The Next Web

DECEMBER 24, 2012

The famously-monikered investor, who now lives in Denmark, was previously the COO at Skype, and has a wealth of experience in founding and building companies. That’s speculation, but what we don’t see in Berlin or many other places is these more substantive companies coming out of this frothy startup environment.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

A similar trajectory is being seen across the Atlantic, as nations such as Italy , England and the Ukraine join a rapidly expanding list of countries including Germany, France, Israel, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Denmark, Poland and others who have chosen to supplement their urban transportation networks with modern micromobility alternatives.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 29, 2022

the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand; the Nine Eyes, an extension of the pact that includes Denmark, France, Norway, and the Netherlands; and the Fourteen Eyes, which added Belgium, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and Spain to the mix. You might find that the service that's as fast as lightning today is barely chugging along tomorrow."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2007

You can see the back of my avatar in the green skirt, the male avatar is Josh Knauer , and my colleague, Susanne Nyrop from Denmark who we bumped into while wandering around Boracay Island. Anyway, there was a navigational interface that allowed us to project an environment and actually walk through it.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2014

And last week, the British Environment Agency announced it would share real-time water-level measurements taken every 15 minutes with apps that will use them to warn residents to prepare for floods caused by rising rivers. But other countries have mounted similar efforts. According to the Open Data Institute, open data saved Canada $3.2

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

The likes of Elastic and Cockroach Labs have built billion-dollar businesses off the back of open source projects, while Aiven recently hit double-unicorn status for a business that helps enterprises make the most of open source technologies in cloud environments. “W4 intends to do this very same thing for the game industry.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

18 European countries have already signed a non-binding pledge saying that they plan to contribute to this EIF’s fund of funds — Austria, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden. More countries should join the list soon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

It was amazing because the participants spanned the globe - literally - we had representatives from UK, Spain, Denmark, Asia, Austraila, and US. Technology as tools for communities to use - as opposed to technology as environments in which new communities may evolve. I met with the group last week.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

The goal is to re-make our built environment to be energy efficient and drive down carbon emissions ASAP. Denmark-based Lun , for example, recently bagged seed funding to build software tools to encourage more tradespeople to focus on installing heat pumps, instead of taking on less climate friendly jobs.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

Other institutions are idiosyncratic in their relationship to their environment, like the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, or to their community, like the Wing Luke Asian Museum. In some cases, that's based on subject matter, as at the Museum of Jurassic Technology or the American Visionary Art Museum.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Yesterday, I visited the Experimentarium , a science center just north of Copenhagen in Denmark. Finally, if visitors are saving their activities in competitive environments like games, being able to see your score relative to others--either in your party or overall--is incredibly engaging.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

The Living Library was conceived in Denmark in 2000 as a way to engage youth in dialogue about ending violence by encouraging people to meet their prejudices and fears in a safe, fun, facilitated environment. A Living Library requires three kinds of people: Books, who openly and honestly represent certain stereotyped groups (i.e.

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The Verge

MAY 21, 2020

This is the process whereby people infected with COVID-19 temporarily relocate to government-run facilities to receive care in an environment where they are unlikely to spread the disease to others. Israel and Denmark are among the countries that have been using such facilities. And what about isolating new cases?

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

A second, similarly 3D-printed object will be brought back to Earth and handed over to the Technical University of Denmark.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 10, 2025

Greenland is a self-governing territory of Denmark, a long-time U.S. Denmark has also recognized Greenland’s right to independence at a time of its choosing. Greenlanders are keen to develop the resources, but they have enacted strict rules to protect the environment. Who does Greenland belong to?

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

will control the island , currently an autonomous territory of Denmark , and if his overtures are rejected, perhaps seize Greenland by force. Greenlands government banned drilling for fossil fuels in 2021 out of concern for the environment. Since Donald Trump regained the presidency, he has coveted Greenland.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The mayor of Denmark capital Copenhagen went so far as to propose a ban on diesel cars in the city last year that would go into effect by the end of 2019; Copenhagen has since tempered its proposal to aim for net-zero carbon emissions and carbon neutrality by 2025. Granted, the legislation for actually mandating the bans lags far behind.)

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

The ecosystem of investors and accelerators is rapidly growing in Oslo, and with more and more successful local startups we have a great environment set up for breeding more great companies going forward. At the same time, Norwegian founders would benefit from more investors with an international focus.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

"The thing that people should be aware of and perhaps worried about is that yes, the glaciers are indeed retreating and disappearing as we said they would," Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland glaciologist and coauthor William Colgan told the Associated Press. The rate of that loss seems to be accelerating."

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 28, 2025

While the island has opened up a handful of mines, like for gold and rubies, its built and natural environment makes drilling a nightmarefreezing conditions on remote sites without railways or highways for access. All of these different minerals are absolutely required to build almost everything that we do in our high-tech environment.

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