Mallorca Tech Newsletter – Issue #087

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📰 News

🔸 Balearic Labor Inspection sentenced Glovo to hire its 361 freelance delivery riders. In addition, it requires the digital platform to pay 365,392 euros to Social Security for unpaid fees plus a 20% surcharge.

🔸 Boatjump, the boat rental platform, has announced that since its inception in 2016, more than 15,000 users have used the web and its turnover exceeds 10 million euros.

🔸 The Mallorcan company materialsdefabrica.com, has also shared its business figures after taking stock of its expansion in Europe under the name of Habitum, reporting an exponential growth in turnover of around 300% YoY and with a forecast to close 2019 over 7.5 million euros in revenue.

🔸 Grupo Dynasoft has been awarded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) with the seal of Innovative SME for its work and technological development as a Microsoft partner.

🔸 After the first months of the implementation of facial recognition technology at Mahón Airport, Ara Balears have gathered the opinion of several experts in different matters about the adoption of this technology.

🔸 Ecotxe, the cooperative of shared electric cars of Mallorca, announces the opening of a campaign to acquire a new vehicle for the company.

👋 Events

🔸 18/12 – Webflow: changing the web creation paradigm. First meeting of the Webflow Mallorca group where they will talk about what Webflow is and its possible applications in the fields of design, marketing and for SMEs.