In 2019, the app economy contributed a total of €187 billion in direct and indirect revenue to the European Union’s (EU) economy and supported up to 1.7 million jobs in all sectors. In 2019, the app economy added 0.4 percent in value to the EU’s GDP in 2019. Mobile app [...]
By 2030, the world population of obese children and adolescents is predicted to grow by 60 percent to 254 million.[1] With this global health challenge in mind, Sveatoslav Vizitiu and Dumitru Petreus, two software developers in Romania, believe mobile technology can help address this problem. Having struggled with health issues [...]
With most of the world under some level of lockdown, technological innovation continues to play a crucial role in our fight against COVID-19. Public authorities, policymakers, and medical experts rely on the use of aggregated data to inform their decision-making and mitigate the impact of the crisis. The COVID-19 outbreak [...]
COVID-19 apps can play a crucial role in helping economies around the world restart safely. So far, there are 11 countries with official tracing apps in use, and at least 15 more nations that are either considering an official government app or where private solutions are in use. A variety [...]
In 2012, Dora Palfi and Beatrice Ionascu met while attending a college interview weekend for New York University Abu Dhabi and quickly developed a close friendship. Six years later, the two native Hungarians became co-founders of their start-up, imagiLabs. Based in Stockholm, Sweden, imagiLabs has a clear goal: increase the [...]