Jack Soifer
In Northern Europe, mainly in the Netherlands, Scandinavia and Northern Germany, the consumer pays more to have healthy horticultural quality - a niche that Portugal could explore better.
We have few good examples in Portugal. Horta d'Agua sells live vegetables with roots fed with natural products. It combines state-of-the-art technology with good agricultural practices and sells ten types of green and purple lettuce, including lollo rosso, lixa roxa and smooth as well as chard, greens, watercress and aromatic herbs such as basil, mint and arugula.
It has been a little over three years now since Portugal adopted its new gambling law, obligating interested remote gambling operators to obtain a license from the local regulator Serviço de Regulação e Inspeção de Jogos (SRIJ), and it has been nearly two years since the first online gambling license was issued.
The recent announcement of a Brazilian startup that chose Faro to set up a Research Center and the Production Unit for Europe, already counting on the support of the University and the Municipality, is a sign that the Algarve has the necessary conditions to position itself and captivate technology-based companies.
A year or two ago I went to see `The Theory of Everything`, the beautiful film about the life of Stephen Hawking, the Cambridge University physicist who died this week aged 76.
The clock is ticking for some mobile platforms when it comes to WhatsApp updates. The Facebook-owned instant messaging app will end support for some smartphone platforms by the end of 2017. The company announced the news on its official website.
The London-based founder of Currencies 4 You flew into Faro airport on Monday morning to link up with his new Almancil office team and members of the local business community that had helped make the process of establishing a business in Portugal a simple and rewarding project.
Computer users in South Eastern Europe may want to review their digital security after new research revealed they are the most vulnerable to cyber crime.
I don’t know about you, but although my car is my best friend, I must confess I know little about it. I know where it hangs out, that it always looks good and that it never fails me; I can tell a steering wheel from a tyre, yet if it starts to cough or to choke and I need to take a peek under the hood, I have to admit I’m a bit lost. I can’t seem to become my best friend’s super-hero, so how am I supposed to rescue it if it gets into trouble?
