Codento is an R&D accelerator and high-end software contractor with its head office in Helsinki, Finland. For the first time ever, Microsoft will bring together Xbox LIVE games and the Zune music and video experience on a mobile phone, exclusively on Windows Phone 7 Series. Tags: digital arcticevening finland helsinki Venue. MORE >>

TNS Gallup , Finnish subsidiary of the biggest industry market research expert TNS Global , has teamed up with a mobile customer experience management startup QAim to provide Finland wide tracking of mobile website usage metrics. Mobile Startup QAim’s CEO On Landing Round A Funding. Related Posts. MORE >>

Those following the mobile gaming industry paid notice that the Finnish gaming studio Universomo was shut down ( in Finnish ) by its owner THQ Wireless, which acquired the Finnish firm back in 2007. The hard time THQ is having is of course related to the traditional Java J2ME mobile gaming market having bad times as well. MORE >>

It seems Facebook has finally enabled their Places service in Finland. Facebook members are now able to check-in to different venues using the mobile apps. The service works in such a way that once you click on the Places icon inside the mobile app, you're able to see all your friends and where they checked in the last. MORE >>

In the second last item we're covering - we'll focus on the importance of startups in an ecosystem, such as Finland in this case with recently published data. On the downside, there are very few growth companies in Finland. On average, each of the 691 growth companies in Finland grew by 74 people on average during the three years. MORE >>