The shift to online learning caused by Covid-19 has been a boon for edtech start-ups such as Poland’s Brainly, which has just closed a major new funding round that...
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Up to 660 million euros of new lending is set to be made available to the SMEs in the Baltic states thanks to a deal between the EIB Group and local financial services...
CD Projekt, Poland’s biggest gaming firms and for much of 2020 the most valuable company on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, has been forced to apologise for the poor...
On paper, FDI levels in the Western Balkans are impressive. But closer analysis of the kind of investment being made suggests that the region needs to attract higher...
One of the world’s biggest cloud platforms is looking to recruit some of Europe’s top tech talent from a new base in Warsaw, Poland. Box, one of the...
Looking for cheap, reliable internet? Most of emerging Europe and Central Asia can deliver. You might want to swerve Turkmenistan, however. The cheapest individual...
Cross-border e-commerce has seen a boom during the Covid-19 pandemic. Governments need to capitalise on this to support the post-pandemic economic recovery. In the movie...
Like many other sectors of the economy, the mining industry is finally realising that it needs to take a stance on environmental issues. Not only do governments and the...
A major new seizure of illegal cigarettes highlights the scale of emerging Europe’s clandestine tobacco trade. Law enforcement authorities seized 37 million...
Sales of smartphones in Central Europe picked up in the third quarter of 2020, but the industry may not be out of the woods just yet. The smartphone market in Central...
BOOKR, a Hungarian literacy edtech start-up, receives more than two million euros in funding. BOOKR Kids, a Hungarian reading skills edtech start-up, has received two...
A new fintech app created by Eastern Europeans makes investing at the London Stock Exchange easy Orca, a new investment app launched by Denis Gulagin and...
Lithuania makes it easy for fintech innovators to set up shop in the country. The secret is close collaboration between government, the national bank, and private firms...
