Cristina Prina Ricotti

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Born in Rome and travelling extensively throughout her childhood, Cristina finished her studies in the UK reading Molecular Biology at university. After settling back in Italy's capital, Cristina rediscovered her passion for writing and gee…kery, which eventually led to working as a blogger and social media manager. Cristina has collaborated with medical and biotech publications, written about the latest gadgets, covered local stories on tech innovation and often daydreams about opening a makers' cafe by the Coliseum. In meantime, she keeps busy writing, reading and planning journeys to upcoming tech conferences, tweeting and Instagramming the whole process.

Cristina has no any business relationship, affiliation or investment, or any other actual or potential conflict of interest that may have a bearing on any subject to be covered in the blog.

Latest from Cristina Prina Ricotti

Telecom Italia spinoff 'will get the green light'

The Italian incumbent's plan to divest its fixed-line business is likely to get the go-ahead from the board, analysts say.

May 30, 2013 by Cristina Prina Ricotti in Networking

Liberalised wi-fi and online health records: Italy unwraps Decreto del Fare plan

A new decree will see big changes to how Italy handles e-government, as well as how public wi-fi is provided.

July 10, 2013 by Cristina Prina Ricotti in Networking

Going it alone: Why one web firm shunned accelerators and started investing in its own customers

Growing a startup is no easy business: Italy's EgoRego is hoping to forge its own path by offering its startup clients cut-price work in return for a share in their business.

June 28, 2013 by Cristina Prina Ricotti in Startups

Telecom Italia to pour €10bn into fibre as spinoff countdown continues

While investors and customers wait for news on the separate of Telecom Italia's fixed-line businesses, the telco is offering to sweeten the deal by investing in fibre.

May 30, 2013 by Cristina Prina Ricotti in Networking

Telecom Italia-Three merger prospect fading

A meeting of Telecom Italia's board isn't expected to signal the starters gun on a union between the two Italian operators, with stumbling blocks likely to consign the possibility of a merger to the scrapyard.

May 21, 2013 by Cristina Prina Ricotti in Mobility

The future of Italian startups: Is innovation is taking a backseat to bureaucracy?

Digital Economy Forum finds that the Italian bureaucracy is the biggest hurdle that startups face

May 17, 2013 by Cristina Prina Ricotti in Startups

Communicating in the age of the network: Benetton gets into M2M with Sandbox collaboration

Fabrica, the communications research centre of the Benetton Group, has teamed up with the company behind the Little Printer to explore the possibilities of the internet of things.

August 9, 2013 by Cristina Prina Ricotti in Networking

Telecom Italia hit with €104m fine over antitrust

Italy's biggest telco has found itself on the receiving end of a fine from the country's antitrust authority after being found to have abused its dominant position in network infrastructure.

May 13, 2013 by Cristina Prina Ricotti in Networking

Poste Italiane aims at cloud computing with Office 365 tie up

Tie up with Microsoft Italy will integrate digital document services

July 8, 2013 by Cristina Prina Ricotti in Enterprise Software

Put pressure on Europe to get €80bn research plan moving, Italians urged

The EU's Horizon 2020 framework could help boost innovation in Europe and Italy in particular.

June 4, 2013 by Cristina Prina Ricotti in Innovation

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