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- ArcticEvening Helsinki
Dubrovnik Lounge
Tuesday, October 27 at 6:00pm - Arctic Evening Copenhagen
La Oficina
Wednesday, June 24 at 6:30pm
Our second ArcticEvening this year in Stockholm will be held on 18th of November 2009.The theme of the evening will be Mobile smartphone solutions and trends – how to strategically build business around the different native application platforms and mobile web.Discussion around delivering c...
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There’s a big trend currently sweeping though the Nordic and Baltic countries. This is not a new phenomena for those who have been following what has been going on with the Internet, but it seems that the bigger public has been hit in the head with it and now doesn’t really know what ...
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From Google over Apple to the Start-up next door, nearly every company today uses web hosting services or has huge server farms at their disposal so that their services can run smoothly. That much of this energy to run these data centers comes from fossil fuels or even nuclear energy is probably ...
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The Finnish Heavy Metal band Mokoma, has publicly thanked Spotify for their payout model. Their Facebook fan page states that for “every 100 album playbacks we get 30 euro cents from Spotify. Thanks Spotify.” The deals that Spotify has struck with different artists have been kept secr...
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The Finnish Heavy Metal band Mokoma, has publicly thanked Spotify for their payout model. Their Facebook fan page states that for “every 100 album listens we get 30 euro cents from Spotify. Thanks Spotify.” The deals that Spotify has struck with different artists have been kept secret...
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During our trip to the Silicon Valley we aimed to meet people who have experience from the Northern Europe on one hand, and from the Silicon Valley on the other to get the bottom of the differences between the two places. This is the second post of the series. See also the first post here.I talke...
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Eat.fi, a Finnish website that focuses on restaurant search and reviews, finally rolls out its business model after building the high quality site and community for three years. The company, quite predictably, has chosen to let the restaurant owners advertise their lunch time specials and other o...
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Sweden has got its own social media monitoring tool, Silverbakk Briefing Room (we recently wrote about Icelandic Clara). Silverbakk measures influence, visibility and engagement in social media, probably the hottest topic at the moment besides real-time search and augmented reality. The company l...
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The Finnish company Futuremark, who has been previously known to be the leader in 3D, mobile and PC benchmarking, has released a game called Shattered Horizon on Steam. The company has been around since 1997 and was previously known as Mad Onion. Benchmarking is the practice of determining the ca...
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During our trip to the Silicon Valley we aimed to meet people who have experience from the Northern Europe on one hand, and from the Silicon Valley on the other to get the bottom of the differences between the two places .Especially we wanted to know what their advice would be for the aspiring yo...
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Listhings.com is a new Estonian “eco-friendly” online web tool for storing sticky notes about anything from To-Do lists to grocery lists and phone numbers.The man behind the project is Martin Tajur, also Creative Director and co-founder of United Dogs and Cats (our previous coverage)....
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Finland recently introduced the national goal of increasing the share of renewable energy to 60 per cent of total energy consumption. That is okay but the most important fact I think, is that Finland will finally introduce a set of financial and tax incentives to promote the development and pilo...
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Culminatum Innovations has come up with a totally new program to generate better growth companies from the digital content and services sector in Finland. The program is called International Business Program and it has several stages. The companies participating in the clinic this year may be eli...
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Today, Kauppalehti wrote that the Finnish computer electronics store founder and owner Samuli Seppälä is going to take the company public in a few years time. He’s doing this with the help of the Swedish private investment company Rite Internet Ventures who have invested 3 million euros to ...
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I bumped into Mikko Nurminen a few years ago and was immediately fascinated with their business. He’s one of the co-founders of Ideakone and they own products such as Kotisivukone and Moogo as they’re known in English. They’re in the business of easing website development throug...
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We bumped into Michel Wendell of Nexit Ventures (a VC firm focusing on mobile and wireless communication) during our Silicon Valley trip and asked him where does Nexit Ventures see the next big opportunities in the mobile space. See the video below.
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According to a Finnish business periodical, Talouselämä, Fruugo has secured more financing from its current shareholders, Jorma Ollila, Risto Siilasmaa and others. We previously wrote about Fruugo laying off 40% of its staff to cut its burn rate. At the moment, 25-30 people work at Fruugo.Juha Us...
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Dodreams Oy, a Finnish MMO-gaming company, has received a major investment from some of the top Finnish investors working with early stage companies. Dodreams offers portal and media companies tournament system software and services to combine MMO gaming with mass media. They recently worked with...
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Remedy Entertainment, a Finnish gaming company, has revealed some more information regarding their newest game Alan Wake, which has a planned release date in the Spring 2010. For those unfamiliar with Remedy Entertainment, they are the developers of Max Payne the first person shooter based in the...
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The Swedish video-on-demand service Voddler, has just announced a number of agreements with different Hollywood studios to distribute their content. We’ve written about them before so the company isn’t all that new to us. Nevertheless, there is an interesting story to the name change ...
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We all know Powerkiss from before, but to be honest you can get only so excited about wireless mobile phone charging.But Powerkiss is not really what it looks like on the surface. One could easily think their core offering is wireless charging. Think again. Increasingly in the future it will be c...
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A Finnish startup Flowdock is coming out with a new real-time collaboration tool Flowdock. On the face of it, it looks like the company has combined Yammer and Google Wave into a one service which currently runs in the browser.Flowdock has been developed by the same founders that are behind Nodet...
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Thank you everyone who made it to ArcticEvening Helsinki last night. The evening was a great success and a special thank you for that goes out to the panelists David O’Weger who covered for Ari-Pekka Salovaara from Severa, Michael Falck from Relex as well as Mikko Kaarela from Technopolis V...
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Sponsor: Zokem – Your Life. Share it. Automatically.http://zokem.com/Zokem is a mobile communications and lifecasting startup that enables users to automatically share their daily activities to their friends’ mobile phones, to the Internet and to social networking services, such as Facebook...
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I probably shouldn’t be this ecxited, but I am. Swedish Neo Technology, developer of Neo4j, an open source graph database, has secured $2.5 million in seed funding to boost Neo4j’s presence in the emerging NonSQL movement market space.I just received a happy call from Emil Eifrem, CEO Neo T...
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Arctic Startup
In Silicon Valley? ArcticShakeup is being organised by our boys on tour in co-operation with AES. For more information and signing up: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=16
Build and Grow Your Company in Silicon Valley.
Location:Wallenberg Hall
Time:6:00PM Friday, October 30th
There’s been a lot of talk lately about all kinds of accelerators and Y Combinator like set-ups in the Nordic and Baltic countries. Most recently Aalto Entrepreneurship Society announced that they are in the process of building their own ‘Y Combinator’, although this would be di...
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Arctic Startup We're putting together the final touches for the questions for the panel. What would you like to ask Severa, Relex or Technopolis online regarding software growth startups?
Spotify CTO Andreas Ehn tweeted about leaving the company this morning, in a surprise move that might signal the direction of things at the Stockholm (er, Luxembourg) based startup.When a CTO leaves a company as well regarded as Spotify, there can only be two possible explanations. The first is t...
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Things are cooking in the Bambuser kitchen. The Swedish live video streaming service has pointed out Hans Eriksson, CEO MySpace Nordic, to take over CEO tourch from Jonas Vig, co-founder and now previous CEO Bambuser.As I met Måns Adler, founder of Bambuser, this weekend, he was very glad and exc...
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During my visit to Iceland a few weeks ago, I had the chance to visit one of the greatest “startups” in a while – CCP Games. CCP Games has its offices in the Silicon Docks area of Reykjavik. While the other startups are doing the proper bootstrapping and sharing offices next doo...
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