Iceland Local Roles 
Fast Company Tech
MARCH 31, 2025
After making his mark in Silicon Valley, Icelandic designer and tech mogul Haraldur Halli Thorleifsson is now solving a far more analog problem: the inaccessibility of local storefronts. And this isnt just an Icelandic issue. As a wheelchair user, Thorleifsson knows firsthand how exclusion can be built into a city.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 19, 2021
(As an equivalent, this would not be unlike how some on-demand transport platforms contract with individuals, but also local fleets that use the platform to pick up business.). Flytrex’s first-ever service was launched in Reykjavik , Iceland in 2017, but the first U.S.
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The Verge
JUNE 16, 2020
The study analyzed a collection of contact tracing apps, which are designed to inform and monitor physical contact between people in the event someone contracts COVID-19, from 11 countries: Algeria, Bahrain, France, Iceland, Israel, Kuwait, Lebanon, Norway, Qatar, Tunisia, and United Arab Emirates. It is an entirely voluntary opt-in app.
The Verge
AUGUST 13, 2020
That’s more than the estimated GDP of Iceland and Yemen combined, according to the International Monetary Fund ). million in stock and free advertising as well as a $250,000 fund to rebuild local businesses. Roberts also argued that companies need to be thinking about their role in creating the racial inequalities that exist today.
Mashable Tech
MARCH 6, 2025
Reprising their supporting roles are Beverly Hills Cop co-stars John Ashton, Judge Reinhold, Paul Reiser, and Bronson Pinchot. New to the crew is Taylour Paige as Axel's hard-headed daughter, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a local ally, Nasim Pedrad as a flustered real estate agent, and Kevin Bacon as a smirking antagonist.
TechCrunch
MARCH 9, 2021
Local investors tend to invest 50% to 90% of their fund into local startups, “but we do look at deal flow in all Nordic countries,” said one. How much are you focused on investing in your local ecosystem versus other startup hubs (or everywhere) in general? The decline in infections locally and the rollout of the COVID vaccines.
The Verge
MAY 13, 2020
I won’t argue here — many of these content moderation roles are essentially first responder jobs, not nearly as different as you might think from police officers and paramedics, and they deserve compensation and benefits more closely in line with the service they provide and the risks that they take. I do think we won’t go back.”.
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