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The co-founder of Shazam, announced for Spark.me 2018 in Montenegro

The co-founder of Shazam, announced for Spark.me 2018 in Montenegro

New Spark.me 2018 speaker announced, this time it’s Dhiraj Mukherjee, co-founder of Shazam, which was acquired by Apple in 2017 for a reported $400 million.

In 2000, Dhiraj co-founded Shazam Entertainment, the world’s first mobile phone-based music recognition service.

He was a Director of Shazam from 2000-2003, and raised £600,000 in seed funding and over £10m in venture capital investment over…

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Bulgaria rising: Can a growing startup movement reinvent the country’s economy?

Bulgaria rising: Can a growing startup movement reinvent the country’s economy?

Facing the uncertainty of life in post-Soviet Bulgaria, 18-year-old Vladimir Davchev moved to the United States in the late 1990s to pursue his education and dreams of working in the stock market. But after several disenchanting years, he decided to return to Sofia and pursue his entrepreneurial ambitions in the country’s capital.

There wasn’t much of a startup community in Sofia more than a…

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Zuckeberg: Macedonia is a "Fake News" Source

Zuckeberg: Macedonia is a “Fake News” Source

In an interview on Thursday for The New York Times, Mark Zuckerberg shed some interesting insights into the Fake News conversation coming out of Macedonia.

While discussing the scandal involving British data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica, obtaining access to more than 50 million Facebook users’ data in 2014, Mark said:

“In last year, in 2017 with the special election in Alabama, we deployed…

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What is Bitcoin? Cryptocurrency For 5 Year Olds

What is Bitcoin? Cryptocurrency For 5 Year Olds

Almost everybody in the world who has access to the internet has heard of Bitcoin, even small children. However, hearing about it and actually knowing what it is are two different things.

Cryptocurrency is a complicated matter, which some adults can’t even comprehend, much fewer kids. But it’s not an impossible thing to learn even for non-techie people. You can teach children about Bitcoins in a…

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Microsoft Expert for Artificial Intelligence Joseph Sirosh, speaker at WeAreDevelopers 2018

Microsoft Expert for Artificial Intelligence Joseph Sirosh, speaker at WeAreDevelopers 2018

WeAreDevelopers brings Josef Sirosh, Artificial Intelligence expert, to Vienna for the WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2018, and keeps nurturing the productive partnership with Microsoft.

WeAreDevelopers, one of the leading platforms for recruiting developers in Europe, brings Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President for Cloud AI Platform to Microsoft, Joseph Sirosh at the WeAreDevelopers World…

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Xbox's father of invention, the latest speaker at Spark.me 2018

Xbox’s father of invention, the latest speaker at Spark.me 2018

Spark.me 2018 has a new speaker. Boyd Multerer, former engineering leader for Xbox video game console, who founded Xbox Live and XNA.

On the Xbox team, Boyd started Xbox Live in 2000, an online multiplayer gaming and digital media delivery service, and ran engineering for it for four years. In 2004 he founded XNA, which opened up the Xbox to all developers and established C# as the language of…

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Ubisoft confirms The Division 2

Ubisoft confirms The Division 2

Ubisoft has announced today a new game title, which is related to its massive open-world sci-fi/fantasy shooter series The Division.

The development studio confirmed that the game is coming in a blog post on the publisher’s website today. The studio didn’t provide many specifics about its release date, but it did promise to deliver more info at the E3 trade show in Los Angeles in June.

Tom…

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How a Bulgarian scheme scammed Spotify for $1M

How a Bulgarian scheme scammed Spotify for $1M

A scamming operation in Bulgaria managed to grab away as much as $1 million in royalties out of Spotify last year, according to sources mentioned in a report .

The Bulgarian entity, which hasn’t been identified, pulled off the feat reportedly by uploading several third-party playlists of songs, creating a flurry of fake Spotify accounts to boost their play counts, and reaping the cash rewards out…

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Call for Official Spark.me 2018 Bloggers

Call for Official Spark.me 2018 Bloggers

The organizing team of Spark.me, one of the most carefully curated business/Internet conferences in Southeast Europe, which is set for May 26-27 (with an additional day of hands-on workshops on May 25), in the Mediterranean seaside resort of Budva, Montenegro, has published a call for Official Conference Bloggers. Interested bloggers are not limited to a text-only format – they are free to use…

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How Cryptelo aims to protect your digital privacy

How Cryptelo aims to protect your digital privacy

Do you believe that your data is at risk? Do you think that you control the data you share? Cryptelo is a Czech startup that aims to solve a major problem and ensure that data never leaves the hands of the users, basically through data sharing and data mirroring.

Their goal is to protect digital privacy and offer an easy to integrate solution that developers and companies can use to incorporate…

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WooCommerce and Success go Hand in Hand

WooCommerce and Success go Hand in Hand

Seven years after its release, WooCommerce continues to gain unprecedented popularity.

Even with dedicated store builders like Shopify and BigCommerce, the powerful eCommerce WordPress plugin has the lion share of the market, powering nearly 20% of all online stores. It has 100,000 users more than the dedicated eCommerce CMS Magento.

The reasons for that dominance are numerous, but the great…

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WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2018, over 8,000 dev enthusiasts in one place

WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2018, over 8,000 dev enthusiasts in one place

WeAreDevelopers Congress brings together developers and IT professionals from all over Europe in one place.

The aim of the Congress is to connect developers from over 70 countries and encourage sharing of knowledge and experience, and to connect companies and startups with investors, potential clients and partners. Microsoft, Google, Facebook, IBM, SAP, Adidas, Porsche, and Informatik are just…

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Bosnia Startup Scene Is Reaching Critical Mass

Bosnia Startup Scene Is Reaching Critical Mass

Startups are the “cool” thing to do nowadays! Walk around in a café in San Francisco or any major city around the world and it seems like almost all unemployed youngsters are building their own “tech startup.”

Everyone wants to be Mark Zuckerberg and create the next Facebook. Silicon Valley claims that they are a “meritocracy” and that no matter who you are, where you are from, or what your…

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New Viber update, includes Kosovo's country code

New Viber update, includes Kosovo’s country code

Back in 2016, Kosovo finally accepted its official country code +383, which would put an end to the usage of either +377 from Monaco, +386 from Slovenia or +381 from Serbia.

Kosovo got the country code of its own as a result of an agreement with Serbia, which was brokered by the European Union. However, even after more than 2 years have past from the agreement, people are still using various…

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BalkanConnect2018 hackathon!

As part of marking the first 10 years of its work, the European Fund for the Balkans is organising policy hackathons — #BalkanConnect2018 — in Belgrade, Skopje, Pristina and Sarajevo.

The goal of these unique regional endeavours is to inspire innovative ideas on how to change the Balkan political and social environments.

Participants will have the opportunity to meet world-renowned experts, to…

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Decissio algorithms help SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event

Decissio is a tool currently in alpha testing, that leverages the power of data and artificial intelligence to analyze which startup companies are likely to perform better than others. It brings clear insights into the world of investment decision making processes for venture capital and accelerators.

With a virtual team working together around the world, Decissio is split between Prishtina,…

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The Startup Way, the new book from Eric Ries

Entrepreneur and bestselling author of The Lean Startup, Eric Ries reveals how entrepreneurial principles can be used by businesses of all kinds, ranging from established companies to early-stage startups, to grow revenues, drive innovation, and transform themselves into truly modern organizations, poised to take advantage of the enormous opportunities of the twenty-first century.

In The Lean…

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