Russian internet company Mail.Ru and state lender Sberbank have finalised the terms of a joint food and taxi platform and plan to invest 64.6 billion roubles ($1 billion) in the business, Mail.Ru said on Tuesday. The deal, first revealed in July, should be closed by the end of the year and will hand the firms equal stakes in the joint venture, it said. The move marks a significant step in Sberbank’s pursuit of a stronger presence in Russia’s digital economy and offers competition to the country’s leading technology company, Yandex , which dominates the ride-hailing market. …read more
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