September 2009

City of Stockholm joins SIME

The City of Stockholm has decided to support and work together with SIME as the event contributes to the positioning of Stockholm towards the international ICT community, and therefore strengthens the city as one of the world’s leading ICT region.“SIME correlates well to our ambition in developing Stockholm’s excellent reputation as a leading knowledge region. SIME is a well established meeting place for entrepreneurs and innovators within new media and an initiative which we will support," said Sten Nordin, Mayor of Stockholm.

Result & partners buy Spray, Spraymail, Spraydate, and Passagen

Result and four individual Result partners have acquired 100% of the shares in Spray.se (former Lycos), one of Europe´s pioneer brands on the web - with a portal business, a leading site in the fun and flirt segment with 800,000 members and Sweden’s largest independent mail service with close to 400,000 users. The same conglomerate also acquired another of the true Swedish household brands, Passagen.se, the largest blog portal and forum, with 830,000 unique weekly vistors. The sellers were media house Allers and directory guide publisher Eniro.