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The list of social media companies is becoming quite long. Remember MySpace, Flicker, Friendster or, for that matter, SecondLife, all way back in the 00’s? All of them have already been replaced by more contemporary and more exciting alternatives such as Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumbler and Pinterest. And all cater to yet another new […] Read more »
Publishers have been slow to adapt to the digital future that has yet arrived. Both the movie industry and the music industry have in the end -and not without fierce and still ongoing battles- accepted the new digital reality of Youtube and Spotify. The oldest mass medium, print, is still struggling to get to terms […] Read more »
Dutch technology start-ups are on the rise. There is a number of interesting start-ups emerging that are gaining traction from national and international investors. In European rankings or start-up contests (Deloitte Fast 50 local and EMEA, Red Herring Top 100 Europe, Wired EMEA, Accenture Innovation Awards, Dutch Start-up Awards, etc) the number of Dutch participants […] Read more »
METISfiles analyst Pim Bilderbeek and Heliview Consultancy managing director Ruud Alaerds presented on the Future of Telecom at the quarterly meeting of the Ambassadors of Telecom at the castle Nijenrode. Combining Heliview and METISfiles research insights they addressed the three biggest issues in telecoms at the moment: Where will the growth come frome? How can […] Read more »
TSS (Total Specific Solutions) is moving quickly into the top regions of the Dutch ICT league. Though TSS only started in 2008 (capital provided by Strikwerda Investments BV), the company has grown 6% in 2011 to a revenue stream of €196M, and employs over 1600 FTEs. TSS may be less of a household name, its […] Read more »
Most weather forecasts institutions run weather models that deal with a lot of data. But they are not really good at predicting the weather. For all the hardware power, the sophistication of the models and increased use of more and different data, forecasting the weather has not improved a lot. The atmosphere is such a […] Read more »