Topic: Sweden

The British Invade America Again (This Time, Through Fashion)

The fashions at British clothier AllSaints may be distressed, but its aggressive U.S. expansion suggests plenty of optimism.READ»

Stockholm Seaport Turns a Brighter Shade of Green [Video]

Stockholm, already a green city, is getting even greener with a new commitment to its Royal Seaport District under construction. Though plans for the district have been in the works for years in one form or another, a full political ...READ»

Dancing Robot Swan So Beautiful You Will Cry

The 19-jointed roboswan's professionally choreographed dance has already brought tears to the eyes of onlookers. The Swedish creators envision future robot dance troupes. READ»

iFive: Amazon Loves Lovefilm, RIAA Hacked, Linux Loophole, Google Security Bump, Napster Completes the Circle

Welcome to another week of work folks! Here's today's early news digested for your groggy post-weekend head:READ»

Saab's Electric Car: It's All Business

A test fleet of the 9-3 ePower to hit the streets of Sweden next year, but the company isn't releasing it in order to save the planet. READ»

A Disease-Fighting UN Backed by Big Pharma

A representative of big pharma calls for a UN-like compact to fight antibiotic resistance diseases in the developing world.READ»

BitTorrent Raid Aftermath: The Seas of Piracy Are Calm Again

Three days after a huge international BitTorrent raid, we take a look around, and find that the pirate system is still (mostly) standing.READ»

Global Report: U.S. Losing Its Competitive Edge

Debt and dwindling faith in public institutions help torpedo America's ranking in an annual World Economic Forum Report. But hey, at least we're still ahead of Germany.READ»

Massive International BitTorrent Raid: Where Will We Download Mad Men Now?

The Pirate Bay. BTJunkie. Mediafire. All these sites are down or struggling today, after a 14-nation police force raided a Swedish hosting center and a Czech university. It's one of the biggest crackdowns ever, but that doesn't mean pirates are out of options.READ»

Swedish Prosecutor Reopens Rape Investigation Against Julian Assange

A Swedish prosecutor has today reopened the rape investigation on Wikileaks frontman Julian Assange. The enigmatic Australian had been accused of rape by a Swedish woman, who reported him to police, sparking a mammoth flurry of ...READ»

Peer-to-Peer Car Sharing Start-Up WhipCar Is Zooming Down ZipCar's Lane

The firm, which operates out of London's West End, is expecting to take six months to get to the number of vehicles that the U.K.'s "leading car club" took six years to attain.READ»

iFive: BlackBerry's Indian Reprieve, iTunes Rumors, Climate Change Critic's Volte Face, Wikileaks Leaks, Eco-friendly Booze

While you were sleeping, innovation was dancing the merengue.1. BlackBerry addicts have been given a 60-day reprieve by the Indian government. Today was to be the deadline for Research In Motion to hand over access to its users' data ...READ»

Jamaica's Cheetah, Usain Bolt, Signs for Puma in Record Deal

The fastest man on earth getting richer by the millisecond.READ»

WikiLeaks's Julian Assange Accused [Update: Then Cleared] of Rape, Calls It "Dirty Trick"

WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, had an arrest warrant issued against him in Sweden, based on a rape accusation. But it was withdrawn within 24 hours. A molestation accusation still stands. Is it a conspiracy?READ»

World's Happiest Countries: Norway, Denmark, Costa Rica, Turkmenistan?

Bhutan started the gross national happiness trend, but here's what Gallup did with it.READ»

iFive: Google-Verizon Pact, China's Eco Tax, Facebook's Friendster Patents, Wyclef for Prez, Model Blood Diamonds

Run for your life! Or cuddle up? From Wyclef to supermodels to China and Facebook, here's what you missed overnight.READ»

Is Broadband Definition Too Narrow?

Are you happy with your Internet connection? Chances are good that most of you reading this are quite satisfied with your connection. And yet, despite your personal satisfaction, there's been some debate among academic types over whether the U.S. is continuing to expand the reach and quality of broadband or falling behind in the bandwidth arms race.READ»

7 Ways Real-Life Crime Fighting Mirrors "Minority Report"

From Facebook to facial recognition, the police state imagined in the Tom Cruise flick feels a bit more real every day.READ»

Sweden's Pirate ISP Offers Aid to Keep WikiLeaks Afloat

The Swedish political Pirate Party has gone and embroiled itself in some hot news: It's offering servers and hosting to WikiLeaks, the "whistleblowing" site that's just published thousands of controversial secret military files on ...READ»

Sweden Getting World's First Pirate-Friendly ISP

The new pirate political party in Sweden, which takes a stern anti-copyright stance, and helps out torrent-sharer Pirate Bay, now plans to launch the world's first "pirate ISP." It'll be anonymized, safe, and feed funds to the party ...READ»

Watch Out Spotify, iTunes Subscription Service Could Be Worth $1 billion

About 15% of U.S. iTunes users are willing to pay at least $10 per month for a music-subscription service, according to a new study by the NPD Group. The report, which concludes that between 7 million and 8 million users have a ...READ»

Google Restarts Street View Info-Grab, Without Illegal Wi-Fi Snooping

Google announced a restart of Street View data capture operations, but in the wake of the fiasco about illegal wireless network snooping, there's no Wi-Fi kit aboard Google's cars. That fiasco is rolling on independently, however. ...READ»

Social Networking Affects Brains Like Falling in Love

Neuroeconomist Paul Zak has discovered, for the first time, that social networking triggers the release of the generosity-trust chemical in our brains. And that should be a wake-up call for every company.READ»

• Inside the Penenberg Brain
• Hot Topic

How Warner Music and Its Musicians Are Combating Declining Album Sales

Up-and-coming bands like Shinedown are helping Warner Music Group pull off the hardest trick in the music biz: redefining the record label for the digital age.READ»

• Keeping It on the Download

Interview: Blip Boutique's Mary Fagot, Creative Force Behind Robyn's Killing Me Video

The oil spill is killing me. My suitcase is killing me. But mostly it's Robyn's interactive twideo that's killing Twitter users. The firm behind it is Blip Boutique, an L.A.-based collective led by James Frost--the guy behind ...READ»