Cyprus gets its first homegrown social media platform

Three young Cypriot entrepreneurs behind the Cyprus Procurement electronic contracting platform have launched what they describe as the island’s first business social network, modelling it on LinkedIn and targeting the thousands of Cypriot businesses they say have no single digital space for daily professional interaction.

Theodoros Achilleos, Alexandros Michael, and Michalis Poutros — who previously developed Cyprus Procurement as an electronic contracting system for the private sector — told...