When I first moved to Finland it was really a surprise to see how much of society shuts down during the summer. As an American it was unreal to me that a lot of people would take 3-4 weeks off at a t...
Groupnavi is a location-based iOS app for Facebook communities. It allows community members to post to their Facebook groups wall, but have the post geo-tagged and viewable on a map through the Group...
So normally we have a couple news links, but this week we are chock-full with some interesting articles on the Nordics and Baltics. Thats good news on its own, but there are also a lot of great event...
ArcticEvening Copenhagen was organised last night at the to-be-emptied Nokia premises just out of the centre of Copenhagen. The evening was full of interesting discussions and presenters included Kri...
In April we did a bigger story on Danish entrepreneurs movement against what they called the iværksætterskat, or Entrepreneurs tax. The tax got its nickname by levying an additional 25% on any shareh...
Its tough to remember how huge Rebtel is for an internet service, considering how dominant Skype is in the VOIP space. The Stockholm-based service just hit more than 17 million users, growing at 650 ...
For those of us without a designer on staff, presenting data in an attractive way is not an easy task. Sure, you can pop some data into Excel and put together a quick chart, but its not pretty, its n...
Facebook has an ungodly amount of money burning in their pocket post-IPO, and the rumor mill has started grinding out stories that the social media giant will buy Opera, the Norwegian desktop and mob...
A key to public speaking is interacting with your audience, but so far technology has been more of a distraction for the audience, rather than tool for engagement. A lot of people are carrying around...
Valkee, the bright-light headset manufacturer that claims to treat S.A.D. and other mood disorders, has seen its fair share of criticism after rushing to promote the scientific legitimacy of the devi...
“No IPO is being planned. Facebook’s IPO has destroyed the trust of many individual investors in social networks, so [our] IPO is postponed indefinitely,” Vkontakte’s founder and co-owner Pavel Durov...
Every now and then we get sent a press release for a service that just grinds you in a certain way. Maybe its the lack of coffee Ive had this morning, but Secret Diamond Club, an exclusive dating sit...
While the live video streaming service may first come across as a neat way to share experiences live with your friends, Bambuser has become a serious tool used by activists to document and stream on-...
ArcticEvening Copenhagen will be organised in exactly two days time! Were going to have an awesome event at the Nokia Campus. Tommy Ahlers from Podio will be present to talk how they got acquired by ...
"One thing Ive learned over the years, its that you should just build something and put it out there. If people dont care, you can fix it. If people care, then youre off to a good start," say...
Most of the startups we cover here on ArcticStartup are somehow affiliated with the consumer internet or disrupt their market in such a way that small businesses can do something that was previously ...
Apple has rejected the latest update of the Instacast podcatching app, taking issue with their Flattr integration. Instacast has offered a nice integration with Flattr since February of this year. Us...
Last week, Leta Group, a prominent Russian IT security holding, announced the launch of ‘Leta GIV,’ its corporate venture arm, along with its first investment – interactive air screen maker Displair....
While we usually have our eyes on mobile applications that leverage the shiniest new hardware, we shouldnt forget the companies that have tapped markets that are way off our radar. Lithuania-based Es...
Editors note: This post is part of a series of posts published in co-operation with Elance, the leading source of outsourcing talent in the world. Elance is also supporting our ArcticEvening Copenhag...
Hello Nordics and Baltics. Yes, we have news, we have events, and we have jobs for you to take a look at. A couple people actually sent in events and jobs to include in this list, which got me all fl...
Editors note: This post is part of a series of posts in collaboration with Lappeenranta University of Technology to promote their expertise and tools in commercialising research based innovations. Ba...
"It took me all of two minutes to decide to join the company when I saw the gameplay," says Thorbjörn Warin, the newly hired head of Marketing for Helsinki-based Grand Cru, the creators of th...
PixPuffin is a new Icelandic service to help small and medium sized businesses manage their digital assets though a web-based interface. For your photos, it offers easy keywording features, sharing o...
In what is raising questions about the due process of trademark claims in Nordics, the Finnish oil company, Neste Oil, has shut down a parody website, "Neste Spoil," which was set up by Green...
ZTE is one of the worlds largest device manufacturers and service providers to the mobile industry. In Q4 of 2011, ZTE became the fourth largest handset maker with 4,9% global market share. Today, ZT...
Cobook, the address book for Mac, has now officially launched their 1.0 version in the app store. The app quickly gained notoriety among the tech and "lifehacking" press, and hit 20 000 downl...
An ambitious new equity-crowdfunding player for Finland and Sweden-based startups has opened up publicly today. Invesdor seeks to lower the barriers to raising and buying equity, and to do so theyve ...
This week we talked to one of the most well known serial entrepreneurs in Finland - Taneli Tikka. Hes been part of many startups, but also built some of his own companies and also bankrupted one, and...
Klarna recently saw some of their ownership change hands. Atomico, led by Skype co-founder Niklas Zennström, has purchased a 20% stake of the Swedish online payments provider from previous equity hol...
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