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Online shopping is on the rise in Croatia, according to the current Shopper’s Mind 2021 survey. Croatians mostly buy clothing and footwear, electronics and cosmetics online, and the average value of a purchase is as high as HRK 630.

The telecommunications company A1 Croatia has confirmed today that it was exposed to a cyber attack, as a result of which the personal data of 10% of its users were breached, more specifically, their names and surnames, addresses, personal identification numbers, and phone numbers.

The Croatian Regulatory Authority for Network Industries (HAKOM) has confirmed that A1 Croatia reported the incident in the form of unauthorized access to the user base and the threat of publishing unauthorized data. The telco must now contact all users whose personal data has potentially been breached.

One of the largest Croatian IT companies Infinum has, via its investment branch Infinum Ventures, invested in the Zadar travel-tech company Rentlio. Rentlio automates the operational and sales processes of hotels, hostels, apartments and other tourist facilities.

The Zagreb Faculty of Computing and Electrical Engineering (abbr. FER) stepped into 2022 with 260 active scientific research projects, making it the most active academic institution in Croatia in terms of the number of projects this year as well.

The next-generation network has been welcomed with open arms by more than half of the population of the developed world, which is familiar with the advantages of 5G. Europe has thus implemented the new technology and launched 5G networks without a hitch, and it is also widely used in the East, especially in China, where 5G is widely accepted.

The music entertainment company Warner Music Group announced it’s partnering with the virtual metaverse game The Sandbox. As part of the collaboration, the musicians represented by WMG will hold concerts in the virtual world, and it’s projected that fans will be very interested in this kind of musical experience.

The Belvedere Museum in Vienna has recently announced that it would offer for sale an NFT of one of the most paintings in the world, Gustav Klimt’s “The Kiss”. It is an art piece that had long entered people’s homes on posters, prints, cups, plates, lamps, etc. and its wide acceptance is evidenced by the fact that the painting has already aroused great interest in NFT circles.

Last year, $555 billion worth of mobile transactions were made worldwide, and Juniper Research has found that the total value of mobile money transactions will exceed $870 billion in five years, representing growth of almost 60 percent.

Ericsson, Telstra and Qualcomm Technologies have achieved the highest ever 5G speed – an up-link data speed of almost 1 Gbps. The live demo, conducted on a commercial network in Queensland, Australia, is proof of how far, i.e. fast, the 5G network can go.