Sweden has an answer to both. Why Sweden chose the gaming industry, which isn''t exactly that obvious of a channel for freedom of expression, is because the gaming industry is, according to the website, Sweden''s largest cultural export. MORE
Are you interested in getting paid to play games during work hours and receive free tickets to Dreamhack 2014? Does spending a summer by the beach in a beautiful Swedish town talking to companies about how they can better connect with gamers sound good to you? MORE
Wall Street Journal has written an extensive article about an undisclosed major US based internet company looking to open a data centre in Luleå, Sweden. The reason Facebook is allegedly looking into Sweden is the advantage of cold weather. MORE
That Sweden is doing amazingly well for a small country (emulating Israel). Ben Rooney just posted an analysis of VC and entrepreneurial activity in Europe which included the two charts above. MORE
The results show success in general for the Nordic countries, Sweden is ranked first, Denmark third, Finland sixth and Norway tenth. Comparison of countries – Finland, Sweden and Denmark. Tags: digital denmark finland irene mia norway sweden world economic forum MORE
The service is of course not limited to Sweden and operates in Denmark and Norway already and adding the local flavor will help the service achieve higher penetration in the local music scene. MORE
Snapchat asked and answered the question of whether self destructing photos had any wide-scale purpose in society. But what about text? MORE
That is at least if you're living in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, or Finland. In the region, we've got Voddler out of Sweden, VDIO (Not launched here, but by the Skype guys), and Denmark's Xstream. Throw away your televisions, Netflix is coming to town. The U.S. based streaming service offers a deep catalog of movies and TV shows for a flat monthly rate. More specific details about pricing and content will be announced closer to launch, which is slated to be be in late 2012. MORE
As last weeks news of an eight figure investment into KnC miner heated up bitcoin news in the region, we''ve heard today that Coinbase has launched in Finland and Sweden as part of their European rollout into 13 countries. MORE
So when I read about what Sweden is doing with blood donations it made perfect sense. After you give blood in Sweden, you get a text message whenever your blood saves someone’s life. I give blood platelets 3-4 times a year. MORE
Enter Västerås, Sweden-based Promobucket , which is focusing on helping companies and individuals share visual content: anything from.PSDs to.PNGs to.PDFs. When you''re working heavily with visual files, sometimes amazing utilities like Dropbox or Box aren''t all they could be. MORE
Editor''s note: This article originally attributed Aspiro to Norway - it has now been fixed to Sweden. The rise of Spotify has crowded out much hype coming out of WiMP , the music streaming service launched in 2010 that has only expanded to Denmark, Germany, Norway, Poland, and Sweden. MORE
Åkers Styckebruk is a tiny village of just under 3,000 inhabitants located in Sweden’s Strängnäs Municipality, a region with a diverse and dynamic range of industries such as tourism, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, logistics and education. MORE
The Pirate Bay was founded in Sweden in 2003, making it a decade old now. If you haven't been paying attention to The Pirate Bay in the past week or so, you're missing out on a bit of swashbuckling pirate tricks and stormy seas. you know, the normal pirate life. MORE
It all started in a tiny apartment in Sweden. Technology MORE
Last night lots of updates came in through Twitter and Facebook that the latter may have enabled its places service here in Finland and Sweden. Last night some users on iPhones and Androids were able to check in to venues in Finland and Sweden. MORE
Looks as if this is going to see implementation both in Denmark and in Sweden, beginning with Denmark in April. that Sweden isn’t seeing this any time before the summers. If you can pay your bills via mobile phones why not stamps? MORE
According to estimates by research2guidance , a Berlin-based mobile research specialist, Sweden has the most app downloads per user in the Android store. has the most Android users by volume, this data may suggest that Sweden is a good proving ground for apps. MORE
Now we can only assume that Flyte , the levitating lamp from Sweden, would have blown Edison’s socks right off. How would you like to have a floating light bulb in your living room? MORE
When looking at the financial report for Spotify AB in Sweden the picture is quite different. Net sales for Spotify in Sweden were almost 10M€, which is almost as much as the sales numbers reported by Spotify in UK. MORE
It''s been since the dot-com boom that Stockholm''s Projectplace was called a startup, but it''s interesting to note the company has been acquired by Austin, Texas based Planview , a cloud-based portfolio and resource management company. MORE
Epidemic Sound CEO Oscar Höglund came from the TV production side of things, from Zodiak Television where he met Jan Zachrisson, one of the first employees of Sweden''s TV4. Additionally on the team is co-founder David Stenmarck, one of Sweden''s most decorated music producers. "It''s MORE
Promising an easy to use scheduling tool at a low price, Smartplan has helped nearly 300 business owners in Denmark, and now they want to help small restaurants and cafes in Sweden to switch from pen or spreadsheets to their online planning tool. MORE
Last April we covered TeliaSonera's plans to "start exploring new business models" by charging for VoIP calls over their data networks. This drew heavy criticism from Net Neutrality activists and Telia customers alike, because for consumers it's ridiculous to charge a fee to hop on Skype. MORE
Melt is a newly announced PHP Framework from Sweden. The framework has been coded by the team that was formerly known as Omnicloud, today the whole company has been renamed as Melt. The team includes Hannes Landeholm, Per Jonsson and Daniel Marklund. MORE
Back in Sweden they develop the platform and additionally have experts who are a resource to the on-the-ground teams to help with customer support and other topics. MORE
The company established itself in 2008 and going to become the largest training site in Sweden, with 200,000 members today, with 6.5M weekly pageviews, making them the largest training forum in Sweden. MORE
Laugh your way to the bank: Sweden's SVT public television network is transitioning to the digital age and now offering all of its content free of charge, online. MORE
Formlabs, the three-year old manufacturer of 3D printers, is expanding into five new markets. Its latest product will let you craft headphones, cavity fillings -- and even a couples' vibrator MORE
Acheter Finpecia Sweden. Générique Finpecia. Ou Commander Generique Finasteride Le Moins Cher. Finpecia générique (finasteride) offre un traitement très efficace contre la perte de cheveux chez les hommes, et est l’un des médicaments les plus utilisés de son genre. MORE
Last week we covered that The Pirate Bay is moving to Spain and Norway, but the Norwegian end of the deal apparently fell through. Geir Aaslid, the head of the Norwegian Pirate Party, put out a statement on Pastebin saying that they could not keep up the financial end of hosting the site. MORE
For example Innopinion is using “gamified crowdsourcing” for running idea and feedback competitions and already had such clients as the Finnish Ministry of Transport and now announced a partnership with her majesty, Queen Silvia Of Sweden. MORE
To save a little time for those of you outside of Sweden looking to download Tink right now, switching over to the Swedish app store won''t let you integrate to your pan-Nordic bank (I tried). MORE
Coffee Stain Studios is the Swedish indie game company behind the first person tower defence games Sanctum and Sanctum 2 , the first of which climbed up from top 10 to being #1 on steam sales back in the summer of 2010. MORE
Danish startup Playday are behind a successful SaaS workforce management program which is the leading software of its type in the Nordics. MORE
Digital is now the majority of revenues in markets such as the US, India, Norway and Sweden. Music is everyone’s favorite example of digital disruption done wrong. After peaking at $38 billion revenue more than a decade ago, the industry stabilized last year at $16.5 billion. MORE
According to the recent Web Index study by The World Wide Web Foundation , that country is Sweden. Sweden beat out the United States as it had more citizens online (90-percent, compared to 75-percent of Americans), and provided better and faster bandwidth per Internet user. MORE
The Swedish Consumer Agency is considering leading an investigation into Apple's marketing of the iPad after receiving complaints that the advertised 4G connectivity will not actually function in Sweden. MORE
The Helsinki, Finland based mobile gaming company Grey Area announced the expansion of their Shadow Cities game to Sweden today. Sweden is the second, so called, test market for Shadow Cities before it plans to launch the game globally. Together with the announcement of the opening of Sweden for the game, Grey Area has updated the game client with lots of tweaks and improvements based on customer feedback. After Sweden, Grey Area is looking to launch the game globally. MORE
I ask myself pretty often why there is so much great web innovation coming from Sweden. Really awesome ideas and startups are much less common in my home country Germany, despite a population almost ten times as large as Sweden’s. OpenCoffee Club Sweden. MORE
Stockholm-based VC firm Creandum said on Monday it has closed ahead of schedule its 180-million euro early stage venture capital fund Creandum IV. The high demand points to a thriving European startup ecosystem and Creandum’s robust track record of investing early into European leaders such as Spotify, iZettle, Neo Technologies and Tictail," the company said in a statement. MORE
Husqvarna, a Swedish manufacturer of outdoor power products, said on Friday it has launched the first Apple Watch app for robotic lawn mowers. The app allows users to mow their lawn from the wrist via Apple Watch whether they are at work or on vacation. “As MORE
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Acheter Finpecia Sweden. Générique Finpecia. Ou Commander Generique Finasteride Le Moins Cher. Finpecia générique (finasteride) offre un traitement très efficace contre la perte de cheveux chez les hommes, et est l’un des médicaments les plus utilisés de son genre.
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So when I read about what Sweden is doing with blood donations it made perfect sense. After you give blood in Sweden, you get a text message whenever your blood saves someone’s life. I give blood platelets 3-4 times a year.
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That Sweden is doing amazingly well for a small country (emulating Israel). Ben Rooney just posted an analysis of VC and entrepreneurial activity in Europe which included the two charts above.
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Snapchat asked and answered the question of whether self destructing photos had any wide-scale purpose in society. But what about text?
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Now we can only assume that Flyte , the levitating lamp from Sweden, would have blown Edison’s socks right off. How would you like to have a floating light bulb in your living room?
ArcticStartup
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Editor''s note: This article originally attributed Aspiro to Norway - it has now been fixed to Sweden. The rise of Spotify has crowded out much hype coming out of WiMP , the music streaming service launched in 2010 that has only expanded to Denmark, Germany, Norway, Poland, and Sweden.
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Formlabs, the three-year old manufacturer of 3D printers, is expanding into five new markets. Its latest product will let you craft headphones, cavity fillings -- and even a couples' vibrator
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Melt is a newly announced PHP Framework from Sweden. The framework has been coded by the team that was formerly known as Omnicloud, today the whole company has been renamed as Melt. The team includes Hannes Landeholm, Per Jonsson and Daniel Marklund.
ArcticStartup
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Coffee Stain Studios is the Swedish indie game company behind the first person tower defence games Sanctum and Sanctum 2 , the first of which climbed up from top 10 to being #1 on steam sales back in the summer of 2010.
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The results show success in general for the Nordic countries, Sweden is ranked first, Denmark third, Finland sixth and Norway tenth. Comparison of countries – Finland, Sweden and Denmark. Tags: digital denmark finland irene mia norway sweden world economic forum
ArcticStartup
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Enter Västerås, Sweden-based Promobucket , which is focusing on helping companies and individuals share visual content: anything from.PSDs to.PNGs to.PDFs. When you''re working heavily with visual files, sometimes amazing utilities like Dropbox or Box aren''t all they could be.
ArcticStartup
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It''s been since the dot-com boom that Stockholm''s Projectplace was called a startup, but it''s interesting to note the company has been acquired by Austin, Texas based Planview , a cloud-based portfolio and resource management company.
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It all started in a tiny apartment in Sweden. Technology
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The company established itself in 2008 and going to become the largest training site in Sweden, with 200,000 members today, with 6.5M weekly pageviews, making them the largest training forum in Sweden.
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I ask myself pretty often why there is so much great web innovation coming from Sweden. Really awesome ideas and startups are much less common in my home country Germany, despite a population almost ten times as large as Sweden’s. OpenCoffee Club Sweden.
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When looking at the financial report for Spotify AB in Sweden the picture is quite different. Net sales for Spotify in Sweden were almost 10M€, which is almost as much as the sales numbers reported by Spotify in UK.
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Back in Sweden they develop the platform and additionally have experts who are a resource to the on-the-ground teams to help with customer support and other topics.
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Promising an easy to use scheduling tool at a low price, Smartplan has helped nearly 300 business owners in Denmark, and now they want to help small restaurants and cafes in Sweden to switch from pen or spreadsheets to their online planning tool.
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Last week we covered that The Pirate Bay is moving to Spain and Norway, but the Norwegian end of the deal apparently fell through. Geir Aaslid, the head of the Norwegian Pirate Party, put out a statement on Pastebin saying that they could not keep up the financial end of hosting the site.
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Looks as if this is going to see implementation both in Denmark and in Sweden, beginning with Denmark in April. that Sweden isn’t seeing this any time before the summers. If you can pay your bills via mobile phones why not stamps?
ArcticStartup
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Husqvarna, a Swedish manufacturer of outdoor power products, said on Friday it has launched the first Apple Watch app for robotic lawn mowers. The app allows users to mow their lawn from the wrist via Apple Watch whether they are at work or on vacation. “As
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AUGUST 14, 2012
That is at least if you're living in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, or Finland. In the region, we've got Voddler out of Sweden, VDIO (Not launched here, but by the Skype guys), and Denmark's Xstream. Throw away your televisions, Netflix is coming to town. The U.S. based streaming service offers a deep catalog of movies and TV shows for a flat monthly rate. More specific details about pricing and content will be announced closer to launch, which is slated to be be in late 2012.
ArcticStartup
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According to estimates by research2guidance , a Berlin-based mobile research specialist, Sweden has the most app downloads per user in the Android store. has the most Android users by volume, this data may suggest that Sweden is a good proving ground for apps.
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Wall Street Journal has written an extensive article about an undisclosed major US based internet company looking to open a data centre in Luleå, Sweden. The reason Facebook is allegedly looking into Sweden is the advantage of cold weather.
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Are you interested in getting paid to play games during work hours and receive free tickets to Dreamhack 2014? Does spending a summer by the beach in a beautiful Swedish town talking to companies about how they can better connect with gamers sound good to you?
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According to the recent Web Index study by The World Wide Web Foundation , that country is Sweden. Sweden beat out the United States as it had more citizens online (90-percent, compared to 75-percent of Americans), and provided better and faster bandwidth per Internet user.
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Stockholm-based VC firm Creandum said on Monday it has closed ahead of schedule its 180-million euro early stage venture capital fund Creandum IV. The high demand points to a thriving European startup ecosystem and Creandum’s robust track record of investing early into European leaders such as Spotify, iZettle, Neo Technologies and Tictail," the company said in a statement.
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Laugh your way to the bank: Sweden's SVT public television network is transitioning to the digital age and now offering all of its content free of charge, online.
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The Swedish Consumer Agency is considering leading an investigation into Apple's marketing of the iPad after receiving complaints that the advertised 4G connectivity will not actually function in Sweden.
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Last night lots of updates came in through Twitter and Facebook that the latter may have enabled its places service here in Finland and Sweden. Last night some users on iPhones and Androids were able to check in to venues in Finland and Sweden.
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Danish startup Playday are behind a successful SaaS workforce management program which is the leading software of its type in the Nordics.
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Epidemic Sound CEO Oscar Höglund came from the TV production side of things, from Zodiak Television where he met Jan Zachrisson, one of the first employees of Sweden''s TV4. Additionally on the team is co-founder David Stenmarck, one of Sweden''s most decorated music producers. "It''s
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The Helsinki, Finland based mobile gaming company Grey Area announced the expansion of their Shadow Cities game to Sweden today. Sweden is the second, so called, test market for Shadow Cities before it plans to launch the game globally. Together with the announcement of the opening of Sweden for the game, Grey Area has updated the game client with lots of tweaks and improvements based on customer feedback. After Sweden, Grey Area is looking to launch the game globally.
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Digital is now the majority of revenues in markets such as the US, India, Norway and Sweden. Music is everyone’s favorite example of digital disruption done wrong. After peaking at $38 billion revenue more than a decade ago, the industry stabilized last year at $16.5 billion.
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The Pirate Bay was founded in Sweden in 2003, making it a decade old now. If you haven't been paying attention to The Pirate Bay in the past week or so, you're missing out on a bit of swashbuckling pirate tricks and stormy seas. you know, the normal pirate life.
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For example Innopinion is using “gamified crowdsourcing” for running idea and feedback competitions and already had such clients as the Finnish Ministry of Transport and now announced a partnership with her majesty, Queen Silvia Of Sweden.
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To save a little time for those of you outside of Sweden looking to download Tink right now, switching over to the Swedish app store won''t let you integrate to your pan-Nordic bank (I tried).
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