Sat, Nov 21 2009
Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre brings together police, financial operators, ISPs, NGOs and others against child pornography
Bulgarian prosecutors have launched a probe into the contract Bulgaria has signed with US software giant Microsoft for the acquisition of software for the needs of the state administration, Dnevnik daily reported on July 1. The investigation will seek to determine whether any state administration employee has committed any malfeasance, which carries a maximum prison sentence of five years, Sofia city prosecution spokesperson Steliana Kozhouharova told the daily. The investigation does not target any specific civil servants and is now focused on "unknown public officials", the daily said.
January 14 was the first working day of newly appointed Microsoft Bulgaria (MB) managing director Ognyan Kiryakov. The company gave a news conference on that day, attended by Kiryakov and former MB director Teodor Milev. Milev will now be in charge of Microsoft common strategy and implementation of the MB project Partners Towards Knowledge for Central and Eastern Europe. Kiryakov said that MB
Strong public opposition to price hikes prompted Prime Minister Boiko Borissov to axe the Finance Ministry proposal to increase the excise duty on spirits, but MPs have put it back on the agenda.
Bulgaria’s Cabinet seeks to reverse recent changes in the telecommunications sector
Kremikovtzi’s prospects for a recovery plan appear increasingly distant
Bulgarians are getting the hang of debit and credit cards, MasterCard says
The two telecoms, both set up to challenge former fixed-line state monopoly BTC, will merge operations and expect to report 20 million euro in revenue and a gross profit of five million euro in 2010.