Heja Stockholm and Helsinki
Stockholm and Helsinki have been ranked among Europe's Hottest Startup Capitals by Wired UK. Wired refers to Sweden as "the most digitally connected nation in the world" and lists Skype, Spotify and MySQL as pioneering ventures that are now global.
Helsinki is thriving from startups emerging in the shadow of Nokia and the death of Symbian which has generated a lot of highly skilled engineers to Finland. The mobilegame Angry Birds and webgame Applifier are mentioned as Finnish success innovations.