Mallorca Tech Newsletter – Issue #103

Now more than ever, I would like to insist that if you want to share a job opportunity, an event, 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.

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News

▸ IFISC researcher José Ramasco joined the team of 16 experts that advises the Government of Spain on scientific matters related to COVID-19 and its future consequences.

▸ “This crisis will help us understand the value of the important things.” Interview with David Uriarte, co-founder of GuestPro.

▸ Roiback, a company specialized in the management of the hotel direct sales channel, has announced the launch of ePayments Manager, a system that allows hoteliers to split payments and offer new forms of payment to their clients.

▸ Barcelona City Council has presented the web portal Imatges Barcelona, a repository with more than 4,000 photographs that portray the life of the city in recent years. The technology behind the project has been developed by the company APSL.

Events

▸ 06/05 – From idea to market fit. Free webinar on the steps to follow for the restructuring of the marketing plan: channels, target, market, product…

▸ 06/05 – React course for beginners. An exclusive guide to develop a real project with React. Course developed by Xavi Tristancho to learn to develop a billing application with the most popular library of the moment.

▸ 07/05 – New maker initiatives for coexistence with COVID-19. Online session to brainstorm around several ideas and topics, such as: Print things to avoid touching things; Are there many people in the park now?; Collaborative project for the manufacture of dialysis machines, among others.

▸ 07/05 – III Venture on the Road Final. Online event organized by SeedRocket and BStartup in which the finalists startups of the Palma edition (Arrendart, GuestPro, hotelbreak and Seniors Boom) will make their presentation in front of the jury. In addition, during the event there will be a talk by Raúl Jiménez, co-founder of Minube: “Entrepreneurship during a crisis: impatient in the break-even, patient in growth.”

▸ 13/05 – The TravelTech sector after COVID-19. Webinar organized by Conector where they will talk with Pedro Cámara, founder and CEO of TravelgateX, about the future of technology startups in the travel and tourism sector after the COVID-19 crisis.

▸ 14/05 – Starting Together. Event to learn to create and correctly structure a simple web application and acquire basic notions of HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Job Opportunities

▸ Security Manager – Habitissimo

▸ Programador/desarrollador PHP – ApperStreet

Cool Links

▸ Configuración inicial de un servidor (apsl.net)

▸ Dispersió de dades obertes al Govern de les Illes Balears (Benjami Villoslada via linkedin.com)

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Mallorca Tech Newsletter – Issue #102

Now more than ever, I would like to insist that if you want to share a job opportunity, an event, 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

▸ The Conselleria de Salut has asked citizens to stop using the coronavirus pandemic tracking app within a few days of launching it and has requested the company that developed it to deactivate it because it puts user data at risk. ARA Balears has looked a bit deeper into this situation.

▸ Govern’s Education branch, with the aim of alleviating the problems that have arisen since the beginning of the period of suspension of face-to-face classes, as a consequence of COVID-19. It has acquired almost 3,000 devices and other elements to guarantee connectivity with an investment of 850,000 euros.

▸ The hotel experiences portal, hotelbreak, has launched a solidarity initiative in support of the hotel sector. The initiative “Let’s save our hotels” offers the possibility of buying vouchers to enjoy experiences such as dinners, day passes, Balinese beds, among others, which can be exchanged once the confinement situation ends.

▸ The company Anysolution has launched NADIA Smart logistics, a software that was born as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic to provide solutions to companies with their home deliveries. This solution allows you to create smart home delivery routes.

▸ IFISC is publishing periodic analysis of how policies to combat the COVID-19 pandemic have affected mobility in Spain. Using aggregated and anonymized data from mobile phone records provided by the company Kido Dynamics.

▸ The University of the Balearic Islands has started a series of blog articles with health, culinary and entertainment recommendations to make our quarantine healthier.

▸ Marisa Huaynalaya, digital transformation specialist, has interviewed Sarah Harmon, CEO Habitissimo, on her YouTube channel, WomanwithPower. Sarah also chatted with Andy Saltman about “branding and marketing in times of crisis.”

▸ Gerardo Cañellas, CEO Perfume’s Club, was interviewed on MarketingDirecto, where he talked about how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the online commerce sector.

Events

▸ 30/04 – How to modify your contracts with customers and suppliers during the pandemic. Free webinar on possible modifications to contracts with third parties. With the participation of Paula Artal, Customia, and Jorge Morell, founder of the law firm Términos y Condiciones.

▸ 01/05 – Nuevo paradigma de gestión: Teal y Procesos ágiles en la práctica Legal. Online meetup of the Agile & Lean Baleares group.

▸ 04/05 – Free web development course. 80 hours duration. Online.

▸ 05/05 – Coding Dojo: Employee Report. Remote Kata organized by the groups Mallorca Women Techmakers and Mallorca Software Crafters.

Mallorca Tech Newsletter – Issue #101

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

▸ The healthtech startup Meyo has closed an investment round of 600,000 euros.

▸ Govern has launched an application that aimed at patients with COVID-19 to assess their symptoms and receive instructions and recommendations, and for health authorities to collect clinical data. The ‘app’ is called Clinicovery and it is now available for download and has been developed by the Apploading company.

▸ It seems that the Government’s budget for this year will undergo important changes due to the crisis derived from COVID-19. One of the measures that would be affected is the expansion of the metro line that had to modify its route to add stops at Parc Bit and Son Espases.

▸ The university community has made six 3D printers available to hospital centers that belong to research groups from the UIB and IMEDEA. Professors and students have joined this initiative, offering their private printers to help hospitals.

▸ The shoe making company Camper is manufacturing facial protective screens for healthcare workers in its facilities with their 3D printers. In addition, they are awaiting final authorization to begin the production of “special parts” for respirators and have made iPads from their stores available to local hospitals so that patients can communicate with their families.

▸ Perfume’s Club has donated hydroalcoholic gels worth 100,000 euros to support the work of health services and distributors. The company has also reported business figures in recent weeks that double the past year’s, with daily sales of over 200,000 euros on many occasions.

▸ The technology company APSL has adapted Botibot, its artificial intelligence framework to create chatbots, which they offer to any institution that needs to automate the answering of questions from citizens.

▸ Interviews with Daniel Alzina, CEO and co-founder of Hotelinking, and Xavier Pallicer, CEO and co-founder of GuestPro, where they talk about how the current situation is affecting the tourism industry and possible solutions for the future.

▸ Cómo unir la tecnología a una visión de comunidad, a talk by Antoni Aloy, CEO and co-founder of APSL, at AI Saturdays Mallorca.

Events

▸ 01/05 – Nuevo paradigma de gestión: Teal y Procesos ágiles en la práctica Legal. Online meetup of the Agile & Lean Baleares group.

▸ 04/05 – Free web development course. 80 hours duration. Online.

Job Opportunities

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.

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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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Mallorca Tech Newsletter – Issue #096

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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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Disponemos de un espacio de coworking, despachos cerrados de diferentes dimensiones, salas para eventos o formaciones, estudio de fotografía… En Nidus39 te ofrecemos diferentes espacios adaptadas a tus necesidades y en pleno centro de Palma. Ponte en contacto con nosotros para ampliar información y conocer nuestros diferentes espacios y tarifas: info@nidus39.com – 871948999 – 637734803

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