networking founded 2000 1 founder sampo karjalainen aapo kyr l headquarters helsinki finland area served 11 countries 2 key people antti jussi suominen ceo antti viitanen svp 1 products habbo 2000 vmk 2005 08 mini friday 2006 10 irc galleria 2007 11 bobba bar 2009 11 lost monkey 2011 niko 2012 operating income 78.700.000 u 2011 owner elisa number of employees 132 july 2015 parent elisa website www.sulake.com sulake corporation ltd finnish pronunciation sul ke is a finnish social entertainment company . contents 1 history 2 controversy 3 references 4 external links history edit in its early days sulake developed and experimented with an open source java based gnu called fuse light an alternative to macromedia s flash . the key difference between the two technologies was that fuse light was designed to run on any operating system while flash was limited to just mac os and windows . this technology was first demonstrated on sulake s mobiles disco but it soon came to use on the beta versions of habbo . 3 in march 2011 sulake reported that revenue was up more than 20 percent over 2009 resulting in sales of 56.2 million 78.7 million . 4 sulake s ebitda in 2010 totaled 5.4 million 7.6 million 9.5 percent of revenue and thus significantly improved from the previous year 0.6 or 0.8 million . net profit was 1.6 million 2.3 million . sulake has also been playing an active role in assisting the police in investigations connected to the theft of online furniture . 5 in september 2011 sulake announced paul lafontaine as new ceo as the original management team left the company . 6 in february 2012 it was announced that sulake will be consolidating some of its manual processes and local operations . 7 in showing the door to 25 % of their workforce sulake will also close all of their 11 country offices according to the report by finnish publication dome.fi . 8 in october 2012 it was announced that sulake would be implementing a second wave of job cuts . a maximum of 60 out of the 90 jobs will go . negotiations with employees began on 5 november 2012 . 9 in december 2012 it was announced that ceo paul lafontaine would be leaving his role after fifteen months . 10 in january 2013 sulake announced that markku ignatius would replace lafontaine as acting ceo . 11 in february 2013 telecommunications company elisa announced that it was buying sulake . by the end of the month it will become the biggest shareholder with 85 % of the shares . 12 in april 2013 antti jussi suominen became the ceo of sulake . 13 controversy edit in june 2012 sulake received negative press for ongoing sexual behavior allegations in their most successful site habbo hotel . channel 4 news identified that sulake was allowing users to post pornographic and violent messages despite the fact that habbo is targeted at young teenagers . 14 on 13 june 2012 one of the main shareholders 3i which held 16 per cent of shares declared it was pulling out of sulake shares alongside other investors including balderton capital . 15 sulake s original pixelated logo 2000 2003 references edit a b studio profile sulake . edge . future plc. 17 march 2013 . retrieved 5 january 2014 . sulake habbo . sulake corporation oy . fuse light . sulake . archived from the original on 2002 08 02 . retrieved 18 june 2013 . https web.archive.org web 20120215000000 http www.sulake.com press releases 2011 03 31 habbo hotels parent company reports record year.html https web.archive.org web 20111219042007 http www.sulake.com blog entries 2010 06 02 virtual thieves caught in habbo hotel finland.html http www.arcticstartup.com 2011 09 07 sulake ceo timo soininen steps down http www.sulake.com blog entries 2012 02 16 sulake consolidation.html suomalainen sulake vet ytyy maailmalta irtisanoo tuntuvasti . dome.fi . retrieved 2013 06 29 . anderson greg 2012 10 29 . breaking sulake to begin talks to reduce workforce by up to 2 3 . arcticstartup.com . retrieved 2013 06 29 . paulwalla departing behind the pixels . blog.habbo.com . 2012 12 31 . retrieved 2013 06 29 . lafontaine steps down . markku ignatius appointed as an acting ceo . sulake . 2013 01 02 . retrieved 2013 06 29 . kaikki tiedotteet tiedotteet elisa oyj . corporate.elisa.fi . retrieved 2013 06 29 . ignatius completes interim period and steps down as ceo ; antti jussi suominen to head sulake business from 1 april 2013 onwards . sulake . 2013 03 13 . retrieved 2013 06 29 . what is happening in habbo hotel channel 4 news . channel4.com . 2012 08 14 . retrieved 2013 06 29 . internet . habbo hotel investor pulls out over pornographic content claims . telegraph . retrieved 2013 06 29 . external links edit sulake official website http www.bbc.co.uk news technology 18415763 http www.channel4.com news high street shops stop selling habbo hotel gift cards retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title sulake & oldid 741251180 categories companies established in 2000video game companies of finlandvideo game development companiesfinnish brandshabbohidden categories wikipedia indefinitely move protected pages navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages danskdeutschespa olfran aisitalianonederlandsnorsk bokm lportugu ssuomisvenska edit links this page was last modified on 26 september 2016 at 09 34 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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