Pressemitteilungen

360Education Virtual Reality platform by 360Mediahouse launched at Bett Show 2020 in London

  360Mediahouse introduces to the international market a new product, 360Education, which is a platform for educators to develop, publish and share Virtual Reality education and learning events.  360Education is presented at Bett Show 2020, the leading event in the field of education technology that takes place on 22–25 January 2020 at ExCel Exhibition Centre in London. Visitors are welcome to...

SoftBank's SB Drive and Finnish Sensible 4 starting autonomous driving collaboration

Japanese SB Drive announces a collaboration with Finnish Sensible 4 on self-driving technology integration for autonomous shuttles. SoftBank's self-driving subsidiary, SB Drive, has started a collaboration with Finnish autonomous driving technology company Sensible 4. The primary purpose of the cooperation is to accelerate the implementation of autonomous shuttles in Europe and Japan and bring...

Die finnische Marke eines ehemaligen NHL-Spielers ist auf Expansionskurs

Das finnische Start-up Billebeino, erschaffen aus der Feder des Stanley Cup-Finalisten Ville Leino, ist auf dem Vormarsch und will nun in weitere europäischen Märkte vorstoßen. Die Bekleidungsmarke nimmt vom 14.1. – 16.1.2020 an der SEEK in Berlin teil. Dieses Frühjahr weitet sich die finnische Bekleidungsmarke über die Grenzen seines Heimatlandes hinaus. Einige berühmte Sportler vertrauen dem...

Study in English, study in Finland! The application period begins for English Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programmes in JAMK University of Applied Sciences in Jyväskylä, Finland

JAMK University of Applied Sciences has 8000 students in 7 different fields. The degree programmes at JAMK offer professional education in an international learning environment - with students coming from all over the globe. JAMK offers five Bachelor´s and five Master´s Degree Programmes conducted in English. Application period is 8 – 22 January 2020. Entrance exams are held in March in various...

Polar Night Live shows an arctic village living without sunshine

It´s on again. The Polar Night Live Camera shows the life without sunshine in the tiny arctic village of Hetta in Enontekiö, Finnish Lapland. The period of Polar Night is the time when the sun does not rise above the horizon. In our area the Polar night last from 6 December to 6 January. During this time, the snow covers the nature, the colours of the sky vary from black to light purple, yellow...

GACHA Autonomous Shuttle-Bus wins the 2019 Beazley Transport Design of the year award

Sensible 4’s self-driving shuttle bus GACHA is the winner of the 2019 Beazley Design of the year award in the transport category. GACHA was designed in cooperation with Finnish Sensible 4 and Japanese MUJI and the design-work was led by the iconic designer Naoto Fukasawa. GACHA represents Fukasawa’s famous minimalist style. The Design Museum London revealed the winner of the prestigious Beazley...

Want to meet Santa Claus? Now you can travel to Rovaniemi, Lapland, in virtual reality

Santa Claus’s hometown in Finland, Rovaniemi, and virtual reality studio Zoan have created a unique VR experience of the Santa Claus Village and the nature of Lapland. Rovaniemi receives yearly over half a million people across the world to make their dream of meeting Santa Claus come true. Only during December Santa Claus meets people from over 130 countries. This autumn Visit Rovaniemi and...

Internationale Studie zeigt, dass Pressemitteilungen in der Arbeit von Journalisten an Relevanz gewonnen haben

Die Relevanz von Pressemitteilungen hat für die Arbeit von Journalisten in den letzten eineinhalb Jahren zugenommen. Dies ist eines der wichtigsten Ergebnisse einer Befragung von Journalisten, die Liana Technologies – ein cloud-basierter Anbieter von digitaler Marketing- und Kommunikationssoftware – im Sommer 2019 durchgeführt hat. In der Befragung wurden Journalisten und Medienfachleute gefragt,...

GrainSense bietet Messe-Rabatt auf der Agritechnica 2019

Agritechnica 2019 – 10. – 16., November 2019 GrainSense in Halle 15, Stand D51 Distributor geo-konzept in Halle 15, Stand J20   Hannover / Oulu, Finnland - 30. Oktober 2019   GrainSense bietet das Gerät für 2.990 Euro (zzgl. MwSt.) für jeden an, der einen Gutschein am Stand in Halle 15, Stand D51, abholt Neue Batterieabdeckung wird ab 2020 erhältlich sein Distributoren in Osteuropa...

Agritechnica 2019: GrainSense misst nun Mais- und Soja-Inhaltsstoffe mit seinem Handmessgerät

Agritechnica 2019 – 10. – 16., November 2019 GrainSense in Halle 15, Stand D51 Distributor geo-konzept in Halle 15, Stand J20   Hannover / Oulu, Finnland - 22. Oktober 2019   GrainSense kann nun die Inhaltsstoffe von Mais und Soja bestimmen Mit der neuen tragbaren Mühle, dem Field Grinder, können Landwirte diese Kulturen auf dem Feld zerkleinern und messen Die Messebesucher sind...

New home for urban culture in Helsinki: Mall of Tripla creates experiences for everyday life and leisure

17th October sees the opening of Mall of Tripla, the new home for urban culture in the Finnish capital of Helsinki, and the biggest shopping centre in the Nordic countries. The shopping centre, located just north of the city centre, in Pasila, has as many as 250 shops and services, including new brands, restaurants and cafés, as well as the largest hub of supermarkets in Finland. Mall of Tripla...

Subcontracting fair: the number-one industrial fair grew in popularity in Finland

17 731 visitors and more than 1 100 exhibitors gathered at the international industrial subcontracting fair. The number of visitors is the second highest in the history of the event (2016: 18 422). The objective of the Subcontracting Fair and the AlihankintaHEAT start-up event, held at the Tampere Exhibition and Sports Centre, is to achieve strong internationalization in the coming years. New...

MyData 2019 conference opened - Facebook canceled their participation, Children's Digital Rights need to be protected

MyData 2019 conference opened - Facebook canceled their participation, Children's Digital Rights need to be protected Globally, one third of internet users are children, yet the digital service providers often say they don’t have children as customers. However we witness that children's personal data is collected, stored and sold just like the data produced by adults.   “It is not realistic to...

Subcontracting Trade Fair 2019: “Sustainability is not a zero sum game”

The second largest subcontracting industry trade fair in Europe, Subcontracting Trade Fair 2019 (Alihankinta 2019) and start-up event AlihankintaHEAT, kicked off today in Tampere.  All five halls of the Tampere Exhibition and Sports Centre will be filled until Thursday, 26 September, by over 1000 exhibitors who have come to Tampere from approximately twenty different countries. The theme of the...

[Updated] INVITATION: Join Carole Cadwalladr, Imogen Heap and many others coming to the MyData 2019

  [Updated] Invitation to the MyData 2019 conference held in Helsinki, Finland, on September 25-27.   The fourth annual conference, dedicated to rebuilding trust for human-centered data economy is organised by the award-winning MyData Global nonprofit and held in Helsinki, Finland, on September 25-27. Media representatives are welcome to the MyData 2019 conference for free. We have three...

INVITATION: Join Carole Cadwalladr, Imogen Heap and many others coming to the MyData 2019

Official invitation to the MyData 2019 conference held in Helsinki, Finland, on September 25-27. What if we as individuals had better control of our personal data? In essence that’s what MyData 2019 conference is working toward. With more and more reported data breaches and personal data scandals appearing in the news on a regular basis, the importance of this topic is growing fast. This will...

5G-enabled Virtual Reality won the prize in the SHIFT hackathon in Finland

The City of Turku and the telecom company Elisa jointly organized a 5G hackathon at the SHIFT Business Festival held on 29–30 August 2019 in Turku, Finland. The hackathon challenged teams to create and develop new 5G-enabled solutions for preventing social exclusion. The winner of the SHIFT Elisa 5G hackathon was Choose Your Future, a Turku-based start-up company, which launched an online...

German NK Digital Solutions acquires majority stake in Teosto startup Mind Your Rights

NK Digital Solutions GmbH, a German IT company, has acquired a majority of the shares of the Finnish startup company Mind Your Rights. Mind Your Rights was established by the Finnish copyright organisation Teosto to develop a global live music copyright licensing platform. The new owner will secure wider resources for the development and global distribution of the service.   Mind Your Rights was...

Netled Oy and Astwood Infrastructure collaborate to build Industrial scale vertical farms worldwide

Netled Oy, Finnish specialists in vertical farming systems and greenhouse lighting solutions, have signed a long term framework agreement with Astwood Infrastructure to supply equipment for industrial scale vertical farms.  The agreement covers an initial four such farms, based predominantly in the UK, to be delivered over the next three years and provides a framework for serving global...