Northern Future Forum 2014 held in Helsinki this week
Posted On Saturday, November 8, 2014 By thenordiccountries. Under Current Topics, Economy in Denmark, Economy in Finland, Economy in Iceland, Economy in Norway, Economy in Sweden, News from Finland Tags: Alexander Stubb, Business innovation, David Cameron, Education in Finland, Northern Future Forum 2014
The Northern Future Forum took place in Espoo, Finland, the past November 6th and 7th .
In between the Finnish parlamentry confidence votes, the Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb hosted the premiers of the five nordic and three baltic states and the UK PM David Cameron.
The reason the British premiere David ...
Nokia shares bounce after the sale of the company to the giant Microsoft
Posted On Wednesday, September 4, 2013 By thenordiccountries. Under Current Topics, Economy, Economy in Finland, News from Finland Tags: Juha Ihamuotila, Nokia Microsoft, Nokia sale, Risto Siilasmaa
Yesterday September the 3rd was communicated the acquisition of the Finnish company Nokia by the software giant Microsoft with the amount of 5,440 millions of euros.
The sale of the Finnish company caused large increases in the value of the NOKIA shares that reached up to 49 % within the journey ...
Nokia shares soar after sales results of the Lumia smartphones
Posted On Friday, January 11, 2013 By thenordiccountries. Under Current Topics, Economy, Economy in Finland, News from Finland Tags: Lumia sellings, Nokia results 2012
The results of the Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia in the last quarter of 2012 are best in years. The company evaluates its earnings for this quarter period, from October 2012 to December 2012, could rise up to 700 million of euros. The last time Nokia reached such results was ...
Swedish brand Saab will manufacture cars in the Chinese city of Qingdao
Posted On Thursday, January 10, 2013 By thenordiccountries. Under Current Topics, Economy, Economy in Sweden, News from Sweden Tags: Saab in CHina, Saab in Qingdao
The current owner of Saab has announced that the company will manufacture both petrol vehicles as new energy vehicles in their new project that began Monday in eastern China in the city of Qingdao, Shandong Province. The project has cost around 1.6 billion dollars, and aims to achieve a better ...
Finland and Denmark are the least corrupt countries according to Transparency International
Posted On Thursday, December 6, 2012 By thenordiccountries. Under Current Topics, Economy, Economy in Denmark, Economy in Finland, Economy in Iceland, Economy in Norway, Economy in Sweden, News from Denmark, News from Finland Tags: Anticorruption Study, Corruption in Scandinavia, Corruption in the Nordic countries, Finland and Denmark least corrupt, Transparency International corruption study
Transparency International has just released the results of its annual comparison study on corruption, held in 176 countries worldwide.
Finland and Denmark have gone back to the first position in the list of the least corrupt countries, sharing first place with New Zealand. Sweden is ranked number 4, Norway is ranked ...
The Finnish Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen Visits Spain to discuss the crisis with Mariano Rajoy
Posted On Wednesday, September 12, 2012 By thenordiccountries. Under Current Topics, Economy, Economy in Finland, Finland, News from Finland Tags: Finnish Pime minister, Jyrki Katainen, Mariano Rajoy
The Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy met yesterday the Finnish Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen at the Moncloa Palace to discuss the latest developments in the euro crisis, the stability of the markets and the development of European economic and monetary union.
Katainen's visit coincides just after the decision by the European ...
Nokia in talks with operators: a new Strategy with Windows Phone 8
Posted On Monday, July 23, 2012 By thenordiccountries. Under Current Topics, Economy, Economy in Finland, News from Finland Tags: Nokia negociates with european operators, Nokia Windows Phone 8, Nokias new marketing strategy
According to the newspaper Financial Times, the Finnish telecommunications company Nokia is considering this fall the renewal of its traditional marketing strategy that consisted in the idea of selling the Nokia phones to "everyone, everywhere."
The company's new approach would be related to the idea of forming a specific support group to sell and promote their phones ...
Finland Country Profile
Posted On Friday, February 17, 2012 By thenordiccountries. Under Country Profile, Culture in Finland, Economy, Finland, Finnish Culture Tags: All about Finland, Finland country profile, Finnish population, information on Finland
Name in Finnish: SuomiForm of government: Republic, parliamentary democracy, elections every four yearsHead of state: President, elected for six yearsPopulation 5.2 million, 17 inhabitants per km2Official languages: Finnish (93%), Swedish (6%)
Dimensions: is the fifth European country regarding the surface, 338,145 km2,10% of the surface are covered with inland waters and 69% of forestApproximately 190,000 lakes,The most vast archipelago of EuropeApproximately 100,000 ...
NOKIA Shares Rebound as Smartphone Results not as Bad as Expected
Posted On Thursday, January 26, 2012 By thenordiccountries. Under Current Topics, Economy, Finland, News from Finland
Nokia is Beginning to collect the fruits of STI alliance with Windows in the smartphone business.
The Finnish company's shares go up more than 5% after-selling 19.6 million smartphones in the fourth quarter, instead of 18.5 million that was the number expected by experts. Nokia began selling Lumia 800 in Europe ...