Saunalahti (previously

Jippii Jippii was an international mobile and web portal. The service was opened in 1999 as a web portal of Saunalahti Group with the name ''Saunalahti.fi''. Saunalahti Group and its web portal was renamed ''Jippii'' in late 2000 (Jippii Group Oyj) and i ...

) was a Finnish

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operator and an

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History

The company was founded in 1996 when three middle-sized internet operators merged. In 2009 the Helsinki

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convicted Jippii leadership of using inside information when selling its own shares, accounting mistakes and too good information of the company finance to public in 2001. The case was brought back to the court in 2012 and all 26 convictions were overturned. The Finnish state was obliged to pay 4 million euros from the trial. In 2005 Saunalahti merged with

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. Icelandic-led Novator acquired a large share of the company in 2005. Subsequently Elisa acquired all stock and Saunalahti was delisted from the

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in the first half of 2006.

joined its marketing brands together as 15 October 2014, and marketing its telecommunications-services to private personal's, as the new joined Elisa-Saunalahti -brand name.

References

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