Posts tagged with:romanian internet

Brainient, a Romanian startup based in London, was sold today by investors to Teads, a much bigger company in the video ads business, TechCrunch reports. Let’s talk about Emi Gal, Brainient CEO, and what the Techcrunch story does not say: The deal is worth about 15 million dollars and was pushed by the investors, who […]

One of the things i dislike the most about the Romanian Tech Scene is the lack of real talk and real results. We have a dysfunctional domain management system, to begin with, and nobody talks about it because nobody wants to upset the powers that be. We also have a lot of programmers who don’t […]

Every couple of months people are finding out that Romania has one of the fastest internet connections on the planet. Us, a small and poor country, the fastest internet? How is that possible? Well, it’s a numbers game. Internet in Romania is generally found in the cities, where it’s easy to put a router in a box […]

Former Managing Director of Boom advertising company (part of NCH Group) is the new Manager of Madhouse mobile advertising agency. So nice. Boom went bankrupt in 2009, following a disastrous management by Petriceanu and the sales team (Magda Zander and Gabriel Boacă, their favorite saying was “whatever money somebody elses gives you, we can go […]

Three years ago, on the “How To Web” conference website, Raluca Georgescu, a former secretary and beauty editor for a local women’s’ site, was presented as the creator of “one of the most important local entertainment websites”, an obvious lie to anyone who knew the Romanian internet. After I published that on my blog, they […]

I got a lot of questions about this: what happened last year, how do you see things. where do we go from here? There are a few things that happened in the last 12 months worth mentioning: Some bloggers realized I am not a fool who wishes death on them (as the song goes), but […]

The year started really good. There are a few directions I have noticed going on: Companies moving away from the “like and share” model, as they find out likes do not translate into sales. The smart ones (Coca Cola, Milka) started experimenting with content created for social media. Companies still chasing the like and share […]

I think everybody and their dog knows you need to do something in social media. Have a facebook page, a twitter account, talk to clients and friends, and more. And it’s getting old. I want to move past “we need to do something” conversation and move into “we need better campaings so we can get […]

Laughed so hard on his interview with a local newspaper’s site on how he was so smart on selling and needing new challenges and now he inspires other people. The truth: he sold his business because it was losing money and he was not capable to take it further than good domain names took it. […]

This article is not new. But is very useful in pointing out how and what journalism has became. And in Romania also, don’t think we are special. We got AdPlayers.ro, an advertising blog, who charge 5.000€ a year for listing a company on their directory and bashes companies and people who do not subscribe. I […]