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Despite inflation, squeezed corporate budgets and geopolitical crises, the IT labour market in Bulgaria has remained relatively stable.

We've rounded up Europe's biggest tech events for the first six months of 2025 in one place.

Falcon 9 launched into orbit a new achievement for our country - the first fully Bulgarian artificial satellite with scientific purpose and functions.

Can you imagine being in a management position in 10 years? Have you wondered if you are straying from the long-term goal?

In 2024, Bulgaria moved up one position in the StartUp Blink report on the state of startup ecosystems around the world.

Bulgarian Dimitar Milanov and Cuban Orlando Jose Martinez talk about the expats' journey.

Growth or decline? Slowdown or acceleration? Lack of sufficient work and highly qualified staff? You have probably heard some of these words about the IT industry in Bulgaria in the coming year.

Life between work and freedom when the office has no walls. We tell about the nomads of our digital time

The year is almost over, and rumours of a prolonged crisis in the IT labour market have proved to be greatly exaggerated.

This year has been an extremely dynamic one in the field of acquisitions in the technology industry. Some of the ecosystem's emblems - old and new - took part in them.

Despite concerns about a lack of sufficient jobs for IT professionals over the past year, there are companies that continue to expand their teams.

2.9 million of these professionals started IT jobs in the last 10 years.

How do you represent the one and who needs to save him?

Over the past two years IT job postings have declined, but that doesn't mean there aren't jobs in the industry.

Who gets what salary? For the IT industry in Bulgaria this is a question for literally billions of BGN, which we monitor and analyze in the Job Board of DEV.BG.

How much do software engineers at the so-called Big Five companies - Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft - make? DEV.BG checked with Business Insider, which summarizes salaries in the sector on an annual basis using its Salary comparison tool*.

In the new European Commission, Bulgaria is expected to get the "Start-ups, Research and Innovation" portfolio. This proposal of the president of the institution, Ursula von der Leyen, was met with criticism in Bulgaria - from claims that the portfolio is weak to those that our country has more to prove on the technological map of the world.

"As we look back on the last five years or so, we continue to believe that the benefits of being in the office together are significant. "With those words, CEO Andy Jassy told his 1.5 million colleagues at Amazon that by 2025 they should once again work in the office five days a week.

According to the AIPRM platform, the artificial intelligence (AI) market in education is estimated to be worth $2.5 billion by 2022, and that figure is forecast to reach $6 billion by 2025. In addition, the World Economic Forum notes that, "if implemented well," AI could make learning more personalized.

According to statistics in the analytical platform What's the BIG DATA, 63% of technology startups fail, and only 10% of them manage to become sustainable businesses.