To be fair, it should be noted that the EU also wants to tighten control over messengers

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Services such as WhatsApp and Skype will be subject to the same requirements as operators. According to the European Commission, services that allow texting and voice calls should be held accountable to the authorities on an equal basis with regular operators. The bill will only affect those messengers that use a phone number to identify users.

FAS and Google have failed to reach a settlement agreement . The court hearing was scheduled for Wednesday, and following its results, the court rejected Google's appeal . The first instance decision on the corporation's turkey whatsapp number list case remained in force - Google will have to pay a fine of 438.1 billion rubles.

And good news: Russians will not be punished for using bitcoins in other countries. The corresponding bill is being finalized by the Ministry of Finance. Let us recall that earlier, representatives of the department proposed depriving citizens of liberty for up to seven years for using cryptocurrencies in the Russian Federation. Last week, it became known that the Prosecutor General's Office and the Ministry of Justice abandoned such a harsh punishment for money surrogates.

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Google will create a replacement, or rather, another operating system in addition to Android. It is known that Fuchsia will use Magenta instead of Linux and is intended for equipment such as car navigation or IoT devices.

Google also proposed a replacement for FaceTime — the Duo messenger will be available not only to Android owners, but also to iOS. It is not yet clear how Duo is better than other "dialers", but it is quite possible that it will be included in the number of pre-installed programs, and will be positioned as an opportunity to make calls between users of different operating systems.

VKontakte revenue grew by 41% in the first half of the year. The social network is the fastest growing product of Mail.Ru Group and VK representatives expect further growth in revenue. In their joy, all VKontakte users were forcibly transferred to the new design. Public testing lasted 4.5 months, but nevertheless, there are still a large number of dissatisfied people, including the founder of the social network Pavel Durov.