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The online travel agency Ebookers today announce that the flow of Finnish travelers to London multiplied the week following the referendum vote that resulted in the United Kindom leaving the European Union in the future. This is suspected to be largely due to the hit that the Pound took in the currency markets - making UK more appealing to travelers from the EU.
Pulled Oat is an innovation from the Finnish company Gold&Green Foods. It's entirely made from plants and offers a more ecological alternative to both meat and soy proteins.
The product invented by two entrepreneurs is now in production with wide availability in Finland in the fall of 2016. Exporting the product is planned for the upcoming years.
The city of Salo in Finland is trying to attract the Hyperloop test track to the city. The technology is based on a large vacuum tube track which allows trains to travel in excess of a thousand kilometres per hour.
The extension of the Helsinki metro system towards the west to Espoo was supposed to start in mid August 2016. In June the company behind the project revealed that opening will be delayed.
Formula 1 driver Kimi Räikkönen, 36, and Minttu Virtanen, 29, are getting married this August. The couple has been tight lipped about their private life, but Seiska tabloid managed to get more information on the luxury wedding that is estimated to cost somewhere in tune of 500 000 EUR.
The Chinese company Tencent and the Japanese company Softbank have agreed on a deal of some 6,4 Billion euro for the a majority holding in the Finnish game company Supercell.
One of the key people at Rovio Entertainment is leaving the company. Peter Vesterbacka, also known as Mighty Eagle is leaving the outfit best known for their Angry Birds franchise.
Foreign eCommerce vendors will have a harder time avoiding paying the Value Added Tax (VAT) to finland. The Finnish tax authority has started an operation where it is searching for eCommerce shops in the European Union (EU) who have not paid VAT to Finland. For Finnish vendors this is good news as not paying VAT is a direct competitive advantage for foreign merchants.
According to a report, Finland is best positioned to take advantage of the digitalization trend taking the world by storm. The report based on a study by Etlatieto finds that Finland has has continued momentum, rising from second to first in 2016.
The managemenent of Finnish .fi top level domains (TLDs) will be available globally after September 2016 in a change to management of the domains. This is a radical change as private personns and companies can no longer reserve domains from FICORA, the body governing telecommunications in Finland.