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Actor Annie Wersching, best known for playing FBI agent Renee Walker in the series "24" and providing the voice for Tess in the video game "The Last of Us," has died. She was 45.

Wersching passed away on Jan. 29 morning in Los Angeles following a battle with cancer, her publicist told The Associated Press. The type of cancer was not specified.

The subsidiary of the German Bosch Group, Robert Bosch, will make automotive software in a new office in Sofia. Since the beginning of the year, the company has opened a software engineering center at Sofia Tech Park, reports Money.bg

The closure of the Bosch Siemens Hausgerate (BSH) factory in Piraeus has been put back three years to the end of 2021.

The reasons for the divestment of Munich-based Bosch Siemens Hausgerate (BSH) from Greece, with the cancellation of a multi-million-euro project and the approaching closure of its plant in Rendi, southern Athens, are not only related to the financial crisis and the adverse business climate in the country, but also due to local reactions to its investment.

One of Greece’s oldest factories; formerly known as Pitsos and founded in 1865, is shutting down.

Renamed BSH Hellas; after the acquisition by German Bosch-Siemens Hausgerate, the factory based in Renti, south of Athens, is to shut down by the end of 2018.

The company’s management announced a voluntary redundancy program for its 250 employees.

The BSH Hellas plant at Rendi, near Piraeus, faces closure. One of the country's oldest factories, it was renamed after Bosch-Siemens Hausgerate GmbH bought out Pitsos, a Greek company established in 1865.

The Bulgarian unit of German technology giant Bosch registered sales amounting to nearly BGN 53 M in 2014, up by 35% from 2013, according to Mihai Boldijar, General Manager of Bosch Romania and Bulgaria.

Boldijar said at a press conference that Bosch had strengthened its presence in Bulgaria, outpacing the average growth rate on the market.

Bosch announced an investment plan of 200 million euros ($223.6 million) for Turkey this year on May 12.

In his keynote speech at Bosch's annual meeting, President of Bosch Turkey and Middle East Steven Young said the company has full confidence in Turkey and believes in its potential.

Bosch Group will open this year in Blaj, where the company has three factories, a research-development centre for automotive technology, with the total number of Bosch employees in the town of Blaj to be over 1,500 by the year's end.

Werner Richter, Bosch Rexroth Romania General Manager
Photo credit: (c) Mircea ROSCA / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

Bosch Software Innovations, a wholly owned subsidiary of German technology giant Bosch, plans to acquire Cologne-based ProSyst Software AG, which has a research and development unit in Sofia.

Agreements to this effect were signed on February 13, 2015, according to a media statement of Bosch.

ProSyst employs some 110 associates in Cologne, Germany, and Sofia, Bulgaria.