Computing

BELGRADE - The Google Street View service has become available in Serbia, so as of Thursday users could take a virtual walk through the streets of Belgrade, Nis and Novi Sad, and find certain locations more easily.

There has not been a better time to own a successful startup. The industry giants are literally racing each other in search of hot new prospects so they can inject them with lots of cash. Not a day passes by where we don’t hear about a major M&A in the ICT world.

Bulgaria ranks as the country receiving the biggest amount of spam per person in Q2, 2014, according to UK-based software security company Sophos.

The US sent the largest amount of spam in the second quarter of 2014, at 24% of the total, according to the survey.

Romanian computing prodigy Ionut Budisteanu, representing the University of Bucharest, on Tuesday evening was awarded a new prize, this time in Shanghai - China, where he came first in the IT international competition 'Embedded System Design Contest.'

Global software giant Oracle has moved to earn rights of its name in Turkey, where a local textile firm had registered a brand under the same name. The world’s second largest software company Oracle has filed a lawsuit against a Turkish textile company for having the same name registered as the global technology giant.

Colombian pop star Shakira has become the first person to reach more than 100 million fans on Facebook, becoming the most "liked" celebrity on the social network in the process.        

The Pirate Bay, one of the most well-known website for downloading torrents of movies, music and software, has doubled its traffic despite being banned in several countries. 

With freezing winters where the mercury can sink well below zero and cool summers, Finland will never be a destination of choice for the world's sun-seekers.
      
But its chilly weather has attracted technology giants such as Google and Microsoft that seek a cool haven for thousands of servers holding terabytes of data from around the world.
      

Microsoft said Thursday it would slash 18,000 jobs from its global workforce over the next year, the majority from the integration of the Nokia unit acquired this year.
      

One third of Bulgarians who have access to internet, shop online, shows a survey of the eMag online store, quoted by Capital Daily. 

Most significant increase is posted in online sales of consumer electronic devices. In the period October 2013 – April 2014, encompassed by the survey,  they grew by 14%.