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Tast food giant Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) plans to open restaurants in Finland. The company has teamed up with Ketju.fi and is now seeking for franchise operators in Finland.
Russian financial newspaper Kommersant reports that Finnish telecom company Nokia and Russian government communications company Rostelecom are setting up a joint venture.
Finnish health and fitness gear company Polar Electro has reportedly leaked sensitive personal data. A joint study by Finland's Long Play, Dutch De Correspondent and Bellingcat revealed the data breach.
The heads of state of Russia and the United States of America will meet in Helsinki, the capital of Finland on July 16th. Finnish RPS Brewing is looking to cash in on the hype and is launching a beer just in time for the summit.
Global ride sharing giant Uber will continue operations in Finland on July 4th 2018. The return to the Finnish market was driven by the deregulation of the taxi market, which went into effect from beginning of the month.
Finnish telecom operator Elisa is the first in the world to begin offering commercial fifth generation mobile network services to customers. Elisa (then Radiolinja) was also host to the world's first commercial GSM network in 1991.
Fox News is reporting that US president Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet in Helsinki in July.
In 2018 Finnish magazine Tekniikan Maailma revealed that they had found a fatal flaw in cars manufactured by Volkswagen Audi Group. The issue was that seat belts were unbuckled in a sharp driving move. The company since admitted the issue and issued a recall of 400,000 cars.
Iron Danger is a story telling tactical RPG with links to the Finnish national epic Kalevala. While most Finnish game studios focus on creating mobile games creator of the game, Action Squad Studios, is targeting PC and console gamers.
VTT Technical Research Centre in Finland has announced that it has improved it's experimental autonomous vehicle's ability to operate in difficult conditions. The car can now recognize a person behind fog and stop automatically.