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April 2012
23.4.2012 04:00
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The deal includes Apple's iPad* and a subscription to the digital edition of Helsingin Sanomat. If preferred, the standard, home-delivered version of the paper can be added to the package. Press release, 23 April 2012 Helsingin Sanomat is the first Finnish media company to provide its new subscribers with the option to combine their newspaper subscription with a new iPad. With the iPad, Helsin...
18.4.2012 14:50
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Press release 18 April 2012 Sanoma News expands its ecommerce services: Huuto Outlet provides great products from the ranges of several sellers of brand-name goods. All products are subject to a minimum discount of 30% off original prices and are delivered free of charge to all of Finland. Initially, products will be available from the following retail sellers: Expert, Verkkokauppa.com, Retkitu...
February 2012
28.2.2012 08:00
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Press release, 28 February 2012 "It's so good that it's almost insane! This really shakes up my idea of what a newspaper is"- A READER'S COMMENT ON THE TEST TABLOID Helsingin Sanomat is planning a significant design change for the start of 2013. As a result, the entire HS media family will have improved usability, better content and a new look. At the same time, the printed edition of Helsingin...
January 2012
24.1.2012 15:36
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Press Release, 24 January 2012 The share of mobile devices in the use of network services seems to be growing rapidly. Currently Sanoma has more than 50 mobile applications for different operating systems or sites optimised for mobile devices in Finland. Finns have clearly taken a fancy to Sanoma's mobile and iPad applications. According to the survey of TNS Gallup Metrix, the most popular mobi...
December 2011
12.12.2011 09:46
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For general media distribution on 12 December 2011 Helsingin Sanomat and Taloussanomat have built a joint web service Taloussanomat+ for financial news. The new service has been released as an Apple iPad and iPhone application. Taloussanomat+ responds to the growing demand for financial news and information. In addition to news from Taloussanomat, the service contains the financial section stor...
November 2011
30.11.2011 10:08
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Press Release, 30 November 2011 More than 100,000 new items are published every day on the most popular online auction in Finland. Last weekend, the 200 million mark for listings was exceeded on Huuto.net. The service, celebrating its 12th anniversary in January 2011, has established its position as the largest and best-functioning online store in Finland by far. At any given time, there a...
9.11.2011 09:48
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Press Release, 9 November 2011 Sähkövertailu.fi allows making electricity agreements conveniently online In early December, Sanoma Digital Finland will launch a new service, Sähkövertailu.fi. It allows the consumer to compare the prices of all suppliers of electricity in Finland. "Online trading is constantly growing. A quarter of a million new electricity agreements are concluded in Finland ev...
2.11.2011 10:50
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Press Release 2/11/2011 10:50 Channel Four news desk relocates to Sanoma House The news desk of Channel Four Finland (Nelonen) will be merged with the news desk of Helsingin Sanomat, Finland's leading newspaper. In the future, news broadcasts will be produced by Helsingin Sanomat. As a result, the Channel Four Finland news desk will move to the same location as Helsingin Sanomat, Sanoma H...
September 2011
16.9.2011 09:00
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Press Release, 16 September 2011 Sanoma News is expanding its digital business in the Baltics through the acquisition of Latvia's second-largest online news service, Apollo, from SIA Lattelecom BPO. "The acquisition continues the growth strategy of Sanoma News in the digital media and strengthens our position in Latvia where we already operate a car classifieds service Auto24.lv. Sanoma's solid...
15.9.2011 11:40
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Press Release 15/9/2011 "Sanoma is concentrating all its print-independent digital businesses to Sanoma Digital Finland. As a result, Sanoma Games, a provider of popular casual and manager game services, has been moved from the Sanoma Entertainment organization to Sanoma News. "Sanoma Games' move to Sanoma Digital will help us continue growing in the Finnish market; growth in the online gaming...
15.9.2011 11:30
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Press Release 15.9.2011 The Sanoma Group's strategic business units in Finland - Sanoma Media Finland and Sanoma News - are to start extensive cooperation aimed at accelerating their growth by leveraging synergies between the two businesses. A joint steering group will be established to manage and coordinate cooperation between Sanoma Media Finland and Sanoma News. The plan is to leverage...
7.9.2011 10:00
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For general media distribution 7.9.2011 Sanoma News and the Aalto University's Start-Up Center have agreed on cooperation with the aim of strengthening the growth of digital media and start-up business activities in Finland. The cooperation supports Sanoma's digital growth strategy and young Finnish companies. "Strong digital growth requires us to network more extensively in the Finnish start-u...
August 2011
29.8.2011 12:07
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Marja-Leena Tuomola, Senior Vice President, Business and digital operations development at Sanoma News, has been appointed as the Chief Digital Officer for both Sanoma News and Sanoma Media Finland beginning September 1. Sanoma's media operations in Finland will fall under a common Digital Operations matrix, which guides and coordinates digital business. The matrix will work in close coope...
July 2011
5.7.2011 13:22
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Sanoma News has entered into a co-operation agreement with Etua Oy and acquired a 20% holding in the company. The aim of Etua Oy, an independent broker of banking and financial services, is to make people's everyday life easier with regard to home and household finances. "The Etua.fi service is an excellent example of the kind of Finnish innovative services with which Sanoma News wants to engag...
June 2011
23.6.2011 09:01
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Sanoma News and the Aalto Center for Entrepreneurship (ACE), Aalto's innovation transfer and startup activation unit, have agreed to work together to boost startup activity and growth in the digital media sector. Through this partnership Sanoma News will coach and provide new visibility for selected start-up companies through its leading web properties, thus supporting the strategic goals of bo...
14.6.2011 13:18
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Are you a thirty-something, middle-income woman gripped by car fever? When you visit Sanoma’s Web pages, you have the possibility to view advertising intended specifically for you. “Web analytics allows us to discover which of Sanoma’s pages different browsers are frequenting, which search words lead browsers to the service and which queries are used within the service. When this information is...
1.6.2011 14:30
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For general media distribution on 1 June 2011 Sanoma News Oy, TS Group, Kaleva Oy and Mediahouse ESA Group are consolidating their collaboration with regard to market place business operations. Sanoma News is selling 10 per cent ownership of Oikotie Oy to TS Group, and 8 per cent and 7 per cent ownership to Kaleva and Mediahouse ESA Group, respectively. "The transaction represents our goa...
May 2011
20.5.2011 13:05
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The Helsingin Sanomat iPad app now includes the latest news videos of the TV channel Nelonen. The videos are published as a separate section at the end of the iPad paper and they can be viewed whenever the device is online. The latest version of the HS iPad app that includes the news video section was published on Thursday, 19 May, and can be downloaded for free from Apple's App Store. The subs...
April 2011
11.4.2011 15:20
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M.Soc. Riikka Venäläinen (age 40) has been appointed as the Editor-in-Chief of Helsingin Sanomat as of 11 April. She succeeds Reetta Meriläinen who will retire in the summer. "Helsingin Sanomat is a great newspaper and a dynamic workplace. It is inspiring to start working in the middle of the major media transition. With this team of professionals, we will be able to tackle the challenges of ev...
March 2011
11.3.2011 10:00
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The biggest newspaper in the Nordic countries, Helsingin Sanomat has now started to personalise the front page of its digital edition for subscribers, HS.fi/digilehti. Helsingin Sanomat's free online service, HS.fi, is one of the most popular free online services in Finland. HS.fi and Helsingin Sanomat has the total audience of over 1.7 million unique readers every week. The digital edition of...
January 2011
26.1.2011 10:00
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Sanoma News enters daily deals business through the acquisition of the Offerium online service, which distributes companies' offers to consumers. Users of the online service can purchase various products and services through Offerium at a price at least 30 percent lower than the normal price. The acquisition supports the growth objectives of Sanoma News. "Daily deals business is one of the fast...
December 2010
13.12.2010 14:00
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Sanoma Lehtimedia, a part of Sanoma Group's Sanoma News Division, sells its weekly and semi-weekly local papers to Länsi-Savo Group's Etelä-Savon Paikallislehdet Oy. The acquisition includes Keskilaakso (published in Anjalankoski, Kouvola), Joutseno (published in Joutseno, Lappeenranta), Kaakonkulma (published in Virolahti and Miehikkälä), Luumäen Lehti (published in Luumäki), and Pitäjänuutise...
3.12.2010 14:00
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Helsingin Sanomat, Finland's leading national daily, is now available conveniently on the iPad. It is the first Finnish newspaper to publish a version specifically designed for an electronic reader. The iPad application contains the same stories and images as the printed version of Helsingin Sanomat. The iPad version becomes available for download every day at 6:00 a.m. Apple's iPad, the best-k...
September 2010
7.9.2010 14:16
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The largest and oldest online auction site in Finland continues to grow. The latest new record was set last week when for the first time the site hit the one million item mark. "This has been a spectacular year. Our users have really found the site and, quite clearly, they are satisfied. At the beginning of the year, 800,000 items was our normal volume, now we are regularly hitting 1,000,000 it...
August 2010
31.8.2010 13:00
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At midnight ten years ago, Maria Veitola put Pekka Streng's Puutarhassa ("In the Garden") in the player and made it the first song to be aired on Radio Helsinki. The subsequent ten years have seen quite a lot: hundreds of presenters, music, talk, news, mishaps, campaigns and gallons of let's-just-do-it. Since those first hours on the air to today, Radio Helsinki's programmes have been made acco...
25.8.2010 12:00
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New active features have been added to Esmerk Finland's Blog&Forum Watch that monitors the social media. The new tool, the Buzz Report, picks out the most important discussions on the internet and the essential content of the discussions. In addition to diagrams, discussions in the social media are illustrated also by a weekly verbal summary, and email alerts pick out unusually intense d...
June 2010
18.6.2010 12:00
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Senior Editor-in-Chief Tapio Sadeoja has been appointed Publisher for Ilta-Sanomat, effective 1 July, 2010. As Senior Editor-in-Chief and Publisher, he will be responsible for the Ilta-Sanomat cluster's overall content and business operations. Mr Sadeoja (age 52) has also been member of Sanoma News Management Group. "With a Publisher, we will be better equipped to respond fast and acutely to ch...
15.6.2010 12:00
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Sanomapaino has received Det Norske Veritas certification of its quality management system (ISO 9001), environmental management system (ISO 14001), and occupational health & safety management system (OHSAS 18001). The certification comprises all five printing houses (Sanomala, Hämeen Paino, Savon Paino, Lehtikanta, and Saimaan Lehtipaino) as well as Sanomapaino's sales, administration, and mate...
11.6.2010 12:00
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Sanomapaino and Helsingin Sanomat have been successful in an international print quality competition.The competition arranged by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) is the most prestigious of its kind in the world.The newspapers passed the monitoring of their printing quality over a period of four months (January–April 2010) to become members of the International...
April 2010
22.4.2010 12:08
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On 21 April 2010, Huuto.net adopted the new Payson payment system, which increases the security of online purchases. The new payment system ensures that the personal account and credit card information of the users is not displayed to the recipient or obtained by unauthorised parties. Payson offers a secure and easy way for transferring money between the buyer and the seller. Previously, no pay...
