Finland

http://kidscreen.com/2016/04/22/angry-birds-promo-aims-to-net-us250-million/#.VxzVzrTb7jp.twitter The film project started by game company from Finland hits movie theatres soon. →

Each year, Reporters Without Borders (the preeminent organization for press freedom) publishes their World Press Freedom Index, an incredibly useful tool for analyzing changes in press freedom around the world. Finland has continued to rank among the freest media environments in the world. Finland, which has held the top spot since 2008 is still there – →

26 Comics Of Finnish Nightmares Even Non-Finns Can Relate To (By Karoliina Korhonen) on 9GAG is a collect of comic pictures that is worth to check out. Those comics are from Finnish Nightmares – Comic about uncomfortable social situations, uncomfortable everything. http://finnishnightmares.blogspot.fi/     →

http://www.strategyeyedigital.com/2015/11/10/insight-the-fantastic-finnish-4/ Four interesting startups from Finland. Posted from WordPress for Android →

The marriage of communications and heavy industry expertise created Industrial IoT in Finland, long before the IoT buzz says Tampere, Finland: The Birthplace Of Industrial IoT? article at http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/networks/m2m/185820-185820 Finnish companies were very early adopters of ICT technologies and connected their machines to a network long before the term itself was introduced.   Posted from →

What is different on common view and Finnish view of personal space? http://scaniasyndrome.tumblr.com/post/99738485347/personal-space Posted from WordPress for Android →

On the face of it the small Finnish town of Nokia looks wholly unremarkable. There’s little sign that this quiet backwater once gave its name to the company that revolutionised the mobile phone industry in the late 1990s and helped turn Finland’s economy into one of the most prosperous in the world. At its peak →

Finland wants to become a world pioneering test and development environment for intelligent automation in transport. The perfect test environment for Amazon’s delivery drones and Google’s self-driving cars may soon be found in Finland. Especially when challenging Arctic conditions enter the picture. This is where Finland steps in by offering a strong digital infrastructure, plenty →

A new world ranking of countries and their literacy rates puts the United States at 7th. Who’s No. 1? Finland. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/03/08/most-literate-nation-in-the-world-not-the-u-s-new-ranking-says/ Posted from WordPress for Android →

Spanish Banking Group BBVA Just Snapped Up a Finnish Fintech Startup article tells that Spanish banking group BBVA has bought Holvi, a Finnish financial technology startup that provides online banking and financial planning services for small businesses. http://fortune.com/2016/03/07/bbva-holvi-fintech/ I had earlier posted information on Holvi at my Banking is Broken? Start-ups try to fix it →