Vodafone Romania Foundation announces the winners of “The Life for Newborns Fund” financing round, worth 4.5 million lei, for the renovation, modernization and supply of medical equipment, including telemedicine solutions, for level I and II neonatology departments and wards in public hospitals across Romania, as well as for the training of medical teams. The six beneficiary neonatal units belong to […]

The oil-rich Nordic nation of Norway has been ranked number one in KPMG’s first-ever Net Zero Readiness Index (NZRI). The report compares the progress of a selection of countries in reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change and assesses their preparedness and ability to achieve Net Zero by 2050. Using 103 indicators, recognized as key drivers to achieving […]

Vodafone Foundation today launched an international hunt for climate change research partners to help expand the focus of its award-winning DreamLab smartphone app. Developed by Vodafone Foundation, DreamLab is a specialist crowdsourcing app that accelerates scientific research by using the combined processing power of dormant smartphones while users charge them. Dreamlab-powered research has already contributed to COVID-19 research with Imperial […]

Vodafone Romania Foundation and Didactica Foundation are launching the www.scoalaprofesorilor.ro platform, a free digital solution for the management of teachers’ training. The project is mentored and financed by the Vodafone Romania Foundation with a budget of RON 264,300, through the strategic program “Connecting for Good”, and was developed by Didactica Foundation, with the support of Code for Romania, within the […]

DRUID, a leader in the conversational AI market, reports a 5x growth rate for the Monthly Recurring Revenue YoY, and 2.3 mil dollars annual recurring revenues at the end of September 2021. Actively pursuing its expansion strategy on the global markets, the company reached more than 1,500 active tenants, including the community edition. The total value paid by the international […]

Designers for BASF’s Coatings division have delved into new color spaces for the 2021-2022 Automotive Color Trends collection. Borrowing a phenomenon from quantum mechanics, this year’s collection is called SUPERPOSITION, which is a state where the limitation of binary systems is overcome. In other words, things aren’t just black or white, heads or tails, one or zero. The world has […]

Verizon Business and CareAR, a Xerox Company, announced a strategic partnership to transform the service and customer experience CareAR delivers. Combining Verizon’s 4G, 5G networks, and near real-time compute technology with CareAR’s augmented reality and AI-based platform, technicians can remotely and proactively resolve service issues faster, smarter and more safely, leading to a more efficient customer experience. “We’ve seen a […]

From the internal studies done by CIEL Romania, one of the most important software producers for entrepreneurs, it resulted that 45% of the Romanian companies made investments in digitalization during the pandemic. In more than half of the cases (61.2%) the amounts allocated to the automation of processes were smaller than 1,000 euros, in the rest of the situations the […]

Cegeka, a leading provider of IT&C solutions, has entered into a partnership with DAS Solutions from Chisinau, Moldova. We are talking about a so-called ‘asset deal’ in which Cegeka takes over 25 employees and 12 international customer contracts. Neither party will disclose any financial details about the acquisition. Growth in technological expertise DAS Solutions builds and develops functional software products […]

Vodafone is launching Eco-SIM cards made from recycled plastic as part of the company’s commitment to reduce its impact on the environment. Starting from October 2021, Vodafone will provide customers with new Eco-SIMs in the half-sized format made from recycled plastic, progressively replacing SIM cards that are currently made from new plastic. Eco-SIM will be rolled out in all 12 […]

The third annual edition of the Digital Quality of Life Index (DQL) ranks Romania 34th among 110 countries. Covering 90% of the global population, the DQL study is conducted by the cybersecurity company Surfshark and evaluates countries based on a set of five fundamental digital wellbeing pillars. Romania ranks within TOP 30 internet affordability (ranks 27th), e-security (22nd), and internet […]

A new report by Juniper Research has found that the enhanced capabilities of 5G are driving enthusiasm and awareness of private cellular networks; bringing annual spend on network hardware and services to almost $12 billion globally by 2023, growing 116% from the $5.5 billion expected for 2021. 5G deployments have a key role to play here: over 60% of base […]