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Why Nissan Turned a Car Into a Sony Video Game Controller
Nissan and partner agency TBWA\Helsinki have built the world's first automobile video game controller. Using a parked Nissan Qashqai crossover SUV plugged into a Sony PlayStation 4 game console, gamers...
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Here are the Latest Countries Where Groupon is Shutting Down
Groupon has announced that it’s shutting down in another slate of countries, all Nordic. The e-commerce site announced that it’s halting business in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland, TechCrunch...
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You Won’t Live To See Gender Pay Equality
If you think global economic equality between men and women is possible in your lifetime, think again. It will take the world another 118 years--or until 2133--to close the economic gender gap,...
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Why Sweden Is Going Cash-Free
Sweden could very well be the first country to one day go totally cash-free. In fact, the Scandanavian country is well on its way, according to a new report from the New York Times. The country already...
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What the Left Gets Wrong About Scandinavia
As the nation's attention turns to the first caucuses and primaries in Iowa and New Hampshire, some Democrats will have Scandinavia on their minds. The small nations of the Nordic region like Sweden,...
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WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange May Be About to Taste Fresh Air (Or Not)
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been holed up in Ecuador’s London embassy for more than three years, but he may be about to walk out. However, that’s no certainty. Assange is taking refuge in the...
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McDonald’s Happy Meals Meet Virtual Reality
McDonald’s has taken a page out of Google Cardboard’s book. The fast food chain has debuted a low-cost virtual reality viewer made out of, well, cardboard. The device is assembled by folding one of the...
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New Waze Feature Helps Drivers Avoid Speeding Tickets
Google’s Waze navigation app has introduced a new feature to help drivers avoid speeding--and the tickets that often follow. Waze, which uses both GPS navigation as well as information users submit...
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Wikimedia Loses Case Over Photos of Public Artwork
Want to take a photo of artwork that’s in a public place, then encourage others to freely use the photo without the artist’s consent? If you’re in Sweden, that’s not OK, according to a ruling against...
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Spotify Founders Threaten Sweden With New York Expansion
The Swedish music steaming service Spotify plans to hire thousands in coming years, but Stockholm won’t get the new jobs unless it improves current housing, education, and tax laws, its founders said...
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How Swedish Startup Neo Technology Helped Crack the Panama Papers
Every startup hopes for a lucky break. Swedish company Neo Technology only found out it was getting one the day the Panama Papers made headlines around the world. Journalists with access to the vast...
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Volvo’s Self-Driving Car Project is Heading to London
Volvo is expanding its self-driving car project to London, marking just the latest step by the automaker to test and roll out the sci-fi technology on public roads. Starting next year, families will...
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Why a Facebook Deal Has Outraged Swedish Media
Facebook’s fb strategy of striking so-called zero-rating deals with telecoms operators, where the operators offer Facebook to their customers without charging for the data usage, really isn’t popular...
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Volvo’s Solution for the Package Theft Epidemic: Your Car’s Trunk
Volvo Car Group is introducing a new service with Swedish startup Urb-it that promises to deliver packages ordered online to a car owner’s trunk in under two hours. The delivery service will be...
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Uber Will Suspend UberPOP Service in Sweden
Uber Technologies, the company behind the popular ride-hailing service, was dealt its latest setback in Europe on Wednesday, saying it would suspend its UberPOP service in two cities in Sweden...
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This Scandinavian Country is Banning M&Ms
Sweden has reportedly said the M&Ms logo cannot be used in the country any longer. A Swedish court has ruled that Mars, which owns the M&Ms brand, has a lowercase “m” that’s too similar to the...
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Melker Schorling, Sweden’s Quiet Tycoon With the Midas Touch
Business tycoon Melker Schorling, one of Sweden’s most prominent investors, says he is well-positioned to expand his 60 billion crown ($7 billion) investment empire even as he prepares to hand over...
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Here’s What Ericsson’s Ousted CEO Said About 5G Connectivity in 2014
The board of directors of Ericsson, the Swedish telecommunications giant, pushed out CEO Hans Vestberg on Monday. He had led the company for six and a half years. The move followed a dismal fiscal...
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These German Car Parts Makers Just Upped Their Stakes For Sweden’s Haldex
German car parts makers Knorr-Bremse and ZF Friedrichshafen upped the stakes in their battle for Sweden’s Haldex on Friday as both increased their offers for the Swedish brake systems maker....
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Ericsson Plans to Stop Manufacturing in Sweden, Cutting 3,000 Jobs
Mobile telecoms equipment maker Ericsson plans to close the last of its Swedish manufacturing sites, cutting around 3,000 jobs in the country, Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet reported on Wednesday....
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