Posts published by Paula Marttila

First Screenshot Of Planeto – Stealth Mode Online Quiz Game

“Planeto takes quiz gaming to new heights. Now you can experience unprecedented quiz fun together with millions of players around the globe.”
Swedish startup Planeto is going after the wealth waiting in virtual goods and social gaming, besides from the modest goal of world domination in gaming. Planeto Quiz claims to be the world’s first [...]

23 Video Disrupting The Online Video Business

I was recently given a demo of 23 Video, a Danish online service offering a plug and play web-tv platform to set up ones own web-tv channel.
The first thought that crossed my mind during the demo was the feeling of sligth anxiety that occurs when checking out the roaming costs on the phone bill. If [...]

Silverbakk Monitors Your Social Media Activity

Sweden has got its own social media monitoring tool, Silverbakk Briefing Room (we recently wrote about Icelandic Clara). Silverbakk measures influence, visibility and engagement in social media, probably the hottest topic at the moment besides real-time search and augmented reality. The company launched its product only three weeks ago promising an easy to use tool to start monitoring ones [...]

Neo Technology Secures Seed Funding To Lead NoSQL Movement

I probably shouldn’t be this ecxited, but I am. Swedish Neo Technology, developer of Neo4j, an open source graph database, has secured $2.5 million in seed funding to boost Neo4j’s presence in the emerging NonSQL movement market space.
I just received a happy call from Emil Eifrem, CEO Neo Technology, at the moment in US to talk about [...]

Bambuser Picks New CEO From MySpace Nordic

Things are cooking in the Bambuser kitchen. The Swedish live video streaming service has pointed out Hans Eriksson, CEO MySpace Nordic, to take over CEO tourch from Jonas Vig, co-founder and now previous CEO Bambuser.
As I met Måns Adler, founder of Bambuser, this weekend, he was very glad and excited about having Hans onboard, as well as [...]

Geek Girl Meetup Gathers 100 Women To Talk About Tech

ArcticStartup is joining Geek Girl Meetup as a media partner. Geek Girl Meetup is a Swedish unconference for women, by women, who are interested in technology, web, social media and entrepreneurship. The event takes place October 24-25 in Stockholm and is being organized for the second time despite its short existence. What started as a [...]

Win Exclusive Tickets To GoodMorning2019!

ArcticStartup is glad to be partnering with Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship to celebrate its decennial year with Good Morning 2019!
Good Morning 2019! is a full day event aiming to explore the future and investigating how organisations can become more entrepreneurial and innovative in order to stay competitive. Whether you represent a large company, a [...]

Filehill, New Marketplace For Digital Content – We Have Gift Cards!

Filehill is a new Swedish startup I ran into when first pitching their idea at TechCrunch Talk Nordic earlier this year. Filehill offers a platform especially designed to trade digital content such as reports, playlists and manuals. Besides from the music, of course. They’ve just released into open beta after a year and a half of development, and I [...]

Twingly Channels, Social Filtering On Real-Time Web, Launches Private Beta

Twingly Channels is launching into private beta today, opening up to the wide public later this year. At the moment one has to apply for an invite by suggesting a channel topic.
Swedish Twingly have been building up the hype since early June when they first announced Project Shinobi, the working name for Twingly Channels we then got a sneak [...]