Here’s the next edition of the Friday roundup where we try to cover more news, jobs, and events from the region. Top image is of the Angry Birds Land theme park in Tampere, Finland from Peter Vesterbacka’s twitter feed. I know it’s old to bring this up, but it’s pretty remarkable how what the mobile game has turned into today. Have a great weekend everyone!
News:
Rise of the machines: One of the founding engineers of Skype and Kazaa has warned the human race that machines are becoming so intelligent that they could pose an existential threat.
Flattrstar is an new service that automatically flattrs the images you star on Instagram.
The GameFounders accelerator received 122 applications.
Cherry media group proclaims themselves the biggest e-commerce company in the baltics.
Events:
StartSmart! SummerCamp4Startups! in Estonia on August 17th.
Media Evolution The Conference on August 22nd in Stockholm.
The Arctic15 – October 17-18
Jobs
Fits.me needs a HEAD OF PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT in Tallinn
Eniram is looking for an IT Manager in Helsinki
Grey Area needs a Metrics Analyst in Helsinki.
Hyperin is looking for a Java Software Developer in Helsinki
and many more recently posted jobs in our Job Board.
