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
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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Posted on 08 December 2010.
A police station located in downtown Reykjavik has recently joined the social networking website, Facebook and created a public group profile. Read the full story
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Posted on 02 December 2010.
Tax authorities in Denmark have gone high-tech, using social networking sites to help dig out fraud. Skat, the country’s tax authority, has revealed that several local authorities are reporting great success after using websites such as Facebook to snare tax dodgers. Read the full story
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Posted on 20 November 2010.
A website that asks users to rate Swedish teenage girls as either “ugly” or “hot” has been reported to the police. Read the full story
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Posted on 15 October 2010.
Consumer ombudsmen in the Nordic region are looking into social networking sites such as Facebook to decide whether they are engaging in illegal marketing. The watchdogs are planning to investigate whether social media websites contravene advertising laws in Finland, Norway, Sweden, Greenland, Iceland, Denmark and the Faroe Islands. Read the full story
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Posted on 31 August 2010.
Police in Finland’s capital have issued advice about ‘Facebook crime’, as complaints about online pranksters are keeping cops busy. Hannu Kortelainen, of the Helsinki police, has revealed that gripes about the popular social networking site come flooding into the station on a daily basis. Read the full story
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Posted on 07 July 2010.
Facebook has closed down Reykjavik mayor Jon Gnarr’s popular diary without explanation. And the city council has decided to give away council members’ own free fishing permits. Read the full story
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Posted on 05 June 2010.
It appears the Icelandic version of Facebook may have fallen victim to computer hackers who inserted the Icelandic word for paedophile where it usually says ‘Like this’. Read the full story
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