Dozens of Finnish IT startups have taken the road of Silicon Valley since the dot-com boom. The entrepreneurs tell about their experiences and learnings in a book published in May. “The Silicon Valley Journey” is free and downloadable in pdf format. Although the book depicts the experiences of about 40 Finnish companies, the challenges remain [...]
This was the 3rd edition of FinNode USA Family Fun Day at the Beach! Meteo guys had tried to spoil the occasion with gloomy rain predictions but the mighty FinNode gang was able to drive the clouds away and we could enjoy delicious food and beach activities under lovely sunshine while changing news and ideas [...]
was organized past Saturday. This was the unique occasion to enjoy genuine hernekeitto and laskiaispulla. You might be sorry if you didn’t come! Wonderful program, so interesting and funny. Amazing, how advanced the Berkeley students are with the Finnish language! The casual SVInsider photographer was a bit time-constraint so the event was not documented 100%. [...]
Finland is eager to have a share of the growing cleantech market be it in Europe, Americas or Asia. The long-term goal for the Cleantech Finland – launched last spring – is to profile Finland as the best-known cleantech country on its potential markets by 2012. The traditional industry base, forestry, mining, chemical industry, telecommunications [...]
Urhea, mutta valitettavasti vuosittain kutistuva joukko suomalaisia ja suomenmielisiä juhli sunnuntaina Suomen itsenäisyyspäivää Berkeleyn suomalaisten hallilla. Osanottajia oli sentään vielä toistasataa, ohjelma oli ihanan suomalainen ja kotimaan herkut olivat yhtä erinomaisia kuin ennenkin. Juhlapuhujaksi oli saapunut Los Angelesista uusi pääkonsuli Kirsti Westphalen. Katso tästä tilaisuuden kuvasatoa.
There is a cellphone in every kid’s pocket these days and it has the capability for multiple purposes. Schools in northern Finland are testing a NFC based system to see how it would serve the teenager, school, family and friends. MSG Software has developed the system and has been in Silicon Valley this week looking [...]
And if you don’t know what is Oulu, maybe it’s time to google it. Icemen cometh and Tomorrow’s Wireless World (hopefully) expands. Craig Barrett is also coming. This cooperation between two (mobile) technology centers might bear beaux fruits in the future.
It was 1976 when a spoke with the local veterinarian over mobile phone. He wanted to check the details of his ad in local newspaper where I was editor. The paper was not San Jose Mercury News and the location was not Silicon Valley but a very small township in a small country which is [...]
Yhdysvaltojen kierroksella oleva pääministeri Matti Vanhanen on ehtinyt Washingtonista ja Richard Cheneyn juttusilta Piilaaksoon muun muassa Ciscon John Chambersin juttusille ja jatkaa Seattleen tapaamaan Microsoftin Bill Gatesia. CNET:n haastattelema Vanhanen valisti kalifornialaisia Suomen teknologiaosaamisen suhteen.
tarjoaa Iria Nishimuran (ent. Irja Toivio) perustama Baby Cubes & More-yritys. Irian pakastekuutiot ovat uusi suomalainen menestystarina. Lisää keväämmällä Kodin Kuvalehdessä.