February 14, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Nokia":
Business & Money: 21 Jul 11
Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson on Thursday reported a 65 percent rise in net profit in the second quarter on the back of strong sales, but its shares dropped by
nearly 7 percent as figures fell short of analyst expectations.
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Business & Money: 27 Apr 11
Swedish telecom giant Ericsson reported a whopping 224 percent rise in profits on Wednesday, surprising analysts and sending its stock up almost 7 percent in early trading.
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Business & Money: 12 Apr 11
Swedish mobile network giant Ericsson is the target of a writ from Chinese telecom equipment supplier ZTE, alleging patent infringement and escalating a legal dispute between the two rivals.
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Science & Technology: 2 Apr 11
Swedish telecom giant Ericsson has filed three patent infringement lawsuits against Chinese rival ZTE.
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Business & Money: 23 Mar 11
Swedish mobile telecom network giant Ericsson announced on Wednesday that 450 positions are to be cut in its sales and administration operations in Sweden.
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Business & Money: 25 Jan 11
Swedish mobile network giant Ericsson announced increased sales and a sharply higher net profit thanks to mobile broadband sales, although its earnings slightly missed expectations.
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Business & Money: 20 Jan 11
Android-based smartphone sales helped move Swedish-Japanese mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson back into profit in 2010, despite lower than expected fourth quarter earnings and sales.
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Business & Money: 11 Jan 11
Sweden's Ericsson and Chinese telecom giant Huawei have been commissioned by Sweden's TeliaSonera to modernise and expand Norway's entire mobile network, the companies announced on Tuesday.
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National: 23 Nov 10
Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi on Monday called on the Iranian diaspora to protest against Swedish company Ericsson, accusing the telecoms firms of aiding monitoring in Iran.
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Business & Money: 25 Oct 10
Nordic telecoms giant TeliaSonera said on Monday that sales of smartphones, coupled with growth in eastern Europe and Asia, boosted third-quarter profits and its outlook for fiscal-year results.
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Business & Money: 22 Oct 10
Swedish telecom firm Ericsson on Friday reported a net profit of 3.68 billion kronor ($553 million) in the third quarter, with its shares leaping 6 percent as a result in early trading.
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Business & Money: 15 Oct 10
Swedish-Japanese mobile phone manufacturer Sony Ericsson reported a third consecutive quarter of net profits on Friday following dramatic restructuring, but its sales fell far below expectations.
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Business & Money: 20 Sep 10
Swedish furniture giant Ikea is looking to expand further in Asia in the coming years, according to CEO Mikael Ohlsson, who added that the company’s sales continue to climb.
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Science & Technology: 1 Sep 10
Sony Ericsson expects China to become its biggest handset market by volume in the next three to four years.
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National: 16 Aug 10
A Swedish motorcycle rider stopped by Finnish police doing 233 kilometres/hour on the motorway has been held on suspicion of being under the influence of alcohol and driving without a licence or registration.
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Business & Money: 27 May 10
Swedish online music service Spotify is starting to become a major revenue stream for Swedish music companies as digital sales are forecast to account for 25 percent of income in 2010.
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Business & Money: 18 Mar 10
Swedish students have named Google, Ikea and the foreign ministry as their dream places of work, according to a new survey.
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Business & Money: 24 Feb 10
Reader's Digest, a UK consumer magazine, has presented its survey listing Sweden's most trusted brands in a raft of categories.
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Business & Money: 15 Feb 10
Swedish-Japanese handset maker Sony Ericsson unveiled its new smartphones on Sunday as it seeks to close the gap on its main competitors.
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Science & Technology: 12 Feb 10
Swedes are the world's foremost users of information technology - such as mobile telephones, computers and networks - a new report shows.
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Business & Money: 22 Jan 10
Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson reported a quarterly loss on Friday that surpassed market expectations but, amid plunging sales for the company, it continues to face fierce competition in the smartphone market.
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Science & Technology: 13 Jan 10
Swedish telecoms equipment maker Ericsson has secured a deal to supply TeliaSonera's new high speed 4G network in Sweden and Norway.
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Lifestyle: 22 Dec 09
Waited till the last minute to pick up a gift for the design aficionado in your life? Here's help. We've dusted off The Local’s quintessential guide to the best of Swedish design online with some old, some new and some just plain odd.
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Business & Money: 23 Nov 09
Swedish online music service Spotify announced on Monday that it has launched an application for mobile phones running the Symbian operating system.
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Business & Money: 25 Jul 09
Swedish telecom giant Ericsson has bought the wireless division of Canadian group Nortel, currently under bankruptcy protection from creditors, for the equivalent of more than $1 billion (8 billion kronor).
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Business & Money: 24 Jul 09
Swedish telecom giant Ericsson reported an almost 60 percent drop in second-quarter net profits, coming in well below market expectations.
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Travel: 21 Jul 09
Alannah Eames visits Finland's Swedish-speaking Åland islands, and finds gorgeous scenery, great food and a fascinating history.
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Business & Money: 16 Jul 09
Sony Ericsson’s CEO said on Thursday that his company faced “difficult” times, as falling handset sales dented the mobile phone maker’s second quarter earnings.
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Science & Technology: 8 Jul 09
Swedish telecoms equipment provider Ericsson has inked deals with two Chinese mobile operators worth $1.7 billion.
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Business & Money: 17 Apr 09
Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson announced plans on Friday to slash 2,000 more jobs after posting a loss of €293 million ($384 million) in the first quarter of 2009.
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Science & Technology: 24 Jan 09
New models of mobile phones struggle to survive when temperatures plunge towards zero. Batteries freeze, performance weakens and the phones turn themselves off. 'Read the instructions', Swedish consumers have been told.
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Science & Technology: 9 Dec 08
Sweden is set to receive the fastest mobile network in Europe following upgrades to be carried out by a group of Swedish companies.
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Business & Money: 20 Aug 08
Swedish telecoms equipment group Ericsson has announced it is to join forces with semiconductor group STMicroelectronics. The venture will employ almost 8,000 people.
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Business & Money: 19 Jul 08
Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson announced Friday it was cutting 2,000 jobs worldwide after reporting an operating loss in the second quarter due to difficult market conditions and the global economic slowdown.
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Business & Money: 18 Apr 08
The Stockholm stock exchange finished the trading week higher with TeliaSonera and bank stocks leading the way.
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Analysis & Opinion: 10 Apr 08
Sweden and Finland have become more willing to debate possible NATO membership, writes Tallinn-based journalist Justin Petrone. But opposition to the alliance remains strong.
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Business & Money: 24 Jan 08
The Stockholm stock exchange rebounded strongly on Thursday following rises in New York and Tokyo.
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Science & Technology: 12 Dec 07
Sweden's Dagens Nyheter said on Wednesday it had launched the world's first "newspaper" telephone.
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Business & Money: 25 Oct 07
Ericsson, the world's leading mobile networks maker, presented sharply lower third quarter earnings on Thursday in line with last week's profit warning that shocked the market.
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Business & Money: 16 Oct 07
Ericsson shares fell 24 percent in opening trading on the Stockholm Stock Exchange after the telecoms equipment maker said its profits would be lower than expected. The fall wipes 100 billion kronor off Ericsson's value.
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Business & Money: 1 Jun 07
Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is delisting from the Stockholm stock exchange, having had a listing there since 1983.
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Business & Money: 5 Jan 07
A profit warning from American mobile phone giant Motorola causes Nokia and Ericsson shares to fall on the Stockholm exchange.
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Business & Money: 10 Jul 06
The heads of some of the Nordic countries' biggest companies had a nice salary bump last year. Some 12 percent of board heads make at least 1 million kronor a year.
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Business & Money: 10 Apr 06
Ericsson's boss says his company will focus on buying small niche players rather than on super-mergers. And Carl-Henric Svanberg warns of the challenge from Chinese competitors.
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Business & Money: 3 Apr 06
Nordic telecommunication giants Nokia and Ericsson will need to grow by acquisition to counter the long-term impact of a planned merger of Alcatel and Lucent on their business, analysts said on Monday.
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Business & Money: 18 Jan 06
Big share prices falls in Tokyo and New York are reflected on the Stockholm share market, with most big companies losing value. AstraZeneca is among those hit after bad news from the US.
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Business & Money: 22 Nov 05
The Swedish-Japanese company sees its international market share rise to 6.7 percent in the third quarter, helping it rise above competitor LG.
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Business & Money: 21 Jul 05
The Swedish telecoms giant saw profits increase to 5.8 billion kronor in the second quarter. The rise was due to the rollout of 3G in North America and demand for GSM technology in developing markets.
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Business & Money: 15 Jul 05
Mobile phone giant Sony Ericsson reported on Friday falling profits for the second quarter, saying continued high spending on research and development weighed on the bottom line.
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Business & Money: 12 Jul 05
Nokia will develop technology to allow Vodafone customers to use their mobile phones as walkie-talkies.
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Business & Money: 11 May 05
Sony Ericsson's handsets come out on top in a new survey of phone radiation, while Nokia phones fall behind. But scientists are still divided on how risky mobiles are to health.
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Business & Money: 22 Apr 05
Carl-Henric Svanberg, CEO of Ericsson, says an unexpected surge in profits is down to a good product mix and successful cost-cutting measures in 2004.
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Business & Money: 4 Apr 05
Seven of Sweden's most popular mobiles are camera phones and Swedes are sticking firmly behind the home team as Sony Ericsson proves more popular than Finnish rivals Nokia.
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Business & Money: 8 Mar 05
Three mobile phone giants, Sony Ericsson, Nokia and Siemens, are clubbing together to back a new industry standard for updating handset software, OMSI.
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Business & Money: 1 Mar 05
It's a music player that you can also use to telephone your friends. Or rather, a camera that you can listen to songs on. Either way, the Swedish media welcomes the new offering from the half-homegrown mobile phone giant.
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Smörgåsbord: 2 Feb 05
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Smörgåsbord: 27 Jan 05
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Smörgåsbord: 26 Jan 05
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Business & Money: 11 Jan 05
Swedes continue to support the home team and nordic neighbours Nokia in the battle for mobile handset supremacy.
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Business & Money: 9 Jan 05
After a couple of bad years, IKEA’s Swedish business has broken the trend and set records both for sales and profit.
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Smörgåsbord: 15 Dec 04
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Smörgåsbord: 6 Dec 04
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Smörgåsbord: 3 Dec 04
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Smörgåsbord: 11 Nov 04
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Smörgåsbord: 10 Nov 04
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As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »
Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »
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