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EU Opens e-Payment Market to IT Giants: Slovakia Experience

People should benefit from stronger competition, faster and cheaper payments and higher security. In recent years, consumers have been paying bills through the internet under the sole control and management of banks. However, such a rule may no longer apply as of 2018, as the e-payment market is now opening its doors for new entrants. [...]

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18-Year-Old Peter Szabo: High School Dropout, Slovakian Digital Marketing Star

The Slovakian teenager started making Facebook ads when he was just 11 years old. Students don’t usually drop out of high school to improve their future prospects, because school can be a vital time to develop the you’ll need to make it in the real world. For 18-year-old Peter Szabo, though, attending school was holding back growth [...]

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Slovak Innovators Showed Their Work

The works were displayed as part of the Digital Assembly conference. Non-traditional exhibits created by Slovak innovators were displayed as part of the Digital Assembly conference that took place in late September in Bratislava. The event focused on the digital agenda took place as part of Slovakia’s Presidency of the EU Council, the TASR newswire [...]

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Slovak IT Security Firm Eset Opens New R&D Offices in Montreal, Lasi

Slovakia-based IT security firm Eset expanded its R&D office in downtown Montreal, Canada, and opened a new one in Iasi, Romania. The new office in downtown Montreal is an expansion of the Eset Canada Recherche branch which was originally founded and located at the Polytechnique Montreal campus in 2009.  The company expects to strengthen its [...]

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State to Launch Its Own “Google Maps”

The system should help drivers but some analysts consider it needless. Drivers and people travelling by trains are likely to use a new system that should make their route planning easier as of the beginning of 2017 as the Transport Ministry plans to launch a national system of transport information, the Hospodárske Noviny daily reported. [...]

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SAE – Automation OpcDbGateway in Flex4Grid

Flex4Grid project is co-funded by the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020 in the category “Innovative Action”. Its aim is to create an open data and service framework that enables a novel concept of managing flexibility of prosumer (consumer and / or producer) demand and generation and to open distribution companies infrastructure [...]

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Slovak IT Company ESET Rolls Out Its New Internet Security Products for Home Users

ESET has announced the availability of its premium line of security solutions for home users – ESET Smart Security Premium, built upon their award-winning NOD32 technology that offers the best mix of detection, speed and usability. In addition, ESET’s top-tier product provides ESET Password Manager for easier and safer authentication, as well as ESET Secure [...]

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IT Giant Arrives in Košice, Slovakia

Freudenberg IT will have customers mostly among medium-sized and production companies in European countries. Global specialist in information technologies, company Freudenberg IT, joined the list of tenants in IT Valley Košice, with the plan to create some 200 new jobs by the end of this year. “Freudenberg IT Košice will become a twin to the [...]

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Music Service Deezer Offers Family Subscriptions in Slovakia

Music service Deezer has started offering group subscriptions in Slovakia. For EUR 9, the full service will be available to six people, who can create their own profiles and music lists. Deezer’s Pino Ungvolgyi told Zive.sk and MobilMania that the price is permanent, not just a promotional offer. In other countries, subscription costs up to [...]

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E-stickers to Help Halve Toll Collection Costs in Slovakia

This includes mostly the payments for distributing and printing traditional highway stickers. In addition to convenience for motorists, the scrapping of paper highway stickers and their replacement with electronic ones will also bring cost savings. Thanks to the introduction of e-stickers, the National Highway Company (NDS) will annually save more than half of the costs [...]

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