It gives me great pleasure to announce today that Symbio Group, a leading Web and enterprise software outsourced product development company, Flander, a leading mobile and embedded software development company, and Ardites, a leading expert in user experience technologies, have entered into a definitive agreement to merge the three companies to create Symbio.

Together, we are creating a company the world has never seen before.  A truly globally-integrated, outsourced product development and R&D services company that enables companies to access both high-value, cutting-edge technology domain expertise, and ultra scalable, cost-efficient production capabilities.  We are bringing together some of the world’s best talent across Finland, Sweden, United States, mainland China and Taiwan, and we’re creating new capabilities that didn’t exist before in our companies, including product development and strategy for converged technology solutions and design of rich user experiences across platforms.

It’s clear that as we emerge from the global recession of 2008-2009, the world is going to be a different place.  From a market perspective, we are all interconnected and what happens in one country clearly affects every [Continue Reading...]