Intense competition for new ‘42’ IT start-up academy

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Up to 70,000 young people between the ages of 18 and 30 have completed a four-hour aptitude test on the internet to compete for a place at ‘42’ – a grand educational experiment in France to recruit talented, often underprivileged, youths to the informatics sector. Self-made billionaire Xavier Niel and a group of incubator entrepreneurs are behind the initiative. More...