Recent statistics suggest that messages sent via social media have overtaken SMS among Swedes. Read the full story
Posted on 10 January 2012.
Recent statistics suggest that messages sent via social media have overtaken SMS among Swedes. Read the full story
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Posted on 07 November 2011.
The combined Nordic consumer agencies are investigating whether advertising laws have been broken on the social networking website, Facebook. Read the full story
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Posted on 24 July 2011.
Finnish police have begun an investigation after a huge gathering of youngsters organised on Facebook resulted in rapes, assaults and vandalism. Read the full story
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Posted on 20 July 2011.
Denmark’s immigration minister has accused the country’s press of adopting the same dirty tactics as British tabloid News of the World, which closed two weeks ago amid an intense phone hacking scandal. Read the full story
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Posted on 03 July 2011.
A Swedish school, which sacked its headmaster for publishing half naked pictures of himself and joining sexually-themed groups on Facebook, has been told that it acted unjustly by a Swedish court. Read the full story
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Posted on 04 June 2011.
In just two-and-a-half days, the small Icelandic town of Seydisfjordur has managed to raise ISK 45 million (EUR 270,205) on Facebook to help the townspeople buy the local aluminium cable factory. Read the full story
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Posted on 03 April 2011.
A painting by one of Sweden’s most revered artists has been removed from Facebook as it was deemed to fall foul of the website’s zero-tolerance policy on nudity. Read the full story
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Posted on 09 March 2011.
Representatives of some of the biggest online brands on Earth will be in Reykjavik this Friday for the 8th annual Reykjavik Internet Marketing Conference — or RIMC. Read the full story
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Posted on 09 January 2011.
Three employees of a car plant in central Sweden have been fired after one of them described their work place as a “madhouse” on Facebook. Read the full story
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Posted on 17 December 2010.
A local politician representing the right wing extreme party Sverigedemokraterna in Varmland, Sweden was fired after writing offensive remarks about Muslims on his Facebook page. Read the full story
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No Motörhead wine for Icelanders, branding too negative
Reykjavík Winter Lights Festival begins today
Multiple shooting in Greenland hamlet
IMF refutes claim it tried to shut Icelandic national theatre and museum
Iceland central bank holds rates, predicts ongoing economic growth
Continued Malmö violence embarrasses police
Currency exchange privacy case thrown out of Icelandic court
Sauli Niinistö wins Finland presidential race
Iceland historic French village restoration finance secured
Murder in Hafnarfjörður
