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The Profile of Greek Tourists Abroad; A PayPal Survey

According to the latest Travel Report prepared by PayPal and analytical agency GfK – Greek tourists appreciate attractive prices and unique natural and cultural heritage of the Central Eastern European (CEE) region. In the last three years, the most popular...

Paypal: How Greek Merchants Can Export More in 2017

According to the PayPal and Ipsos Report titled How Greek Merchants Can Raise Their Cross-border Trade in 2017, Greek merchants have a few different resources available to them in order to accomplish such a task, as detailed below. PayPal and...

Greeks Can No Longer Use Their PayPal Accounts

The capital controls that were recently imposed to Greece by its government left PayPal paralyzed, as the online payment company relies exclusively on the traditional banking sector and credit card industry for its transactions. "Due to the recent decisions of the Greek authorities...

Greek Philotimo Could Save the Life of Toddler With Deadly Disease

Greeks throughout the world have rallied to the cause of 18-month-old Panagiotis-Rafael Glossiotis, who suffers from spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). His parents announced on Wednesday that they had raised 3.1 million euros to finally be able to send the toddler...

Archbishop of America Elpidophoros Pledges to Help Panagiotis Rafael, Toddler With Deadly Disease

Archbishop of America Elpidophoros sent a letter on Friday to the family of Panagiotis Rafael Glossiotis, an 18-month old toddler who suffers from spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Panagiotis Rafael's family is fighting a campaign to raise approximately 3 million euros...

Medical Controversy Erupts in Greece Over Toddler With Deadly Disease

The family of 18-month-old Panagiotis-Rafael Glossiotis from Halkida on the island of Evia, who suffers from spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is fighting a campaign to raise almost 3 million euros to send the toddler to the US for treatment. Greek...

E-commerce Update: Survey Reveals What Greeks Buy and Sell Online

The online market is growing rapidly, according to a survey conducted by the global giants Paypal and Ipos. The survey observed e-commerce growth in 31 countries, including Greece. Here are the most interesting findings of the survey: 55% of people admitted that they buy...

Cash-Strapped Greeks Are Selling Off Their Household Products

An increasing number of Greeks are choosing to sell things they no longer need. In the past, they would either give away things they no longer needed to charity or throw them away but 13 percent of respondents to...

Times Are Changing… More Greek Consumers Go Digital When Shopping

A study by PayPal and GfK showed that cross-border trading was embraced by Greeks with 95 percent making online purchases from stores located abroad. The data showed that 54 percent of Greek buyers prefer online stores in the UK, followed...

New Phone App Offers Coffee Cup Reading, Greek Style

A new smart phone application is offering Greeks the opportunity to have their coffee cup read online, adding another entry to the Greek entrepreneurship book. So, if you want your fortune read from the comfort of your home, or while...

Six Greek Start-Ups that Might Help Crisis-Stricken Economy

Six Greek start-up companies that might help the ailing Greek economy participate in a week-long accelerator program that started in London on Sunday, says a Telegraph report. Reload Greece, which has helped entrepreneurs raise 1.37 million euros in funding over...

Greek Hackers Attacked 250,000 Computers Around the World

Two Greek students of informatics aged 31 and 27 years old had developed a malicious software called "Lecpetex" which was spreading through social networking sites stealing digital currencies, the so-called bitcoins, from more than 250,000 computers around the world. The Cyber...

Greek e-shops More Expensive than Foreign Ones

Thirty-six percent of Greeks in an effort to not only to save money, but also to purchase products they can't find on the shelves in Greece, use the Internet to make their purchases. However, according to the results of a...

Jamjar: First Greek e-Commerce Platform

The first e-commerce online platform for unique handmade items in Greece is called jamjar and was created by two young Greek women. The website’s only condition is for the handmade creations to be original and aesthetically pleasing. Jamjar is catered...

Greece Should Look to Internet for Recovery, Says Study

The Greek government should take a leaf out of South Korea's book and invest in better networks and getting more people online, a study which measures how the Web raises GDP levels said on Friday. While many European countries make...