of customer security at the company, wrote in his blog.#microsoft

№1. Moscow police have uncovered a major financial pyramid operating under the guise of the investment company QBF, Kommersant writes.#QBF

№2. 49-year-old Naftali Bennett, the founder of the anti-fraud startup Cyota, who sold it for $145 million in 2005, may become the head of the Israeli government, Reuters reports.#Naftali Bennett

№3. Yandex.Market will acquire Private Trade. It manages the online stores KupiVIP and Mamsy. The deal will also include five offline KupiVIP stores located in various shopping centers in Moscow and a 20,000 sq. m. distribution center in the Moscow region, Vedomosti writes, citing both parties to the deal.#yandex.market

№4. Google intentionally complicated privacy settings in its Android system to make it more difficult for users to prevent their location data from being transmitted to the company, Insider reports, citing documents on the website of the Arizona Attorney General's Office. It sued Google, claiming that the company illegally collects geolocation data from Android users' smartphones. The court ordered that the documents be partially declassified.#google

№5. Tesla has again postponed the start of production of the new Model S Plaid electric car. Tesla CEO Elon Musk F wrote on Twitter that the launch is scheduled for June 10. "Needs another week of refinement. This car feels like a spaceship," the billionaire noted.#tesla

№1. A tool has appeared in the Yandex ID personal account that allows users to request an archive of information that the company's services have accumulated about them and delete this data. This is stated in Yandex's message F 56, sent to the Forbes editorial office.#yandex

№2. Yandex.Real Estate has launched a new long-term rental service for apartments and flats, the company's press service reported. It allows you to search and view apartments online, as well as arrange a lease without a personal meeting with the owner.#yandex

№3. German Daimler, which owns the Mercedes-Benz brand, has agreed to pay for licenses for 3G and 4G technologies directly to Finnish Nokia, the Financial Times reports. Thus, a long-running dispute between the two companies has ended.#daimler

№4. The State Duma has adopted in the first reading a bill requiring large foreign IT companies to open branches or representative offices in Russia. This follows from the data of the legislative activity support system.#state duma

No. 5. The Ministry of Digital Development may impose restrictions on the installation of non-Russian LTE base stations on communication networks to increase demand for Russian microelectronics, said the head of the department, Maksut Shadayev. TASS writes about this.#LTE

#1. American company Mitek, which deals with digital identification of individuals, bought the startup ID R&D with Russian roots, which develops biometric products, ID R&D told Forbes. As a result of the deal, ID R&D shareholders will receive $49 million in Mitek shares and cash, the company reported.#Mitek

#2. Brazilian company JBS, the largest pork and beef producer in the world by sales, stopped the work of its meat processing plants in the United States due to a cyberattack. This is reported by The Wall Street Journal.#JBS

#3. Tesla failed to ensure control over the publications of its founder and CEO Elon Musk on Twitter. In 2019 and 2020, Musk neglected to obtain prior approval from the company's lawyers to publish company information on the social network, as required by court decisions in the lawsuit by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), The Wall Street Journal writes, citing the regulator's correspondence with Tesla.#Tesla

No. 4. The Main Radio Frequency Center (GRChTs), subordinate to Roskomnadzor, announced the risks of legal uncertainty in the field of video games and proposed introducing legislative regulation of the gaming and eSports market in Russia. This is stated in its study dated May 28, Kommersant reports.#roskomnadzor

No. 5. Huawei presented the first mobile devices on its HarmonyOS operating system, the company's press release says. Huawei launched the platform on its flagship Mate 40 smartphone and foldable Mate X2 smartphone, as well as on the MatePad Pro tablet and Watch 3 Series smartwatch. The company also unveiled its new FreeBuds 4 wireless earphones at an event on Wednesday.#Huawei

#1. The Dogecoin cryptocurrency has grown by more than 33% in a day, according to data from the CoinMarketCap online exchange.#Dogcoin

#2. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has stated that the hacker groups REvil and Sodinokidi are behind the cyberattack on the largest meat producer, the Brazilian company JBS#JBS

#3. The blog of the former US President, called "From Donald Trump's Table", has ceased to operate forever and has been removed from the network. This was reported to CNBC on Wednesday by Trump's senior aide Jason Miller. The website for Trump's publications and communication between the former president and his supporters lasted less than a month after its launch.#Trump

#4. On May 27, Tesla filed applications for registration of trademarks, which it plans to use in the restaurant services sector. This was reported by Bloomberg.#Tesla

#5. Work is underway in Russia to create a special "white" Internet for schoolchildren. This was announced by the head of the Ministry of Education Sergei Kravtsov, speaking at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum.#runet

№1. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak lost a lawsuit against Google over fraudulent advertising. This is reported by Bloomberg.#Apple

№2. By September, Russia plans to develop a strategy for developing a domestic repository of open source code for IT projects similar to the GitHub service. This was announced at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum by Deputy Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media Maxim Parshin. His words are reported by a Forbes correspondent.#GitHub

№3. Billionaire Sergey Gordeev, who heads the developer PIK, accused Yandex of plagiarizing the idea of a housing rental service. The businessman spoke about this during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), RIA Real Estate reports. PIK has a service called PIK-Rent, and on June 1, Yandex.Real Estate launched a platform for renting housing.#Yandex

№4. Twitter has announced the launch of its first subscription service, called Twitter Blue. Users in Canada and Australia will be able to access exclusive social networking features for a monthly fee, CNBC reports.#Twitter

No. 5. Apple plans to release a new iPad mini this year and a new iPad Pro in 2022, informed sources told Bloomberg.#Apple

#1. The dollar exchange rate during trading on the Moscow Exchange on Friday fell below 73 rubles for the first time since May 7, according to the exchange's data. At its minimum, the dollar cost 72.88 rubles (as of 16:00 Moscow time). Friday is only the second day since March 17 when the American currency cost less than 73 rubles during trading.#dollar

#2. Apple employees expressed dissatisfaction with the company's new rule, which will require them to work from the office at least three days a week. This was reported by The Verge, citing a letter from employees to Apple CEO Tim Cook.#Apple

#3. Hackers involved in a cyberattack on the operator of the largest US pipeline, Colonial Pipeline, gained access to the company's network thanks to a password leak. This was reported to Bloomberg by Charles Carmakal, Senior Vice President of Mandiant, who was responsible for eliminating the consequences of the hack.#ColonialPipeline

#4. G7 finance ministers have agreed to set a single corporate tax rate of at least 15% for transnational corporations. This was announced on Saturday by UK Treasury Secretary Rishi Sunak following a meeting of the G7 financial ministers.#G7

No. 5. Google is bringing back the ability to advertise cryptocurrency exchanges and cryptocurrency wallets, Bitcoin reported.#Google

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