| Tele 2 doubles profits Swedish mobile telecoms operator Tele 2 posted a pre-tax first quarter profit on Wednesday of 1.588 billion kronor ($220 million), beating market expectations and doubling last year's total for the period. thelocal.se |
Baby boom as Swedes go forth and procreate The number of children born in Sweden in the first half of 2010 climbed by almost seven percent on the corresponding period of 2009, to 58,174, new figures show. thelocal.se |
Saab turns profit after 2009 crisis Crisis-hit carmaker Saab Automobile turned a profit of 3.9 billion kronor ($531 million) in 2009, but only thanks to deals with its creditors and a deal to sell equipment to a Chinese automaker. thelocal.se |
Peter Sunde: The Pirate Bay should die Peter Sunde, one of the four men appealing convictions in The Pirate Bay trial, has said that the filesharing website is now so big that he fears for his creation, and it should perhaps be killed off. thelocal.se |
Swedish economy posts record growth Sweden's economy continued its rapid expansion in the third quarter, easily beating analyst expectations and registering the highest year-on-year GDP growth rate on record, the national statistics agency reported on Monday. thelocal.se |