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Economy

AlternativaPlatform, creators of Tanki Online, to open office in Vilnius

AlternativaPlatform, the creators of on-line game Tanki Online, which currently serves over 5 million users monthly, have announced the opening of their office in Lithuania. The office will soon employ five people who will be responsible for Tanki Online communication, public relations and client service in the European market. There are plans to enlarge the team in the future. […]

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Economy

New companies in Lithuania create 25,000 jobs annually

According to new data, more than 25,000 jobs are created each year by companies newly registered in Lithuania. The data, published by Creditreform Lietuva, also shows that after two years of operations this figure increases by another 60 percent, with some companies registering a tenfold growth in employee numbers, Invest Lithuania reports. […]

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Top young professionals returning to build Lithuania

Lithuania became a member of the European Union in 2004, and since that year almost 470,000 people have emigrated from the country. Now, many of the so-called “generation of independence” – the first generation of Lithuanians to be born after the collapse of the Soviet Union – are returning. And, with their degrees from prestigious universities and their experience working in international companies and organisations, they are having a big impact. […]

Economy

Lithuanian company develops software allowing sophisticated eye movement analysis with ordinary webcams

Neurotechnology, a provider of high-precision biometric, robotics and AI technologies, introduced the SentiGaze Software Development Kit (SDK). The SentiGaze algorithm enables designers and developers to create applications that use off-the-shelf webcams to track eye movements and generate heatmaps based on how a user gazes at a monitor. Heatmaps can be used for applications such as analysis of websites or determining the effectiveness of online advertising. The SDK can also be used to develop interfaces for a number of other gaze-aware applications, including games and software that provides disabled people with some assistance in controlling their computers. […]

Vilnius
Economy

Inc. mentions Vilnius as one of best European cities for fast-growing businesses

Vilnius has been ranked 4th in Europe as a city for fast-growth businesses. The list, compiled by influential US business publication Inc., rated European cities on the number of companies that made it to Inc.’s 5000 Europe list of rapidly-expanding enterprises, Invest Lithuania reports. […]

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Economy

Foreign investors lead Lithuania’s Top Employer awards

Most of the winners in Lithuania’s first Top Employer awards, held in Vilnius this week, were foreign investors, Invest Lithuania reports. […]

Duomenų perdavimo magistralė "Baltic Highway"
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3,000km optical fiber network connects Eastern and Western Europe

21 January 2015 marks an official launch of the Baltic Highway, a modern data transmission network, connecting Tallinn (Estonia) and Frankfurt (Germany) via Riga (Latvia), Vilnius (Lithuania), Warsaw (Poland) and Berlin (Germany). The 3,000km optical fiber network is distinguished for its reliability, low 35 milliseconds latency, capacity of 100G per channel and 9.6 Tbit/s total throughput. […]

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Economy

Danske Bank to establish IT service centre in Vilnius

Danske Bank, the largest financial services group in Denmark and the second largest in terms of assets owned in Northern Europe, is establishing an IT service centre for its group of companies, Danske Group IT Lietuva (DGITL), in Vilnius. […]