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Yesterday’s Sunday press summarized latest statistics about the mobile and web market in Switzerland. I thought this is quite good information and worth to be translated in English. If you need in depth information about statistics from Switzerland check out these source:
Swiss Federal Statistics Office, Eurostat, Comparis, Net-Metrix, Wemf, Public Data
Some cherry-picks:
(Switzerland has approximately 7.5 million people)
Print media
71.1% read newspapers
10.0% watch tv for at least 3 hours a day
Web media
0.56% watch television online once a week
20.5% download music online
Social Media
20.2% use instant messaging
0.1% use twitter
51.0% have a profile on a social network
21.3% are on Facebook
Mobile
13.0% own a mobile gaming console
4.0% connect to internet with a mobile phone
Love
31.9% have searched for a partner online
14.3% have met their current partner online
More stats
The Europas are the TechCrunch Europe Awards for technology companies. TechCrunch is one of the most famous tech and start-up blogs and therefore a great platform to present your own company. Being nominated for the Europas is even a bigger achievement.
The Awards Night will be held on July 9th in London. 400 start-ups from Europe and EMEA were voted on by users and 19 experts. Among the 400 entrants, there were several Swiss startups, namely Amazee, Doodle, NewsCred, RouteRank, Poken, Wuala, Zattoo and Kooaba as well as the Swiss Venture Fund Index Ventures and three start-ups with Swiss co-founders, precisely Amiando, Busuu, Kyte.
I was very happy to see now some many of these companies still in the running after the vote. They are represented in 6 out of 14 categories. Being among the top five and therefore nominated for the Europas is a fantastic accomplishment. Congratulations!
Here are the nominees: Read full story »
from Lift Conference on Vimeo.
This was the Keynote speech at Lift France 09 by Gunter Pauli. The title of his speech was “Changing the Planet”. He’s some inspiring thoughts about entrepreneurship, sustainability, and market insufficiencies. Read full story »
