One after another, grocery stores are shutting down in rural Sweden, leaving villagers to travel miles to buy food. But a new type of shop has sprung up in their wake: unmanned supermarkets in mobile containers.
Sweden's IKEA is doubling down its bet on the digital home, launching a new Smart Home business unit, and investing "significantly" to "fast-forward development".
Sweden faces a deficit of 70,000 digital professionals by 2022 if a number of measures including promoting migration of skilled workers are not taken, a report predicts.
People living in Sweden will have access to free primary healthcare over the internet after an online medical practitioner set up a clinic in the Södermanland county, where primary care is free.
Nitin Rawat and Akhilesh Chadha are two dads with big ambitions. With their new app, the duo hopes to give something back to Sweden by helping to modernize the country's preschools. They spoke to The Local about making life easier for parents, pulling double shifts, and giving up their Indian citizenship to become Swedish.
Tech-savvy Swedes? Perhaps not. A new study suggests that at least a million of its residents feel the pain of the digital divide.
Anyone sick of seeing Sweden top every list under the sun will be pleased to know that the country has lost its claim to having the fastest internet in Europe.
Modern tech hubs like Stockholm are thriving while smaller regions struggle. We need to close this gap and we need to do it quickly, argues Leif Rehnström, CEO of the Skellefteå-based Hello Future!
More than 60 percent of homes in Sweden now have access to fast, fibre-optic broadband, according to a nationwide study by The Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (PTS), which monitors communications in the Nordic country.
Sweden was dubbed third best in the EU for 'digital performance' on Thursday, but was warned it could soon see itself outrun by its European competitors.
Swedish school children are embracing an increasing number of interactive computer games in the classroom, but critics have scorned developments saying there's plenty of time for fun and games at home.
In an effort to ensure Sweden remains a leading IT nation, policymakers have sought help from an usual panel of experts: a group of kids, some of whom have yet to reach their teens. The Local's Sanna Håkansson finds out more.
The founders of a new digital culture channel, Play Kultur, plan to use streaming technology to beam concerts and plays straight to Swedes' computers, smartphones and tablets.
Online music service Spotify on Wednesday announced that it planned to open up to outside developers to create applications, unveiling partnerships with Rolling Stone, SongKick, TuneWiki and others.
Swedish online music star Spotify said Wednesday ahead of a mystery announcement next week that it has reached 2.5 million paying subscribers.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday presented a partnership with Swedish firm Spotify, to make its popular music streaming service an integral part of the social media website's platform.
Music streaming service Spotify may be in breach of Swedish marketing laws, according to claims in a report published on Friday, with many finding that the quality of the music does not match company promises.
Swedish music streaming service Spotify launched its popular service in the United States on Thursday, its first foray outside Europe, after reaching agreements with the music industry there, the company announced.
Swedish music streaming service Spotify is set to launch its popular service in the US on Thursday.
Swedish music service Spotify and social networking giant Facebook are collaborating on a streaming music service, according to a media report Wednesday.
Swedish music service Spotify has launched an iPod app, as the firm seeks compete for music sales with Apple's iTunes and expand user options after imposing restrictions on its free streaming service last month.
Swedish music streaming service Spotify has announced plans to implement new limits on its free service in hopes of encouraging more users to pay for the services premium features.
A resident of Malmö in southern Sweden never thought he’d never see the memory card from his digital camera again until he read a letter to the editor in a local newspaper.
Payments from the Swedish Performing Rights Society (Sveriges Tonsättares Internationella Musikbyrå, STIM) for music listening through Spotify have increased eightfold in one year.