My fellow nowEurope contributor, Guenther Krumpak, recently pointed out that European universities consistently rank at the bottom of the Times Higher Education Supplement university rankings. Geunther suggested a possible Anglo Saxon bias in the list. Perhaps. It would depend on the methodology.
What I’d like to know is how well are European universities keeping relevant with important commercial trends. I read today that Stanford University has a launched a new course to train iPhone developers. Wired’s Gadget Lab reports that worldwide demand for iPhone developers has jumped 500% in the last six months.
Can you imagine a Centrope university that responds so swiftly to market demand?
Continue reading ‘Why isn’t this a Hungarian, Czech, Slovak or Austrian university?’
Earlier this year, in April 2008, Yahoo! Inc announced that it had acquired the full assets of a Budapest company, Tensa Kft, which operates the Web Analytics service Indextools. Yahoo! is now conducting a major upgrade of the company’s technical infrastructure in order relaunch Indextools as a free service bundled to its Yahoo! Advertising network - in a fashion similar to Google Analytics. (Disclosure: I worked as Marketing Director at Indextools in 2004 and 2005.)
I wish that I could point to this deal as part of a trend, but it is not. Few Central European Internet businesses can compete head to head with VC-funded US companies, as Indextools successfully did. However, Indextools does offer an useful case study of how CEE businesses can maximize their local advantages while minimizing their weaknesses, in order to win business on global markets.
Continue reading ‘Indextools: How to minimize your weaknesses (part one)’
I’m pleased to announce that we’re now preparing to introduce a new round of contributors to nowEurope, the members of the CITT consortium. CITT is an EU project co-funded under the 7th Framework. I’ll let our CITT project leader, Zuzana Lettner, tell you more about CITT. My purpose with this post is to tell you a little about where we’ve been and where we’re going.
I’ve always been fascinated with how new technologies get turned into businesses. When I started nowEurope, back in 1995, I was interested in meeting people in Europe who wanted to start businesses on the Internet. We talked about business models, investments and exciting new startups. Several of my readers went on to meet each other, face to face, and a few of them even launched businesses together. This current iteration of nowEurope isn’t so different. However, the circumstances have changed.
Continue reading ‘Welcome CITT!’
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