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Vietnamese Software Giant Signs Deal with Slovak IT Firm

Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam’s software giant FPT inked a cooperative agreement on global business development with Slovakian Gratex International (GTI) in Hanoi on July 18. Under the agreement, FPT and GTI will develop business cooperation on a global scale, primarily in Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa. The two sides will cooperate in the field of [...]

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Slovakia Lacks Some 10,000 IT Experts, Situation Is Worsening

There is a lack of around 10,000 specialists in the IT and telecommunications (ICT) sector in Slovakia, said Slovak IT Association (ITAS) director Mário Lelovský on June 27. “This phenomenon, unfortunately, isn’t getting better … quite the opposite, the figure is growing,” said Lelovský as cited by the TASR newswire, adding that Slovakia might lack [...]

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Slovakia Has 807 ISPs Serving 1.3 mln Fixed Broadband Users

At the end of 2015, there were 807 providers of fixed broadband internet in Slovakia supplying 1.3 million users, according to statistics from regulator RU. It said 458,000 of them connected to the internet via NGA networks, which is a year-on-year increase of 16 percent. NGA replaced DSL as the leading access technology, with VDSL [...]

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Slovak cyber security company Eset maintains position on the market

Slovak cyber security company Eset has maintained its ranking in the Endpoint Protection Platform market based on 2015 total market share revenue worldwide. Despite market conditions stagnating, the company’s ranking in the market has remained stable. Eset maintained its fifth position, with market share of 5.8 percent in the consumer security software and endpoint protection [...]

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SimpleCell to implement Sigfox network in Slovakia

SimpleCell announced plans to build a new mobile network in Slovakia. The company will use Sigfox technology, with the network aimed entirely for Internet of Things (IoT). Sigfox is one of the three competing Low-Power Wide-Area Network (LPWAN) technologies, reports Zive.sk. It is a direct competitor to LoRa networks and the LTE-M standard still under [...]

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Slovak firms unprepared for digital single market

The IT Association has prepared a road show for owners and managers of firms. The digital era is coming, promising to bring many benefits to European businesses and consumers, but Slovak companies are only little prepared for it. And while they rather see the digital single market as an opportunity, experts warn that this is [...]

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Slovakian electronic marketplace successful, but low impact

Ministry boasts of increased transparency as NGOS cite flaws. The electronic marketplace seems one of the biggest achievements of the Interior Ministry’s push to fight corruption. During the first year of its operation, the system helped save €54 million on sub-limit orders, the ministry claims. Though experts praise the system, they say it is not [...]

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Over 25% Slovakians access internet via non-PC devices

Slovakia ranks second, after Croatia, in terms of internet accesses via devices other than PCs, the AIMonitor study by Gemius revealed, covering the period from January 15 to February 15. Web browsing is gradually moving to mobile devices, with people connecting via smartphones and tablets, as well as game consoles, TV and DVD and Blu-Ray [...]

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Slovak app developers play the global market

Location no longer a limit on launching products, but language still is. The Slovak market is small so it is not a shock that domestic mobile game developers target the international market. What is surprising is how many of them have turned out to be enormously successful. “To succeed on the market with mobile applications [...]

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Fluido Raises New Funding Round Led by Norvestia Growth Equity

Fluido, the Finnish cloud services consulting company, raised a 3.3M Euro funding round, led by Norvestia Growth Equity with participation from Salesforce Ventures. The investment will support the continued international expansion of Fluido as a leading Nordic Salesforce partner. Fluido, which was established in Finland in 2009, is Salesforce Platinum Consulting Partner with revenues of [...]

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