Business Review

WikiLeakes founder Julian Assange will be extradited to Sweden for questioning over the alleged assaulting of two women in Sweden in August 2010. Assange has not been charged with a crime but Swedish prosecutors want to question him in connection with the allegations. 

Telecom operator Cosmote Romania has launched Connect MF60 Wi-Fi hotspot, a mobile hotspot device, which allows the customers to create their own Wi-Fi network.

Otilia Haraga

Astra Zeneca Romania, a bio-pharmaceuticals company, has launched today, in Romania the CSR program called "Young Health", that wants to increase the awareness regarding cardio-vascular disease on the youth. This programe has been promoted by AstraZeneca worldwide and around 500.000 people between the ages of 10 and 24 will benefit from his initiative by 2015.

Ovidiu Posirca

Carrefour Romania and local meat producer and retailer Angst have opened the second Carrefour Angst store in the capital. The new unit is located on the 13 Septembrie Road and has a total sales area of about 90 sqm.

Simona Bazavan

Dinu Bumbacea has joined KPMG in Romania as partner with the firm’s management consulting department. He has over 18 years experience, 11 of which have been at partner level, and 10 of which have been focused on the Romanian market.

Simona Bazavan

Rominserv Valves Iaifo Zalau, a manufacturer of industrial fittings and safety valves, that is part of the Rompetrol Group, has invested USD 500.000 this year for optimizing productions fluxes and reducing resources consumption as well as improving environmental safety.

Ovidiu Posirca

Telecom operators Vodafone, Orange and Cosmote announced the iPhone 4S will arrive in their stores on November 11.

Otilia Haraga

Adrem Invest, a Romanian company specialized in industrial technical engineering, will start building works for a new cogeneration power plant in Suceava this winter. This statement was made by Adrian Bodea, president of Adrem Invest, in a press conference held today.

Ovidiu Posirca

Orange Romania has launched today the Orange Care Center for mobile phones, the first such center to be developed by a telecom operator in Romania and Europe.

Otilia Haraga

Romania maintains the target of joining the euro for 2015 on the basis that reforms and domestic macroeconomic policies will be implemented. This was the main conclusion drawn from the interministerial committee that met yesterday under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Emil Boc.

Ovidiu Posirca