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...Sega Sammy, the Japanese gamesmaker behind the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise has launched a €706mn ($776mn) offer for Rovio Entertainment, the Finnish group that gave the world Angry Birds....
...Fayed later married again in the 1980s to the former Finnish model Heini Wathen, with whom he had four children. He launched his own shipping company in Egypt....
...“My kids were very keen that we should have a sauna,” says film director Weiland. “I thought we would never use it, but I did as they suggested and to my happy surprise we all do....
...Brémond might have been unprofessional in his approach to building, but he was a master of publicity. Before those Finnish reindeer arrived in Avoriaz, they paraded up the Champs-Élysées....
...But as with last year it is expected to be hosted like a film premiere: attendees will watch a pre-recorded keynote address available to the public on YouTube....
...This supposedly restricted “mode” of theirs has delivered a level of energy security this winter, record-breaking state aid for companies and households (even beyond pandemic levels), and a shift in foreign...
...The collapse of IL&FS was India’s Lehman moment. Brexit was a Lehman moment for banks (though not for the pound)....
...“You need a few hours to watch a TV series or films but you only need five minutes to play a game on your commute,” she added....
...There is a celebrated 1976 film of Tosca, starring Plácido Domingo, that was recorded live in the opera’s three real-life locations in Rome....
...The foundation purchased a satellite, already in orbit, operated by Finnish company ICEYE, which provides high-resolution radar imagery, with just a three-hour delay, to Ukraine’s military intelligence....
...Artek is heavily reliant on Finnish wood; Formafantasma hopes it can help the company influence how these forests are managed in the future....
...And the best souvenir I’ve brought home is a Pop goblet by the Finnish designer Kaj Franck, which I found in a second-hand design shop in Helsinki....
...month’s mega-budget Netflix film The Gray Man....
...Nokia exits RussiaThe Finnish telecoms equipment maker is the latest company to pull out of the Russian market because of the war in Ukraine....
...keynote speech at the Institut Montaigne in Paris France, the 75th annual Cannes Film Festival begins Sweden, Finnish president Sauli Niinistö makes a state visit to Stockholm as the two countries prepare...
...Jarmo Lindberg, Finland’s former chief of defence, says that the Finnish capital Helsinki “is like Swiss cheese” with dozens of kilometres of tunnels. “There are areas like a James Bond film,” he adds....
...Generative adversarial networks create deepfake videos substituting Burt Reynolds’ face for that of Sean Connery in a James Bond film....
...Netflix will pay €2.10 a share for Next Games, more than double the company’s closing price on Tuesday....
...HMD, the Finnish owner of the Nokia mobile phone brand, is likely to have paid a similarly handsome fee for its handset to replace Bond’s Sony phone....
...He gamely allowed us to film there when I made a TV series for the BBC in the mid-1990s, which also involved driving me round the Médoc in an open car, with camera attached, while he explained the hierarchy...
...It is a clement, early summer evening in Visby, and German, Finnish and Danish voices mingle in the air with eurotrash music coming from a bar on Stora Torget, literally the “Great Square”....
...Instead, it is opting for smaller companies with niche products from new battery storage technologies to lab-grown meat, low-carbon concrete and sustainable aviation fuel, That includes the US-Finnish start-up...
...In another sign of the unrelenting pressure on energy companies, Royal Dutch Shell lost a landmark case yesterday, with a Dutch court ordering the oil company to cut emissions in a decision that could influence...
...Film studios have been reluctant to release new films with many US regions — notably New York — still shut, Cineworld said....
...There’s a scene in the 1969 film La Piscine where Jane Birkin smoulders by the pool in a cocoon-like rattan chair....
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