● Yandex.Money has launched a money transfer service using iMessage technology, with which you can now transfer and receive funds from wallet to wallet. The international payment service WebMoney began to cooperate with the Viber messenger., who have opened an account with WebMoney have the opportunity to replenish their accounts in the paid Viber Out function for calls to devices, which do not have Viber installed or are offline.
● Apple is accused of hiding taxes on $65 billion Apple stores $214,9 billion in the form of offshore companies and would have to pay for 2015 year. $65,4 billion in taxes, if this money returned to the USA, writes The New York Times, citing a new study by the U.S. PIRG Education Fund и Citizens for Tax Justice. ● Suggestions for buying Twitter may be announced as early as this week, writes the newspaper The Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar with the situation. Salesforce are likely contenders, Google, Disney. ● President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Charles Evans said, that he will be quite happy, if the US interest rate is raised to the end 2016 y / against the background of strengthening economic indicators, reports Reuters.
● Avast Software Company, one of the most popular antivirus solutions in the world announced the acquisition of AVG Technologies, another security software vendor ● Facebook has developed a Marketplace project, which makes it possible to sell and buy things from other users, who live a short distance from each other. ● Microsoft has placed bonds on $19,75 billion to buy social network LinkedIn● Online food ordering service Takeaway.com is estimated at 1,1 USD billion for IPO
● The Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange Crash Continues ● US automaker Tesla Motors Co. sold in the III quarter 24,5 thousand. electric vehicles – on 70% more, than in the II quarter, and twice as much, than in the III quarter 2015 G. (11,58 thousand. auto). The past quarter was a record for Tesla in terms of sales ● Apple fined $300 million for FaceTime. Court sentenced, that Apple violated the rights to two VirnetX patents: one of them refers to the FaceTime application used for video calls, the second - to the system of individual delivery of television programs and films to the subscriber via the digital network (VoD).
● Income of the US population in August 2016 G. rose to 0,2% compared to the previous month, according to the data of the ministry of trade of the country. ● Lexmark International Inc stock price. (NYSE: LXK) jumped on 13% at premarket on friday after, how US regulators approved the buyout of the company by a consortium of Chinese investors.
● Software developer, Apttus attracted more money from private investors, while postponing its IPO goal due to the current market uncertainty associated with the US elections. The total amount of attracted investments is 88 million dollars, at the same time, the market value of the company increased to 1,3 billion dollars. Among the new investors, one could see Gulf Islamic Investments – financial service from the United Arab Emirates. ● Nike revenue, the world's largest manufacturer of sportswear and footwear for 2016 r increased by almost 6% to 1,24 billion $ when compared with 2015 G. where the profit was 1,17 billion $, – reports foreign media● Startup Skymind, which actively promotes the use of its unique deep learning software "Deeplearning4j" (a new kind of artificial intelligence) open source, today announced the attraction $3 million. investment.
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