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Why you should pay attention to these 8 emerging tech hubs

The Next Web

From Silicon Valley to Silicon Alley, and Berlin’s hip coffee shops to East London’s Silicon Roundabout , the world is well versed in the global innovation boom towns. But have you heard of what’s going on in Cyprus, Sweden or North Carolina? Nicosia, Cyprus?. What other global cities are being put on the map of innovation?

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Ninja Innovation: What Governments Can Learn from the Next Web Leaders

The Next Web

Gary will be speaking at The Next Web Conference Europe 2013 , which takes place in Amsterdam on 25-26 April. The bank crisis in Cyprus threatened property rights of depositors; the EU economy is challenged and the US is slipping in global competitiveness rankings. His views expressed here are his own.

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200.000.000 mobile users, for starters – Q&A with Viber CEO Talmon Marco

The Next Web

The company is based in Cyprus with development centers in Belarus, Israel and China. Viber is quite global. Obviously, we index better in some countries (and worse in others), but it’s pretty much a global phenomenon. What size is your staff, where are the offices located, and has the company ever raised funding?

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Create High-Impact Data Visualizations: Nine Effective Strategies

Occam's Razor

Cyprus and Ireland. The Global Gender Gap Report is a fabulous example how to solve this problem. (This is embarrassing but I was surprised how big Italy is, and how small Sweden is.). The clusters of countries next to each other, for the sake of cleaner lines, all by itself has a built-in message. UK, Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia.

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