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Cypriot Students Win Imagine Cup Again

For the third straight year,  engineering students from the University of Cyprus have won the The Multinational Software Corporation Microsoft, a premier student technology competition. Over the past 10 years, more than 1.65 million students from more than 190 countries have participated. The event invited all eligible students to use their imagination and passion to [...]

Microsoft Bombed in Athens, Greece

Greek Microsoft HQ Fire-Bombed in Athens

The Microsoft headquarters in Athens have been attacked, with assailants reversing a van through the front entrance and detonating an incendiary device that sparked a fire. There were no injuries caused by the explosion. The attack on the main offices of Microsoft which are located north of the city centre, took place on Wednesday morning [...]

Peter Economides

Economides’ Greece: An Old Country Needs a Brand New Name

ATHENS – Ten years ago, Peter Economides, a marketing strategist who helped re-launch a dying Apple computer company into the world’s second-largest business, left New York, came to visit Greece, stayed at a hotel on Athens’ southern coast, saw the sun set on the nearby island of Aegina,  and came home. Although a South African, [...]