Tag Archives: Espoo

Comptel acquires the Finnish analytics company Xtract

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Thomas Ohr

Comptel, a Helsinki based software company, just announced the acquisition of Xtract Oy, a Finnish analytics startup, for a total consideration of 3.1 million Euro (enterprise value). Xtract was founded in 2001 and has about 20 major customers including telecom … Continue reading →

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Rovio announced 500 million downloads of Angry Birds

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Thomas Ohr

The Espoo (Finland) based startup Rovio today announced 500 million total downloads of Angry Birds games across all platforms. This milestone makes Angry Birds one of the most downloaded games in the history of gaming. According to the young company … Continue reading →

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Finnish startup Zokem got acquired by Arbitron

Posted on July 29, 2011 by Thomas Ohr

Arbitron Inc., announced yesterday that it has acquired Zokem Oy, a Finland based mobile audience measurement and analytics company, for a payment of approximately $11.7 million in cash at closing with possible additional incremental cash payments through 2014 of up … Continue reading →

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AudioDraft: Outsourced & crowdsourced audio productions

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Thomas Ohr

AudioDraft, a Finnish audio crowdsourcing startup, enables companies to outsource their audio productions (jingles, music for games or videos…) to a worldwide sound designer community. The young company, which is based in Espoo, has just launched a customised audio contest for Nelonen Media … Continue reading →