TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Peter Platzer co-founded Spire Global back in 2012 with a vision to provide satellite-powered data from any location on earth. 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.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Co-founder and CEO Saar Yoskovitz said in an interview that the funding will be used to expand the services that it provides to customers, as well as to build out its global customer base, and the ecosystem of companies that it works with so that it can expand the kinds of customers it targets to include smaller businesses and scale-ups.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Last month, Wolt in Finland — which started with restaurants but has since expanded into other areas, including grocery — raised $530 million ; Glovo in Spain picked up $120 million ; and Weezy in the U.K. Amsterdam’s Crisp, an online-only supermarket, raises €30M Series B led by Target Global. raised $20 million.

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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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Tiger Global is leading this round, with new backers Baleen Capital and Woodson Capital also participating, alongside Fasanara Capital and Ithaca Investments, which had backed Scalapay in its previous $48 million round earlier this year. The startup has raised $155 million at a $700 million valuation.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The seed round, which Pop Market claims is the country’s largest seed raise to date, was led by Global Founders Capital and 468 Capital. Finland’s Wolt is also active in the market. TechCrunch can confirm the startup has raised $3.5 “The biggest players in this market today are efood and Wolt.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Although the company released the mid-range Honor 50 globally last year, the Magic 4 is rumored to be using Qualcomm’s flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor, making it a direct (and likely affordable) competitor to the likes of Samsung’s Galaxy S22 or the OnePlus 10. HMD, which produces Nokia smartphones, is a major exception.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The last year — shaped by a global health pandemic — has been all about bringing more services online and into the cloud, so people and businesses that can no longer do things like banking or selling/shopping in person can still get things done. It has now raised €175 million in total. It is live in Sweden, U.K.,

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The Verge

MAY 12, 2021

The WNBA says this “marks the first time Prime Video has exclusive global streaming rights to a women’s professional sports league,” but the rights don’t extend to every country — China, Japan, the UK, Italy, Spain, Finland, and Germany are all left out.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

The plan is to double down on more services serving the Nordics, which will include a launch into Finland, before spreading into more markets in Europe and farther afield. That number has now grown to 500,000 across a footprint that includes Denmark (its home base is in Copenhagen), Sweden and Norway.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Sorry, Finland, we love you, honestly. A global currency conundrum : Tage writes about FTX’s influence on Africa , where billions in cryptocurrency was processed monthly before the company’s collapse. Whoops — we updated the headline. That was yesterday.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

In the last year alone, 21 million users were added globally. Klarna’s direct to consumer app, which sits alongside its 200,000 strong merchant point of sale integrations, has 14 million active users globally. Today, the company boasts a registered customer base of 90 million, 11 million of which are in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

In the last year alone, 21 million users were added globally. Klarna’s direct to consumer app, which sits alongside its 200,000 strong merchant point of sale integrations, has 14 million active users globally. Today, the company boasts a registered customer base of 90 million, 11 million of which are in the U.S.

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Tableau

JANUARY 6, 2022

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2019

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JANUARY 6, 2022

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AUGUST 14, 2019

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JUNE 30, 2019

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FEBRUARY 2, 2020

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The Verge

JANUARY 25, 2021

Google workers across the world are coming together to form a global union alliance. The newly formed coalition, called Alpha Global, is comprised of 13 different unions representing workers in 10 countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, and Switzerland.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Although Finland has the lowest population in the EU, it’s responsible for 10 percent of global startup exits. In fact, The 2018 Global Startup Ecosystem report ranks Helsinki’s ecosystem as the best in the world when it comes to local connectedness. Internally, the Finnish startup scene is extremely connected.

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JUNE 1, 2021

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

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OCTOBER 31, 2019

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

-based, Memmo was founded in Stockholm, and Lundberg Toresson said its strategy is both global and localized — the company is currently operating localized marketplaces for Sweden, Germany, Finland, Norway, the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy and Canada, as well as a general global market.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Founded in 2015 , Wolt is a Finland-based company that contracts out couriers to deliver takeout, groceries, and other goods to customers in 23 countries mainly throughout Europe. DoorDash has agreed to acquire the food delivery company Wolt for €7 billion (about $8.1 billion) with plans to expand its reach to Europe (via TechCrunch ).

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In 1999, the Greenpeace national offices in Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway united to form one regional entity: Greenpeace Nordic. The last few years have been pivotal for the environmental movement as the effects of climate change and shifting global weather patterns have become increasingly apparent and driven up public awareness.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

He says it’s spun up five pilot projects over the last seven months involving commercial landlords, utilities, real estate developers and engineering companies (all in Finland for now), although — again — full customer details are not yet being disclosed. “We’d be very happy,” says Rauhala.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

When we asked Snap to detail its policy around anonymous apps aimed at minors, we were told the company is in the process of reviewing its app ecosystem and policies, following the hire of its first global head of platform safety. It’s also in the top 10 in Great Britain, the Netherlands, Australia, Finland, and New Zealand.

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JUNE 1, 2021

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FEBRUARY 21, 2008

The final, official results have arrived for America's Giving Challenge and I'm happy say that we came in first place for global causes ! A Youtube Message of Support from Finland. This was truly a group effort - no one person could have done this alone. Ed Schipul's Conference Presentation Features the Campaign. Dr. Mani's Passion.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

Yaccarino will be leaving her role as chairman of Global Advertising & Partnerships at NBCU. X opens up its ad revenue sharing program globally The company announced its “Ads Revenue Sharing” program is now available for eligible creators globally. X also changed its App Store tagline from “Let’s talk.”

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 20, 2025

Spoiler alert: Finland once again is the happiest.) Finland Denmark Iceland Sweden Netherlands Costa Rica Norway Israel Luxembourg Mexico Australia New Zealand Switzerland Belgium Ireland Lithuania Austria Canada Slovenia Czech Republic The five countries where people were most unhappy? 24earning its lowest ranking yet.

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Engadget

MARCH 18, 2025

Apple just brought its Tap to Pay technology for iPhones to a host of new European countries , including Poland, Switzerland, Finland, Hungary, Portugal and several others. For instance, iPhone users in Finland will be able to use Tap to Pay with Stripe, SumUp, Viva and many more. This allows for contactless payments.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Bioinformatics is maybe a little bit overlooked in Norway, but I don’t feel that is the case globally. Also, Norway is by far the leading country globally in adoption of electric vehicles per capita, and today over 50% of all new cars bought are electrical. Great global market access: EU networks, foreign investments, etc.

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