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Croatia’s first venture capital for impact investing, Feelsgood, has invested more than 2.25 million kuna or 300,000 euros in the Zagreb startup BiteMe Nutrition.

Following 18 months of deliberations in the European Parliament, the final text of the resolution on artificial intelligence has finally been agreed upon. The new regulation is expected after the plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg in April, where the document will be discussed and voted on.

In 2021, the Samsung Galaxy A12 rose to the top of the best-selling phone list. Omdia reports that Samsung shipped as many as 51.8 million Galaxy A12 phones last year, surpassing Apple’s mobile phone shipments, which had almost always come first.

Tomislav Car, former CEO of Infinum: “I founded Infinum with Matej and ran it as CEO for the last 16 years. The job of a CEO is a lot of things, but the bottom line is pretty simple – to lead the company to victory. Victory can mean whatever you want it to mean. Getting the desired client, growing to a certain level, selling to a larger corporation and the like.”

In the last year, the cloud infrastructure industry increased its business by about $50 billion, to $178 billion. This is the data according to Synergy Research, and Canalys is reporting similar figures.

Zagreb-based company Q has been ranked among the 10 best IT development companies in the world. The big accolade comes after spending two consecutive years in the top 20, according to Clutch, which stands out in the sector as the leading IT research and rating agency.

A1 Croatia has the fastest fixed network in Croatia, according to a study by Ookla’s Speedtest platform. From July to December 2021, more than 1.7 million user tests were conducted among users of fixed broadband access, including Wi-Fi.

Phone calls are still the preferred form of business communication, according to Hiya’s annual State of the Call report. The survey was conducted among 1,800 businesses and 12,000 consumers.

Hrvatski Telekom (HT) and Nokia were among the first in the world to test advanced 25G PON optical technology at HT’s Rijeka lab. This is the latest generation of optical networks that significantly enhances the speed of data transfer, and the speed achieved in Rijeka was 20 gigabits per second.

The University of Mostar has signed strategic partnership agreements with two Israeli faculties, defining cooperation in the development of programs and studies of artificial intelligence and information technology, and the digital transformation of society.