Archive: Business
Hoping to Dial Into Cell Phones' Future
Read Robert G. Kaiser's story on how Finland's Nokia how to regain the lead by marketing mobile phones that play music and connect to the Internet. "This (in case you missed it) is the year of music -- the cell...
By Scott Anderson | July 26, 2005; 02:42 PM ET | Comments (6) | TrackBack (0)
Seeing Growth Potential in Being Green
OULU, Finland -- Lassi Noponen, chief executive of Finland's Proventia Group, has his eye on General Electric Co., a firm thousands of times bigger than his own that recently announced plans to remake itself with "ecomagination," emphasizing ecologically friendly research...
By washingtonpost.com | May 31, 2005; 11:49 PM ET | Comments (90)
Moving Out of Nokia's Shadow
JYVASKYLA, Finland -- What does a little country with good technical skills and a lot of imagination try to sell to a fast-changing global economy already crowded with entrepreneurial ideas from much bigger economies? Finland's first answer for a decade...
By washingtonpost.com | May 26, 2005; 11:30 PM ET | Comments (77)
Kuopio, a Hustling City
KUOPIO -- In four decades of journalism in many lands, I've learned one reliable rule of thumb: for a clear-headed dose of reality, talk to the mayor. The rule isn't infallible, but it usually works, as it did here in...
By | May 25, 2005; 10:55 AM ET | Comments (28)
Modest Finland
Today we'll begin what I hope can be daily entries in the Finland Diary. We've been here since Thursday, May 19, long enough to begin to adjust to the time (seven hours ahead of Washington) and to the Finns, who...
By washingtonpost.com | May 23, 2005; 04:15 PM ET | Comments (129)
