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When ‘whizz-kid’ Konrad Strek started his business, he was so young it had to be registered with his parents. Three years on, investors are lining up

Konrad Strek is attracting attention from global investors with his brainchild which, he says “may be the first place that lets people earn money for watching adverts.” Kalbar/TFN

The rapid growth of the company which was only founded in 2018 and now boast over 4 million earners and over 10,000 advertisers operating across 17 languages has been fuelled by the COVID lockdown and increasing automation of jobs.

Nine million Poles now have 'trusted profile' says PM

The prime minister said over nine million Poles have created an electronic “trusted profile” in two years.

Internet users come to aid of Uprising hero after crooks swindled him out of life savings

After ruthless conmen posing as roofing contractors walked off with PLN 10,000 that Bogusław Czarmiński had saved to repair his roof in time for the winter cold the BohaterON organisation swung into action.

New internet platform for entrepreneurs launched at business congress

An online platform designed to help entrepreneurs establish cooperation with potential domestic and foreign contractors was launched as part of the ongoing 10th European Congress of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Katowice, southern Poland.

With no selfies, no internet, no social media and costing over 1,000 PLN, just how popular will the new slow-life phone be?

VIDEO: Despite its lack of modernity, the Mudita Pure phone from Warsaw tech firm Mudita has already won not only fans but a raft of awards including the IRON A'Design Award in the category of Designing Digital, Electronic Devices from the International Academy of Design and the German Design Award 2021.

Two major Polish film festivals moved to Internet

The New Horizons International Film Festival and American Film Festival, both scheduled to take place in the western city of Wroclaw on November 5-15 have been moved to an online platform, due to the worsening epidemic situation, organisers told PAP.

Internet highest-grossing advertising market in Q2 - report

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the internet overtook television becoming Poland's most lucrative advertising market in the 2nd quarter of 2020, the Polish Economic Institute (PIE) said in a report published on Saturday.

Instant success: the story of Gadu-Gadu, Poland’s first instant messaging system

Two decades after it first hit the Polish market, TFN explores the history of a trail-blazing piece of technology.

Poland's internet trade may reach EUR 22.4 bln this year - Fin Min

The value of Polish trade on the internet in 2020 may exceed PLN 100 bln (EUR 22.4 bln), Finance Minister Tadeusz Kościński was quoted on Twitter as saying by the ministry.

Polish history institute disappointed with German WWII ceremony

Polish issues were missing at German ceremonies marking the 75th anniversary of the conclusion of World War II, PAP was told by Hanna Radziejowska, head of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, a Polish government history facility.

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Swiatek takes Italian Open and notches up 28 wins in a row

Top-seeded Polish tennis player Iga Swiatek beat Tunisia's Ons Jabeur (seeded ninth) 6:2, 6:2 in the final of the WTA 1000 clay court championship in Rome on Sunday.

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‘They stopped being children and became witnesses of terror and violence!’ Archive of postwar drawings reveals children’s harrowing experiences of WWII

Created in 1946 as part of a post-war nationwide school project, the pencil and crayon images obtained by TFN show the full, terrible experience of war from the perspective of children.

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