12.04.2014

The 15% year-on-year surge in the value added of the ‘information and communications’ sector in the first nine months enabled it to contribute one quarter of the 2.8% gross domestic product growth more

11.10.2014

Romania currently has nearly 120,000 IT specialists, while software companies and IT departments of other companies will need another 180,000 specialists by 2020, according to the estimations of more

10.23.2014

The European Commission has approved a EUR57.1 million investment, part of a EUR69 million project, for the development of broadband infrastructure of 3,265 kilometers in areas in Romania that lack more

10.22.2014

The Romanian IT market is seen growing 9.1% this year, to RON5.4 billion,outperform the majority of its peers as a result of a strong economic recovery and its position as a regional center for more

10.06.2014

Romanian Business Consult (RBC), the biggest local IT solution integrator for food and retail companies, expects its revenue to grow by around 10% this year, after expanding to new sectors, such as more

09.18.2014

Retailers need to invest more in IT systems to be able to use the information about consumers and other industries faster and more easily, so as to create more relevant offers for their customers, more

09.16.2014

The average revenue of IT and software distribution companies was 22% lower in 2013 compared with 2008, before the beginning of the financial crisis, but the profitability reached 2.4%, the highest more

09.16.2014

Software solution provider Arobs Transilvania is considering an IPO on the Bucharest Stock Exchnage in a bid to fund the purchase of local and regional players. more

08.18.2014

German engineering group Siemens invested EUR4.5 million in a new research and development center in the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca, which will operate under the brand of its subsidiary Evosoft, more

07.23.2014

South Korea’s Ministry of Science, IT&C and Planning and Romania’s Ministry for Information Society on Wednesday opened a research center for IT projects in capital city Bucharest. more

07.09.2014

The IT division of Metro, one of the largest retailers in Europe, has discreetly reached about 800 employees in Romania and plans to continue expansion, as Bucharest has become a key center for more

07.02.2014

British telecom operator Vodafone has inaugurated a shared services center in Romania’s capital city Bucharest Wednesday, where it plans to hire 2,000 people over the next three years. more

06.24.2014

Nearly 200 companies active in the Romanian IT and software products distribution sector (15% of total firms), with cumulated debts of 336 million lei (over EUR76 million), closed their doors in 2013 more

06.09.2014

Romanians have resumed purchases of white goods, such as refrigerators, cookers and washing machines, which shows the local electro-IT market has exited the crisis, says Dragos Sirbu, appointed at the more

05.20.2014

Electronics, home appliances and computer retailer Domo wants to gain the leading position on the market in the following year, according to Kim Keollner, the South-Korean executive brought at the more

04.24.2014

Polish-held ABC Data, the largest IT&C distributor in the region, which entered Romania directly at the beginning of the year, will exclusively supply brands available in Central and Eastern Europe, more

03.28.2014

The majority stakeholder in Otter footwear group, Filip Schwartz, who owns over 50 stores, brought a new brand on the market, Call it Spring, selling shoes, bags and accessories to medium-income young more

03.25.2014

Romania's Ministry for Information Society plans to attract EU financing of at least EUR850 million for IT&C projects in 2014-2020. more

03.12.2014

French-based power and transport group Alstom seeks to hire up to 50 IT engineers in Romania in the next three years, Alstom Romania president Gilbert Porcherot said Wednesday. more

03.04.2014

Sales of TV sets, refrigerators and smartphones rose by 6.9% in Romania last year, to EUR1.7 billion, with the increase of the domestic durable goods market being the second biggest in Europe, after more

02.13.2014

Swedish-held software producer Enea manufactures technology for Boeing aircraft, US fighter aircrafts, European satellites and Apache helicopters in Romania, company vice-president Bogdan Putinica more

02.11.2014

International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank’s investment arm, will acquire a stake in Romanian information systems integration company Teamnet, according to an announcement posted on the more

01.13.2014

Cel.ro, Evomag.ro and Oktal.ro, three of the largest online vendors of electro-IT&C products, count on a double-digit market growth this year, amid people’s rising confidence in online shopping, the more

11.25.2013

Romanians shook off their shopping gloom for the Black Friday three-day weekend and bought products of around EUR70 millions of euros from traditional and online IT &C retail, up from last year. more

10.28.2013

A team of Romanian programmers in Iasi (NE Romania) is developing software to be used by the Dutch Government to collect taxes, says Karim Henkens, the global CEO of Dutch company Centric IT more