In October 2021, the Mail.ru Group holding changed the brand of the ecosystem and the group of companies to VK. According to the holding's CEO Boris Dobrodeev, the rebranding was necessary because the ecosystem previously looked like "a set of disparate services" and the holding "really confused users."
VK closed a deal to swap projects: the food delivery service Delivery Club became part of Yandex's business, and VK received Zen and Novosti. The content platforms were afghanistan whatsapp number list transferred to the dzen.ru portal, which retained the Yandex search bar and other services. Yandex also transferred its main page yandex․ru to the VK holding for 3 years. Yandex's main page became ya.ru.
In 2021, VK holding's revenue increased by 18.2% to 125.75 billion rubles, and net profit by 24.7% to 12.4 billion rubles.
Subscribe to our Telegram channel to stay up to date with all the news and events of the Runet.The National Computer Corporation (NCC) will release a line of domestic smartphones and tablets based on the Android operating system. 10 billion rubles will be invested in their creation. This was announced on February 28 by the founder of the NCC, Alexander Kalinin.
“We are considering various options, this could be production at Russian factories or contract manufacturing at Chinese enterprises,” said Alexander Kalinin.
NKK is going to develop and produce smartphones and tablets based on Android and release 100 thousand devices by the end of 2023. By 2026, the company plans to occupy about 10% of the domestic market, which will amount to about 3-3.5 million devices. To implement the project, JSC "Sovereign Mobile Initiative. Holding" was created, the investors of which are unknown, it was only specified that these are "large structures".