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Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Monday told opening of a cyber security summit in Bucharest that all countries in the region needed to work on cyber security issues together with the US, "as we are facing cyber threats and vulnerability".

Representatives of 17 countries in Central and Eastern Europe are attending the summit and presenting cyber security policies.

The Bulgarian Ministry of Finance and the National Revenue Agency (NAP) have launched a joint free app for Android mobile devices.

We are not bound to the non-transparent SEÇS?S anymore. We have ?Oy ve Ötesi,? (?Vote and Beyond?) and T3.  

US tech executive David Goldberg, the husband of Facebook?s Sheryl Sandberg, apparently died after falling on a treadmill and striking his head at an upscale resort in Mexico, authorities said on May 4.

Everybody likes free Wi-Fi at hotels but there are risks involved. Hotel networks are targeted by cybercriminals who wait for hotel guests to logon to hotel networks before tricking them into downloading devices that infects spy software. The hackers fake network mirrors the freely available hotel service so that hackers can then steal account names, passwords and intercept files.

Google’s autocomplete function has found various obsessions for the cost of things in different countries. Foor instance, while most people in North America are interested in the cost of a passport or patent, their European counterparts are mainly concerned with the price of living studying or beer, whereas in Africa its more about food, livestock and fuel.

Dumping social media stocks that show any sign of weakness is trending on Wall Street.

Shares of LinkedIn Corp. plunged 21 percent in after-hours trading on April 29 after the professional networking service gave a disappointing outlook for the second quarter, weighed in large part by its pending purchase of online learning company Lynda.com.

U.S. Ambassador to Ankara John Bass has waded into the dispute between Ankara Mayor Melih Gökçek and U.S. State Department spokesperson Marie Harf, by posting a photo-shopped blonde haired picture of himself on Instagram.

American IT giant Hewlett-Packard, one of the biggest investors in Bulgaria, has opened a hi-tech lab in Bulgaria.

The facility, which occupies and area of 300 square meters in Business Park Sofia, will be used for the simulation of technological and business processes and the training of experts of the company in Bulgaria.

Twitter shares plunged April 28 after an earnings report fell short of market expectations, despite a jump in the number of active monthly users above 300 million.