Mallorca Tech Newsletter – Issue #100

Without a doubt this issue comes at a hard time for everyone. I hope that you and your loved ones are well these days ❤️

Now more than ever, I would like to insist that if you want to share a job opportunity, an event, a news from your company, from the tech sector or a post from your blog, you just have to email me at david@mallorcatechnews.com and I will include it in the contents of the next issue.

If you a part of any kind of social action or know of any, please get in touch, the sponsored spot is available to you completely for free while the alert state lasts.

Mallorca Tech Newsletter is the best way to find out about the technology and startup ecosystem in Mallorca. If you enjoy it, please share it with one of your contacts and invite them to subscribe. This is a small personal project of David Bustos, so any recommendation to your friends and colleagues is very helpful.

News

▸ A group of scientists from the Balearic Islands Health Research Institute (IdISBa) is developing a new medical test that would be ten times cheaper than PCR and at the same time much more accurate in detecting cases of coronavirus.

▸ The company Robot has donated 10,000 masks to the Balearic Red Cross.

▸ Perfume’s Club donates 3,000 units of sanitizing gel to Correos Expres workers.

▸ Online orders to the food markets skyrocket. If a few months ago their sales through the online platform La Mercateca accounted for 5% of total turnover, in recent weeks they have grown to 25-30%.

▸ Habitissimo has communicated that it keeps its entire workforce operational and also shared a series of measures that it has put in place to collaborate with their sector.

▸ The double and complex problem of ICT for Tourism in the COVID-19 crisis, thoughts from Jaume Monserrat, President of Turistec (cluster dedicated to ICT applied to Tourism), on the current situation.

▸ How your business can thrive during lockdown, post by Andy Slack, CEO of MoreNiche and founder of Olive Valley. A guide to not only survive during this period, but thriving with remote work during coronavirus.

▸ Trifork Mallorca has elaboraed a comprehensive guide to help companies adapt to working remotely.

▸ Pau Riera has published the MusicBucket API on GitHub, with all the functionalities of his the MusicBucket Bot for Telegram.

▸ Damavis Studio has released the beta version of Airflow Pentaho Plugin, with which it is possible to orchestrate and schedule Pentaho jobs and transformations using Apache Airflow.

▸ The marketing agency Inturea has created a website with webinars, courses and interviews. Everything focused on helping tourism companies recover from the COVID-19 crisis.

▸ The app Veern to control time in different time zones is now available as a universal purchase on Mac and iOS.

Job Opportunities

Mallorca Tech Newsletter – Issue #099

Without a doubt this issue comes at a hard time for everyone. I hope that you and your loved ones are well these days ❤️

Now more than ever, I would like to insist that if you want to share a job opportunity, an event, a news from your company, from the tech sector or a post from your blog, you just have to email me at david@mallorcatechnews.com and I will include it in the contents of the next issue.

If you a part of any kind of social action or know of any, please get in touch, the sponsored spot is available to you completely for free while the alert state lasts.

Mallorca Tech Newsletter is the best way to find out about the technology and startup ecosystem in Mallorca. If you enjoy it, please share it with one of your contacts and invite them to subscribe. This is a small personal project of David Bustos, so any recommendation to your friends and colleagues is very helpful.

News

▸ Fundació Balear d’Innovació i Tecnologia, has compiled some of the state and regional financial support measures for SMEs and freelances published in recent days. In addition, the foundation itself has announced that the companies housed in its buildings will not pay rent while the state of alarm is active.

▸ Fundació Bit has also published a map with the local shops and services of the Balearic Islands that sell online. It includes more than 200 shops and producers that operate these days electronically and offer delivery.

▸ In line with the above, the Menorca Association of Merchants has announced the launch of the Xuroa, an online platform where more than 80 businesses will participate and will have more than 5,000 product references available.

▸ habitissimo creates an “Hour Storehouse” that allows its employees to give vacation days to each other in order to improve work-family balance. The company has also appeared in the TVE territorial news, sharing how their teams function working from home.

▸ More than 350 “Coronavirus Makers” from Mallorca have put their 3D printers into operation to print pieces of self-contained respirators and protections against coronavirus. They have already printed 277 masks and respirators.

▸ The company Gladtolink has developed a system to digitally obtain and store the necessary Travel Authorization for those people who must circulate to continue working. The Twitter account of Mossos d’Esquadra has used as an example of fraudulent link.

▸ UIB’s Campus Sport has published an open platform where you can access video classes of different exercises for free.

▸ Logitravel has created a system to facilitate the processing of reservations affected by COVID-19.

▸ The IFISC collaborates in a research to confront Covid-19, coordinating a project to study the impact of social distancing measures.

▸ Teknautas published a piece about Yuccs, the footwear company that manufactures shoes with merino wool, which already has 5,000 clients on the waiting list for their new release and whose turnover is over 1 million euros.

▸ Innovation Strategies has been recognized as Best Workplace by Great Place To Work.

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Job Opportunities

Mallorca Tech Newsletter – Issue #096

Mallorca Tech Newsletter is the best way to keep up with the tech and startup ecosystem of Mallorca. If you enjoy it please share it with your contacts and invite them to subscribe. This newsletter is a personal project of David Bustos, so any recommendation or social network share is very helpful.

If you want to share a tech-related job opportunity, event, news or blog post, just write to david@mallorcatechnews.com; you can also check the sponsorship options available. And thus, connect with a community of over 700 people related to the tech sector and digital businesses.

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Customia y Splacing, o cómo arrancar tu start-up a tiempo parcial

¿Estás pensando en montar una start-up pero tienes poco tiempo debido a tus obligaciones profesionales? ¿Crees que necesitas dedicar todo tu tiempo y recursos para empezar con ese negocio digital que tienes en mente desde hace años?

Customia trae una gran noticia: ya no es necesario dejarlo todo para dar vida a tu start-up, es posible hacerlo part-time. Con su equipo por horas y metodología 100% probada, te ayudan a dar rienda suelta a tu espíritu emprendedor sin que tengas que arriesgar tu trabajo o negocio actual.

¿Quieres un ejemplo? te presentamos a Splacing, un marketplace de profesionales a quien Customia ha acompañado desde sus inicios como idea. Sus promotores se apoyaron en el equipo por horas de Customia para aterrizar su idea, validarla y ponerla en el mercado, sin dejar de atender su negocio principal. Ello les permitió emprender con menor riesgo, y actualmente dedicarse full-time a su start-up para hacerla crecer. Sin duda un gran ejemplo a seguir para muchos emprendedores.

¿Quieres que Customia te ayude a crear y gestionar tu start-up a tiempo parcial?

Solicita aquí información sobre sus diferentes tarifas y metodología para hacerlo posible.

News

▸ The Balearic Government wants to participate in the management of 5G, which will use various frequency bands, including broadband. It is going to propose to the Ministry of Economy, Business and Digital Advance to not auction one of the 5G channels to private operators and give its management to the autonomous communities.

▸ UIB’s Institute of Interdisciplinary Physics and Complex Systems and the company APSL have signed a collaboration agreement, thanks to which they will exchange information and collaborate in the processing and analysis of data and in computational models of social and sociotechnical phenomena.

▸ A new edition of Connect’Up kicks off. The contest to find the best new businesses in the Balearic Islands is organized by Grup Serra (Última Hora).

▸ The CIFP Francesc de Borja Moll becomes one of the collaborating educational  institutions of the GitHub Campus Program.

▸ Several media have echoed this week in the story of Carlos Maxi, math teacher and director of Bárcena Formation Academy, who has 95,000 followers in Tik Tok, being one of the most-followed Spanish-speaking accounts related to education.

▸ Juan Carlos González Cavella, APSL Data Scientist, participated in the last PyConES, and now his talk “Fragment and dearticular crime networks Topology and network weakness” is available on Youtube.

▸ El País wrote about Insights-X for Destinations, a big data tool to anticipate traveler behaviors that has been developed by two Mallorcan companies, TravelgateX and Top Tourism Marketing.

▸ In their blog, Hotelinking interviewed Rafael Soler, a member of the team that manages Parc Bit’s Tech Business Incubator.

Events

▸ 27/02 – Business Angel Course. Training to learn about the process of private investment, distinguish viable projects for investment, negotiate with entrepreneurs and other investors, among other topics.

▸ 27/02 – El futuro cuántico de IT + Implementando redes neuronales y algoritmos genéticos. Big Data & Machine Learning Mallorca meetup event.

▸ 28/02 – Pythonic Science, general meeting about Python that will feature talks by Juan Fernandez Gracia, a doctor in physics and working as a postdoc in complex systems at IFISC and Juan Luis Cano, an aeronautical engineer with interests in astrodynamics, free software and working on satellogic.com.

▸ 04/04 – Hacking the history. FPGA workshop to simulate the Enigma machine organized by Makespace Mallorca. 

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Mallorca Tech Newsletter – Issue #091

Mallorca Tech Newsletter is the best way to keep up with the tech and startup ecosystem of Mallorca. If you enjoy it please share it with your contacts and invite them to subscribe. This newsletter is a personal project of David Bustos, so any recommendation or social network share is very helpful.

If you want to share a tech-related job opportunity, event, news or blog post, just write to david@mallorcatechnews.com; you can also check the sponsorship options available. And thus, connect with a community of over 700 people related to the tech sector and digital businesses.

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Customia, el equipo por horas para tu startup
Conseguir el equipo cualificado y profesional que necesita tu startup ha dejado de ser un problema gracias a Customia y su innovador servicio de equipo por horas. Ponen a tu disposición un equipo de expertos, con más de 10 años de experiencia desarrollando startups, para ayudarte en las diferentes áreas de tu negocio dependiendo de tus necesidades. Todos los servicios centralizados, tarifados por horas y a precios asequibles para que el proceso de emprendimiento sea factible, viable, rentable y escalable. ¿Quieres saber más? Visita nuestra web.

📰 News

▸ Fundació Bit co-organizes a  sustainable tourism business ideas contest. Teams can submit artificial inteligence based solutions to problems such as seasonality or environmental impact. The selected projects will participate in the contest final at 4YFN (Barcelona), where they will compete for a prize of €5,000.

▸ El País has published a report of the 800 young Spanish companies with the fastest growth,  23 based in the Balearic Islands appear in it. Of these, only 2 are tech companies: Travel Compositor (271) and Dynasoft Spain (489).

▸ Interview with Javier Pérez, CEO of Customia, where he talks about Fideltour, a company created and launched by Customia that offers solutions to reinforce the direct sales strategy of tourism companies.

▸ COPE talked to Jaume Monserrat, CEO and co-founder of Hitt Group and president of Turistec, about the 5G network, the progress in the Balearic Islands compared to the rest of Spain, its positive advantages and doubts about data control.

▸ Banca March launches its new app for mobile devices.

👋 Events

▸ 15/01 – Dreamforce’19 Highlights. Meeting to review the highlights of the annual Salesforce event, held in San Francisco.

▸ 22/01 – Talk about the Law on Business Secrecy. How to protect the knowledge developed within a startup using a new blockchain-based tool.

▸ 22/01 – 21th PyData Mallorca meetup. With talks about PySpark and “Using Python and R together”.

▸ 23/01 – STEM Talks Menorca. GDG Menorca organizes an event focused on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) with the objective of promoting scientific and technical careers. Professionals from Google and Microsoft, among other companies and institutions, will participate.

▸ 29/01 – re: Invent 2019 recap and S3. AWS Palma Group Meetup where there will be talks to discuss the news presented at the AWS re: Invent in Las Vegas and about deploying projects with S3 buckets.

▸ 31/01 – Revenue Management y Chatbots en 2020. Meetup with on ML application cases for revenue management and what a good chatbot needs.

▸ 06/02 – Innovation funding in the digital age. Javier Ponce, General director of the Center for Industrial Technological Development (CDTI), will share the opportunities available for small and medium enterprises.

▸ 08/02 – Django Girls Mallorca. New edition of this web programming workshop aimed at women. You can also register as a volunteer and participate as a coach/mentor.

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