'Life is pretty good here for IT people': Where techies earn five times the average salaryRomanian software engineers have seen their paychecks rapidly increase over the past decade. Will the country maintain its advantage as an outsourcing location?November 26, 2014 by Andrada Fiscutean in Tech & Work
Photos: Retro computer games that Eastern Europe played as Iron Curtain fellVideo games gave Eastern Europeans an escape from the harsh realities of everyday life, yet few had the opportunity to play them.August 23, 2018 by Andrada Fiscutean in Developer
10 reasons why Romania's capital Bucharest is a great place to work in techWith high salaries, low living costs, and warp-speed internet, Bucharest is an appealing destination for techies.September 21, 2017 by Andrada Fiscutean in Developer
Photos: Cold War ZX Spectrum clones spawned behind the Iron CurtainFitted inside telephone cases, or even toy organs, these Speccy replicas were less expensive but arguably more creative than the original Sinclair ZX Spectrum.April 20, 2018 by Andrada Fiscutean in Innovation
Nine Windows 10 tablets from companies you've never heard ofEurope's budget tablet brands have constantly improved their products over the past years. Now, they're among the first to cross the finish line in announcing Windows 10 tablets.August 20, 2015 by Andrada Fiscutean in Hardware
'We want to be number two behind Apple': The inside story of Vector, the first really smart watchThe 30-day battery life gadget stole the show at Baselworld and will soon hit the markets around the globe.May 18, 2015 by Andrada Fiscutean in Hardware
How one outsourcing hotspot is remaking itself as startup nationComing from a region with few investors, startup founders in Romania have employed several hacks to approach the global market.December 21, 2015 by Andrada Fiscutean in Innovation
Hail an autonomous taxi: Yandex rolls out 'Europe's first' self-driving cabs in RussiaYandex, known as the Russian Google, will use feedback from taxi passengers to up its game in autonomous cars.August 30, 2018 by Andrada Fiscutean in Innovation
Despite a war, this Ukrainian city's tech sector has tripled in six yearsTech businesses in the city of Lviv are thriving thanks to outsourcing, and 90 percent of the clients are US, Canadian, and European companies.July 19, 2016 by Andrada Fiscutean in Enterprise Software
50 years and still going strong: Will we ever be ready to kill off COBOL?Each of us uses COBOL ten times a day without knowing. What are the costs of retiring the language?August 12, 2015 by Andrada Fiscutean in Enterprise Software