Sanna Marin, the popular former prime minister of Finland, on Putin, powerful women and legislating in the age of AI
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DECEMBER 28, 2023
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Netflix is building its own game studio in Finland
TechSpot
SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
Netflix also picked up Night School Studio in September 2021 and Boss Fight Entertainment this past March, and will soon have four gaming studios under its wing.
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3 leaders shaking up Finland’s tech scene
The Next Web
MAY 2, 2017
In 2009, Finland was the second largest investor in early stage European startups based on GDP. Finland’s startup… This story continues at The Next Web. According to Startup100, there are more than 600 active startups in the country. Most of these startups are in the tech or gaming industries.
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Undersea cable disruption in Baltic Sea investigated for possible sabotage
TechSpot
DECEMBER 26, 2024
Finland's prime minister, Petteri Orpo, said the outage had not affected the country's electricity supplies. However, Reuters reports that the capacity between the countries was reduced from the installed capacity of 1,016 MW to 358 MW. Read Entire Article
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What We Can Learn from Finnish NGOS About Resilience
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 17, 2017
When discussing the ideas in The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , people in Finland have figured out keeping calm versus fire drill culture. Take for example, Fulbright Finland where I did a workshop with their staff about personal branding and professional networking.
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Ukraine, Estonia, Chile, Finland: The saga of four accelerators
The Next Web
MARCH 3, 2016
It’s hard to get the exact data on how many startup acceleration programs are being launched every year, but it’s definitely a lot. If you search Google News for something like “new startup accelerator,” it will return hundreds of headlines from all over the world.
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Most current AI tech is 90 percent marketing, says Linus Torvalds
TechSpot
OCTOBER 29, 2024
The developer, who won Finland's Millennium Technology Prize for the creation of the Linux kernel, was interviewed during the Open Source Summit held in Vienna, where he had the chance to talk. Torvalds said that the current state of AI technology is 90 percent marketing and 10 percent factual reality. Read Entire Article
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Netflix closes SoCal gaming studio, top devs depart
TechSpot
OCTOBER 22, 2024
The company continued the push into 2022 with the acquisition of Next Games and Boss Fight Entertainment, and even announced plans to build its own studio in Finland. The streaming giant launched its gaming initiative in late 2021 with a handful of mobile titles. Read Entire Article
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How an Apple AirTag and Twitter saved a cyclist's $8,000 bike
TechSpot
JULY 31, 2023
Barry Sherry of Virginia wanted to travel to Europe for what was probably the 68-year-old's last "epic" bike trip abroad, cycling through Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Finland, writes CNN. Read Entire Article
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Why I make everyone in my company be the CEO for a day
TechCrunch
JULY 28, 2021
After successfully running Vincit in Finland and Switzerland, in 2016 we made the jump to the United States, setting up an office in California. We encourage our employees to make a trip to Finland to visit our headquarters. We’re at our best when our employees are at their best, so we do everything in our power to make that a reality.
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Finnish VC firm Lifeline Ventures closes $163M fund for early-stage startups
TechCrunch
MAY 17, 2023
Venture capital (VC) firm Lifeline Ventures today announced a fresh €150 million ($163 million) fund aimed at early-stage startups across Finland. “We’re still seeing lots of startups being founded, in Finland specifically. There is room for that sort of growth in Finland.” billion for a majority stake in 2016. .
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What we can learn from edtech startups’ expansion efforts in Europe
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
with seven, Norway with five, and Spain, Finland, and Switzerland with four each. The survey revealed a roughly even split of target customers across companies, institutions and consumers, as well as a good spread of home markets. The largest contingents were from the U.K.
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YouTube ‘Premium Lite’ subscription offers ad-free viewing for less
The Verge
AUGUST 2, 2021
Premium Lite is currently being tested in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden. “In The new “ Premium Lite ” plan was spotted by a user on ResetEra , and YouTube subsequently confirmed the test offering in a statement given to The Verge.
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Founder Institute doubles down on Europe, now runs 10 startup accelerator programs continent-wide
The Next Web
OCTOBER 16, 2012
The newly launched chapters are Zagreb (Croatia), Helsinki (Finland), Istanbul (Turkey), Rome (Italy) and Kyiv (Ukraine). As promised at the end of July , the organization has now announced the launch of five new programs across the continent, doubling its European presence to ten chapters across as many countries.
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European refurbished electronics marketplace Refurbed raises $54M Series B
TechCrunch
AUGUST 5, 2021
Refurbed also competes with Rebuy in Germany and Swapbee in Finland. The startup has 130 refurbishers selling through its marketplace. Other players in this space include Back Market (raised €48 million), Swappa (U.S.) and Amazon Renew. COVID-19 crisis spurs triple-digit growth for refurbishing startup Back Market.
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Microsoft Flight Simulator adds beautiful Nordic views in its latest update
The Verge
JUNE 17, 2021
World Update V is focused on the Nordic region (specifically Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden), bringing stunning vistas to an already visually impressive title.
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IPRally is building a knowledge graph-based search engine for patents
TechCrunch
JANUARY 7, 2021
IPRally , a burgeoning startup out of Finland aiming to solve the patent search problem, has raised €2 million in seed funding. Leading the round is by JOIN Capital, and Spintop Ventures, with participation from existing pre-seed backer Icebreaker VC. It brings the total raised by the 2018-founded company to €2.35
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Tesla owner blows up Model S instead of footing $22,600 repair bill
The Verge
DECEMBER 26, 2021
Either way, the group behind Pommijätkät strapped 30kg (66 pounds) of dynamite to the car and parked it in an old quarry in Jaala, Finland. Katainen’s quote was also from Tesla, and it’s unclear whether he had access to an alternative repair service. Even Elon Musk was there — well, at least in spirit.
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Samsung Galaxy Watch 3’s EKG feature is coming to 31 new countries
The Verge
JANUARY 26, 2021
Samsung says the app was granted a CE marking in December, which means that it complies with applicable regulations in Europe and can be offered in the European Economic Area.
QuantrolOx uses machine learning to control qubits
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
In part that’s because those are systems the company has access to, including through a close partnership with a lab in Finland that the company wasn’t quite ready to disclose yet. .” For the time being, though, the company’s focus is on solid-state qubits.
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Remote physical gaming site Surrogate.tv raises a $2.5M seed round
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 18, 2020
million seed round, led by Supernode Global and followed by PROfounders, Brighteye Ventures and Business Finland. The diversity of experience is probably the service’s biggest strength, all told. Today the Finnish startup announced that it has closed a $2.5 The latest sum joins a $2 million pre-seed announced by the company last year.
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DoorDash to acquire food delivery company Wolt
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 9, 2021
Finland-based Wolt was founded in 2014 by Miki Kuusi, who, upon the deal closing, will run DoorDash International and report to Xu. The company has over 4,000 employees across 23 countries and its technology enables users to easily discover and receive food via its platform by selecting a restaurant, placing the order and hitting send.
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Financing for students startup StudentFinance raises $5.3M seed from Giant and Armilar
TechCrunch
MAY 18, 2021
StudentFinance launched in Spain first, followed by Germany and Finland, with the U.K. Fintech startup StudentFinance — which allows educational institutions to offer success-based financing for students — has raised a $5.3 million (€4.5 million) seed round co-led by Giant Ventures and Armilar Venture Partners. It’s now raised $6.6
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Netflix acquires another developer to build ‘world class games’
The Verge
MARCH 2, 2022
Next Games is a developer based in Finland. Netflix has made an offer to acquire Next Games , the Finland-based developer behind mobile puzzle RPG Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales. Image: Netflix.
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Google will give you free Stadia hardware if you buy a game
The Verge
OCTOBER 5, 2021
The free Stadia Premier Edition offer will run in the US, UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Austria, and Switzerland. Google’s free offer will run until 11:59PM PT on October 10th, and codes will be distributed by October 20th.
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Facebook Dating launches in Europe after lengthy delay
The Verge
OCTOBER 21, 2020
Companies launching such products must undergo a review called a Data Processing Impact Assessment (DPIA) under the European Union’s GDPR protections, and Facebook reportedly informed regulators too late of its plans, raising concerns about data privacy compliance.
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ICEYE’s new $136M in funding points to a white-hot space-based remote-sensing market
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
The company was originally founded in Helsinki, Finland, but has since expanded its footprint to include a U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) on January 20 to take part in that agency’s evaluation of SAR commercial remote sensing. subsidiary, which also began operating its own manufacturing facility last year.
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Sweden-based digital bank Northmill raises $30M
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
As it stands, 2006-founded Northmill is available in Sweden, Norway and Finland, where it competes with incumbent banks with physical branches and the likes of Lunar, Revolut and Klarna (which operates as a bank in its home country of Sweden, and Germany). Next stop, Norway.
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Lookout sells its consumer cybersecurity business to F-Secure for $223M and goes all-in on the enterprise
TechCrunch
APRIL 26, 2023
Lookout’s long-running transition to becoming an enterprise security company is all but complete, revealing today that it’s selling its consumer mobile security business to Finland’s F-Secure in a deal valued at around $223 million.
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Liberis, the embedded finance provider for SMEs, raises additional £70M in equity and debt
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Finland, Sweden, Czech Republic and Slovakia). To date, 2007-founded Liberis has provided over £500 million in financing to 16,000 SMEs across Europe, the U.S. and the U.K. the product is available in five new countries: U.S., However, lending has really picked up lately, with £250 million lent in the past two years alone.
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Fast Internet access becomes a legal right in Finland - CNN.com
AFP Blog
OCTOBER 15, 2009
Fast Internet access becomes a legal right in Finland - CNN.com: "(CNN) -- Finland has become the first country in the world to declare broadband Internet access a legal right."
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Come hear about the opportunities in space observation at TC Sessions: Space
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 12, 2020
Rafal Modrzewski was a researcher at VTT, the Technical Research Center of Finland, working on RFID and wireless sensing technologies before he turned his attention to the stars. He advised on space commercialization at NASA Ames’ Space Portal while completing an MSS from the International Space University.
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Montonio is building the payment and checkout solution to rule them all
TechCrunch
APRIL 12, 2022
Montonio currently supports all major banks in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and a few major banks in Finland. If customers choose to pay using payment links, Montonio charges €0.05 + VAT per payment. That’s much cheaper than card payments. The startup is going to focus on Poland next.
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Oda, the Norwegian grocery delivery startup, raises a fresh $151M, but at a lowered valuation of $353M
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 6, 2022
Oda , one of the bigger players in online grocery delivery in Europe with operations in its home market of Norway as well as Finland and Germany, today announced that it had raised 1.5 Oda says that its focus now will be on getting profitable in Germany and Finland for expanding elsewhere.
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Skype users in the US can now make 911 calls from their computers
The Verge
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
The US is the latest addition to the list of regions with Skype emergency service calling; until now it was only available in Australia, Denmark, Finland, and the UK. Skype announced this week that its US users can use it to dial 911 from their home computer, and that its software can share their location with emergency services if needed.
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Dott launches bike-sharing service in Paris
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 12, 2021
In addition to Paris, Dott operates in major European cities in Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain and the U.K. These three companies have won permits to operate scooter-sharing services with 5,000 scooters each. Dott originally planned to launch bike-sharing with its own custom-designed bike in March 2021.
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Qarnot creates green data centers by putting servers in central heating boilers
TechCrunch
JANUARY 9, 2023
Qarnot already rolled out a pilot data center in Finland with 100kW of compute. Image Credits: Qarnot. Clients include social landlords, property developers, local authorities, swimming pools and heating network operators. With our system, you don’t need a cooling system and we can sell the heat that is generated from our servers.
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Richard Branson backs Lightyear as UK stock trading platform launches into Europe
TechCrunch
JULY 14, 2022
Lightyear’s expansion includes the following markets: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain. And less than a year after first launching to early U.K.
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Boring, mundane businesses have an exhilarating, viral life on TikTok
The Verge
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
I got an order in Finland, an order in Ireland. “People on the other side of the world are seeing my videos,” said Kelita Butler, who’s had videos go viral that show her filling tubes of lip gloss for her Fairborn, Ohio-based company TopSecret Bundles. “I ra_treeservice Hydrated #timberfaller #logging #treeservice #urbantimber ?
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Alphabet’s Wing kicks off drone delivery service in Dallas on April 7th
The Verge
APRIL 4, 2022
Wing has been able to rack up a series of minor successes, recently completing its 200,000th delivery while operating in three countries: the US, Finland, and Australia. Wing has been able to rack up a series of minor successes, recently completing its 200,000th delivery while operating in three countries.
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US government restricts 42 Chinese enterprises over alleged support for Russia
TechNode
OCTOBER 8, 2023
Additionally, seven entities from Finland, Germany, India, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom were also added to the export control list. On Friday, the US Commerce Department announced the addition of 42 Chinese companies to an export control list due to their support for Russia’s military and defense industries.
Varjo, an early mover in building XR headsets and software for enterprises, taps $40M
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
The company is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland — founded and run by longtime veterans from Nokia cast asunder when that company, once a leading smartphone and mobile maker, went into a tailspin last decade — and its backers in this round include a number of big investors out of the region.
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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 4, 2013
Other new international partners in 2012 include the National Library of Korea, Royal New Zealand Institute for the Blind, Studiebogservice (Denmark), South African Library for the Blind, and Celia Library (Finland).
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