Lithuania

Last week, Vilnius became the first European city to introduce a small fleet of autonomous delivery robots on public roads. Developed by Estonia-based startup Clevon and in collaboration with Lithuanian delivery platform LastMile, three driverless robots are now bringing groceries to shoppers’ doors in the capital’s city centre. Credit: Clevon The robots pick up the goods from the IKI supermarket store on Mindaugas Street. After making their order, customers receive a text message with the…

Lithuania is planning to build Europe’s largest startup campus in the capital Vilnius, as it looks to attract the next in tech talent. Lithuanian co-working company Tech Zity is investing €100m into the new campus which, upon completion in 2024, will provide private workspace for some 5,000 tech workers.  The hub will also house co-working and co-living spaces, events spaces, meeting rooms, and no less than 10 restaurants. The site will be open 24/7 to cater to an “increasing number of hybrid…

Demonstration in support of Ukraine in Vilnius, March 11, 2022. Credit: Michele Ursi/Shutterstock In 2008, as part of a "nation branding" exercise—an attempt to give a country an easily recognizable identity—the Lithuanian communication specialists came up with the slogan "Lithuania—a brave country". At the time, the country's political elite were skeptical, but today, they identify with the label almost instinctively. Indeed,…

The expert panel from the India Semiconductor Mission has revised its ratings for applicants’ project proposals from the earlier 3 or 4/10 to 9/10 now (Illustration: Rahul Awasthi)India and Lithuania on Tuesday agreed to work in the areas of deep tech startups as well as forge lasting ties in manufacturing of semiconductor chips.A high-level Lithuanian delegation led by Economy and Innovation Vice Minister Karolis Aemaitis on Tuesday called on Union Science & Technology Minister Jitendra Singh and discussed ways and…

BRUSSELS—The European Union sued China in the World Trade Organization over punitive trade restrictions that Beijing imposed on Lithuania last year, harming the small Baltic state and the 27-country bloc.China’s near-total curtailment of exports from Lithuania last December followed moves by leaders in Vilnius to support Taiwan, which Beijing considers a breakaway province. The EU said Wednesday that as a result of China’s restrictions, trade between it and Lithuania fell 80% this year through October. China’s…

Taiwan, the world's biggest supplier of semiconductors, will invest more than 10 million euros ($9.98 million) towards chip production in Lithuania, the head of the Taiwanese representative office in Vilnius said on Monday. Taiwan's Industrial Technology and Research Institute will cooperate with Lithuania's electronics manufacturer Teltonika to build semiconductor technology capabilities in the Baltic country, said Eric Huang, head of the representative office. Over two dozen Taiwanese scholarships for Lithuanians will…

Ernestas Tyminas felt "stuck" in his role as a marketing manager at a newspaper in Colorado Springs, Colorado.So he requested two months off to backpack through Asia, he said, landing in Beijing in January 2019."On the first day … I meet this one," he said, gesturing to Darina Karpitskaya, sitting by his side. The couple, speaking to CNBC via video from Dubai, said they met via the travel app Couchsurfing, which links solo travelers together. Karpitskaya, 31, and a flight attendant at the time, had been grounded in…

Lithuanian state and private institutions were hit by a denial-of-service cyberattack on Monday, the Baltic country's National Cyber Security Centre said in a statement released by the defence ministry."It is very likely that attacks of similar or greater intensity will continue in the coming days, especially in the transportation, energy and financial sectors," the centre said.Lithuania's tax authority said in a statement it had halted all activities due to an unusually large number of attempts to connect to its systems,…