Economy
Information Technologies
Economy
Lithuania tops European rankings for shared services in region
Lithuania picked up five major awards at this year’s Central and Eastern Europe Shared Services and Outsourcing Awards in Warsaw and came out on top overall for the second year running. […]
CORPORATE
CORPORATE
CORPORATE
Lithuanian startup gets wind in its sails at international sailing exhibition
Lithuanian start-up SailRacer.net has attracted major interest from the sailing market with an innovative, battery-saving and comparatively inexpensive smart sail racing device that feeds data from a boat’s sensors to mobile devices to improve performance. […]
CORPORATE
CORPORATE
Lithuania raises €38m from telecommunications spectrum auction
Lithuanian national telecommunications regulator RRT raised €38 million from an auction of spectrum in the 900 MHz and 1,800 MHz bands for mobile phone companies. […]
Defence
Cyber security unit starts operation to protect state systems
The Centre of Registers has opened an Information Security Operations Centre that will protect the cyber security of public records and state level information systems. […]
Economy
Economy
Will Lithuanian startup Yplan become first billion dollar company?
Lithuanian start-up YPlan, an event discovery and booking app created by two Lithuanians in London, has gained recognition from one of the most influential technology blogs in the world – VentureBeat. The portal added the Lithuanian project to a list of 15 startups worth following. […]
Economy
Economy
Lithuania offers best public WiFi in the world
Lithuania has landed the first spot in the list of countries with best public WiFi in the world for the second year in a row. […]
Economy
Lithuania’s IT sector among best-reputed in Europe
Lithuania‘s Information Technology sector has one of the best reputations in Europe. Currently, Lithuania‘s IT sector reputation index is 67 points, while the EU average is 56 points, lzinios.lt reports. […]
Economy
Economy
Competition Council should keep an eye on the newest Teo purchase
IT and telecommunications company Teo has purchased 100 percent of the shares of the Lithuanian mobile service provider Omnitel from its current shareholder TeliaSonera. The move has provoked a lot of discussion in the Lithuania public sphere and that shouldn’t surprise anyone as the purchase is one of the biggest in Lithuania’s business history. Both companies are owned by Swedish Company TeliaSonera. […]
Economy
Teo acquires mobile operator Omnitel from TeliaSonera
IT and telecommunications company Teo is purchasing the Lithuanian mobile service provider Omnitel from its current shareholder TeliaSonera, Teo said in a statement. […]
Economy
Lithuanian snatches first iPhone 6s in New York
Sworn Apple aficionados often spend hours queuing at Apple stores before the launch of a new product. The new iPhone 6s, which hit the shelves on Friday, had buyers crowd all night to be the first ones to leave with the new gadget. The lucky first customer at the Apple store in Manhattan was a girl from Vilnius. […]
Economy
TechCrunch names Alisa Matsanyuk as one of world’s most influential women in the tech industry
TechCrunch, one of the most popular technology portals, has named 30 women who have conquered the technology industry. Among them is Alisa Matsanyuk, the founder of leading mobile game developer Game Insight and recently opened maker space Green Garage. […]
Economy
Lithuanian start-ups presented at the Seed Forum seminar in Stockholm
Lithuanian start-ups took the spotlight in an innovation seminar on 22 September in Stockholm, organized by the international investment Seed Forum together with consultation company DLA Nordic and the Lithuanian Embassy in Sweden. […]
Economy
Leading Chinese mobile solutions company Fun Guide to open Lithuanian office
Fun Guide, China’s leading mobile e-commerce and integrated mobile solutions company, has chosen Lithuania as the location for its first office in Europe. The company, which counts among its customers a number of big Chinese players including major banks, will open Fun Guide Europe, a Vilnius-based mobile software development and data mining office, this autumn. The company is now recruiting a team of talented software specialists in Lithuania who will be responsible for developing new mobile software for the company and will also carry out big data analytics. […]