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ThingLink, the innovative Finnish interactive image service, has acquired Pixboom, the leading image tagging service for the Swedish fashion industry. Pixboom was founded in 2008 in Stockholm and the service enables interactive images on hundreds of Swedish fashion blogs. Pixboom CEO Jonas Suijkerbuijk will join the ThingLink Advisory Board....
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Finnish environmental expertise is heading to China in the form of the China Testbed project. Set up by the Finnish energy and environment consortium CLEEN, the project develops applications for monitoring air quality in cooperation with companies and research institutes. One of the future aims of China Testbed, which focuses on measuring fine...
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The Unique Design of Finland, a short film created for inflight entertainment purposes, has won accolades at festivals in Germany and the United States. The film showcases Finnish design, from buildings and vehicles to dishes and apparel. The film, which has been shown on Finnair’s flights from the beginning of the year, won the...
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Mint of Finland is issuing a commemorative coin for Armi Ratia, the founder of textile and design house Marimekko. The coin features Armi Ratia and Marimekko’s trademark Unikko poppy flower which was designed by Maija Isola. — Armi Ratia was a strong and determined person, and the coin reflects that. She has left a huge legacy which is felt in...
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Helsinki and London-based startup Sayduck has created a mobile app which lets users see exactly how a piece of furniture looks in a room using augmented reality. The iPhone and iPad app lets shoppers visualise objects in their homes from any angle. The app works with a tracking marker so that it knows where to virtually place the object in the...
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Outotec is delivering technology for a new iron ore sintering plant to be built in Rengali in the state of Orissa, India. The company has signed a EUR 20 million contract with Indian Bhushan Power & Steel Limited (BPSL).The scope of Outotec's delivery includes technology, engineering, supplying proprietary equipment and supervisory services...
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The European Tour has begun co-operation with golf technology specialists Viherio Technologies, based in Oulu, Finland. Viherio’s products will first be utilised during the tour at the BMW Championship tournament, to be played in England between 24 and 27 May. Viherio will supply the tournament with its GREENi spectator service. The service...
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An affordable wallpaper which blocks Wi-Fi signals could be brought to market next year by Finnish materials company Ahlstrom. French news services The Connexion and Le Point are reporting that Ahlstrom has bought the rights to Metapaper which was developed by researchers at France's Grenoble Institut Polytechnique and the Centre Technique du...
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ZEF Solutions is bringing the world a voting application developed in Finland. The application, called VotingAid, was developed in co-operation with the Finnish media company MTV3 and has been used in six Finnish elections. ZEF’s VotingAid has been well received in Egypt, where democratic presidential elections are currently being held for the...
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Angry Birds developer Rovio says that its new game will be called Amazing Alex and that it will be released in two months’ time. Company CEO Mikael Hed revealed details about the upcoming puzzle game in an interview with Yle’s breakfast television show. Hed also revealed his awareness of audience expectation given the success of Angry Birds,...
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China’s largest science and technology park is coming to Espoo, in Finland. According to Marko Vanska, CEO of China-Finland Golden Bridge, the aim of the new ZPark Software Park is to help Chinese companies start business and research co-operation in Finland, help them establish research and development units in Finland and hire Finnish...
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Among the exhibits at the Floriade 2012 World Horticultural Expo presently taking place in the Netherlands is the My Green World exhibition centre, constructed from Metsä Wood’s wood-based products. The architecturally unique wooden structure is reminiscent of a seed sprouting from the earth. The 1,200-square-metre My Green World pavilion was...
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Fazer, the Finnish catering, bakery and confectionery company, has the highest reputation ranking in Finland. Fiskars, the global consumer products company, has the second highest ranking followed by the Finland’s leading coffee company Paulig. The rankings are based on the latest Reputation Institute’s 2012 Finnish Country RepTrack rankings,...
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Finland is the sixth-best place to be a mother, according to Save the Children’s 13th State of the World’s Mothers report, which compares 165 countries. The ranking looks at factors such as a mother's health, education and economic status, as well as critical child indicators such as health and nutrition. Finland performed highly on female...
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Finnair has become the first airline in the world to fly direct between Europe and Chongqing in China. The new route forms part of the carrier's strategy of offering the shortest connections between Asia and Europe via Helsinki. Chongqing is Finnair’s fourth Chinese destination after Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong. — China is a key part of...
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