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Lithuania is home to 15 video game companies, most of them developing games for smartphones. Competition in the industry is fierce, they say, and you need to offer something exclusive to succeed. One Lithuanian game developing company believes it just got what it needed.
A Lithuanian school in Rokiškis, Juozas Tūbelis Pro-gymnasium, is to start teaching computer programming to its pupils in the first grade, in what may be a first in Lithuania.
Lithuanian Company eSTAR sold 50% more tablets in 2015 than in 2014 despite the fact that the tablet market shrank by as much as 30% in many European countries last year.
IT specialists will continue to be the most sought-after employees in Lithuania to 2020 and beyond as skills shortages continue in the key sector.
The Ministry of Education is proposing to increase state financed positions at universities for information technology studies by 50% in response to increasing demand for skilled IT professionals in Lithuania's labour market.
Lithuanian start-up YPlan, an event discovery and booking app created by two Lithuanians in London, has gained recognition from one of the most influential technology blogs in the world - VentureBeat. The portal added the Lithuanian project to a list of 15 startups worth following.
JetCat Games, founded by three game developers from Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia, has just marked a new milestone in the Lithuanian gamedev industry by becoming the first game developer to receive venture capital from a Lithuanian risk capital fund. The indie game development company, which moved to...
With over 30 million downloads worldwide of their game development platform, Kaunas-based TutoTOONS is going from strength to strength. Established as a start-up two years ago by two Lithuanian game developers, the company now has 15 staff in Kaunas and Barcelona, and has ambitious plans for further...
Two Lithuanian students at the University of Edinburgh have won a $10,000 prize at a global computer coding competition in Mumbai.
Talks have been around for some time now that US internet giant Google is looking into expanding in Lithuania. At the moment, however, the company is only looking for a Lithuanian-speaking finance specialist for a job in Dublin and does not reveal any details about possible plans to settle in Vilniu...
Global Game Jam is an annual, global marathon for game developers and enthusiasts also held in Lithuania. The event took place across three locations in Lithuania on January 23-25. The purpose of the marathon is to give a platform for professional game developers and enthusiasts. Event is seen as a ...
The euro which will shortly replace the litas will have a positive effect on the IT services market of Lithuania, however, it will hardly bring any significant changes. Antanas Ursulis, general manager of CSC Baltic which provides IT services, says that the euro will not bring any dramatic changes t...
Lithuanian game developers who participated in AppCampus, Microsoft and Aalto University’s global mobile applications business accelerator programme, have been more successful than their counterparts from the other Baltic States. Ten Lithuanian projects have received funding for further activity sin...
Having opened an office in Vilnius this summer, American software engineering company Exadel has announced further plans for expansion, including the opening of new offices in Kaunas and Klaipėda. Exadel intends to create 35 new jobs for IT specialists and programmers in the two new offices.
Instead of building their own IT infrastructure, enterprises have the possibility to access computing resources hosted by third parties on the internet.