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The payments landscape is undergoing a technological revolution, transforming how consumers and businesses exchange value. While cards and conventional digital payments are becoming increasingly dominant worldwide, they still face persistent...

The euro/dollar exchange rate failed to hold above 1.1450 this week, falling at one point even below 1.14, according to an analysis published by currencynews.co.uk, which highlights that the latest data on the US economy did not support...

The New York Times (NYT) has announced the signing of an agreement with the technology giant Amazon, through which it allows the use of its journalistic content to train generative artificial intelligence models, including for their integration...

French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin's recent proposal to eliminate cash entirely to combat drug trafficking has sparked a lot of backlash and controversy, according to BFMTV. "A lot of everyday fraud and crime, even criminal...

The members of the Legal Committee of the Chamber of Deputies approved, yesterday, the reduction of the advance required when signing the sale-purchase promise for a property, from 15% to 5%, in an effort to better protect consumers. The decision...

The members of the Legal Committee of the Chamber of Deputies approved, yesterday, the reduction of the advance required when signing the sale-purchase promise for a property, from 15% to 5%, in an effort to better protect consumers. The decision...

The global entertainment industry is in turmoil and concern after US President Donald Trump announced the imposition of a 100% tariff on all films produced outside the US, Reuters reports. The measure, part of Trump's protectionist trade...

Global supply chains, the central pillar of the modern world economy, are on the verge of a deep crisis, fueled by the new tariffs imposed by the Trump administration on imports from China, according to a series of articles published by...

A major power outage hit the Iberian Peninsula and parts of western Europe on Monday, leaving millions without electricity, disrupting transport, telecommunications and economic activity in several regions. The worst-hit countries were Spain,...

Romania's entry with land borders into the Schengen area, one of the most important diplomatic achievements of the beginning of the year, was quickly overshadowed by a series of events that strained the country's political, social and...

The Trump administration marks a radical change in food policies, eliminating all synthetic additives derived from petroleum.

The companies Apple and Meta were fined, yesterday, with 700 million euros by the European Commission for non-compliance with certain provisions of the Digital Markets Act (DMA), according to a press release issued by the Brussels institution....

The first month of spring was a dense one in government decisions, with a wide range of interventions, from support for agriculture and industry to strategic investments in energy, defense, infrastructure and national security. The government led...

Data centers around the world will double their electricity consumption by 2030, driven by the explosive growth in demand from the development of artificial intelligence (AI), according to a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA)....

Innovative cases have led the competition authority to rethink and adapt its intervention methods to new economic realities, which has required innovative solutions in the regulatory framework, said Bogdan Chiriţoiu, president of the Competition...

Even before the massive stock sales that took place on world stock exchanges last Thursday, following US President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day", 2025 was not a good year for US tech giants and their shareholders.

The European Court of Auditors published a report yesterday, which shows that the European Union suffers from a chronic disease: the continent's electricity grid cannot cope with current energy production and risks being blocked at any time....

At a time when a new technological revolution is taking place at a global level, profoundly rewriting the rules of the economic game, and when supply chains are being reconfigured amid aggressive protectionist trade measures introduced by the US,...

Few would have predicted how car supply chains would be thrust into the spotlight in 2025. But with the Trump administration's new tariffs on certain imports, the North American auto industry has laid bare its logistics: supply chains that...

A recent study presented at the American Chemical Society shows that chewing gum can release hundreds of microplastic particles into the mouth. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) analyzed the chemical composition of a...

Ten years of presidency ended with a resignation, with Klaus Iohannis thus ending his two terms not in glory, but in disgrace. On February 10, the former president announced his resignation in order to avoid a political crisis generated by the...

This article provides a detailed explanation of iterative-optimized processes, a core concept in Tesla's approach to factories.

The value of the Romanian eCommerce market will exceed euro8 billion in 2025, after reaching euro7.7 billion in 2024, according to a specialized report. According to the second edition of the "eCommerce Insights 2025" study, conducted by...

The Nordis scandal is gaining momentum, as yesterday USR deputy Ionuţ Moşteanu accused the National Authority for Consumer Protection (ANPC) of not taking firm measures in the face of the numerous complaints received. According to the statements...

The "Counseling Compass for Conspiracy Thinking" program, recently launched by Nancy Faeser, Germany's Interior Minister, is nothing more than a plan to re-educate the population or reinstate the STASI - the former political police of...

President Trump's speech was marked by strong statements, but fact-checking reveals significant discrepancies between his statements and the economic and social reality of the US. According to journalists from National Public Radio (NPR) and...

The new 25% tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump on imports from Mexico and Canada took effect yesterday, along with a doubling of duties - to 20% - on Chinese products, generating new trade conflicts with the US's three largest...

A team of researchers from the "Babeş-Bolyai" University (UBB) in Cluj-Napoca and the "Ludwig Maximilians" University in Munich has published a study that highlights the connection between consumer personality and their...

Domeniile Ostrov registered a significant sales increase of ovear 10% in 2024 compared to the previous year, according to a press release. This performance was supported by continuous investments in wine quality, state-of-the-art technology, and...

The construction materials producer Prefab Bucharest (PREH) reported preliminary operating income of 96.2 million lei, 20.2% below those in 2023, while operating profit increased by 6.6%, to almost 3.5 million lei, according to the issuer's...

China's largest iced tea, other drinks and ice cream company Mixue Group is seeking to raise HK$3.45 billion ($443.66 million) in an initial public offering (IPO) on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, according to Reuters, citing documents filed...

The development of online commerce has led to an increased risk of compulsive shopping and consumer over-indebtedness, said MEP Gheorghe Piperea, representative of the ECR political group in the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer...

Klaus Iohannis is leaving Cotroceni today. Definitively, following his resignation, after having served two full terms as president of the country, plus an almost two-month extension granted by the Constitutional Court. Iohannis is leaving...

The boycott of hypermarkets in our country between February 10-16, an action to which Romanian citizens were called by Călin Georgescu and the sovereignist parties, in order to protect Romanian farmers, proved to be a failure from the very first...

The transaction through which the Hungarian company MVM wants to take over the assets of E.On in our country will end up on the table of the Supreme Council for National Defense, said Bogdan Chiriţoiu, president of the Competition Council,...

The price of Arabica coffee futures on Wednesday topped $4 per pound for the first time in history on the New York Stock Exchange, as concerns about global supply have driven prices to double over the past year, Bloomberg reported.

Romanian retail in 2025 reflects a combination of pragmatism and the desire for indulgence, according to the latest analysis carried out by Footprints AI, based on anonymized data collected from over 8.5 million consumers, which highlights...

The Governor of the National Bank of France, Francois Villeroy de Galhau, has sparked strong reactions in the French press after recently declaring at the World Economic Forum in Davos that 300 billion euros need to be mobilized to finance the...

The second half of 2024 represented a critical turning point for Romania's economy and political stability. In an attempt to counter the ever-expanding budget deficit and ensure macroeconomic balance, the government implemented a series of...

PPC Renewables Romania, the company that deals with the production of energy from renewable sources within the PPC Group, inaugurated yesterday a control room through which it monitors and manages all the company's local renewable energy...