News & Press
11.2.08 Informa and Sun Microsystems launch Telecoms.com Mobile powered by Leiki Focus
Informa Telecoms & Media has launched Telecoms.com Mobile, a free mobile news application powered by the Leiki Focus adaptive personalisation engine. At launch, Telecoms.com Mobile, will give users access to the latest news on Mobile World Congress event (held in Barcelona 11-14 Feb) as well as the wider telecoms industry from Telecoms.com, the leading online news source for the communications sector - all direct to their mobile phone. The newsreader is sponsored by Sun Microsystems, one of the largest providers of network computing solutions.
The Telecoms.com Mobile service is live today - click here to download or go to telecoms.wap.com.
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6.2.08 Talentum interlinks sites and targets advertising with Leiki Focus
Talentum, a leading Scandinavian business and technology publisher, has chosen Leiki Focus for content linking on all of its online publications. Talentum uses Leiki Focus for recommending both articles and advertisements that match a detailed analysis of the topics of each page. Antti Oksanen, Director of Online, says that Talentum has been very satisfied with the Leiki technology. "It has helped us to provide more contextually related content to all our online visitors." Click here to read the press release.
The first issue of the new Leiki Newsletter for Digital Media Professionals has been released. In this issue, "Solving Online Media's Biggest Challenge", we look into the world of online media and content linking:
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5.10.07 Plaza.fi announce intelligent ad network with Leiki
Leiki has delivered to United Magazines the first intelligent advertising system in the market that understands natural language. The ad network is based on the Leiki Focus personalisation engine which allows matching of different types of content, such as editorial articles, user conversations and advertisements, with a very detailed ontological analysis of content topics. As a result, items that cover similar topics are matched automatically even if they do not have the same keyword, and the user is offered a wider and more interesting content by selection of other similar articles.
The first text ads targeted with the Leiki Focus appear on the Plaza.fi website, one of Finland's largest portals. This is to be followed with other United Magazines' web services, such as magazine websites and classifieds sites. Picture ads can also be used in the future. Click here to download the press release.
6.8.07 Leiki News Reader BETA available for download
Leiki has released today a showcase mobile news reader with Leiki's patented automatic personalisation. The Leiki News Reader learns the user's interests automatically from his/her clicks and delivers personalised news with no effort! This BETA version of the news reader offers hundreds of RSS feeds and more feeds are added daily. The users can also browse articles by categories (such as entertainment, sports, business, technology and science) as well as read the latest and most popular articles.
Download now for free!
25.4.07 Leiki Focus awarded for Most Innovative Technology in the 2007 Newspaper Awards
Financial Times Mobile News Reader - powered by Leiki Focus - has received the prize for the Most Innovative Technology of the Year in the 2007 Newspaper Awards.
Click here to download the FT Mobile News Reader.
24.4.07 Leiki at the Mobile Search & Off-Portal Content event
Leiki CEO Dr. Petrus Pennanen and Leiki UK MD Mark Bembridge are speaking at the Mobile Search & Off-Portal Content event in London today. In the morning Mark joins Stephen Pinches, FT Head of Mobile, in a keynote speach on search and content discovery within the FT Mobile News Reader. In the afternoon Petrus takes part in a panel discussion on how recommendation engines simplify search for consumers.
22.3.07 Leiki Focus for News in the 2007 UK Newspaper Awards
Financial Times Mobile News Reader is nominated for the 2007 Newspaper Awards. The FT's Leiki Focus for News application is listed for the Grand Prix Award for the most significant contribution to future newspaper success and the Most Innovative Technology of the Year Award. The winners are announced 24 April in London.
Click here to download the FT Mobile News Reader.
16.3.07 Leiki Focus awarded with the European ICT Prize
Leiki was awarded the 2007 European Information and Communications Technology Prize in Hannover today for its Leiki Focus product. One of Europe's most coveted technology prizes, it is awarded to companies for new and imaginative products or services based on digital technologies.
"We are honoured to be recognised by the prestigious jury for our efforts in helping people see information that is more relevant and interesting. The Prize has also been noted by customers, who we are currently signing at a record pace", says Dr. Petrus Pennanen, CEO of Leiki.
  
Click here to see a video presentation of Leiki Focus.
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16.3.07 Petrus Pennanen speaking about mobile search and discovery
Dr. Petrus Pennanen from Leiki is speaking in London at the Mobile Search and Discovery '07 event about how to enrich the user experience (and the service provider) through personalisation. Click here to see the conference program.
15.3.07 Leiki Focus powers ground-breaking visualisation tool TopicSpace
TopicSpace, an intelligent 3D information visualisation tool, was unveiled today at the CeBIT exhibition in Hannover. The tool uses Leiki's advanced content analysis product Leiki Focus together with a visualisation engine by Valkeus Interactive in a concept pioneered by Poyry Forest Industry Consulting. According to Dr. Petri Vasara, head of New Technologies business area for Poyry Forest Industry Consulting, "We only work with the best and the brightest. With Leiki and Valkeus, we can make our best concepts reality". Click here to download the press release.
20.2.07 Plaza.fi links content dynamically with Leiki Focus
Plaza.fi, a leading Finnish portal, has unveiled an innovative feature that is a world's first for web portals: Automatic linking of content based on ontological analysis. The dynamic matching of external and internal content is powered by Leiki Focus personalisation engine. Editorial content on the Plaza.fi site is linked in real time with the most similar user-generated intra-portal content, external news sources, blogs and Wikipedia articles. Instead of having to navigate menus to find relevant content, all information around the current topic is presented in the same view. The external sources present reference material around the subject to produce a compelling experience that before has required substantial editorial efforts. Leiki Focus_20070220.pdf" target="_blank">Click here to download the press release.
19.2.07 Leiki among final twenty companies for the European ICT Prize
Leiki was announced today as one of the 20 finalists for the European ICT Prize, one of Europe's most coveted technology prizes. A total of EUR 700.000 in prize money will be handed out to the winning candidates. The Prize is awarded to companies for new and imaginative products and services based on digital technologies. It is supported by the European Commission as a part of its efforts to promote Europe's ICT industry and boost growth.
The Award Ceremony will take place on 16 March 2007 at CeBIT where the 3 Grand Prize Winners will be revealed. Click here for more information.
29.1.07 Leiki Nominee for the 2007 European ICT Prize
Leiki has been selected as a Nominee for the 2007 European ICT Prize, the most prestigious prize for innovative products and services in the field of Information Society Technologies. The European ICT Prize is organised by Euro-CASE, the European Council of Applied Sciences, Technologies and Engineering, with the sponsorship of the ICT Programme of the European Commission. A record number of 450 applications from 30 countries were sent for the Prize this year and the proposals were evaluated by independent experts from 16 European countries. Click here for more information on the Prize.
8.1.07 Leiki and FT launch new Mobile News Reader
Leiki and the Financial Times have today launched the FT Mobile News
Reader, a free application that gives FT.com users access to FT
content whilst on the move via their mobile phones and PDAs. With
Leiki's adaptive personalisation technology the service will learn the
users' interests from what they read and deliver relevant content into
the personalised 'My FT' section. FT Mobile News Reader also allows
users to look up stock prices, access premium content if they are
subscribers, and load stories onto their phone or PDA for reading when
a mobile signal is unavailable. The software is compatible with nearly
all types of mobile phones including Nokia, BlackBerry and Motorola
handsets, adjusting automatically to different mobile screen sizes and
device configurations. Click here to download the press release.
The Mobile News Reader can be downloaded from www.ft.com/mobilenewsreader or
users can text GO FTAPP to 85080 on a UK-registered phone or Go FTAPP
to +44 7786 203 222 on a non-UK registered phone.
Leiki's advanced personalisation product Leiki Focus was featured in the Finnish IT press. "Leiki Focus is currently getting a lot of attention from portals and content stores. The natural language search function lets users find information they would miss with a traditional keyword search, as it searches based on topics and doesn't require a word match. Dynamic content linking connects news articles with classifieds and discussions, giving the user a comprehensive view on each topic instead of requiring them to discover separate content sites. Advanced targeting of advertising is a standard feature with clear ROI as users demonstrably browse and buy more. With the product easily integrated to almost any service through well-tested interfaces, the future of internet usability is here" Leiki CEO Dr. Petrus Pennanen explains. Click here to read the article.
28.4.06 Winning the battle for eyeballs
On the latest issue of Qpass newsletter Leiki CEO Petrus Pennanen is interviewed on the role of personalisation in increasing the uptake of services by mobile operators and content portals. Pennanen accounts that personalisation indeed provides demonstrable commercial advantages, such as increased ARPU. "To be genuinely useful and valuable content has to be relevant to the user. This is especially important on screens with limited real estate." In terms of mobile search, it's vital to move beyond key word search to offer intelligent search capabilities. "Users would pay -and are willing to pay- for services that best understand their profiles and passions." Personalisation and search are also strategically linked with content targeting. "Personalisation will clear the obstacles to mobile advertising because companies will be able to deliver personally relevant advertising." Click here to read the interview.
 3.4.2006 Leading Japanese newspaper features Leiki
Leiki's unique technology is breaking into mainstream in Japan. A recent issue of the largest business newspaper Nikkei Business Daily features an interview of Leiki CEO and founder Petrus Pennanen. The article highlights how Leiki's ontological personalisation has succeeded in increasing content portals' number of users by learning the customers' interests, resulting with considerably higher purchase rates compared to social filtering systems. The story also presents Leiki's latest implementations, such as Leiki's intelligent search on the Igglo real estate portal. Click here to view the article.
 16.3.06 Leiki spotlight in the NMA
On the February 9 issue of the New Media Age, Peggy Anne Salz writes how mobile portals can increase their attractiveness and content consumption. The article reports that "personalisation can radically reduce click-distance and boost portal usability" and points out to Leiki technology for intelligent matching of content and users, and targeting of advertising. Especially with small mobile screens it is vital that users have quick access to relevant content and Leiki personalisation provides a key instrument in this process.
Click here to view the interview of Mark Bembridge, Leiki UK Managing Director.
Leiki has implemented a Chinese news application for Sina.com, a leading online media company in China. The news application is an advanced implementation for Symbian platform. It combines more than a dozen news feeds from Sina.com, an index menu, a personalised 'my news' view and an integrated ticker. The Sina.com application is Leiki's first implementation for the Chinese market. It is preinstalled on the Nokia 6708 handset and is distributed in the mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Click here to download the press release.
7.3.06 Leiki Focus used by new real estate service
Leiki personalisation technology is being used in the real estate sector for the first time with Finnish Igglo real estate service. Using all available information about the listed apartments and houses, their location and neighborhood, Leiki's search function allows users to find a match with a natural language search description. "Leiki's search engine suits extremely well with our goal of providing convenience to our customers", said Mikko Ranin, Managing Director of Igglo. Click here to download the press release.
Leiki has been granted two patents that cover innovations in its core personalisation technology. The patents were applied for in 2003. The idea behind the patented technology is that user interfaces can be automatically adapted to offer more interesting information and also adjusted according to the user's state of mind. Click here to download the press release.
Leiki Focus for News application for Symbian S60 phones has been launched by the leading Finnish operator Elisa.The service has been produced together with Flander. It features latest news from the Finnish News Agency (STT), a news index and a personalised 'my news' menu where the news items are automatically selected based on learnt user preferences. A key point of the application is a news ticker integrated to the operating system 'Phone' screen, which starts automatically when the phone is switched on and fetches the latest news. Click here to download the service.
Leiki and Flander, a Finnish mobile software testing and development company, have signed a partnership agreement to develop and deliver intelligent mobile applications. Flander's expertise in highly advanced Symbian, Java and Linux applications will support large-scale implementations of Leiki's intelligent and user-friendly mobile products covering content, matchmaking and virtual personalities. "The partnership between Flander and Leiki ensures a robust development path into the future," said Seppo Kolari, Executive VP at Flander. Click here to download the press release.
Leiki enters new markets with a Virtual Agent Java game. Developed with guidance from Europe's leading portal Jamba, the application uses Leiki's artificial intelligence technology for natural language and dialogue. It is the first stand-alone Java MIDP application with Leiki Targeting personalisation engine. This implementation allows Leiki's patented technology to be used widely in the booming downloadable Java games market. Jamba is distributing the application in European countries with TV advertising. Click here to download the press release.
The World Technology Network (WTN) announced today that Petrus Pennanen, CEO and founder of Leiki has been nominated for the 2005 World Technology Award. The Award honors individuals and corporations from 20 technology-related sectors viewed by their peers as being the most innovative and whose work has the greatest likelihood of long-term significance. The Gala ceremony will take place November 15 in San Francisco. Please click here to download the press release.
15.8.05 Personalisation technology spreading into news services (National Technology Agency)
Finnish National Technology Agency (Tekes) released a news item on Leiki personalisation technology spreading into news services. The item talks about Leiki's new mobile news application developed together with Financial Times, Leiki technology and collaboration in the National Technology Agency projects. The future for personalised news services looks bright and quoting Leiki CEO Dr. Pennanen: "In Finland - as well as in the rest of the world - understanding of the possibilities created by personalisation technology is only beginning to emerge". Click here to read the full story (in Finnish).
FT.com has teamed up with Leiki to offer a Java news application. The recently launced news service is the Financial Times' first advertising sponsored mobile service and is free to users. The application features 90 latest FT.com articles with pictures, a news index and a personalised area where articles are collected according to user reading behaviour. Later this summer, the Financial Times and Leiki will introduce a premium version of the application that will feature FT content not accessible via the free service. Click here to download the press release.
You can download the free application from www.ft.com/download.
 Leiki was announced the recipient of Red Herring 100 Europe, a selection of the 100 private companies in Europe and Israel that play a leading role in innovation and technology. Red Herring's top 100 lists are an important part of the magazine's tradition of identifying companies and entrepreneurs that drive the future technology, and could change the way we live and work. Winners were rigorously evaluated on their technology, financing, marketing, sales, service, leadership and business strategy. The top 100 companies are unveiled at the Venture Market Europe 2005 conference on April 12 in London. Click here to download the press release.
Leiki launches a new product for automatic personalisation of direct marketing messages, Leiki Focus for Marketing (formerly known as Leiki Ad Focus). Leiki Focus for Marketing is ideal for advertising e.g. mobile premium content but the technology suits also for personalising net shops and direct mailing. Together with Leiki's core profiling technology, Leiki Focus also incorporates social filtering techniques to provide the most powerful personal marketing messages. Click here to download the press release.
 Leiki are proud to have been announced the winner of the Forum Nokia PRO Award in the EMEA region category of Productivity Applications
/ New Market Entry. We are very pleased that our success in the Forum Nokia PRO program has been recognised. All the members of Forum Nokia PRO were eligible for the awards. The awards were given to those who have most successfully engaged in the Forum Nokia PRO program, both in quantitative and qualitative terms.
18 companies around the world received the award.
27.10.04 Leiki Focus for Matchmaking Connects Attendees at the Nokia Mobility Conference
Based on last year's successful implementation, the Mobile Matchmaker service again helps participants at the Nokia Mobility conference to easily find relevant partners, customers and suppliers. Users simply describe in natural language what they are like and what they are looking for, and the service intelligence matches them to facilitate efficient networking.
  2.9.04 Nokia presents a Chinese version of Leiki Focus for News on Series 60
Leiki Focus for News in Chinese is showcased for the first time to China Mobile in Beijing on 2 Sept. In a joint cooperation with Nokia China and Sina.com, a leading online media company and value-added information service provider in China, Leiki has developed a Chinese version of its popular news client that matches local taste and requirements. The featured Leiki News client application is an advanced native implementation for Symbian Series 60.
20.4.04 Leiki Focus for News is Application of the Week on Series60.com
Leiki Focus for News has been chosen as the Application of the Week on Series60.com, the official site about the Symbian Series 60 smartphone platform. In addition to automatic personalisation, the site mentions multiple user interfaces and multiple content feed support as key features of our "next-generation" product.
Click here to see what Series60.com writes about Leiki News.
In 2003 Leiki gained status as a leading mobile application developer due to an international commercial break-through of its unique service concepts. The company also achieved the financial goal of a break-even result for the year, by reaching a profitable net result.
Click here to download the press release.
Leiki has been co-operating very closely with Nokia on many fronts, so joining Forum Nokia PRO seems like a natural progression. Nokia's development and marketing support has been essential in getting our intelligent applications in the pockets of more than a million users, and we are very excited about working with Forum Nokia PRO to fully realise the market potential of mobile services that understand the user.
Click here to download the press release.
The Forum Nokia website features
an extensive case study on Leiki. The document describes in detail our general philosophy, technological foundation and the productised applications.
Click here to download!
7.11.03 Leiki technology matches participants of Nokia conference
The Mobile Matchmaker service helps participants at the Nokia Mobile Internet Conference (NMIC) to easily find each other. As in our Leiki Focus for Matchmaking product, the users type in a free text description which is automatically profiled. Instead of dating preferences, the ontology in the NMIC case describes in detail the mobile value chain and the participants' roles.
5.11.03 National Technology Agency funds Leiki R&D
The Finnish Technology Agency (Tekes) has decided to grant funding for Leiki R&D.
Leiki has been supported since 2000 by the Agency for two previous R&D projects in the USIX program.
The focus of the current project in the FENIX program is on implementation of new technologies for the Leiki Targeting engine.
The aim is to further enhance our competitive advantage by improving personalisation of future content services and integration with emerging ontology standards. A significant part of the project is continuing co-operation with leading research institutions such as Universities of Helsinki and
Oulu and the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology
 22.10.03 Leiki's Virtual Agent™ in Nokia Game 2003
A central character in Nokia Game 2003 is Flo, an animated virtual personality you can chat with.
She's a clever girl who likes snowboarding, mobile online gaming and traveling.
Flo is powered by Leiki's Virtual Agent™ product coupled to Leiki Answer and she is pre-installed on N-Gage game decks shipped in late fall and winter of 2003 in the EMEA region. The application is also available by download for the Nokia 3650 phone.
Virtual Assistant™ provides an intelligent and friendly user interface to automated customer service applications powered by Leiki Targeting. It answers questions without human help and can deliver fully personalised information streams to your customers.
Virtual Agent™ provides similar functions to entertainment applications, such as fanclub services. It can take on the look and personality of any popular person, whether human or artificial.
6.10.03 Patents applied for on key technological advances
Two new patent applications on significant technological advances in Leiki Targeting and Virtual Agent products have been filed. "Our continuing progress on the IPR protection front should comfort both customers and partners on the unique advantages of their investment in Leiki technology", states CEO Pennanen.
1.8.03 First half of 2003 profitable
Three years have passed since the founding of the company and the financial result for 1H/03 is profitable. "In the current market profitability for a mobile software developer is exceptional. Leiki's success has been built on a correct vision of unique concepts, strict cost control and most importantly very talented and motivated personnel. Instead of building hype, we have concentrated on listening to our customers and giving them a real value add," comments CEO Petrus Pennanen.
 17.4.03 Leiki on National TV
Leiki is covered today in the IT-News program of the Finnish National Broadcasting channel YLE24. Leiki's CEO Petrus Pennanen introduced the Leiki product portfolio and spoke about Leiki's bright insights. Juha Ihalainen, Concept Manager at Radiolinja (a leading Finnish mobile operator) was interviewed about the success of Leiki FreeDate (based on Leiki Focus for Matchmaking) at Radiolinja's mobile fun portal.
10.2.03 Leiki UK London office opens
Leiki UK Managing Director Mark Bembridge is happy to announce the availability of Leiki's groundbreaking products in the UK market: "We're miles ahead of the competition and there's a high level of customer interest." Mark can be reached at mark.bembridge(at)leiki.com, +44 207 598 9790.
30.1.03 Leiki Focus for News in a positioning WLAN pilot
Leiki Focus for News with Reuters quality content is online in the PDAs of a positioning WLAN pilot running in the northern Finnish town of Oulu. The SmartRotuaari system has been organised by University of Oulu, City of Oulu, Mobile Forum, several local businesses and mobile developers. One key Leiki R&D area is co-operation with such pilots on both core technology and end-user application development.
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