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Footballer Philip Haglund wants Veckopengen to teach kids about money

When a knee injury forced footballer Philip Haglund to miss a season for football club IFK Gothenburg, he knew he had to do something different during his time for recuperation. Haglund chanced upon an article that talked about how as a society we were moving away from cash-based transactions to paperless or digital money. Haglund realized that along with such …

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Swedish Tictail picked up a record SEK 190 million in Series B

The Stockholm-based e-commerce platform Tictail raised close to 190 million SEK last week from a clutch of existing and new investors. In what can be dubbed as the one of the largest venture deals this year for the Nordic Startup community, Swedish e-commerce major Tictail has just closed a financing round of $ 22 million, which is about 190 million …

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Google’s “popular times” may actually help Nordic Startups

What it was doing on traffic information, Google has now gone on to provide similar data w to provide information on the busiest times for a local business near you.  According to Google, the idea is to provide consumers with information that would help them avoid long queues and plan out the best time to go grocery shopping, pick up …

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