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The Digital School of Kosovo, which has been founded by Darsej Rizaj & Hana Qerimi in 2015 in Prishtina, as a need to education the new generations about technology, has annouced a global expansion partnership with US based Berlitz, which is world-known provider of best-selling language and travel guides. The story of the Digital School […]
Stillfront Group AB, a leading free-to-play powerhouse in game development, has entered into an agreement to acquire all shares in Nanobit doo, a leading developer and publisher of mobile games based in Zagreb, Croatia. Nanobit, is a studio that focuses on narrative lifestyle role-playing games (RPGs) aimed at a female audience. Nanobit is an established studio […]
The Croatian electric supercar maker, Rimac, is in the process of acquiring Bugatti from Volkswagen and sources say that executives already approved the deal. According to multiple reports released today, Volkswagen is tired of spending money these super-monster cars and wants to focus elsewhere. A particular point to mention here is that Porsche wants this […]
The Croatian Tech & Business news portal Netokracija has reported that Infinum and Porsche will launch Porsche Digital Croatia, which is expected to create more than 100 jobs in the field of development, marketing, design, and other for the next generation of digital cars. In early 2020, during the very beginning of the pandemic, Porsche […]
Infobip has raised over $200 million from private equity firm One Equity Partners in a deal which values the Croatian cloud communications firm at over $1 billion and was its first external round of funding, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. The investment will help Infobip further expand in the United States through […]
Albania passes new comprehensive law written by the Minister of Finance and Economy to regulate crypto activities. Albania’s Parliament signed a bill into law on May 21 plenary session a legal framework for cryptocurrencies. The law, “On Financial Markets Based on the Technology of Distributed Ledgers,” first appeared before the Committee of Economy in October 2019 and […]
eToro has been amongst the leading online trading platforms since 2008, founded by brothers Yoni Assia and Ronen Assia together with David Ring, in Tel Aviv. It’s branded as a social trading platform, and it aims to enable users to trade almost anything from commodities, currencies, stocks, and indexes to cryptocurrencies through one web-based and […]
Croatian Institute for Youth Development & Innovation (IRIM) received the second financial support from Google for their project Digital Citizen 2.0. The goal of the project Digital Citizen 2.0 is the further development of the digital skills in local communities in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo. This project is the continuation of the […]
According to a recent publication by it.mk, in 2019 Macedonian shoppers spent most of their money online in stores in Macedonia. This is also a pattern seen in the State Statistical Office data shared by e-Commerce Macedonia. Unlike the last year, Macedonians now mostly buy online from sellers inside the country (38.8%), as compared to last year […]
Vestbee, the leading matching platform that connects global VC funds, corporates, accelerators and business angels with startups and scaleups from Central & Eastern Europe + DACH has just launched the biggest regional online competition – CEE Startup Challenge (www.ceestartupchallenge.com). Innovative, fast-growing SMEs from Central & Eastern Europe and DACH that will apply before December 1st, […]
