For the MME startup “United Robots”, 2020 concluded on a real up as the company made Deloitte’s 2020 Sweden Technology Fast 50 list of fastest growing tech companies. The Malmö based content automation company was listed at #37 with a 582% net revenue growth over the past 4 years. 2020 was a tough year forRead more
Web64’s founder, Olav Hjertaker, has a clear idea of what he and his team want to accomplish: making the Google Analytics for society and the Spotify for content, to help people make more informed decisions. Web64 is one of the startups of the MME programme, addressing the challenge “Facilitating transition to a data-driven media industryRead more
Medoid AI are one of the startups in the MME programme, working on an amazing solution to empower people’s voice in social media by building novel hate-speech detection and opinion mining solutions. We had a heart to heart with the founder, Anestis Fachantidis, who talked to us about their journey and their path in MME.Read more
Alexander Talashov founded GPU AUDIO as an innovative, disruptive technology that utilizes the power of generic video cards to perform sound processing. The startup is currently participating in the MME programme, and told us about who they are, where they are going, and how MME is helping them get there. Tell us about your deeptechRead more
21 promising deeptech startups and scaleups were selected for the second batch of the MME programme – let’s take a look at the numbers behind our second open call winners! The second MME open call for startups and scaleups closed on the 30th of October, with 84 applications. 21 top deeptech innovators have been selectedRead more
Saxo Bank has released on 8 December 2020 its 10 Outrageous Predictions for 2021. The predictions focus on a series of unlikely but underappreciated events which, if they were to occur, could send shockwaves across financial markets: Amazon “buys” CyprusGermany bails out FranceBlockchain tech kills fake news China’s new digital currency inspires tectonic shift in capitalRead more
Technological determinists tend to believe that they will be able to solve wicked societal problems with the help of advanced systems in artificial intelligence. However, a quick reality check indicates that technology is not enough for solving social and political challenges such as information disorder or the so-called infodemic. Besides fundamental issues, such as lackRead more
A workshop on entrepreneurship and open innovations was held on 21.10.2020 in Sofia Tech Park. This was the first event of the Media and Creative Industries Innovation Hub in Sofia, set in the program for the period 2020 – 2021. The program was developed by the Sofia City of Knowledge Cluster with the assistance ofRead more
About a few days ago, the European Commission announced a Call for Proposals in order to support the EU strategy to tackle disinformation and complement the European Digital Media Observatory’s (EDMO) activities by providing funding to specific research projects on disinformation. Such projects, which include fact-checking and analysis of online propagation patterns, should be carried out by expert teams with a specificRead more
MME’s startup Adverif.ai wrote a research paper that has been selected to be presented at the International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media. The paper, named “Automatically Identifying Political Ads on Facebook: Towards Understanding of Manipulation via User Targeting”, dives deep into the social media influence in the political scenario. Are you beingRead more
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