Mallorca Tech Newsletter – Issue #073

Mallorca Tech Newsletter is a weekly digest with news, events and job opportunities to help you stay up to date with the tech and startup ecosystem of Mallorca. Subscribe now and get it in your email. Curated by David Bustos.

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Habitissimo is looking for App Developers!
We are looking for two people to integrate in our technology team. We are adapting our methodology towards a multiplatform environment, using always native technologies, with code in Swift and Kotlin. For this, we need a person with experience in Android app development and another in iOS app development. What do we offer? Indefinite contract, 1.000 euros per year to invest in training, discount on medical insurance and a salary between 30.000 and 40.000 euros.

News 📰

• Álvaro Medina has been appointed new Fundació Bit manager, the public company that runs Parc Bit. Álvaro is a computer engineer and until now he worked as a technical director of mobile applications at the company APSL.

• The Port of Palma will be one of the 14 headquarters of the ‘Ports Fund 4.0’. The fund will be dedicated to financing projects related to logistics efficiency, processes digitalization, environmental sustainability and energy; and security. Its initial endowment will be of 25 million euros. Funding on each selected company will range from 15.000€ for ideas or start-ups in the initial phase to 2M€ for scale-ups. The initiative will officially start on October 3rd.

• PalmaActiva is looking for companies to participate in its web and applications development dual program. Companies participating in the program may incorporate personnel and obtain a 100% subsidy of the costs.

• Travel Compositor has developed a special version of its multi-destination platform for Star Alliance that offers in exclusive the content of the 28 airlines that are part of the alliance.

• The world’s most modern cryptocurrency ATM has been operating in a Playa de Palma restaurant for a month. According to the promoters of the initiative that between 8 and 20 daily transactions take place, 80% of them being the sale of cryptocurrencies to get euros. The second phase of the project plans to incorporate the use of dataphones.

• Article about the company FastPayHotels, which business model is based on paying hotels almost at the same time that the reservation is made. It is especially focused on the sale of non-refundable rates

• The meteorological prediction company Meteoclim reveals some of the projects it is currently working on, such as the meteorological observation based on the behaviour of telecommunications networks.

• The online travel agency specialising in the luxury segment, Essentialist, appears in this article about the best solutions to book personalised trips.

• Small piece in the IB3 tv news about the launch of pepecos.es, the metasearch website of animals for adoption.

• CAEB and Banco Santander announce the Business Innovation Awards for SMEs. It is possible to send applications until October 31st.

• Ice Wave launches a 350,000€ funding round through the crowdfunding platform Crowdcube.

• The UIB is among the 500 best universities in the world, according to the Shanghai ranking, the influential ARWU classification rewards scientific work of the universities.

Events 👋

• 29/08 – Menorca HotelTech Summit 2019. Technological trends to make your hotel profitable. Getwhin, TravelgateX and EISI SOFT will participate in the event.

• 05/09 – Technical excellence improves agility, do we pay enough attention to it? Meeting in which one of the agile principles will be discussed: “Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility”.

• 14/09 – PyDay Mallorca 2019. A day with talks and workshops about Python from different perspectives. By the way, they are looking for speakers to complete the agenda.

• 23/09 – Introduction to programming course. Free, 45 hours long and led by Francisco Grau (Team Lead Architect en Best Doctors Technologies).

• 21/10 – Advanced web design course. Free, 50 hours.

• 26/10 – User Experience Bootcamp organized by Carlos Pons, Product Designer at Oracle. It will take place on Saturdays and Sundays in the morning at Nidus space.

At Nidus WorkSpace we have the space you need. Come and meet us!
We have different rooms, in the center of Palma, adapted to your needs. Trainings, lectures, conferences, networkings, product presentations, interviews, castings … Contact us for more information and to know our rates.

Job Opportunities

• Android Developer & iOS Developer at Habitissimo (30-40K)

• Software developer at  Gil Estarellas-Txerpa (30-40K)

• Mobile Marketing Manager – GB Market at Playspace (18-24K)

• Affiliate Marketing Manager at PerfumesClub (21-24K)

• Account Executive en Booking.com

• Regional E-Commerce Manager at Meliá Hotels International

• Digital Project Manager at Bahia Principe Hotels & Resorts

• Python Developer at Bluekiri

• Conversion Rate Optimisation Specialist (CRO) at MoreNiche

• IT Application Support Agent at Sunhotels

• Lead Developer at TravelgateX

• Community Manager – Social Media Manager at Refinería Web

• Digital Growth Manager at Musement (TUI)

• PHP Developer at MoreNiche

• Senior DevOps Engineer at WebBeds

Do you know someone who might be interested in one of these opportunities? 👉 Send it to them!

Interesting Links ⛓️🌍

• Las 5 campañas de email marketing imprescindibles para tu hotel(hotelinking.com)

• 5 Funny Things Developers Can Do That Nobody Else Can (travelgatex.com)

• Beneficios del humor en el trabajo (trabajarlafelicidad.com)

• 10 years of the Jobandtalent platform (jobandtalent.engineering)

• How to Make a Phone Farm (vice.com)

• Less than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click (sparktoro.com)

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Mallorca Tech Newsletter is a weekly digest with news, events and job opportunities to help you stay up to date with the tech and startup ecosystem of Mallorca. Subscribe now and get it in your email.

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Mallorca Startup News 📰

• Meliá’s social networks generate 24% of its traffic and are responsible for 42 million euros in sales.

• recycl3R shared data of a project they have worked during 8 years about changing recycling habits with the help of the Internet of Things. 

• Report about Hi Sense in IB3’s show Favorits. In it you can know better the beginnings of the company that has developed smart information points to help fight skin cancer.

• Brief profile of EcoBsystem, a company dedicated to the distribution of food utensils, containers and packaging 100% free of plastics.

• Roiback opens its first office in the Canary Islands. The fourth in Spain after Palma, Seville and Barcelona.

• Dingus announced that it will begin to liberalize its APIs.

• Alejo Ecube, CEO of FDSA Programación, has shared on LinkedIn a reflection on affection in professional relationships.

• 3 Things Your Boss Expects You To Know About BI on TravelgateX’s blog.

• Affilired published on their website: Optimizing the travel conversion funnel: the key to boost your online sales.

Tech Events in Mallorca 👋

• 05/09 – Technical excellence improves agility, do we pay enough attention to it? Meeting in which one of the agile principles will be discussed: “Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility.”.

• 14/09 – PyDay Mallorca 2019. A day with talks and workshops about Python from different perspectives. By the way, they are looking for speakers to complete the agenda.

• 26/10 – User Experience Bootcamp organized by Carlos Pons, Product Designer at Oracle. It will take place on Saturdays and Sundays in the morning at Nidus space.

At Nidus WorkSpace we have the space you need. Come and meet us!
We have different rooms, in the center of Palma, adapted to your needs. Trainings, lectures, conferences, networkings, product presentations, interviews, castings … Contact us for more information and to know our rates.

Mallorca Tech Job Opportunities

• Full-stack Developer at AI Finance Group

• Programador/a at GE departamento nuevos servicios (30-40K)

• iOS Apps Developer at Habitissimo (30-40K)

• Senior Java Developer at Patterson Agency

• Innovation Project Manager at Air Europa

• Glover Specialist at Glovo

• Mobile Marketing Manager – GB Market at Playspace

• Community Manager at Sol Katmandú – Meliá

• B2C Market Manager at RIU Hotels & Resorts

• Sales Manager at Denomatic

Do you know someone who might be interested in these opportunities? 👉 Send it to them!

Interesting Links ⛓️🌍

• Y el editor de código favorito de los programadores es… 8 profesionales nos dan su respuesta

• Freepik, el ‘Google español’ de imágenes que no quiere inversores: “No hace falta”

• Quién sabe que miras porno ‘online’

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Mallorca Tech Newsletter is a weekly digest with news, events and job opportunities to help you stay up to date with the tech and startup ecosystem of Mallorca. Subscribe now and get it in your email.

Newsletter published with the support of:

Habitissimo is looking for a PHP Team Lead
We are looking for a lead developer with a passion for web development and people management who wants to lead one of the development teams of our web platform. Your main functions will be to lead, coordinate and supervise your team and develop new functionalities for the Habitissimo core platform (PHP and symfony). We offer salary between 30.000 and 40.000€/gross per year, permanent contract and additional 1.000€ for training. Check all the details here.

Mallorca Tech News 📰

• Balearic Islands, pioneer community after approving a project to implement a telematic network for monitoring large consumers in all the islands. The development of the project will cost 1.5 million euros that will come from the Sustainable Tourism Tax.

• The British venture capital firm Magenta Partners, has invested in the Mallorcan FastPayHotels. After the operation, Tom Matthews, co-founder partner of Magenta, will join the company’s management team. The amount invested was not disclosed but Magenta takes part in operations between 5 and 20 million euros.

• A group of young entrepreneurs with experience in companies such as Trivago, 21buttons or Stayforlong have launched pepecos.es, the first metasearch engine of animals for adoption. It currently has 15,000 registered animals, the largest in Spain

• After several years of development, it seems that the Smach Z portable console is ready to go on the market. Financed with more than 1 million euros through crowdfunding campaigns, it was presented at the last edition of the E3 fair. This is the first portable device compatible with the Steam platform

• Interview with Tomeu Bennasar, CEO of Logitravel, where he talks about innovation and the future of the tourism industry.

• Roiback has developed Europe’s first accessible booking engine. The platform improves the user experience for people with physical, visual or hearing disabilities. It was recently awarded as the best solution for hotels in Europe at the World Travel Awards 2019.

• Interview with Miguel Pieras, founder of Hustle Got Real, in IB3’s show Cinc Dies.

• The app to avoid anchoring on posidonea expands its cartography and  the whole island of Formentera and partially Ibiza and Menorca are now available. It is expected to add Mallorca soon.

• TravelgateX and Travel Compositor have signed an agreement to boost B2B travel.

• Debbie O’brien of Patterson Agency has published the Vue Router for Everyone course at Vue School.

• Interview with Nico Castellanos, operations director of the cybersecurity company Andubay and organizer of the No cON Name (NcN), Spain’s first congress in Hacking and Cybersecurity.

Tech Events in Mallorca 👋

• 24/07 – How to analyze the basic data from social networks and analytics. Workshop in the Chamber of Commerce with Teresa Berga, founder of Comunis, digital communication agency.

• 26/10 – User Experience Bootcamp organized by Carlos Pons, Product Designer at Oracle. It will take place on Saturdays and Sundays in the morning at Nidus space.

At Nidus WorkSpace we have the space you need. Come and meet us!
We have different rooms, in the center of Palma, adapted to your needs. Trainings, lectures, conferences, networkings, product presentations, interviews, castings … Contact us for more information and to know our rates.

Tech Jobs Opportunities

• Senior .NET Developer at Logitravel (30K)

• Data Science Manager at FastPayHotels

• Senior Java Developer at On Consulting

• Data Warehouse Manager at Grupo Piñero

• Service Delivery Network Engineer at OmniAcces

• B2B E-commerce Performance Marketing Manager at Hotelbeds

Do you know someone who might be interested in these opportunities? 👉 Send it to them!

Interesting Links ⛓️🌍

• Game of Tongues: How Duolingo Built A $700 Million Business With Its Addictive Language-Learning App

• The Toxic Potential of Youtube’s Feedback Loop
• The Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Toward Piracy

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Noticias 📰

• Sarah Harmon, actual directora de LinkedIn en España y Portugal, pasará en septiembre de 2019 a ser la responsable de Habitissimo. El nombramiento coincide con con la compra del 30% de Habitissimo por parte de la compañía británica Homeserve, que se hace con el 100% del capital.

• Caso de éxito de Iberostar en el blog de Think with Google tras lograr un incremento del 249 % los ingresos procedentes de dispositivos móviles al mejorar la experiencia de usuario.

• Se abre la segunda convocatoria del programa Travel Tech de Conector en Palma. Podéis consultar los requisitos, beneficios y enviar candidaturas desde su web.

• TravelgateX presenta Swappt, una plataforma de gestión de pagos dirigida a negocios B2B.

• Ya está disponible la nueva app de ORA en Palma. Por un lado ha despertado críticas por requerir acceso a demasiada información de los usuarios; y por otro el Ayuntamiento anuncia que con la municipalización del servicio ahorrará 840.000 euros anuales.

• En el podcast de Inturea han hablado con Santiago Garcia Solimei, Head of Social Media en Melia Hotels International.

• Reflexión de Benjami Villoslada sobre sus 4 años como CIO del Govern de les Illes Balears durante la pasada legislatura.

• Cómo diseñar una newsletter que convierta en el blog de Hotelinking.

Eventos 👋

• 27/06 – PowerBI: cómo crear cuadros de mando alucinantes en el meetup de Netsaimada en Nidus.

• 27/06 – Workshop sobre la financiación de negocios Blockchain, dirigido a perfiles legales, técnicos y de negocio.

• 28/06 – Intutalk con los fundadores del ecommerce de calzado Pompeii, que compartirán su historia.

• 01/07 – Python para el análisis y visualización de datos. Curso de verano de la UIB de 25h.

• 03/07 – Taller práctico sobre Machine Learning en AWS donde aprender cómo crear, entrenar y desplegar nuestros propios modelos de ML.

• 06/07 – Taller de Introducción a la Ciencia de Datos con Python a cargo de PyData Mallorca

• 08/07 – Nuevas tendencias en la contratación turística. Especial referencia a las plataformas digitales y alquiler vacacional. Curso de verano de la UIB de 25h.

Nidus WorkSpace ¡Ven a conocernos!
Somos tu espacio de trabajo en el centro de Palma, para que puedas crecer profesionalmente, compartir espacio, conocimientos, conectar con otros profesionales y crear sinergias.

Empleo ⚒️💾

• System Administrator en Bluekiri

• Software Engineers: Juniors, Seniors and Technical Leaders en WebBeds

• DevOps Engineer en TravelgateX

• DevOps Engineer en Hotelbeds

• Technician for the Beach Monitoring Facility en SOCIB

• DataOps en Cloud Frontier

• UX/UI Designer en Amaris

• Marketing Project Manager en Iberostar

• Diseñador/a Web en Sling Technology

• Diseñador/a Gráfico Junior en Borbalán

¿Conoces a alguien a quién pueda interesarle alguna de estas ofertas? 👉 ¡Envíasela!

Enlaces Interesantes ⛓️🌍

• GDPR Enforcement Tracker – list of GDPR fines. Listado que se actualiza en tiempo real con las sanciones impuestas por la UE por incumplimiento de la GDPR. 

• I Was A Cable Guy. I Saw The Worst Of America (theverge.com)

• Inmates in Finland are training AI as part of prison labor (theverge.com)

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