Romanian company Televoice, which owns the Evolio brand, will launch in February this year a PC tablet called EvoTab, running on the Android operating system, the company has announced. The tablet can be pre-ordered form the producer's website . It will become available in retail chains from February 15, at a price of RON 750 (around EUR 176).

The International Monetary Fund has asked Romania to discard regulated prices for the production of electricity and natural gas and to draw up a new calculation formula in this respect.

US company IBM company could open a new research center in Targu Mures, central Romania, the company's 11th worldwide center. IBM executive director Spiros Teleoglou and IBM Research executive director Christos J. Georgiou paid a visit to Targu Mures last week and talked about this possibility with the city hall representatives.

Sushi- the Japanese word meaning ''sour''- was a dish invented in Japan in the Muromachi period around the mid 1300's, and in those times it was made from fermented fish. The Sushi we eat today, which is internationally recognised and enjoyed, was created in the Edo period in the early 1800's by a man called Hanaya Yohei as a fast food. I would thank him personally if he were still alive! Sushi is a personal favourite which I developed a taste for whilst living in the Far East.

"The King's Speech", an Oscar-nominated movie directed by Tom Hooper will be screened in Romanian cinemas from February 11. "The King's Speech" has already won a Golden Globe Award for the best performance by an actor in a motion picture -Colin Firth- and has been nominated to 12 Oscar Awards.

Romania plans to spend up to EUR 4 million on promoting the country as a tourist destination on international TV channels. The Romanian Tourism Ministry has started the acquisition procedures for advertising space on international TV channels to promote the country's tourism brand.

The mobile marketing market segment in Romania will grow by 10 percent this year and reach around 100 million text messages, mainly fueled by notifications from banks to their clients, according to Netopia Sistem, which operates the web2sms service.

Romanian lender Banca Transilvania posted a net profit of EUR 23.2 million in 2010, 58 percent higher than the one posted in 2009, the bank has announced. The increase was mainly due to revenues from interests and to the strict cost control, according to the bank.

A local version of the Walk of Fame boulevard has been inaugurated in Bucharest, on the sidewalk near the Cocor shopping center downtown the Romanian capital city. The first star on the Romanian Walk of Fame is that of Romanian actor Florin Piersic.

Romanian newspaper Adevarul, part of the Adevarul media holding owned by businessman Dinu Patriciu, has opened an editorial office in Brussels. It was the first office opened by a Romanian publication in Brussels, following the model used by international media companies like BBC and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Romania’s Bartolomeu Anania, the Metropolitan of Cluj, has died Monday in intensive care in a hospital in Cluj, where he had been place because of severe cardiac and respiratory problems.

Romanian furniture producer and retailer Staer has started the insolvency procedures, according to Elva Cont, the judiciary administrator. Staer owns a furniture factory in Galati as well as a chain of 24 furniture stores across Romania.