Whatagraph – A Family Startup Developing Google Analytics

Three brothers with a complementary skill set founded a business for visualizing statistics. During one of many startup conferences in the region – I had an honour to meet a interesting co-founder trio of three brothers Justas, Andrius and Tomas Malinauskas. These brothers’ startup Whatagraph helps to create infographics for Google analytics. “Instead of spending […]

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Uppsala-based startup Cloapp provides a solution for social life management

Managing personal relations is not only about contact information – It’s about keeping the people close. If you meet a lot of people – and your memory has challenges in organizing all the social information you receive on a daily basis, Cloapp’s new social application Closr is made for you. The personal relationship management app […]

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Stay.com Is Your Best Offline Travel Resource

A great travel site that was featured on Time Magazine’s 2010 list of the Best 100 Websites somehow slipped our radar. Oslo based Stay.com is a travel website and iPhone/Android app that allows you to create your own personalized travel guide using exclusive information from 114 cities over the world. But Stay isn’t just some […]

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Rovio Revenue 14M€ In Q1/2011

According to Helsingin Sanomat (Largest Finnish daily), Rovio, the makers of Angry Birds mobile game, have pocketed approximately 14 million euro ($20 million US) in revenue during the first quarter of 2011. Two thirds of the revenues come from app sales and about a third from advertising. Overall, Mikael Hed, Rovio CEO, stated that the […]

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Amazon Joins To Add Fragmentation To Android App Race

Amazon has joined the Android app race with their own store in the US, according All Things Digital. The store isn’t available at least in Finland and an attempt to access it simply redirects one to the Amazon front page. Amazon is claiming that since it’s a retailer already, it can do a better job […]

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T-Mobile Introduces Data Roaming Like It Should Be

According to Mobile News, T-Mobile is introducing something all mobile operators Europe wide should adopt to increase data usage, something mobile service developers would certainly applaud. At Mobile World Congress 2011, Deutsch Telekom Chief Technology and Innovation Officer Edward Kozel has announced fixed fees for data roaming for its customers – anywhere in Europe.

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The Kinetik Offers Cross Promotion Advertising On Mobile Apps

The Kinetik, a Danish StartupBootCamp company, is offering cross promotion advertising on mobile apps. The concept is very much similar to that of Applifier’s. The Kinetik offers tools for developers to attract new users to their apps for free. The company is able to offer free visitors as developers also advertise other apps in their […]

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Internet Apps And Native Apps: Why Neither Is Going Away, But The Coming Years Will See A Tremendous Power Shift

People love a good story, no matter what form of content it is they’re consuming. Journalists, especially those who cover the technology industry, like to apply the same elements that make up an attractive narrative to their writing, so what most people get today is a tale of two or three competitors, the hurdles they […]

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Digital Foodie Expands To Nokia Phones

Foodie, the mobile application to help you better manage your groceries, is expanding its offering to Nokia phones. the application has recently been available to the iPhone and also as a separate application in Facebook. Foodie isn’t your ordinary shopping list app. Foodie is able to learn what you shop for over time and then […]

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Finnish Gaming Monopoly Ready To Sue An iPhone App Maker

It seems that the Finnish gaming monopoly, RAY, is the latest in the game of playing the big bad wolf who doesn’t want to play nice. Finnish Helsingin Sanomat reports that they are ready to sue an iPhone app maker Elias Pietilä, for creating a game of the similar concept from one of the oldest […]

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