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Patra-based startup Think Silicon has been bought out by Nasdaq-listed Applied Materials, in what is Greece's biggest acquisition in the deep-tech sector. Sources say the price exceeds 20 million euros, pending the official statement.

Turkey's one of the largest defense companies Havelsan developed an indigenous and safe videoconference software, named Diyalog.

The use of videoconference software rose sharply after the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused lockdowns globally.

The high demand for this software also revealed some security problems.

Twitter has removed almost 9,000 accounts that were "working to promote Serbia's ruling party", the Serbian Progressive Party, it said on Thursday.

"Toward the end of last year, we identified clusters of accounts engaged in inauthentic coordinated activity which led to the removal of 8,558 accounts working to promote Serbia's ruling party and its leader," Twitter announced.

An increasing number of Greeks are resorting to social networking, entertainment and communication apps to get an idea of what's going on in the outside world now that most of us have to stay at home.

An increasing number of Greeks are resorting to social networking, entertainment and communication apps to get an idea of what's going on in the outside world now that most of us have to stay at home.

It improves the security of the storage and transmission of information.

Google has launched the new version of Android 11 for application developers earlier than expected, TASS reports.

The news agency notes that the company launched the new version earlier than intended, so that its first users can evaluate the innovation in advance and indicate if there are any bugs.

The smart-device giant Apple announced that its revenues are expected to underperform in the first three months of 2020 due to the coronavirus outbreak in China.

Following the epidemic, Apple was forced to close its plants and several stores in the virus-hit country and this situation will constrain global iPhone supply temporarily, the firm said on Feb. 17.

As of February 17, all National Revenue Agency (NRA) e-services will not be accessible to users with Windows XP and older versions of browsers, the revenue agency recalled.

China's TCL Communication, a manufacturer of BlackBerry smartphones has stopped manufacturing them, TASS reported. This was announced on the official website of the company, TASS reported.

The company won't sell anymore BlackBerry devices after August 31, 2020, and it has no rights to "design, manufacture or sell any new BlackBerry mobile devices" beyond that, either.

The alleged founder of a social group called "Javna Soba" [Public Room], which is at the centre of a scandal in North Macedonia involving teen pornography, on Monday insisted that his original intention had been innocent.