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New B2B startup accelerator will be launched in Oulu in autumn 2015
The application period has begun for the accelerator run by Nestholma in collaboration with BusinessOulu. The accelerator is looking for innovative B2B startups but also corporations that want to learn and build new businesses with startups. “Oulu is a unique place, because there is so much...
City Leaders and Visionaries Solve Key Challenge for Cities of the Future
Oulu, Finland, 5 May 2015 - Digitalization and emerging technologies such as 5G networks promise to radically transform today’s cities, but there is one great hurdle to cross before citizens can fully enjoy the benefits of digitalization. Cities will have to open up their services and data, and...
Oulu, Luleå and Troms are marketing Northern investments together
Northern Scandinavian investment opportunities at the MIPIM property investment market in Cannes, France
Tosibox: Globalising with a patented Lock and Key remote connection solution for M2M market
With a solution for independent encrypted remote connections, Tosibox of northern Finland is seeking to ride the crest of the industrial Internet Machine-to-Machine (M2M) market at the Mobile World Congress 2015 in Barcelona. This patented solution brings reliability and cost savings to global remote connections. The company’s products are already used in 70 countries, with sales now also beginning in North America.
The leading companies in mobile technology are investing in Oulu
A significant number of international corporations relocated to Oulu during the second half of 2014. This surely must be a record in the Finnish industrial history that such a major contribution was made to the field of development in hi-tech in such a short period of time. Eleven of these corporations are in ICT and almost the same number in other fields. Over the past couple of years the ICT ecosystem in Oulu has diversified considerably: While it earlier depended on two drivers, the mobile phone and mobile network knowledge and knowhow, it is complemented by clusters producing finance, health tech and automotive solutions.