Startups and Innovation

The Research and Innovation Foundation’s (IDEK) Central Knowledge Transfer Office (CKTO) this week announced that it has started officially accepting applications from interested parties. “We encourage everyone who has ...

German business software maker SAP (SAPG.DE) and German engineering company Siemens (SIEGn.DE) have joined US tech giants in criticising draft EU laws on the use of data generated ...

The Kinisis Ventures (KV) Fund I and Host Trust, the investment vehicle of the Kulik family, long-time partners of MGD Heroes Made, on Monday announced that they are making a ...

Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting May 1: Credit rating agency DBRS Morningstar has acknowledged that the Cyprus government announced that it aims to achieve ...

Forget your hook, line and sinker. An Israeli foodtech company says it has 3D printed the first ever ready-to-cook fish fillet using animal cells cultivated and grown in a laboratory. ...

Businesses across all industries are being advised to take action to control rising costs in the face of inflation, according to an analysis by PwC Cyprus’ Leonidas Stavropoulos and Nicos ...

Three executives from Cypriot fintech Ask WiRE have clinched the first prize in the Bank of Greece Datathon 2023, which was the first National Open Data Application Competition. Terpsi Mitsi, Marios ...

International paytech company payabl. has been ranked as one of the top 50 fastest-growing technology companies in the Middle East and Cyprus, according to the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 programme. This year, ...

Junior Achievement Cyprus (JA Cyprus) recently hosted the 10th annual Award Ceremony for its “Student Business 2023” programme with resounding success. This milestone event commemorated a decade of the organisation’s ...

The Paphos regional board of tourism (Etap) this week announced that it has successfully participated in a European programme for smart small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs), which will help to improve the ...

National investment promotion agency Invest Cyprus on Wednesday released a statement summarising its activities at the Delphi Economic Forum, where a number of actions and initiatives helped to showcase investment ...

BitOasis, a Middle East-focused crypto exchange based in the United Arab Emirates, has received the first broker-dealer minimum viable product operational license from Dubai’s crypto regulator, the company said ...

As the summer of 2022 came to a close, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gathered his top lieutenants for a five-hour dissection of the company’s computing capacity, focused on its ability ...

Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) and Google-parent Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) talked up investments in artificial intelligence (AI) for the second quarter in a row but their results on Tuesday suggested ...

The Bank of Israel on Monday named Lena Krupalnik, a veteran institutional investment manager, to oversee the country’s sovereign wealth fund which was set up in 2014 following the discovery ...

The Cyprus IT Enterprises Association (CITEA), a member of the Employers and Industrialists Federation (Oev), announced this week that it held a meeting with the new Deputy Minister of Research, ...

What do you get when you cross cryptocurrencies with artificial intelligence? A seemingly sentient bitcoin that codes itself in the style of Japanese haikus? Alas not, though you do get ...

A quarter into record layoffs, investors in US tech giants will scrutinize if the cost cuts boosted profits to their satisfaction, while the companies emphasize how artificial intelligence will be ...

Russian lender Sberbank (SBER.MM) said on Monday it had released technology called GigaChat as a rival to ChatGPT, initially in an invite-only testing mode, joining the artificial intelligence chatbot ...

As disaster readiness climbs up the EU agenda, a chief scientific advisor offers views on how Europe can harness its strengths. Of all the areas of EU activity, crisis management ...

Cyprus’ National Electronic Health Authority and the Health Ministry are taking strides to address electronic health issues and are holding a lecture to inform the public about the progress they ...

A funding squeeze at Indian startups that has already led to layoffs and delayed stock listings is set to worsen as investors reckon with stretched valuations and faltering consumption growth, ...

The EcoX Cyprus fintech community is organising an interesting blockchain meetup and networking event in Limassol to discuss blockchain technologies and their applications with guests from Binance, Internet Computer and ...

Cyprus-based venture capital firm 33East on Tuesday announced that it has been selected to manage the Cyprus Equity Fund, further helping to grow and develop the island’s startup and ...