Nokia's Alcatel-Lucent Acquisition Prompts Worlwide Job Cuts
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Rovio Entertainment, the maker of Angry Birds, announced it will reduce a third of its jobs mostly in Finland. The Finnish gaming company, Rovio Entertainment, had concluded from negotiations between employees on August 26. Rovio had deliberated it will cut 213 jobs.
In America, employees work an average of almost 47 hours a week and rather choose to have more flexible time on the job than less time. Normally a full-time employee works 40 hours or more in a week but at some Swedish firms, work period is cut to 30 hours. Studies showed that lesser hours of work makes employees more productive and promotes better morale, according to CNN Money.
Mobile games maker Rovio reported its operating profit fell 73 percent last year due to a drop in its licensing business, a latest sign its breakthrough Angry Birds brand is losing its appeal.
Oil major Shell (RDSa.L) said on Thursday it had sold parts of its Norwegian downstream business to Finnish fuel firm ST1 for an undisclosed sum, further divesting parts of its downstream activities.
Finland's Nokia (NOK1V.HE) announced a brand-licensed tablet computer which runs on Google's (GOOGL.O) Android platform, just six month after the company sold its ailing phones and devices business to Microsoft (MSFT.O) for over $7 billion.
British carrier Flybe Group (FLYB.L) will exit its Finnish joint venture with Finnair (FIA1S.HE) after the companies failed to agree on how to increase the unit's profitability, Finnair said on Wednesday.
The French-German consortium Areva-Siemens (AREVA.PA)(SIEGn.DE), the supplier of Finland's much-delayed Olkiluoto-3 nuclear reactor, has increased its claim against Finnish utility Teollisuuden Voima (TVO), TVO said late on Friday.
Google will build a 600 million euro ($773.58 million) data center in the northern Netherlands, the company said on Tuesday.
Finnish telecoms network gear maker Nokia said on Monday that it had closed the acquisition of U.S. -based SAC Wireless and that it expected clear revenue synergies from the purchase.
When the nine-person startup he co-founded was bought by Facebook for a reported $15 million in January, Cemre Gungor, 27, was inundated with phone calls and emails from wealth advisers. Yet he spurned them all, opting instead to open an account with Betterment, an online financial adviser launched in 2010 that automatically invests in a portfolio of exchange traded funds based mainly on a client's age.
US social media giant Facebook entered the fitness arena with its acquisition of Helsinki, Finland-based mobile fitness tracking app maker ProtoGeo Oy for an undisclosed amount to beef up its mobile app portfolio.
Helsinki, Finland-based corporate wellness startup HeiaHeia scored €1.5 million in its first funding round led by Wallstreet Financial Services for its international expansion, marketing improvement, and product development.
Vantaa, Finland-based international rental giant Cramo purchased Klaukkala-based earthmoving equipment rental specialist OptiRent for an undisclosed amount to gain traction over its competitors in the earthmoving industry.
Helsinki, Finalnd-based chemical industry group Kemira announced that it will acquire the alkyl ketene dimer (AKD) emulsion unit of Ludwigshafen, Germany-based chemical giant for an undisclosed sum.
