Technology

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.
      

“The battalion that operates in foreign operations will be the first to be equipped from this year with the M4 carbine, and will no longer use outdated Kalashnikovs,” Kodheli said in a speech marking the first 300 days in power of the Socialist-led government.

AGERPRES National News Agency and Thomson Reuters Foundation today, July 17, 2014, concluded the Social Media and Digital Journalism course, devoted to the journalists of the Association of the Balkan News Agencies - Southeast Europe (ABNA-SE) member agencies.

By Yiannis Palaiologos

Twitter has suspended the account of anti-government hacker group RedHack, while "suggesting" that another Turkish user deletes a tweet about Transportation Minister Lütfi Elvan, despite a local court order protecting it under the right to free speech.

Highbrow art house Sotheby’s is opening a door to the masses in an alliance with Internet age online marketplace eBay.

The companies touted the tie-up as uniting eBay’s global clout with the “iconic international art” expertise of Sotheby’s famed auction house.

An attempted smuggling of skimming devices has been prevented at Bulgaria's border checkpoint Vidin - Danube Bridge, the press center of the Interior Ministry said.

The electronic devices have been seized from a Bulgarian registered car in a joint operation conducted on July 10 by the Border Police Directorate, State Agency National Security (DANS) and the Customs office in Vidin.

Two companies, Turkey's Aksoy Energy and CPL Concordia of Italy, have passed the next stage in an important competition for the announced €100 million gasification of Skopje, it was announced.

Macedonia's Transport Ministry is due to select the winning private partner for the energy project in September.

If all goes to plan, construction is expected to start early next year.

Police in Nafplio in the northern Peloponnese were on Tuesday looking for two men who tried to hold up a bank but ended up threatening a clerk into handing over her handbag.

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%.