Startups and Innovation

Cypriot telecommunications company Cyta this week officially announced its collaboration with ABS, a prominent international satellite provider. According to the announcement, the partnership aims to support ABS’s satellite navigation ...

The Cyprus University of Technology (Tepak) and the Chamber of Commerce of Famagusta this week announced that they will collaborate on the launch of a ‘free university’ initiative in Famagusta. ...

The General Secretariat for European Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs coordinated a study visit of EU officials on Monday, with the aim of enhancing relations between the administrations ...

Cities across Europe are working with researchers to turn organic waste such as coffee grounds into valuable goods. By Pieter Devuyst It’s hard to imagine a world without coffee ...

PwC Cyprus, a strategic partner of Junior Achievement, on Monday released a statement about its pivotal role in the successful execution of the “Company Programme” and “Our Community” initiatives. The ...

US lawmakers are grappling with what guardrails to put around burgeoning artificial intelligence, but months after ChatGPT got Washington’s attention, consensus is far from certain. Interviews with a US ...

The European University of Cyprus this week announced that it will be hosting a conference on Accessibility and Assistive Technology in Education on May 19, 2023, from 4:30 in the afternoon to 8:30 in ...

In times of crisis, identifying and taking advantage of opportunities is crucial for economic growth, the president of the Cyprus Investment Funds Association (CIFA), Andreas Yiasemides, said on Thursday. Yiasemides ...

A “fire hose” of differing regulatory approaches to cryptoassets lack the global consensus needed to attract established investors that would create a maturer market, a conference was told on Wednesday. ...

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 ...