Lauri Pappinen

Sweden’s Kamera Interactive, recently launched KameraOne, an online marketplace for a wide range of digitized video content. KameraOne offers buyers and sellers of digital audio and video to trade content rights. The site also aims to make it easy for content holders to create new revenue streams on the Internet with existing content. KameraOne will […]

Media giant Bertelsmann has acquired leading online bookstore Bokus.com from Swedish media company KF Media AB. Bertelsmann acquires 50 percent of the biggest online bookseller Bokus.com, which was originally created by Boo.com founders Kajsa Leander and Ernst Malmsten. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. For several days, speculative reports swirled that Amazon.com was […]

In a series of sweeping acquisitions, the European portal and search engine EuroSeek has acquired stakes in content and internet access companies Sharelook, Tjohoo, Infranet and room33. This is a milestone in 39-language EuroSeek’s strategy to combine its pan-European consumer portal, search engine and consumer e-commerce initiatives with a multiplatform access networks including broadband, mobile […]

In step with its expansion to a variety of platforms in Europe, chello broadband nv signed a deal this week with Microsoft Corp. in which chello will use Windows Media streaming technology on its broadband network in Sweden. Under terms of the agreement, visitors to Sweden’s Chello portal can access streaming movies, video and music […]

The rules for domain names in Sweden are getting more liberal to adapt to the needs of a fast-growing domain name market. Swedish top domain .se will be expanded on April 3 to include four country level domain designations. The new domains include .org.se for organizations; .parti.se for political parties; .press.se for magazines and newspapers; […]

Ledstiernan has taken a back-door entry to the Stockholm exchange via listed company Empire, with the expectation that the market presence will hasten the arrival of more venture capital. Ledstiernan, which aims to use VC funds to invest in mobile Net ventures, is venture capital company focusing on IT, telecommunications and the media startups. Its […]

Framfab, one of Europe’s more aggressive Internet companies, has pushed into the U.S. with the all-stock purchase of eBizApps.com. The Silicon Valley office will work into Framfab’s strategy to incubate start-ups in the area. Framfab also intends to move into other U.S. cities, including Washington D.C. and New York City. Framfab will offer its usual […]

Swedish Internet company Cell Network Tuesday revised the terms of one of its recent acquisitions as it endeavors to take the top spot among Europe’s Net consulting firms. Cell Network AB and Mandator AB earlier this month agreed to merge, calling the agreement a merger on equal terms. The company will operate under the name […]

Swedish company Advantech‘s portal unit Thalamus.net will soon be launched, with the intention of helping property holders implement broadband services. The first release of the portal is expected to launch in April. It will supply local content from local servers, including the delivery of films, news and games on demand to local households. “Our broadband […]

A small, local online news site in Sweden gained new management and funding, which the company will use hit the cities across the country and move in on local news and advertising stalwarts. 24timmar.se received new funding from venture capital company Intelligence Ventshare and media house Medstroms. More funding is expected later. 24timmar.se intends to […]

The Swedish Post is now offering support services to e-commerce storefronts, allowing users to track shipments from the seller’s Web site. The new feature is called “dynamic online service” (DOT), and the supplier is Posten Logistics. Through the new service, any e-commerce company can very easy download from the Swedish Post the software free of […]

With the goal of connecting more countries in Europe, operators Utfors and Pangea are making crossover deals to prepare fiber cable for future broadband usage. The Swedish broadband operator Utfors is selling an additional duct and fiber cable in the broadband ring to Pangea, a European telecommunications operator. Pangea is developing a state of the […]