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Stricter Rules for Gambling in Finland – What You Need to Know About the Upcoming Lotteries Act Reform
In Finland, the rules for gambling are strict. The only accepted operator in the Finnish gambling market is the state-owned monopoly Veikkaus and although Finns can gamble online on international websites, marketing such games for Finnish consumers is also prohibited. The government is now preparing another reform of the Lotteries...
Growth Academy September: NDAs – Back to Basics
Are your confidentiality agreements in order? Have you wondered about how they are implemented in practice? Come join our webinar to find out! Our next Growth Academy will be held on 15 September 2021 at 9:30-10:30. We will go through the basics of NDAs. Register now!
The European Commission published its landmark AI regulatory package – proposing a risk-based approach to Artificial Intelligence systems
The Commission revealed its much-anticipated, first ever proposal for a legal framework on AI The proposal, called the ‘Regulation laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Artificial Intelligence Act)’, is first of its kind. There has not been a specific, harmonised legislation regulating the provision or the use of AI...
The Epic Battle Continues
In September 2020, we discussed the Epic Games vs. Apple (and Google) case in our blog post. To cut a long story short, Epic Games introduced a new payment system for its best-selling mobile game, Fortnite, offering an alternative in-app purchase method. The new payment system bypasses the 30 %...
Record-breaking amount of funding – Finnish startups raised almost one billion euros in 2020
Despite the global pandemic, records are being broken in the Finnish startup community Last year, Finnish startups attracted a record-breaking amount of funding. The growth funding raised by domestic startup companies almost doubled compared to the previous years. The total amount invested in Finnish startups in 2020 was EUR 951...
Growth Academy: Employee Incentives materials now available
The materials from Lexia Growth Academy webinar: Employee Incentives, held on Wednesday 31 March, are now available. If you attended our event but forgot to take notes, you don’t need to worry! You can now download the presentations or watch the recording down below. Growth Academy: Employee Incentives - implementation...
GameRefinery, one of Finland’s fastest growing scale-ups, was acquired by Vungle – Lexia advised in the process
GameRefinery, a Finnish leading gaming analytics company, was acquired by a mobile performance advertising platform Vungle at the beginning of March. GameRefinery provides game developers and publishers with tools to commercialize their games and to understand the elements of a successful mobile game. The company’s constantly growing service database already covers...
Tampere-based Klingendahl Merges with Lexia – Strong Focus on Business-Centric Law Services
Lexia Attorneys merges with Klingendahl Attorneys. The merger will bring about a modern and international law practice that focuses on achieving clients’ business goals with rock-hard professionalism and a relaxed service attitude, catering to companies in the Tampere region. The merger also strengthens Lexia's presence in the Tampere startup scene....
StageZero trains AI in speech recognition and computer vision where Lexia ensures GDPR-data protection
Artificial Intelligence is considered to be the 5th Industrial Revolution and AI is changing permanently both how people and companies operate and interact. Computer vision and speech recognition are areas within AI that require, in addition to the algorithms, a large amount of training data such as images and recorded speech....