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Building Mobile Apps with PhoneGap

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At Meltwater, we are building mobile apps using web technologies. To access platform level APIs, we use the cordova framework, commercially known as PhoneGap. In this post we want to share what we have learned in the last months about the framework and mobile development in general. First of all: It is...

Developer Spotlight: Tristan Hohne

Developer Spotlight

Hello! My name is Tristan Hohne, and I recently joined Meltwater as a User Experience Designer. In this blog post I want to introduce myself and what I do at Meltwater. A born German with a Dutch attitude thanks to my mother, my roots are in a small town with more trees...

Balázs Gődény wins Build Challenge by Thomson Reuters

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Recently Balázs Gődény, Principal Engineer of Meltwater’s Natural Language Processing team in Budapest, won the Build Challenge, which is the 2nd phase of the Thomson Reuters Innovation Challenge. Congratulations Balázs!!! One quality of great engineers is that they often truly enjoy what they do. This means that they tend to have a...

Berlin Tech Talk: Testing APIs

Berlin Tech Talks

In our speaker exchange, Fabian Moritz from ITaCS GmbH gave us an introduction to Microsoft SharePoint earlier this year. On Friday the 13th - what a great day to test stuff - Sebastian Spier from the Meltwater Berlin office gave a presentation at ITaCS about Testing APIs. In the larger domain of...

Developer Spotlight: Camila Ayres

Developer Spotlight

Today we are putting the developer spotlight on Camila, Engineering Trainee for our Self-Service Applications team in Berlin, Germany. Hello everyone. I was born and raised in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, South of Brazil. That is where I also studied and figure out my way between bits. In 2008 I...

Interview with Robert Andersson from LikeAlyzer

Meltwater recently acquired LikeAlyzer, a service that helps you to analyze the effectiveness of your Facebook Pages. Along with an awesome product we also adopted LikeAlyzer’s founder Robert Andersson. We took the opportunity to interview him. Good morning Robert. First of all, welcome to Meltwater. We are excited to have you in...

Our New Data Science Team

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Meltwater has a new data science team, located in Meltwater’s Oslo office, close to the infamous Shack 15, the cradle of our company. In this post we want to introduce the team, and the topic of data science. What is Data Science? Data Science is an emerging field, with numerous of vague...

Berlin Tech Talk: Microsoft SharePoint

Berlin Tech Talks

Today the Engineering team in Berlin got an introduction to Microsoft SharePoint. Presenter was Fabian Moritz from ITaCS GmbH, who is an MVP for SharePoint Server. Besides learning about the different use cases that SharePoint can be used for, we also got an introduction to all the integration options that SharePoint offers...

Developer Spotlight: Ruth Liew

Developer Spotlight

Today we are putting the developer spotlight on Ruth, Scrum Master for Meltwater Buzz in Bedford, New Hampshire, USA. I was born and raised in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and moved abroad in 2004. Growing up, I saw my parents travel extensively for work and pleasure, and since then, I couldn’t wait to...