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The Finnish police did intense surveillance of the sales of drugs on the anonymous TOR network on the internet for three weeks. The surveillance programme ended yesterday.
Zynga is a company specializing in games for social media. It grew to be a Billion dollar business as maker of games running on the Facebook platform. Now the company has opened an office in Finland.
Touko Laaksonen, a Finnish artist known for his artist notable for his stylized homoerotic fetish art and his influence on late twentieth century gay culture. The artist was more prominently known through his pseoudonym Tom of Finland. His story is now available as a full lenght feature film.
The finnish police is looking into the source of the free christmas ham distributed by the motorcycle club Cannonball MC. The Finnish court ruled last week that the club is considered as an organized crime group and it's activities need to be investigated.
The City of Vaasa is looking into the possibility of hosting the Tesla Gigafactory in it's areas. The city lists the local energy industry cluster and a nearby lithium mine as advantages to the battery factory located in Vaasa, a rather remote northern city on the west coast of Finland.
Nokia smartphones make their return to the global markets. The devices will be marketed and manufactured by the HMD Global company, which was announced earlier in 2016. Now HMD has announced that it is fully operational and that a number of new devices will be unveiled in early 2017.
The game that tells a tale of the Finnish summer leisure, a project car and the cultural phenomenon related to it has proved to be a hit. The off-beat game concept with it's tongue-in-cheek implementation have attracted impressive pre-order sales on Steam.
Finnair, the Finnish flagship carrier is accelerating it's digital ambitions. During 2017 the company plans to hire around 70 software developers, project managers, service designers and experts to the new digital team.
On November 24th 2016 the Finnish government published their energy and environment strategy. This provides an outlook to the country's future to the year 2050, when the country has moved to carbon neutral energy production.
The Finnish startup Asmo Solutions is looking to revolutionize the world of such a mundane thing as a mobile phone charger. The company has developed one that switches of when it's not in use, they call it the ASMO Charger.