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Uber is “over” in Turkey, Erdogan tells guests at Istanbul dinner
The business of ride-hailing company Uber Technologies Inc. is “over” in Turkey, the country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reportedly said on June 1.
“There is no such thing anymore. We have our own cab system,” Erdogan said at a Ramadan dinner in Istanbul, according to Bloomberg. “They say Europe has it, who cares? We will decide on this ourselves. Our interior ministry gave the orders. Traffic police will tackle this situation and do what is necessary.”
State-run Anadolu News Agency reported taxi drivers in Istanbul as welcoming the president’s remarks on June 2 with around 100 yellow cabs driving in a convoy to Erdogan’s house in Kisikli to show their support.
Czech companies short 20,000 IT workers
Salaries in the Czech IT sector have overtaken the average wage in the banking sector and with unemployment reaching 3% in May, companies are struggling to fill key vacancies, business daily E15 reports.
“The biggest shortage is in the IT sector and manufacturing,” Grafton Recruitment marketing manager Jirka Souckova said, but the shortage of IT workers is hitting nearly all sectors.
In total, Czechia is missing approximately 20,000 employees in the IT sector while “the financial and accounting market is relatively saturated,” Souckova told E15. In manufacturing, the shortage is especially acute among car-makers, engineering and electronics companies. These
businesses are driven by economic growth in Europe and have increased exports as a result. The average salary in the IT sector reached CZK56,800 (€2,210) in the first quarter of 2018.
Estonian Cryptocean suing Telegram in Russian court for copyright violation
Estonian crypto platform Cryptocean is suing Telegram, the messenger service of self-exiled Russian digital entrepreneur Pavel Durov, in Moscow’s Zamoskvoretsky Court, claiming a copyright violation during the development of digital identification technology, Tass reported on June 1 citing Cryptocean founder Yuri Myshinsky. Estonia has been on the avant-garde of cyber confrontations with Russia, and the lawsuit in a Russian court could make an unlikely alliance against Telegram, which is being unsuccessfully blocked by the authorities in a war against communications watchdog Roskomnadzor.
Cryptocean, which seeks to unify fiat and crypto worlds, believes that Telegram is making "a clone of its product" in preparing to launch a digital identification "passport" that would be accepted simultaneously by banks and crypto-services.
"We look to the recognition of our rights and will be ready to help after that to the same Telegram in using our technology lawfully," Myshinsky told Tass.
Montenegro’s fixed-line subscribers rise 6.6% y/y at end-April
The number of fixed-line telephony users in Montenegro increased by 6.6% y/y to 158,278 at end-April, according to data from the telecommunications agency (EKIP).
In recent years, the number of fixed-line subscribers has been mainly declining, while mobile phone penetration has been going up.