Communications minister Marius Bostan hints that it will take some time until the privatization of the stake that the state holds in Telekom România (former Romtelecom), because the authorities have not yet selected the appropriate method - sale or IPO. Furthermore, the minister says that he first of all wants to increase the value of the company, because it has a "fantastic" potential, and the company is not currently looking "the way it should". read more...

Chinese multinational Huawei, one of the largest telecom-gear makers in the world, plans to invest some 100 million euros in its global services centre in Bucharest until 2018 and, furthermore, to employ another 300 people by the end of this year. read more...

Romania has become, as of Thursday, the 54th country to have the famous YouTube video platform available in Romanian language, occasion for the local advertising companies and agencies to be able to address the target audience through some innovative models of video commercials. read more...

The number of Romanians who use the social network Facebook has neared 5 million in August, of whom over 4.4 million had set their residing town when they created their account on the social network, show portal Facebrands.ro’s statistics. read more...

Products that use 3D technology are increasingly present in retail stores, and their prices are dropping due to an increase in competition. In order to fiind aut the dynamic of the market for this type of products we talked to the officials of two companies that distribute this type of products, as well as to a manufacturer. read more...

The employees laid off from Nokia's plant in Romania will receive severance pay, as well re-employment counseling, training and development packages and support for entrepreneurs, the company announced Thursday evening. read more...

Nokia’s plant in Jucu, Romania, will stay open until the end of the year and employees will continue to receive wages until the end of March 2012, employees were told Thursday after the Finnish cell-phone maker announced it was shutting down its Romanian operations. read more...

Google Romania is a full member of Internet advertising association IAB Romania, as of Monday, according to a press release. read more...

The Romanian Communications Ministry is working on a state aid scheme aimed to support IT&C companies which plan to further develop their business in Romania, Communications Minister Valerian Vreme told Mediafax. read more...

Romanian prosecutors and police were involved in 117 raids in Bucharest and several other Romanian cities on Thursday targeting three groups involved in cases of fraud on e-commerce websites. According to a press release, some 1,000 people were the victims of the groups while the total prejudice amounted to some 20 million US dollars. read more...

Romanian authorities and EC officials agreed on the way to use some EU funds worth 86 million euro for the creation of an internet broadband infrastructure in the so called white areas in Romania, the areas without internet possibilities), Communications minister Valerian Vreme said. read more...

Google launched on Monday in Romania the Map Navigation service, a free application that works on all cells with a GPS chip and Android operating system. The new service will be available on all cells that have versions from 1.6 to 2.3 and will use the internet connection of smartphones to download the latest maps. read more...

In the last year, 25.7% of the children in Romania questioned by the EU Kids Online II declared that they received messages or messages with a sexual content online. 12.2% of the kids were bothered/ harassed online and 11.4% of them met offline with a person they met online. read more...

France Telecom Orange replaced Thierry Millet as general director of Orange Romania with Jean Francois Fallacher, former general director of Sofrecom an international consultancy company of the telecom group, Orange Romania announced quoted by news agency Mediafax. read more...

Greek group OTE will not purchase the shares of the Romanian state at Romtelecom, a decision which came after a financial evaluation of the group in Greece and the imposition of Deutsche Telekom, a majority share holder, to accumulate cash, sources close to the transaction told Hotnews.ro. read more...

Google announced that Romanian users will be able to purchase online applications from Android Market shop. So far, those in Romania were able to install just free applications but they could not purchase programs. Android Market has 200,000 applications. AppStore has over 300,000 and Romanian have been able to purchase applications from it for several years now. read more...

Hewlett-Packard (HP) will hire 600 people this year for its Global eBusiness Operation Centre (GeBOC) in Bucharest, which currently has a staff of 3,100, Alexander Weigl, the Centre's general manager, said in a press conference Wednesday. read more...

OTE group chief Michael Tsamaz and Deutsche Telekom Vice President will meet next Tuesday with Romanian authorities to discuss the possible acquisition of the state’s shares at Romtelecom and will most definitely present an offer, Communications ministry state secretary Marius Fecioru said for HotNews.ro. On the other hand, market rumors said for HotNews.ro that the offer will be maximum 350 million euro. read more...

Sales of smartphones, mobile phones that allow users to surf the net, send emails, run games and listen to music, have surged, currently making up a quarter of Vodafone's mobile phone sales, says Andrei Oltei, terminal manager within the company. read more...

In around six years, the average duration of calls made from a fixed telephony line monthly shrank by around 1 hour, while time spent talking on the mobile phone registered a spectacular increase. read more...