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Midnight Pitch Fest in Oulu 22.-23.8

Midnight Pitch Fest is looking for scalable startup businesses with large market potential in four categories to pitch. Startups, apply now! Midnight Pitch Fest is a rock festival style pitching and start-up event, which will be held August 22-23 in Kuusisaari Island, Oulu.

Monsta Points launched in App Store

Adapkit, a startup grown in Protomo Tampere has launched Monsta Points, an innovative digital reward chart for iPad that makes it easy for parents to set goals, and truly motivate their children to earn the rewards they really want, including new apps and games.

Summer in Protomo Tampere

Protomo and New Factory won't quiet down for the summer months. Protomo teams and the startups in New Factory are continuing to keep the co-working space busy.

Protomo expert services and facilitation are on summer holiday until August 5th.

During the summer, Protomo doesn't provide any expert services or organize events. Don't worry though, you can follow New Factory's event calendar to see what else is happening at the factory! New Factory gathers people for events, trainings and workshops also during summer.

Frontlé won the pitching competition

Every night the city is full of interesting music events - You just have to find them first...

Congrats to Spaceship winners!

Over 9,000 people from all corners of the world participated the NASA Space Apps Challenge.  Spaceship, the local event at New Factory gathered 12 great teams and here's the top 2 winners!  These teams will progress to the global judging round. The results will be announced in May.

And the local winners are...

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...Meteorienteers and Spaceveggies!

Holiday Greetings

New Factory and it's co-working space will be open for member teams and startups during the Easter.

The front door in Väinö Linnan aukio will have special opening hours: Friday 29.3 and Monday 1.4 @ 10-18. Other days the door is open normally.

Happy Easter Holidays everyone!

TeamUp nominated 2013 Red Herring Europe Finalist

TeamUp, a startup from New Factory has been selected as a Finalist for Red Herring's Top 100 Europe award, a prestigious list honoring the year’s most promising private technology ventures from the European business region.

Java EE course in the Internet

 Java EE course in Internet, 8th of April 2013 - 26th of August 2013, Mondays 5:30-8:00pm

Attend using your own workstation. Topics include e.g. Java web programming, web services REST/SOAP, EJB components.

Tools: Oracle NetBeans + Glassfish Server (all free).

The course is taught in Finnish; however, most material is in English. Optionally, an English group may be available (see below).

Online sessions using WebEx meeting service. Audio headset required.

New Factory Mob - 13 monkeys QA

13 Monkeys QA overview

New Factory Mob - the user community of New Factory - has established a question & answer service for all New Factory users. The site is a place to ask questions about New Factory practices, technology, best practices and so on. The answers are provided by the community. That includes you. It is a collection of information which grows ever bigger. The answers come from other users - from peers. Therefore it is the best possible source of information. 

13 monkeys?

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