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<!----> Teknia, the Spanish multinational specialising in metal and plastic components, has acquired Swedish company Svensk Tryckgjutning which injection moulds and machines aluminium and magnesium steering and chassis products. “The acquisition is a strategic move by the company to further…

Frontiers Music Srl is pleased to announce that they have extended their relationship with Swedish hard rockers Crazy Lixx for the release of more new studio albums plus a renewal of an existing licensing deal for the band’s back catalogue releases. The agreement also includes a special record featuring remixes, re-recordings, new and unreleased songs that will be issued later in 2023.Currently preparing for a mainland European tour with W.A.S.P. in April, Crazy Lixx vocalist Danny Rexon states: “I’m really happy to have…

Is it a boat or is it a plane? Put your glasses on! This is clearly an electrically-powered hydrofoil passenger ferry.  The brainchild of Swedish startup Candela, the P-12 Shuttle is set to become the fastest and longest-range electric passenger vessel in the world when it launches this summer.  Founded in 2014, Candela has spent years perfecting its design on recreational boats, and now, fuelled by a $20m cash injection, is looking to scale up production and bring hydrofoil passenger boats…

Swedish melodic hard rockers House Of Shakira will release a new album entitled ‘XIT’ on 19th May, a record that maintains a reputation for being one of the most consistently unique acts in their genre over a three decade plus career. A single and video for the song ‘Something In The Water’ is available from today (March 20th).Pre-order or pre-save ‘XIT’ right here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE_UBDHKsjsOriginally known as The Station, the group formed in Stockholm in 1991. Changing their name because the local record…

An illustration of the transformation of the market and the trends ongoing in retail. Credit: The International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research (2022). DOI: 10.1080/09593969.2022.2158119 The COVID-19 pandemic has had clear consequences for the Swedish fashion industry. Digitalization has accelerated, while efforts to attract customers to physical stores have stagnated. A development that will continue,…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new analysis of employment timelines of Swedish workers highlights varying patterns of active work and work interruptions over 15 years, revealing factors associated with different types of interruptions. Katalin Gémes of Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on February 15.…

The co-founder of Twitter and Medium has joined the board of Chroma, a startup developing audiovisual entertainment tailored for mobile devices. Biz Stone was an early angel investor in the Stockholm, Sweden-based firm alongside founders of Pinterest. The firm had raised $5.4 million in seed funding from venture capital firms and individual investors including Pinterest co-founders Evan Sharp and Ben Silbermann. As a member of the board at Chroma, TechCrunch reported Stone will lend his acumen across product…

Ahh, the pain of digital content. You want to buy one audiobook, or listen to a single premium podcast, but a damn paywall means you have to pay for a subscription to a whole platform. Sure, it might open you to new content, but more likely results in a subscription you never use. Or, even worse, accidentally auto-renew. But a Swedish startup is here to take away your pain: Sesamy. It’s the brainchild of the people behind Acast, the world’s largest podcasting platform. Simply put, Sesamy…

The English title of the latest novel in the late Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series, and the first written by a woman, will be The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons.The first three books – The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest – were written by Larsson and published posthumously after his sudden death in 2004.Larsson had planned for the series to include 10 books, and in 2015 the next book in the series, The Girl in the Spider’s Web, written by David Lagercrantz,…

Credit: Routledge Contrary to popular belief, Swedish women who have joined the Islamic State (IS) were not simply passively manipulated by men. A new study from Lund University suggests that it was a strict religious culture, which opposes gender equality, and modern gender roles and norms, that attracted Swedish women to join. On…