Runet Today, June 4, 2012. Experts of the issue: Sergey Kotyrev, Igor Ermakov
In the studio “Finam FM” - Sergey Kotyrev, General Director of the company “Yumisoft”; Igor Ermakov, Head of the Instant Messaging division of Mail.Ru Group. Together with the moderator, Maxim Spiridonov, they talk about the possible launch of a new payment system in the most popular social network in the world, about resolving the conflict between the founder of the social network VKontakte and one of its largest shareholders, news about the search and, again social networks from the corporation Google, as well as a possible change in legislation in the field of investment in the largest portals of Runet.
1. The Facebook social network together with the Russian Standard and Bank24.ru banks plans to create a service in Russia to pay for services and transfer money between users.
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2. Mail.Ru Group Corporation transferred the founder and CEO of the social network VKontakte Pavel Durov to the vote to vote with their 40% stake in this service.
- How will this affect the further development of VKontakte? - Why did VKontakte decide to postpone the IPO?
3. Last week, Google Inc. delighted its users with two new products.The “Addresses” function has been added to the social network Google+, through which users can get information about restaurants, cafes, hotels, museums and other similar establishments.In addition, an experimental search results section called Google Shopping was announced in the English-language blog of the corporation.
- Will the new feature be able to add the popularity of the Google+ network? - How will the e-commerce market change with the advent of Google Shopping?
4. The Committee on Property Issues recommended to the State Duma to adopt in first reading amendments to the federal law “On the Procedure for Making Foreign Investments in Economic Societies that are of strategic importance for the defense of the country and the security of the state”.
- What can the adoption of such a law mean for Runet? - How do other deputies of the State Duma accept this initiative?