After online retailer Amazon launched in Sweden on Wednesday, shoppers quickly noticed several awkward mistakes in translation. Here are some of the most eyebrow-raising, as spotted by Twitter users.
From The Local's archive: As Sweden is wooed by Amazon and faces its retail Waterloo, Scandinavia should spurn the global superpower, writes tech entrepreneur Sïmon Saneback.
Amazon Studios is to produce a big-budget series based on Swedish artist's Simon Stålenhag's work set in an alternative version of rural Sweden where science has taken over.
Faced with fierce online competition from the likes of Amazon, affordable fashion giants H&M and Zara are trying to use their stores to boost internet sales.
In April, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it will soon establish three new data centres just outside of Stockholm – the first of their kind in the Nordic region. It's a major boost for the country's tech credentials, but just how did Sweden pull it off? The Local went behind the scenes of the lengthy and secretive process.
Only a few days after it was announced that Amazon is to establish three data centres in Sweden, it has now emerged that the American e-commerce and computing giant has quietly purchased the rights to a key Swedish domain name.
Amazon's attempts to get a slice of the Swedish market have hit the buffers as the owner of the .se domain name has so far refused to sell it to the US e-commerce giant.
The history of the Amazon rainforest's huge biodiversity dates back further than previously thought, according to a discovery by a team led by a researcher at the University of Gothenburg.
Sweden's Stieg Larsson is the first author to sell more than one million books in Amazon's Kindle electronic bookstore, the company announced on Tuesday.
