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by vilpponen 14y ago
I like to run ArcticStartup as neutral/transparent as possible. People are able to find out my relation to TenFarms from my LinkedIn page anyhow. In the end, writing about news that are favorable to me aren't necessarily favorable to the st
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Nearing Bankruptcy, Fruugo Burned Through €40 Million to Generate €100K(arcticstartup.com)
95 points by vilpponen 14y ago|54 comments
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Danish Startup Community Unified Against The Entrepreneur Tax(arcticstartup.com)
73 points by vilpponen 15y ago|34 comments
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Spotify doubles its market share in 2011 growing 1.5x the market(arcticstartup.com)
2 points by vilpponen 15y ago|0 comments
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Flattr founder Peter Sunde faces 8 months in jail for The Pirate Bay(arcticstartup.com)
2 points by vilpponen 15y ago|0 comments
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Swedish Videoplaza secures $12 million for global expansion(arcticstartup.com)
1 points by vilpponen 15y ago|0 comments
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Rovio confirms: Angry Birds on Facebook February 14th(arcticstartup.com)
2 points by vilpponen 15y ago|0 comments
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Would Transparency In Company Financials Increase (Disruptive) Innovation?(arcticstartup.com)
4 points by vilpponen 15y ago|1 comments
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Finnish ISP forced to block access to ThePirateBay and other sites(arcticstartup.com)
147 points by vilpponen 15y ago|57 comments
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by vilpponen 15y ago
Sorry guys, seem to taking a bit of toll here. We'll see if we can sort things out on our end to keep the servers up.
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The Techcrunch Embargo(arcticstartup.com)
132 points by vilpponen 15y ago|39 comments
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by vilpponen 15y ago
My thinking is that while the game reached 100 million downloads quite fast - the ramp up to 500 million was a lot faster. You can't keep up the hype if you don't do things differently. I talked to Peter Vesterbacka a little more and also p
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by vilpponen 15y ago
I talked to Peter Vesterbacka (the Mighty Eagle/marketing guy) some 10-15 minutes ago about this. He said that looking back, it's easy to state that they've done all their marketing acts differently from everyone else and that is probably,
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Angry Birds cross 500 million downloads(arcticstartup.com)
26 points by vilpponen 15y ago|10 comments
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Bike Baron, iPad/iPhone game, tops charts in 62 countries in less than a week(arcticstartup.com)
11 points by vilpponen 15y ago|2 comments
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by vilpponen 15y ago
Yes, that's correct.
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by vilpponen 15y ago
The data is coming from Cherry Media Group, and they've collected it from publicly available figures.
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In depth look at the daily deals market in the Baltics(arcticstartup.com)
4 points by vilpponen 15y ago|4 comments
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Spotify Financials in 2010: Revenues $99M & $42M Loss(arcticstartup.com)
4 points by vilpponen 15y ago|0 comments
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Interview with Steve Blank On Startups, Economy and Europe(arcticstartup.com)
17 points by vilpponen 15y ago|1 comments
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Rovio/Angry Birds: We're in Acquisition Mode(arcticstartup.com)
2 points by vilpponen 15y ago|0 comments
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Facebook partners with WOT to protect its 700M users from malicious websites(arcticstartup.com)
4 points by vilpponen 15y ago|0 comments
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by vilpponen 15y ago
This is one of the reasons Readability links you back to the original article when you share document inside the service. It keeps a small overlay at the top which you can use to make the page more readable again. Slightly off topic: I've b
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by vilpponen 15y ago
My take on this is that they want to differentiate it enough to make it more "Nokia-like". However, what this means concretely - is still unknown. Also, my guess is that they will announce something on this the coming summer, well before No
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by vilpponen 15y ago
These are interesting comments from Nokia in the light of their partnership with Microsoft. Most likely this would mean Nokia will change the UI of the Windows Phone environment to their taste. Secondly: According to Nokia, Microsoft will b
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Nokia: "We will not adopt Windows Phone environment as it is seen today"(arcticstartup.com)
61 points by vilpponen 15y ago|53 comments
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Minecraft generated 5 million euros in March for Mojang(arcticstartup.com)
39 points by vilpponen 16y ago|24 comments
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Angry Birds creator Rovio to IPO in New York?(arcticstartup.com)
20 points by vilpponen 16y ago|11 comments
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Spotify reaches one million simultaneous subscribers(spotify.com)
2 points by vilpponen 16y ago|0 comments
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by vilpponen 16y ago
As the writer of the article, I want to apologise for that inaccuracy. I have added this clarification to the article itself and mentioned of this in the end. The mistake was completely unintentional. However, it would be interesting to re

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