Skype Announces To Add 350 New Jobs In 2011
Who doesn’t want to be a part of a big brand, that is revolutionary, transforming a certain aspect of your life and connects you to millions of users anywhere across the globe? Everyone does, and Skype is definitely one of those brands. Over a 100 million active users, utilizing the communication tool for personal and professional use. And guess what Skype is adding more opportunities for passionate people to be a part of it.
From Nokia Research Labs Palo Alto: Universal Inbox
Nokia Research Labs are testing a concept called universal inbox. With the influx of different applications and services, people have to continuously check each of them to know whether there's an update or not. Nokia's approach to this has been to create a single inbox that is able to tell updates from a variety of services. Furthermore, the inbox looks like a regular inbox you have in e-mail, but the recent messages can include content from e-mails, text messages, call logs, tweets, Facebook updates and Flickr photos among others.
Ideal Conditions To Build A High Growth Startup Like Heyzap: Y Combinator & San Francisco?
There's been a lot of talk lately about all kinds of accelerators and Y Combinator like set-ups in the Nordic and Baltic countries. Most recently Aalto Entrepreneurship Society announced that they are in the process of building their own 'Y Combinator', although this would be directed only to Aalto University, which really makes it a university incubator.
Just as much there has been discussion on whether Seedcamp model or Y Combinator like model is the better one (Y Combinator leading the pack at the moment), the respective differences and most importantly whether you need to be a Paul Graham to make it work. And even the workings of Y Combinator model has been under strong scrutiny by those who don't believe before they see the first major exit.
Arctic Evening on the 2nd October
We're back with events and would like to invite all of our readers to enjoy a laid back evening at Dubrovnik atmosphere with some drinks, networking and discussion on our very own startup scene on the 2nd October, 2008.
Wisened up from the feedback from you guys, we aim to keep the program brief and to the point, but still interesting. We will have Peter Robinett flying over from Amsterdam to come and chat with me about the lastest developements in the Amsterdam startup scene, the hottest Dutch startups, and even the Silicon Valley scene in general and what we could learn from the two to make the Finnish startup ecosystem more dynamic for all of us.
Peter is an accomplished coder and a web designer. He's originally from Palo Alto, California which is undisputedly the most dynamic start-up ecosystem in the world. After moving to Europe he quickly settled in Amsterdam, Netherland and have been active impacting the local start-up scene by organizing Luch 2.0, Barcamps and most recently the iPhone Dev Camp.
In addition to the discussion with Peter, we will have an open mic for any start-up, entrepreneur or other like minded persona to talk about their project, product launch, open source project and what not. Addition to this we attempt to bring in one interesting speaker that will be revealed at the beginning of the evening itself.
The venue will be the tried and tested Dubrovnik Lounge & Lobby in Helsinki, Finland. We will start at 6pm and wind down the official program around 9pm. Naturally those willing are welcomed to go until the wee hours.
To pay the bills we are looking sponsors for the event. If your company is interested email Miikka your contact details at miikka [at] arcticstartup [dot] com and he will contact you. We'll give you proper visibility and you can say a few words about your company at the beginning of the evening.
We're are also celebrating our one-year birthday, so leave the NDAs at home and come along to toast with us to the buzzing local startup scene and to the entrepreneurs we have here.
Edit 14/09/2008: Please register here if you have a Facebook account and you're planning on attending, so that we'll have an idea of how many will attend and can prepare for it. If you don't have a Facebook account feel free to write me or tell us you're coming at the comments. Thanks guys!
