How Oulu, Finland, 5+ years after Nokia's collapse in smartphones, has become an entrepreneurial tech hub and home to 1,175 new companies in 2017 alone
Natasha Frost / Quartz : Tweets: @infoecon and @marcgayle Tweets: Marshall Van Alstyne / @infoecon : Story of a city's recovery from economic collapse after @Nokia downsized. Huge credit to governmen...
Overview of startup exits outside Silicon Valley from the past ten years, not including Asian companies: Sweden edges out UK, Boston remains big, more
There's never been a better time to build a company outside the Bay Area — The Bay Area has been the best place to build a startup for the last two decades. Tweets: @niklas_a and @stevecase Tweets: ...
Angry Birds' Rovio Cuts 213 Jobs, Axes Learning To Refocus On Games And Video
After announcing in August that it would cut up to 260 jobs, Rovio — maker of the Angry Birds games — today released details of the final number: the Finland-based company is letting go of 213 employe...
Once outcasts, three Canadian researchers now lead the deep learning efforts at Google, Facebook and IBM
Welcome to the AI Conspiracy: The ‘Canadian Mafia’ Behind Tech's Latest Craze — In the late '90s, Tomi Poutanen, a precocious computer whiz from Finland, hoped to do his dissertation …
Microsoft job cuts to hit staff at manufacturing facility in Finland, company's sales group, and others
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