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E-vikings blaze the online trail
 Take a stroll through Stockholm on a sunny spring evening. Tables are spilling on to the pavements, people are sauntering the streets with mobile phones pressed to their ears, dot.com adverts are displayed on every billboard. This is the internet capital of Europe. And the buzz that comes from being at the centre of a region that is leading Europe's IT revolution is unmistakeable ...more
MOBILE INTERNET:
World dances to a Scandinavian tune
The Nordic ascendancy in mobile telephony was abundantly in evidence when the region's telecom equipment giants, Nokia and Ericsson, presented their latest performance update last month. Nokia says that more than three out of every 10 handsets sold now carries its brand ...more
KISTA:
Stockholm's answer to Silicon Valley
They call it wireless valley or mobile valley - the Nordic region's equivalent of Silicon Valley. It is a suburb called Kista (pronounced Shista) just north of Stockholm where some of the world's leading high-tech companies have congregated to benefit from Sweden's leading position in mobile telephony and the mobile internet ...more
E-COMMERCE:
Touch and feel factor slows sales
Parma ham, pasta and olive oil - these products are all sold by the latest internet start-up to launch in Sweden ahead of a planned roll-out in the rest of Europe.The company behind Italiantradition.com is registered in Italy and the site was developed in Belgium ...more
BANKING/BROKING:
Architects of clicks and mortar strategy
Nordic banks talk about a "clicks and mortar" strategy. In reality, it is the clicks that are taking over.Finland and Sweden have some of the highest levels of internet banking and broking penetration levels in the world, and Norway and Denmark are not far behind ...more
SWEDEN:
Migration to London gains pace
If proof were needed that a Nordic IT revolution is underway, it comes in the words of Jonas Brogardh, the London-based trade commissioner for Sweden. "About half of our work is bringing over Swedish IT and internet companies to the UK."The shift is a recent one ...more
VENTURE CAPITAL:
Entrepreneurs replace Abba as new icons
On some days it may seem that everyone in Sweden is a venture capitalist, from the established industrial giants to the retail investor at his internet screen.All are lining up to place their money in high risk start-ups, providing the fuel for an entrepreneurial wave that is sweeping through the country and Stockholm in particular ...more
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