Technology &Telecoms
EU Commissioner: Romania's Low Internet Penetration Is Unacceptable
The share of Romanians without Internet access, 54% of the total population, way above the EU average of 26%, is unacceptable, Neelie Kroes, Europe Commissioner for Digital Agenda, said Mond...
Competition Council Goes After Mobile Telephony Operators Again
Orange, Vodafone, Cosmote and RCS&RDS, four of the largest telecom operators on the market that posted about EUR2.7 billion in cumulated turnover last year, are being investigated by the Com...
European Commissioner For Digital Agenda Visits Romania
European Commissioner for Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes will be in Romania Monday to meet with President Traian Basescu, Prime Minister Emil Boc and Communications Minister Valerian Vreme.
HP Reaches 3,100 Employees At Its Bucharest Center
Global eBusiness Operation Center (GeBOC), the Bucharest consulting and IT services center of US company Hewlett Packard, has reached 3,100 employees in Bucharest, after hiring more than 2,0...
Online Payments In Romania Up 18% In 1H, To EUR80.5M
E-commerce using online card payments in Romania has grown 18% in the first half of the year, from the same period a year ago, to EUR80.5 million, and the number of processed transactions in...
Yahoo! Aims To Double Market Share In Romania
Romania is the country with the second-highest audience for Yahoo! services after Taiwan and the only country in the world where the head of government gave a Yahoo! e-mail address as a cont...
A Quarter Of Microsoft’s Romanian Business Comes From Public Sector
The turnover of Microsoft Romania will go up by just over 5% in the financial year that started on July 1, largely thanks to contracts with the public sector, which generate a quarter of the...
Posta Romana To Cut 2,000 Jobs, SNR To Cut 450 Jobs
About 2,000 out of 34,000 jobs will be cut from Romania’s state-owned postal company Posta Romana and 450 jobs will be cut from the National Radiocommunications Company’s current 1,950 jobs,...
Microsoft Romania Sales Flat In 2011 Fiscal Year, Software Market Down 5%
The sales of Microsoft Romania stagnated in the 2011 financial year, which ended on June 30, as the local software market shrunk by 5%.