Croatia’s fixed broadband market in 2025 was marked by intense competition among operators, visible technological progress, and a gradual shift toward very high-capacity networks, primarily FTTH infrastructure. This is clearly confirmed by the “Barometer of Fixed Internet Connections in Croatia,” published by nPerf in January 2026, covering measurement results from 1 January to 31 December 2025.
Microsoft is continuing to expand its digital sovereignty capabilities through Microsoft Sovereign Cloud, bringing together public cloud services, customer-operated private infrastructure and partner technology environments. The new capabilities are aimed at organizations managing sensitive data, critical information systems and business processes subject to strict regulatory requirements, including government agencies, financial institutions, healthcare providers, energy companies and other critical infrastructure operators.
Spanish telecommunications group Telefónica and Portuguese telecommunications and IT company NOS Comunicações have agreed to strengthen their cooperation in developing advanced digital technologies for European defense and security applications. The agreement covers secure communications, advanced connectivity and digital services intended to support military operations, autonomous systems and other emerging defense requirements. The partnership also reflects the growing importance of telecommunications infrastructure in Europe's efforts to strengthen technological sovereignty and improve interoperability between national defense systems.
Artificial intelligence is no longer a specialised experiment in web development; it is part of programmers’ daily work. “There is no job in which we do not use artificial intelligence,” Hrvoje Nekić, CEO of WEB Marketing, tells ICTbusiness Media – ICTbusiness.info. He sees the change as both a productivity opportunity and the beginning of a different relationship between users and software.
Daytona, the technology company led by Croatian entrepreneur Ivan Burazin, has raised $60 million in a Series B funding round that values the business at $1 billion. The round was led by FirstMark Growth and brings total capital raised to $91 million. The company is building infrastructure that enables autonomous AI agents to execute complex digital tasks in their own computing environments.
Telecom Italia has finalized a series of leadership transitions within its enterprise and technology divisions, with the newly appointed executives assuming their responsibilities this week.
Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, and Vodafone have formally executed a Letter of Intent to investigate a joint bid for forthcoming Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) spectrum allocations within the European Union.
Worldwide PC shipments totaled 55.4 million units in the third quarter of 2026, down 22.4% from the third quarter of 2025, according to preliminary results from Gartner.
The total value of digital wallet transactions will rise from $9 trillion in 2023 to surpass $16 trillion in 2028, a rise of 77%, according to Juniper Research.
Telefonica accelerated growth during the second quarter of the year.
AMD announced revenue for the second quarter of 2023 of $5.4 billion, a gross margin of 46%, an operating loss of $20 million, a net income of $27 million, and diluted earnings per share of $0.02.
Huawei Cloud's Pangu-Weather Model, an AI model for global weather forecasting, is now available on the website of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).
IBM completed its acquisition of Apptio after receiving all required regulatory approvals.
A new study from Juniper Research has selected Shanghai as the leading smart city in Asia in 2023.
Telecom Italia has finalized a series of leadership transitions within its enterprise and technology divisions, with the newly appointed executives assuming their responsibilities this week.
Spanish telecommunications group Telefónica and Portuguese telecommunications and IT company NOS Comunicações have agreed to strengthen their cooperation in developing advanced digital technologies for European defense and security applications. The agreement covers secure communications, advanced connectivity and digital services intended to support military operations, autonomous systems and other emerging defense requirements. The partnership also reflects the growing importance of telecommunications infrastructure in Europe's efforts to strengthen technological sovereignty and improve interoperability between national defense systems.
Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, and Vodafone have formally executed a Letter of Intent to investigate a joint bid for forthcoming Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) spectrum allocations within the European Union.
Microsoft is continuing to expand its digital sovereignty capabilities through Microsoft Sovereign Cloud, bringing together public cloud services, customer-operated private infrastructure and partner technology environments. The new capabilities are aimed at organizations managing sensitive data, critical information systems and business processes subject to strict regulatory requirements, including government agencies, financial institutions, healthcare providers, energy companies and other critical infrastructure operators.
IBM, in collaboration with Siemens, has announced new research intended to advance nanostack architecture, a novel transistor framework introduced earlier this year.
Samsung forecasts double-digit profitability in its mobile division on a full-year basis.
The German government prepared an amount of €20 billion to be distributed by 2027 to bolster the semiconductor industry.
America Movil increased its stake in A1 Telekom Austria by a further 5.5% for an undisclosed sum.
Worldwide smartphone shipments declined 7.8% year over year to 265.3 million units in the second quarter of 2023, according to preliminary data from IDC.
T-Mobile US reported post-paid phone additions of 760,000 in the second quarter of 2023.
IBM and open-source AI platform Hugging Face announced that IBM's watsonx.ai geospatial foundation model - built from NASA's satellite data - will now be openly available on Hugging Face.
