Startups & Tech

Finnish kitchen are starting to cash in on a trillion-dollar restaurant trend that’s forecast to change the way we think of food services. Ghost kitchens – also known as cloud kitchens, or virtual kitchens – don’t have bricks and mortar…

A new mobile phone application which helps public health officials track and trace cases of coronavirus is being launched on Tuesday for a month of testing. The first people to test the new app on a voluntary basis are several…

Two young entrepreneurs are set to launch a brand new bus service linking Helsinki and Turku with low-cost fares. Twins Henri and Eero Autio are just 21-years old and still studying at university, but they’ve identified a gap in the transport market…

A contact tracing app which is being rolled out in Finland at the beginning of September aims to balance privacy concerns with usefulness, after a number of countries ran into tech problems with their own software efforts. Officials are keen…

Laakso Health Centre in Helsinki is trialing a new brethalyser test to see if it gives a reliable coronavirus diagnosis. The results are available in just two minutes and at a cost of €2 it would be the fastest and…

Passengers in the capital are now able to ride on on small self-driving bus called GACHA, developed by Finnish company Sensible 4 and Japanese design house Muji. The driverless buses are operating a test schedule during the summer in Helsinki’s…

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…