http://www.arcticstartup.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:12:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Zipipop has been chosen to present their latest mobile service tomorrow in the Mobile 2.0 Europe in Barcelona. Mobile 2.0 Europe is a extension of the famous Mobile 2.0 event which started in San Francisco. The new service is called Zipiko and has been kept secret until the Mobile 2.0 ... http://www.arcticstartup.com/2008/07/03/zipipop-launches-a-new-mobile-service-for-meetups/ Fruugo, the new Finnish startup gathering loads of interest with Jorma Ollila and Risto Siilasmaa on board among others, has been in strict stealth mode. Today, CEO Reijo Syrjäläinen revealed a bit more about their plans to Arctic Startup in a breakfast meeting. In short, Fruugo positions themselves as the "trusted ... http://www.arcticstartup.com/2008/06/27/fruugos-ceo-shares-plans-with-arctic-startup/ Habbo Hotel has registered one hundred millonth member. The user account was created in the UK. M&M, a Finnish marketing and advertising medium, has also stated in their news that in the five and half months of this year about 20 million new characters were created (3,5+ million a month). ... http://www.arcticstartup.com/2008/06/26/habbo-registers-100-millionth-member/ TripSay adds groups to its service, continueing on the strong community path. With groups, users of the service can more easily see what their peers in the same group are doing. Users can also add certain places to different groups. Juha Huttunen, the CEO, commented groups in the following manner; "We ... http://www.arcticstartup.com/2008/06/26/tripsay-adds-groups/ This Friday, Arctic Startup will be among the first to know what Fruugo, the super secret Finnish startup with Jorma Ollila and Risto Siilasmaa on board, is really up to. We have received an invitation to a morning event this Friday. Fruugo will be hosting a breakfast meeting with a few ... http://www.arcticstartup.com/2008/06/24/arctic-startup-exclusive-interview-with-fruugo-ceo-reijo-syrjalainen/ Click to Play Henrik Dahl, Eniram’s managing director, practiced his pitch before the IVA conference, which took place 19th and 20th of May. Eniram is a company offering unique modern technology solutions for the marine industry in the areas of safety & security, environment, and vessel performance. At the time of ... http://www.arcticstartup.com/2008/06/16/enirams-vc-pitch/ I attended the Parteco picnic today, organised by Katri Lietsala and Esa Sirkkunen, who ran the Participatory Economy and Beyond -research project. It was a good event with old media companies slowly turning to social media (which I have to say shouldn't be done only for social media's sake). I also ... http://www.arcticstartup.com/2008/06/11/few-rumours-from-parteco-picnic/ Openbit, a Finnish Tampere based provider of on-device payment and DRM solutions for mobile applications, and Tanla Solutions, Indian telecommunications software and services provider have announced today that Tanla buys 85 % of Openbit for $US 15.81M / EUR 10.2M in cash. The valuation is therefore at EUR 12M, 23.5 ... http://www.arcticstartup.com/2008/06/05/tanla-solutions-acquires-a-majority-stake-of-openbit-with-valution-of-eur-12m/ Kuneri, Oulu based company founded in 2006, has won EMEA Regional Award in the Forum Nokia 2008 Code Camp Competition with their Easy Vote application. The contest was aimed at inspiring building Web Runtime (WRT) widgets and Flash applications. The winner Easy Vote is a mobile Flash Lite application enabling users ... http://www.arcticstartup.com/2008/06/03/kuneri-wins-emea-regional-award-in-forum-nokia-2008-code-camp-competition/ MySites, a Finnish startup providing a single location to save, manage and share content online, has decided to focus their marketing efforts selectively in two niche audiences. This is an interesting marketing strategy for a startup since it might make it possible for a startup to reach a critical user ... http://www.arcticstartup.com/2008/06/02/mysites-targeting-niche-audiences/