Economy
Lithuanian students to learn programming via online platform
SolidEducation.lt is a cloud-based platform through which students can learn programming via the internet with the help of teachers in 22 towns across Lithuania. […]
Programming
CORPORATE
IT and project manager shortages to raise salaries in Lithuania
Shortages of skilled IT and technology industry project managers in Lithuania will drive up salaries and create increasing opportunities for female managers according to recruitment experts. While there are more than 6,200 project managers in […]
CORPORATE
Uber aims to bring back Lithuanian expat coders
Ride-share company, Uber, is to expand its software engineering centre in Lithuania is targetting Lithuanian expats with technology expertise to come back to the country to staff the centre. Head of Uber for the Baltic […]
CORPORATE
Lithuanian school plans to teach computer programming from first grade
A Lithuanian school in Rokiškis, Juozas Tūbelis Pro-gymnasium, is to start teaching computer programming to its pupils in the first grade, in what may be a first in Lithuania. […]
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
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. […]
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. […]
Economy
More details about Google expansion plans in Lithuania
Talks have been around for some time now that US internet giant Google is looking into expanding in Lithuania. At the moment, however, the company is only looking for a Lithuanian-speaking finance specialist for a job in Dublin and does not reveal any details about possible plans to settle in Vilnius. […]
Economy
Lithuanians outpace neighbours in Microsoft game development programme
Lithuanian game developers who participated in AppCampus, Microsoft and Aalto University’s global mobile applications business accelerator programme, have been more successful than their counterparts from the other Baltic States. Ten Lithuanian projects have received funding for further activity since the start of AppCampus in 2012. […]
Economy
Decentralised management approach is key to attracting top Lithuanian talent for Danish Adform
Mats Persson marvels at the changes Vilnius has undergone since his first visit to Lithuania just three years ago. The Swedish head of Adform, a Denmark-based specialist in multi-screen brand advertising, comes to the firms’ Vilnius office several times per month, and is impressed by the pace at which the Lithuanian capital is developing. […]
Economy
The boom for Lithuanian programmer services only beginning
Oystein Moan, the manager of the Norwegian Visma Group with about 100 programmers in Lithuania, forecasts that in the near future more services centres of international companies and also foreign companies particularly from the Nordic countries will be established in Lithuania, as labour force costs there are huge and good IT specialists are hard to find. […]