Startups & Tech

A Porvoo software company is urging the government to take more care with cyber security, and perhaps switch even casual communications between ministers to a domestic platform instead of using a service owned by American tech giants. Hailer CEO Nico Larsen...

The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health is planning to introduce a mobile phone app to help trace the spread of coronavirus in Finland. Other EU countries have already announced they would plan to roll out a similar schemes, which...

This year's Slush startup event, set to be held in November, has been canceled due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Organisers made the announcement on Monday afternoon and say that startups are facing "unprecedented challenges" with help needed more than...

New data released by tech giant Google shows how peoples' movement has been affected by the coronavirus outbreak. The COVID-19 Communities Mobility Report for Finland looks at anonymous data from mobile phones using Google location services, and shows that over...

A number of initiatives are underway in Finland to provide computer for students who don't have their own, and help them keep up with distance learning classes. Most classes are canceled until the middle of May, with education officials making...

A supercomputer at Kajaani University of Applied Sciences KAMK is linking up with Stanford University in California to help model the surface structure of the coronavirus and its protein folding process. The work is part of the Folding@home project which...

Espoo's Remedy Entertainment, which has produced blockbuster gaming titles like Max Payne, Control, Quantum Break and Alan Wake, has signed a new deal with Epic Games to publish two of Remedy's upcoming projects. Although no financial information is available for...

Passengers on Viking Line ships will be able to use a new digital key system to get into their cabins from later this week. The new technology, the first for an operator in the Baltic Sea region, will be introduced...

Finnish telecoms company Nokia says it's pulling out of Mobile World Congress due to fears over the spread of the coronavirus. The event is due to take place in Barcelona later this month, and attracts more than 100,000 attendees. "While the...

The organisation behind one of Europe’s biggest annual tech and startup events Slush is refreshing its management lineup – something it’s done every year or two since it began. Miika Huttunen takes over as the new CEO while Oona Poropudas is the President...