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Part of that is mobile games companies like Supercell with Clash of the Clans - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercell_(video_game_company) https://en.wikipedi
by harryf 10y ago
Part of that is mobile games companies like Supercell with Clash of the Clans - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercell_(video_game_company) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercell_(video_game_company) ... Hay Day, Angry Birds and others. Basically out of the ashes of Nokia, a bunch of mobile gaming companies has sprung up and to some extent are dominating the industry - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Video_game_companies_of_Finland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Video_game_companies_... - more at https://techcrunch.com/2016/02/10/from-nokias-snake-game-to-supercell-finlands-gaming-industry-is-serious-business/ https://techcrunch.com/2016/02/10/from-nokias-snake-game-to-... - apparently they generate 1.8 Billion in total
- speeder 10y agoIt is not just a nokia thing. Also from Nordic countries: 1. Linux 2. Irc 3. Demoscene 4. DICE
- lgieron 10y ago5. Skype (AFAIK).
- MagnumOpus 10y agoEesti can into Nordic?
- dogma1138 10y agoEstonia is as "nordic" as Finland.
- fulafel 10y agoDon't know about that[1] but Skype founders were Swedish & Danish and Estonia is close by. [1] "consist of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_countries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_countries
- dogma1138 10y agoFinnish is not a Nordic language, while Estonian is a Finnic language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnic_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnic_languages Ethically Finland is a Baltic nation rather than a Nordic one, It's also was never a part of the 3 monarchies of Scandinavia until the more modern use of Scandinavia for tourism. Hence my reply to "Does Estonia count as a Nordic state" question :)
- fulafel 10y agoGeographic/country classification, languages and genetic roots all mesh differently in this case. Languagewise the Baltic countries apart from Estonia have Slavic majority languages. Biologically Finnish genetic makeup comes from a mix of Sami, Swedish & ugric peoples and is quite diverse [1] but does have a lot of overlap with Estonians. Culturally Finland differs due to having avoided Soviet occupation. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finns#Genetics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finns#Genetics
- dogma1138 10y agoYour argument is sadly still not clear to me. Some one asked is Estonia a nordic country, I said that in my book it as much as one as Finland because those 2 countries share an ethnic bound that is probably stronger than what Finland shares with Denmark.
- type0 10y agoThis has nothing to do with ethnic similarity between ests and fins. The only reason why Finland is considered nordic is that it still has swedish speaking population and it is second official language. Estonian swedes left because of WW2. Linus as you might know is from Finland but speaks swedish.
- kiiski 10y ago> It's also was never a part of the 3 monarchies of Scandinavia until the more modern use of Scandinavia for tourism. Finland was a part of Sweden from ~1200 to 1809. Finland also still has a large Swedish minority and has Swedish as an official language. The biggest religion is Lutheran due to Swedes forcing it on people when they conquered the land. Estonia is more Orthodox. More importantly, Finland has been co-operating with the other Nordic nations politically and economically for the ~century that it has been independent. Remember that the Nordic nations aren't just a cultural region, but they also share political, social and legal systems, have a passport union (although that overlaps with the EU nowadays) and, while they have not been able to develop any official military alliance due to Russian and American pressure, they co-operate a lot. All in all, Estonia has some things in common with Finland, but it doesn't have much claim to being a "Nordic nation". They might be in the future, but not today.
- type0 10y agoEstonia isn't Nordic, it is not part of Nordic Council.
- deciplex 10y agoFinland is Nordic, and Estonia is not, so Estonia is not as Nordic as Finland.
- lokedhs 10y agoTo me, Estonia is part of Nordic, just like Finland. But then there is this. http://satwcomic.com/new-nordic http://satwcomic.com/new-nordic (sorry, I just needed a reason to post a SATW link)
- mhomde 10y agoKlarna, Minecraft, King, Soundcloud, Paradox ...
- iopuy 10y ago5. Git Jumping on the bandwagon
- raverbashing 10y agoLinus was already in the US when it created GIT, so I don't think it should count
- kiiski 10y agoAnd SSH, MySQL.
- GBond 10y agoSpotify
- nabla9 10y agoKing (Candy Crush), Mojang (Minecraft), Rovio (Angry Birds), CCP Games (Eve online), Supercell (Clash of Clans), Unity (game engine) ...
- dogma1138 10y agoCCP is Icelandic and while it's "nordic" it's kinda far out there, it's also not a particularly big company. Unity Technologies started in Denmark but they moved to SanFran quite early and effectively Unity grew up in SV AFAIK Unity Tech doesn't have an office or any presence in Denmark and that has been true since the very early days. There are quite a bit of other game related successful ventures up in the north, DICE, Remedy, Nordic Games, Funcom and quite a few others come to mind.