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The Redefining School program, which covered the challenges of education, was featured at Slush 2015. Among the speakers was Saku Tuominen, CEO and Co-Founder of Scool. Scool aims to find the best practices in education and share all the insights and know-how with the world, for free. As Tuominen said in his speech at Slush, the challenges of future education …
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March, 2016
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4 March
New app can save over 100,000 newborn lives each year
Every year, over 100,000 children of jaundice, mainly because of lack of access to diagnostic equipment in the poorest parts of the world. A new Norwegian app aims to reverse this statistic. The treatment of jaundice is both simple and painless, but as many as 114,000 newborns annually die of the disease every year, mainly due to a lack of …
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4 March
The proportion of women entrepreneurs in Denmark falls
According to new figures from the Danish Business Authority, there has been a positive development in the actual number of female and male entrepreneurs from 2014 to 2015. But at the same time, the number of male entrepreneurs increased significantly more than the number of female entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is growing in Denmark, and the number of entrepreneurs has been steadily …
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3 March
Iris.AI democratizes access to scientific research
You just saw a really cool TED talk on, say lab-grown organs, and want to learn more about it, but you don’t know anything about biotechnology. Google scholar would be a good place to start – if you knew the right keywords to search for. Enter Iris.AI. Iris.AI can use the TED talk as input and find exactly what you’re …
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3 March
Finland’s EduLAB expands ed-tech pre-incubator program
EduLAB is part of a rapidly expanding pre-incubator program at the Oulu University of Applied Sciences in Finland called Oamk LABs. EduLAB specifically targets the global education technology industry. By Blair Stevenson Like the other Oamk LABs, EduLAB is taught in English and is a full-time, 5 month educational program for university level students and professionals in re-training with backgrounds …
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2 March
Report highlights need for collaboration between banks and startups
A new report by BDO and Danske Bank singles out Nordic fintech disrupters as medicine for “sick” banking industry, and emphasizes the need for both fintech startups and traditional banks to form symbiotic relationships if they want to create true positive disruption. “The Fintech Disruptors Report: Nordic Edition” analyzes current trends in the fintech industry across Europe and the Nordic …
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2 March
Plane launches globally: “We are trying to change the superficial selfie-culture”
After a test period in Scandinavia, Plane is ready to launch its icebreaker app globally. The launch will occur in connection with the LAUNCH Festival in San Francisco. The founders of plane are CEO and co-founder,Tim Allison , and co-founder, Thomas Baastrup Jacobsen. “We have spent the last few months testing our app in Scandinavia and building a community. It …
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1 March
Trustpilot responds to extortion and cheating allegations
Last week, Danish news channel DR1 insinuated that Trustpilot was involved in the extortion of small shopkeepers and cheating in user reviews. The Trustpilot team has now responded to the criticism. Trustpilot was put under the microscope last week in a news story about a beauty salon with poor user reviews. The salon’s owner, Camilla Rude, who has a …
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February, 2016
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29 February
FuckUp Nights highlight spectacular failures on the road to success
Many entrepreneurs believe that failure is the key to success. Some Silicon Valley based investors will not even invest in startup founders who had not had a failed startup. It is, indeed, an important skill to learn in the startup world to let go of something that is a dead end. However, as every founder knows, how far down the …
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29 February
Finternet brings legacy media companies into the 21st century
Mikael da Costa has tasked himself and his company Finternet Group with something that not a great deal of companies nowadays would even consider. They are offering legacy media companies the chance to hop onboard the digital express out of Nowheresville before they are left in the dust and stood about wondering what the hell happened. “I often ask people, …
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