Ericsson, Barcelona. Credit: davide bonaldo, Shutterstock Ericsson is a Swedish telecoms company that will be cutting over 300 positions in Spain (about 13% of its total workforce) as part of an extensive European reorganisation this July.. The move comes just a year after the company’s Madrid, Málaga and Barcelona operations avoided global layoffs at its Stockholm HQ. The cuts will …

Malaga has quickly established itself as the most important technological hub on the planet, driving almost half of the digital job market in the region. Currently, the province is seeking 1,532 tech professionals, representing 45 per cent of the 3,400 tech vacancies across Andalusia, according to data from Fundación Telefónica’s Employment Map. Malaga is the most in-demand region for software …

AUTHORITIES have smashed a drug-trafficking gang that hired ‘mules’ to collect cocaine shipments from Madrid airport. The criminals paid vulnerable people up €10,000 each and gave them a low-cost plane ticket to access the airport’s luggage area. The ‘mules’ would then pick up suitcases crammed with drugs off conveyor belts and pass them onto waiting gang members outside the airport. …