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Svein Ove Strømmen
Svein Ove Strømmen (1949 – 22 September 2010) was a Norwegian businessperson. He took his engineer education in the United States, and worked in the Norwegian petroleum industry from 1981 to 1986. He then turned to entrepreneurship and investment. Together with Bjarne Berg he was a pioneer in the investment company Hardball (company), Hardball, which has invested in player transfers for the association football club SK Brann. Through another investment company Isinvest, Strømmen was the largest stock holder in Hardball. Hardball strongly contributed to Brann's SK Brann 2007, victorious season in 2007. He was a member of SK Brann since the 1960s. At the time of his death he was the chairman of Vizrt, a position he had held since 2004. Since 2000 he was one of the main architects behind the growth of Vizrt, again together with Bjarne Berg. Strømmen was also chairman of Vemtro and Nera (company), Nera. He died in September 2010. References 1949 births 2010 deaths Norw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bjarne Berg
Bjarne Berg (6 June 1950 – 9 May 2010) was a Norwegian human swimming, swimmer, journalist and businessperson. He is best known as news editor of TV 2 (Norway), TV 2 and from the companies Vizrt and Hardball (company), Hardball. Career He grew up in Fana, Bergen, Fana as a son of Christian journalist Arthur Berg, Arthur Bjarne Berg, and was a journalist in ''Dagbladet'' and ''Bergens Tidende'' before he was hired in TV 2 (Norway), TV 2. He was promoted to news editor in the television channel. He was central in building up the channel's news backbone ''TV 2 Nyhetene'', and also helped build up the StormGeo, Storm Weather Center to support the channel's weather forecasts. He worked in TV 2 from 1992 to 2000. He later became director of the graphics company Vizrt in 2001. In 2003 he started a cooperation with Vizrt partner Svein Ove Strømmen and Eivind Kåre Lunde, which culminated in the founding of the investment company Hardball (company), Hardball. The company invested in assoc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hardball (company)
Hardball is a Norwegian investment company founded in 2004 to finance player transfers for the association football team Brann from Bergen, Norway. Former news editor at Norwegian TV 2 and managing director of software company Vizrt, Bjarne Berg, fronted Hardball and was one of several members of the investors group until his death in 2010. Eivind Kåre Lunde is the company's Managing Director. When a Hardball financed player is sold, Hardball is to have their investment back after expenses are withdrawn. Any profits are to be divided 50-50 between Hardball and Brann. Hardball has no ownership in Brann, and the power to sell or trade players stays with the club. The investors are predominantly local businessmen from Bergen and are known Brann supporters, and have expressed desire to help Brann becoming a top class team. According to Bjarne Berg, the company's long-term goal is to make itself redundant without losing money in the process. The company has partially or fully fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular field called a Football pitch, pitch. The objective of the game is to Scoring in association football, score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed Goal (sport), goal defended by the opposing team. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is the world's most popular sport. Association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 and maintained by the International Football Association Board, IFAB since 1886. The game is pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SK Brann
Sportsklubben Brann is a Norwegian professional football club based in Bergen. Founded on 26 September 1908, Brann has played in the first tier of Norwegian football for 67 out of 80 seasons, the second most of any club. They play their home matches at Brann Stadion where they had a record-breaking average attendance of 17,310 in the 2007 season, the season in which they won their first league title since 1963. History As the biggest club in Norway's second-largest city Bergen, Brann are historically one of the major clubs in Norway in terms of public interest, and hence there are high expectations for the club every season. Brann won their first Norwegian top flight titles in 1961–62 and 1963 Norwegian First Division, but after this Brann was only sporadically involved in the league title races. In 2007 they finally reclaimed the league title and thus ended a 44-year-long waiting period. Despite their limited success, the club has never failed to spark considerabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SK Brann 2007
The 2007 season was SK Brann's 99th season and their 21st consecutive season in the Tippeligaen. Brann won the Tippeligaen in 2007. In the end, they finished 6 points ahead of their nearest rival, Stabæk. The team did cause a small sensation, and bitter disappointment among tens of thousands of Brann supporters who had gathered in Bergen to watch the game live, on 20 October, by losing to Ålesund 1–2 in the 24th of 26 rounds, a match where a draw would have set aside all doubt about Brann's league win. However two days later, Viking defeated Brann's last rival to the gold medals Stabæk with a 2–1 result, thereby securing Brann the first league championship since 1963. Brann also qualified for the group stage of the UEFA Cup for the first time after beating Club Brugge from Belgium in the qualifier. The team won its first victory in the group stage of the UEFA Cup by defeating the Croatian side Dinamo Zagreb. On 21 December, the draw for the Round of 32 of The UEFA Cup was ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vizrt
Vizrt (), short for ''Visualization in Real-Time'' or ''Visual Artist'', is a Norwegian company that creates content production, management, and distribution tools for the digital media industry. Its products include real-time 3D graphics systems, 3D reconstruction, visualized sports analysis, media asset management, and integrated workflow systems for the digital broadcast industry. Vizrt has a customer base in more than 100 countries, and some 600 employees are distributed across 40 offices worldwide. Viz software includes the tools Viz Pilot and Viz One, aimed at news organisations and digital broadcasters. Intended users include journalists whose traditional role as pure news-gatherers is extended to include controlling the flow of their story from a single point. Vizrt products connect to newsroom control systems like Octopus Newsroom, iNews and ENPS. The software allows users to edit graphic templates, locate and edit archived video content, build playlists for on-ai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nera (company)
Nera Networks AS (part of Nera) was a Norwegian company working in the field of wireless telecommunications using microwave and satellite technology. Nera Networks AS was a subsidiary of Eltek based in Bergen, with offices in 26 countries and more than 1,500 employees. The company was acquired by Ceragon Networks in 2011 Nera was operational through its three subsidiaries: * Nera Networks AS (transmission systems). Provided radio link equipment and systems, antenna systems and turnkey telecommunications transmission networks. Mainly sold to telecommunication equipment makers and mobile and broadcast network operators. Nera Networks AS was acquired by Ceragon in 2011. * Nera SatCom AS (satellite communications business). Provided satellite communication equipment for global data and voice at land, sea, and air. In 2007 Nera SatCom was purchased by Thrane and Thrane. Later Cobham purchased Thrane and Thrane. * Nera Telecommunications Ltd (broadband access). Provided wireless b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1949 Births
Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2025 * January 2 – Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico. * January 11 – The first "networked" television broadcasts take place, as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, goes on the air, connecting east coast and mid-west programming in the United States. * January 16 – Şemsettin Günaltay forms the new government of Turkey. It is the 18th government, last One-party state, single party government of the Republican People's Party. * January 17 – The first Volkswagen Beetle, VW Type 1 to arrive in the United States, a 1948 model, is brought to New York City, New York by Dutch businessman Ben Pon Sr., Ben Pon. Unable to interest dealers or importers in the Volkswagen, Pon sells the sample car to pay his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010 Deaths
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked below. 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 Earlier years ''Deaths in years earlier than this can usually be found in the main articles of the years.'' See also * Lists of deaths by day * Deaths by year (category) {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwegian Businesspeople
Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe *Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway *Demographics of Norway *Norwegian language, including the two official written forms: **Bokmål, literally "book language", used by 85–90% of the population of Norway **Nynorsk, literally "New Norwegian", used by 10–15% of the population of Norway *Norwegian Sea Norwegian or may also refer to: Norwegian *Norwegian Air Shuttle, an airline, trading as Norwegian ** Norwegian Long Haul, a defunct subsidiary of Norwegian Air Shuttle, flying long-haul flights * Norwegian Air Lines, a former airline, merged with Scandinavian Airlines in 1951 *Norwegian coupling, used for narrow-gauge railways *Norwegian Cruise Line, a cruise line *Norwegian Elkhound, a canine breed. * Norwegian Forest cat, a domestic feline breed *Norwegian Red, a breed of dairy cattle *Norwegian Township, Pennsylvania, USA Norsk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
