Fitbit has just set up its largest European R&D centerSoftware engineers and designers working in Bucharest will now be contributing to all the company's products.September 15, 2017 by Andrada Fiscutean in Innovation
Forget Silicon Valley: Building a startup in Romania may make more senseLow-financed startups could find a home in the eastern European country, where overheads and salaries are a quarter of those in San Francisco.July 12, 2017 by Andrada Fiscutean in Innovation
Women in tech: Why Bulgaria and Romania are leading in software engineeringWomen developers may be scarce in the US and western Europe, but Bulgaria and Romania have no such issues.June 13, 2017 by Andrada Fiscutean in CXO
This startup's 'software robots' are taking the jobs of low-skilled office workersWith customers in financial services, insurance, and healthcare, Romanian startup UiPath has just secured funding to help it add more AI to its software robots.May 3, 2017 by Andrada Fiscutean in Enterprise Software
Linux-based Tizen: Critical bugs leave most Samsung Smart TVs open to attackAn independent researcher has discovered vulnerabilities that could potentially allow attacks on every Samsung device running Tizen.April 4, 2017 by Andrada Fiscutean in Security
The obscure city luring Amazon and Oracle with the promise of dirt-cheap developersOut on the EU's eastern border, tech giants and outsourcing companies are thriving in a city where software development comes at bargain prices.January 5, 2017 by Andrada Fiscutean in Enterprise Software
Get them young: How Romania is creating next wave of white-hat hackers in schoolsCompanies, organizations, and the Romanian government are trying to attract children into the cybersecurity field by giving them something for free.November 2, 2016 by Andrada Fiscutean in Security
Google, NASA? Why tech giants are turning to remote-working eastern European devsMore Romanian and Ukrainian developers are finding they're able to work from home for Western European and American firms which are short of in-house software skills.October 19, 2016 by Andrada Fiscutean in Developer
How this small wearable could help doctors spot Parkinson's earlierThe low-cost ENTy wearable, which has been tested on over 500 patients so far, seems to have a future helping diagnose people with balance issues.September 15, 2016 by Andrada Fiscutean in Innovation
Romanian spies want to spot faces in a crowd - illegally, say human rights groupsRomania's intelligence agency and local human-rights groups aren't seeing eye to eye over a new facial recognition system that's officially for fighting terrorism and tax evasion.August 9, 2016 by Andrada Fiscutean in Security