The VK Russian social network will allow developers of IT services to use the technologies of the VK Video platform. The social network will provide them with their own opportunities to create videos and broadcasts. This was announced by the technical director of VK, Alexander Tobol, according to the company’s press release. The social network
Global depositary receipts (GDRs) for the VK (VKontakte) social network shares continued their growth on the Moscow Stock Exchange on Wednesday morning, March 30, adding almost 40 per cent in price after the resumption of trading the day before. By 10.21 am, VK receipts on the Moscow Stock Exchange rose in price to 699.8 rubles
VK is creating a public council to support medium and small businesses in the new conditions, which includes entrepreneurs and representatives of the public organization “Opora Russia”. “The main goal of the council is to help representatives of SMEs adapt to new conditions and take into account their interests in business development as much as
The coronavirus pandemic has become the most discussed topic in the Russian social network VK.com (VKontakte) in 2021, which follows from the rating of the social network. It is noted that issues related to the coronavirus pandemic took first place in the rating and were discussed in VK a total of 68.5 million times. As
Specialists from the All-Russian Public Opinion Foundation (FOM) conducted a study to find out which social networks and instant messengers are the most popular among Russians. According to the results of a survey conducted as part of the study, the top 3 included WhatsApp (50 per cent), VKontakte (38 per cent), and Odnoklassniki (29 per
Now, in just a second, VKontakte social network users can decrypt audio recordings up to two minutes long, which is 99 per cent of all audio sent by users. To tell a long story, one can record a voice for up to an hour, NewsNN reports. It is specified that VK launched the recognition
The VKontakte Russian social network is working on artificial intelligence to automatically recognize materials with hate-speech, or hostile statements. The new neural network will help specialists quickly find materials that violate the rules of the network and provoke aggression, PLUSworld reported. Artificial intelligence will be able to identify a variety of categories of insults and
Users of the VKontakte social network have got an opportunity to read voice messages converted to the text format, 360 reports. Currently, the feature is available in the mobile version of the application. You can translate into text both received and sent messages up to 30 seconds long. According to the director of research in
VKontakte introduced a thematic newsfeed #betterathome. There is no news about coronavirus in it, only informative and entertaining content, RIA News reports. They are also preparing a mini-application with a schedule of online events and selections of recommendations. The most interesting posts with the hashtag #betterathome get into the news feed. It is easy to find
