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Ericsson profits double on sale of Sony stake

Business & Money: 25 Apr 12
Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson posted a first quarter net profit that was more than twice as high as those reported at the same time last year, thanks to the one-off sale of its stake in a joint venture with Sony. READ »

Layoffs hit Sony Mobile workers in Lund

Business & Money: 27 Mar 12
Sony Mobile in Lund announced it was laying off 149 employees on Tuesday, after initial warnings that staff numbers would have to be cut down following Sony's purchase of its joint venture with Swedish telecom giant Ericsson in February. READ »

Ericsson shares nosedive on weak report

Business & Money: 25 Jan 12
Ericsson on announced a worse-than-expected 73 percent drop in its fourth quarter net profits, sending shares in the Swedish telecom giant plummeting in Wednesday morning trading. READ »

Sony Ericsson ends 2011 with massive loss

Business & Money: 19 Jan 12
Sony Ericsson, the soon-to-be divorced Swedish-Japanese mobile phone maker, reported a steep loss for the final quarter of 2011 on Thursday, as earnings were hit by a nearly 20 percent drop in sales. READ »

Ericsson name dropped from new Sony phone

Business & Money: 10 Jan 12
Sony on Tuesday launched its first mobile handsets without the “Sony Ericsson” brand name at an electronics show in Las Vegas, marking a symbolic end to the company's ten year collaboration with the Swedish telecoms giant. READ »

Ek the 'most important man in music': Forbes

Science & Technology: 6 Jan 12
Swedish internet music service Spotify’s ground breaking inventor Daniel Ek has been hailed the most important person in the world of music by American journal Forbes. READ »

Stockholm International School celebrates its 60th anniversary

Education: 22 Nov 11
Stockholm International School has seen thousands of students pass through its doors since it was founded in 1951. To mark its fiftieth birthday, Maggie Dankiewicz, Valerie Evers, Caroline Engström-Roberts and the students of Grade 5 tell of its fascinating history. READ »

Ericsson and Sony go separate ways

Business & Money: 27 Oct 11
Swedish telecom equipment giant Ericsson confirmed on Thursday that it would sell its stake in mobile phone joint venture Sony Ericsson to Sony for €1.05 billion ($1.47 billion). READ »

Ericsson purchase 'speculation': Sony

Business & Money: 21 Oct 11
A senior executive with Sony on Friday dismissed as "speculation" reports that Swedish telecom firm Ericsson wanted to sell its stake in the Sony Ericsson joint venture back to the Japanese electronics giant. READ »

Ericsson shares surge on strong earnings report

Business & Money: 20 Oct 11
Swedish telecom giant Ericsson announced on Thursday a 6 percent jump in third quarter net profits, causing its shares to surge in morning trading on the Stockholm stock exchange. READ »

Sony Ericsson breaks even as European sales dip

Business & Money: 14 Oct 11
Swedish-Japanese mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson announced better than expected earnings for the third quarter on Friday, allowing it to break even amid sluggish sales in Europe. READ »

Ericsson to sell stake in Sony Ericsson: report

Business & Money: 7 Oct 11
Sweden's Ericsson is nearing a deal to sell its stake in the Sony Ericsson mobile phone joint venture to Japanese consumer electronics giant Sony, according to a media report. READ »

Christmas stockings at the ready for new Abba video game

Society: 2 Oct 11
The enduring popularity of Abba shows little sign of abating in the 21st century, with news that a new dance based video game is set for release as software giants around the world limber up for the lucrative Christmas rush. READ »

Sony Ericsson figures hit by Japan disaster fall out

Business & Money: 15 Jul 11
Swedish-Japanese mobile phone manufacturer Sony Ericsson posted a net loss of €50 million ($70 million) for the second quarter on Friday, saying that its supply chain had been hit by the disasters in Japan. READ »

Sony Ericsson ends trademark dispute

Science & Technology: 14 May 11
Sony Ericsson has put an end to its trademark dispute with the American telecomms company Clearwire. READ »

Sweden's Ericsson posts massive profits hike

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. READ »

Sony Ericsson reports profits slump

Business & Money: 19 Apr 11
Swedish-Japanese mobile phone manufacturer Sony Ericsson on Tuesday reported a steep decline in net profits, explained by the impact on sales of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. READ »

Spotify shuts down ads as virus strikes

Business & Money: 25 Mar 11
Swedish online music streaming service Spotify has switched off its adverts after users of its ad-supported version reported being hit by a virus attack. READ »

Ericsson sales improve on mobile broadband

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. READ »

Spotify signs US deal with Sony: report

Science & Technology: 21 Jan 11
Swedish online music service Spotify has inked its first US distribution deal, bringing the popular music service one step closer to the desktops and mobile phones of US-based listeners. READ »

Sony Ericsson posts profit as sales fall

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. READ »

Ericsson shares jump on profits boost

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. READ »

Sony Ericsson third quarter sales disappoint

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. READ »

Skarsgård pitches in for Stockholm football club

Society: 1 Oct 10
Swedish actor Alexander Skarsgård has announced that he plans to auction memorabilia from HBO's vampire-themed True Blood and Hollywood thriller Straw Dogs in aid of his cash-strapped home town football club Hammarby. READ »

'Tattoo' filming on hold as star injured: report

Society: 23 Sep 10
Rooney Mara, the actress cast to play the role of Lisbeth Salander in the US remake of Stieg Larsson's Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, has been injured in Stockholm, forcing a delay in filming. READ »

Sweden preps for filming of Hollywood's 'Tattoo'

Society: 15 Sep 10
Several locations in Sweden are bracing for a Hollywood invasion this autumn, with filming of the English-language version of "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" set to start within weeks. READ »

Sony Ericsson targets China for smartphones

Science & Technology: 1 Sep 10
Sony Ericsson expects China to become its biggest handset market by volume in the next three to four years. READ »

Hollywood unknown cast as Lisbeth Salander

Society: 17 Aug 10
Rooney Mara, a relatively unknown American actress, has been cast to star as Lisbeth Salander in the US remake of the first of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Sony Pictures has confirmed. READ »

Skarsgård offered Millennium film role

Society: 5 Aug 10
Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård has been offered a role in the US remake of the first of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which is due for release in 2011. READ »

Stieg Larsson first to sell one million Kindle books

Business & Money: 28 Jul 10
Sweden's Stieg Larsson has become the first author to sell more than one million books in Amazon's Kindle electronic bookstore, the company announced on Tuesday. READ »

Daniel Craig lands Millennium lead role

Society: 27 Jul 10
Daniel Craig has officially signed on with Sony Picture to star in the lead role as journalist Mikael Blomkvist in the upcoming Hollywood film remake of Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. READ »

Sony Ericsson sees profits jump

Business & Money: 16 Jul 10
The Swedish-Japanese mobile handset maker said its focus on the top end of the market had helped it recover from last year's losses. READ »

Eva Gabrielsson refuses Larsson family offer

Society: 17 Jun 10
Stieg Larsson's partner Eva Gabrielsson has said she has "flatly refused" an offer of 20 million kronor ($2.57 million) and a board seat in the company that manages the Millennium books. READ »

Brad Pitt to star in Millennium film: reports

Society: 28 Apr 10
US actor Brad Pitt is set to star in the Hollywood remake of the first of the Stieg Larsson Millennium trilogy films, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, according to media reports. READ »

Film industry demands fines from Pirate Bay pair

Science & Technology: 26 Apr 10
Thirteen major film companies have filed writs against two of the men behind The Pirate Bay demanding payment of 500,000 kronor ($70,000) fines for continuing to operate the file sharing website despite a court order from October 2009. READ »

Söderling to face Berdych in semi-final showdown

National: 2 Apr 10
After advancing in the the Sony Ericsson Open men's quarter-finals in Miami, Roland Garros runner-up Robin Söderling will face off with Tomas Berdych in Friday's semi-final showdown. READ »

Ikea and Google top student career wish list

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. READ »

UK mag announces Sweden's 'most trusted brands'

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. READ »

Stockholm 'one of Europe's richest regions'

Business & Money: 18 Feb 10
The Stockholm area is one of the ten richest regions in the European Union, according to new figures from Eurostat, the EU's statistics agency. READ »

Sony Ericsson unveils new smartphones

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. READ »

Sony Ericsson losses lower than expected

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. READ »

Music industry demands fines for Pirate Bay duo

Science & Technology: 11 Jan 10
Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, two of the men found guilty for their role in operating The Pirate Bay file sharing site, both find themselves once again in the recording industry’s crosshairs. READ »

'Millennium' trilogy heading to Hollywood

Society: 16 Dec 09
A major Hollywood studio is close to finalizing a deal to produce an English-language film adaptation of Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s wildly successful “Millennium” trilogy of crime novels. READ »

Sony Ericsson to cut 450 jobs in Lund

National: 16 Dec 09
Sony Ericsson plans to reduce the workforce at facilities in Lund in southern Sweden by 15 percent, putting 450 of the mobile handset manufacturer’s employees out of work. READ »

Spotify launches Symbian mobile app

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. READ »

Sony Ericsson to close Kista development centre

Business & Money: 19 Nov 09
Sony Ericsson said on Wednesday it will lay off 130 employees as part of a plan to close its development centre in Kista near Stockholm. The announcement came as the company previewed a new touch screen mobile phone. READ »

Scrapping tracker may negate Pirate Bay fines

Science & Technology: 17 Nov 09
The Pirate Bay file sharing site has decided to shut down the tracker that allows users to share digital files with one another in a move that could negate the court ordered fines facing two of the men behind the site. READ »

Sony Ericsson reports profits plunge

Business & Money: 16 Oct 09
Swedish-Japanese mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson on Friday reported a €199 million ($297 million) net loss and a 42 percent drop in sales for the third quarter. READ »

What's on in Sweden: October 2 - 8

Lifestyle: 1 Oct 09
What's on in Sweden: International poetry festival & American football in Stockholm; International art biennial & World music festival in Gothenburg; Kings of Convenience (NO) in Malmö/Lund. READ »

'Spotify are the new pirates': Swedish artist

Business & Money: 13 Aug 09
Swedish musician Magnus Uggla has withdrawn his music from streaming music service Spotify saying that he'd rather be "raped by the Pirate Bay than shafted by Sony Music". READ »

'Spotify earns us more than iTunes': Sony BMG

Business & Money: 11 Aug 09
Swedish digital streaming music service Spotify is proving to be the saviour of the music industry after years of falling sales. Music company Sony BMG Sweden confirms that revenues from Spotify now outstrip iTunes. READ »

Music biz snapped up Spotify shares

Business & Money: 7 Aug 09
Several major record companies bought up almost one fifth of the shares in the rapidly expanding Swedish online music streaming service Spotify prior to the company's public launch, new documents reveal. READ »

Pirate Bay buyer lines up record deal

Science & Technology: 5 Aug 09
The Swedish firm set to buy The Pirate Bay, Global Gaming Factory (GGF), has said it is about to ink a deal with a major record company, a move that will enable it to sell the label's content through the file sharing site. READ »

Pirate Bay purchase 'on schedule': buyer

Science & Technology: 30 Jul 09
The board of Global Gaming Factory X have confirmed that the purchase of Swedish file sharing website The Pirate Bay will be completed as planned on August 27th. READ »

Sony Ericsson profits take a dive

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. READ »

Svanberg to ditch Ericsson for BP

Business & Money: 25 Jun 09
Ericsson CEO Carl-Henric Svanberg has been appointed as new chairman of British Petroleum and will leave his post as head of the Swedish telecoms giant at the end of the year. READ »

Court rejects lawyers' call to gag Pirates

Science & Technology: 25 May 09
A Swedish court has ruled that three of the backers of The Pirate Bay will have the chance to respond to record company demands calling on the court to impose fines if the men refuse to close the site. READ »

Showbiz lawyers push to have Pirates gagged

Science & Technology: 19 May 09
Four American record companies want a Swedish court to bar three of the men convicted in the Pirate Bay trial from speaking out about the case and have requested the men be fined as long as the file sharing site keeps operating. READ »

Sony Ericsson and ST-Ericsson axe 800

Business & Money: 8 May 09
An estimated 800 people are set to lose their jobs in Lund in southern Sweden as mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson and wireless technologies firm ST-Ericsson announce new staff cutbacks. READ »

Sony Ericsson losses prompt job cuts

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. READ »

Swedish students aim for jobs with Ikea and Google

Education: 27 Mar 09
Ikea, Google, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are the most popular employers among Swedish students, according to a new survey. READ »

Sony Ericsson issues profit warning

Business & Money: 20 Mar 09
Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson warned investors on Friday that its first quarter profits wouldn’t meet expectations. READ »

Sony Ericsson divorce imminent: report

Business & Money: 18 Mar 09
Swedish mobile equipment maker Ericsson may soon be pulling out of its mobile handset partnership with Japanese electronics giant Sony, according to media reports. READ »

Mobile phones feel the cold

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. READ »

Profits slump at Sony Ericsson

Business & Money: 16 Jan 09
Swedish-Japanese phone maker Sony Ericsson announced on Friday fourth quarter net losses of €187 million ($247 million), as sales dropped 22 percent. READ »

Prototypes stolen from Sony Ericsson lab

Science & Technology: 15 Jan 09
A worker at Sony Ericsson’s facilities in Lund in southern Sweden is suspected of having stolen several mobile phone prototypes each valued at around 50,000 kronor ($6,000). READ »

More than 200 jobless following UIQ's bankruptcy

Business & Money: 8 Jan 09
The recent demise of Swedish mobile phone software company UIQ has kept bankruptcy administrators busy and led some former employees to start their own firms. READ »

Underdogs capture Swedish dance band title

Society: 21 Dec 08
The Larz Kristerz orchestra waltzed away as champion of the hard-fought Dansbandskampen talent show on Saturday night, effectively claiming the title of Swedish dance band of the year. READ »

Swedes: hard workers or hardly working?

Analysis & Opinion: 15 Dec 08
Doug Lansky takes a look at how Swedish tradition, technology, sick leave, vacations, public holidays and a new management style mean many 'full-time' Swedish workers get 130 days off per year. READ »

Student’s mobile phone explodes during class

Science & Technology: 9 Dec 08
A mobile telephone exploded in the hand of a Swedish student in the middle of class on Monday, spreading thick smoke throughout the classroom. READ »

Swedish videogame maker bought by French competitor

Business & Money: 11 Nov 08
Acclaimed Swedish videogame maker Massive Entertainment, developer of the popular strategy title "World In Conflict”, has been purchased by French rival Ubisoft. READ »

Licence to spy: Sony snoops on Bond fans

Society: 5 Nov 08
Sony Pictures in Sweden has employed methods worthy of James Bond in an attempt to protect against the pirating of Quantum of Solace. READ »

Sony Ericsson reports smaller than expected losses

Business & Money: 17 Oct 08
Swedish-Japanese mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson on Friday posted a third quarter net loss of €25 million ($33.7 million) down from a net gain of €267 million a year earlier. READ »

Ericsson CEO: 'It's brutal out there'

Business & Money: 9 Oct 08
Ericsson CEO Carl-Henric Svanberg added his voice to the growing chorus of business leaders with concerns about the state of the world’s financial markets. READ »

Swedish firm joins battle for online music market

Science & Technology: 7 Oct 08
Innovative Swedish music-streaming site Spotify confirmed on Tuesday a series of major music licensing deals to coincide with the launch of its new international site. READ »

Ericsson in mobile joint venture

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. READ »

Sony Ericsson slashes 2,000 jobs after loss

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. READ »

Sony Ericsson profits collapse

Business & Money: 18 Jul 08
Swedish-Japanese mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson reported a dramatically reduced second quarter net profit of €8 million ($12.64mn) on Friday. READ »

Sony Ericsson issues warning on second quarter results

Business & Money: 27 Jun 08
Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson warned on Friday that its second-quarter results would be dented by a difficult commercial environment. READ »

Sony Ericsson unveils Wii-like phone

Business & Money: 17 Jun 08
Sony Ericsson has unveiled a Wii-like handset which allows users to play games using the phone as a motion sensor. READ »

Swedish musician José González thrives on simplicity

Lifestyle: 5 May 08
In an age when even hard-up musicians can create studio quality from a bedroom, successful Gothenburg-based songwriter José González stands out for his raw simplicity. READ »

Swedish music's European tour

Lifestyle: 4 May 08
The summer is fast approaching, and with it Europe’s festival season. What better way to spend a couple of lazy months than checking out some of Sweden’s hottest acts as they wow audiences across the continent. David Bartram is your festival guide. READ »

Sony Ericsson sees profits halved

Business & Money: 23 Apr 08
Sony Ericsson has seen profits plunge in the first quarter following a drop in its average selling price. READ »

Swedish students keen to work for Google

Business & Money: 11 Apr 08
Given a choice, Swedish students would most like to work for search engine giant Google, a new study has shown. Ikea, Sony Ericsson and H&M also performed well. READ »

Sony Ericsson warning hits Ericsson shares

Business & Money: 19 Mar 08
A profit warning from Sony Ericsson caused a sharp drop in Ericsson's share price on Wednesday morning. READ »

Australian author wins Astrid Lindgren prize

Society: 12 Mar 08
Australian author Sonya Hartnett has been awarded the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for 2008. READ »

Review roundup: P.S. I Love You largely unloved

Lifestyle: 18 Feb 08
Review Roundup: Sweden's critics get their teeth into Sweeney Todd, P.S. I love you, My kid could paint that and Rendition. READ »

Sony Ericsson wows Barcelona IT-expo with new handset

Business & Money: 11 Feb 08
The new offering is seen as a direct competitor with Apple’s Iphone. READ »

Sony Erisscon beats analysts' expectations

Business & Money: 16 Jan 08
The mobile manufacturer's fourth quarter results for 2007 showed a net income of €373 million on sales of €3.77 billion. READ »

Ericsson shares plummet over profit warning

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. READ »

Motorola buys into Sweden's UIQ

Business & Money: 15 Oct 07
American telecom equipment maker Motorola has announced plans to by 50 percent of Swedish tech company UIQ Technology. UIQ is currently wholly owned by Swedish-Japanese mobile phone company Sony Ericsson. READ »

Sony Ericsson sees profit margins fall

Business & Money: 11 Oct 07
Swedish-Japanese mobile handset maker Sony Ericsson, which has changed tack to target the mid-range market, announced Thursday a more than 10 percent fall in net profit in the third quarter. READ »

Internet pirates report entertainment giants to police

Science & Technology: 24 Sep 07
The Pirate Bay has reported a number of major players in the film and music industries to the police following suspicions that the companies hired hackers to undermine the file-sharing site. READ »

Sony Ericsson chief quits

Business & Money: 4 Sep 07
The head of handset manufacturer Sony Ericsson, Miles Flint, is to step down. He will be replaced by a Japanese executive from Sony Electronics USA. READ »

Sony Ericsson profit up sharply

Business & Money: 12 Jul 07
Sony Ericsson Thursday reported a 53.8 percent jump in net profit for the second quarter of 2007 as the Japanese-Swedish mobile telephone manufacturer enjoyed double-digit sales growth. READ »

Sweden sees launch of 'iPhone beater'

Science & Technology: 14 Jun 07
British telecoms company Omnifone on Thursday launched MusicStation, a new music download service for mobile phone users in Sweden, beating Apple's iPhone to the global marketplace by two weeks. READ »

Reinfeldt presses Chinese leader on human rights

National: 10 Jun 07
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has pressed Chinese President Hu Jintao on his country's human rights record, during the final day of a three-day Chinese state visit in Sweden. READ »

Profits double for Sony Ericsson

Business & Money: 20 Apr 07
Profits at Sony Ericsson doubled in the first quarter, with pre-tax profits standing at €362 million for January to March, compared to €151 million in the same period last year. READ »

Sony Ericsson to make phones in India

Business & Money: 31 Jan 07
The Swedish-Japanese mobile maker Sony Ericsson has announced plans to start manufacturing in India. READ »

Sony Ericsson hails record quarter

Business & Money: 17 Jan 07
Swedish-Japanese mobile maker Sony Ericsson has seen profits more than double in the last quarter of 2006, the company announced on Wednesday. READ »


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