Investments

The government planned to increase by 21% the amount of subsidies granted to employers for creating jobs for persons with disabilities. Currently, the amount of state support can vary from 1000 lei to 6000 lei per month per employee. After the increase, the subsidies will range from 1210 lei to 7260 lei per month.

Virgin Galactic is preparing to re-activate the direction of space tourism and occupy the vacated niche in the market of suborbital flights. This was announced by the founder of the company, British entrepreneur Richard Branson during a speech at a space conference in London.

Falcon Defense, part of the Falcon Group, has announced its official entry into the Romanian market through the launch of an integrated production platform for explosives and artillery ammunition.

Ilon Musk’s transportation startup The Boring Company is among the finalists in a competition to build an experimental 1.6 km (1-mile) tunnel to solve urban traffic congestion in Tennessee.

Ilon Musk has updated Tesla’s ambitious mission statement, saying on social network X that his company “will be one of the first to create artificial general intelligence (AGI) and translate it into humanoid robots.”

Capital mobilization is the only lever that can boost productivity, increase revenues, strengthen Europe’s strategic autonomy and increase its resilience.

A new factory of the company “Brodecchi” S.R.L., one of the major producers of bakery products in Moldova, will be built on the site of the old one, following the model of its modernized production in the city of Orhei. It is planned to equip the production facility with modern equipment, as well as to expand the premises and improve working conditions.

Bitcoin’s rebound to the $70,000 mark (it was trading at $68,000 at midday in Hong Kong) appeared to be driven more by repositioning than conviction, according to market maker Enflux, which said the move mainly reflected the closing of short positions after traders set themselves up for a bear market amid geopolitical news.

Researchers at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, together with colleagues from Barcelona, Spain, have obtained structured photons – particles of light shaped for the task at hand, Logos Press reports.

Last year Moldova set a record for commissioning solar power plants, bringing the total capacity to 710 MW.

It is about works on the transshipment station with waste sorting line. At this stage, concreting of the repair shop and car wash, which will service specialized equipment and trucks, has been completed. Additional concrete works are being carried out and the metal structure is being installed.

Fifteen Moldovan small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) carried out an analysis of their companies’ activities in terms of the real and necessary level of digitalization.

Ilon Musk has initiated the largest financial restructuring in the history of his business empire. His companies X (formerly Twitter) and startup xAI are preparing to fully repay their combined debt of $17.5 billion.

Global brands are urgently reducing their presence in the Middle East amid a sharp escalation of the conflict between Iran, Israel and the US. Major retailers and luxury houses are temporarily closing stores or transferring them to a limited mode of operation in the Gulf countries in an effort to minimize risks for employees and business.

South Korea’s largest wireless carrier SK Telecom spoke at Mobile World Congress (MWC 2026) in Barcelona about how it is reshaping its operations around artificial intelligence, from the core of its network to its customer support services.

Rapidly growing in recent years, real estate markets in the Middle East have come under pressure from the military conflict. Although the destruction in the Gulf countries is minimal, the “echo of war” is already affecting the business activity of investors, according to Logos Press.

In February this year, the Agency for Interventions and Payments in Agriculture (AIPA) authorized for payment subsidy requests amounting to MDL 158.79 million.

The process of preparation of the project “Modernization of agricultural machinery and post-harvest equipment” (MAME 2) was discussed by Ludmila Katlabuga, Head of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry of MAIA, with the delegation of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

Solana Mobile has opened up access to the Solana Mobile Stack (SMS) software platform to third-party Android smartphone manufacturers. The integration will allow native Web3 functionality to be added to any mobile device.

The European Commission will organize an information day for the European research ecosystem on March 18, 2026 on the Horizon Europe calls for proposals.