The Estonian president, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, invited Estonian children to participate in an art competition, “All the Good Things in Estonia”; almost 12,000 drawings were submitted from all over the country. “With your child, think about what makes Estonia a good place in which to live. We can enjoy both big and small things – […]
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This is how Victor Guzun, the Moldovan ambassador in Tallinn, has pictured his country of residence in last three years. Over 130 pictures depict seasonal scenery and life in Estonia.
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Based in the Tartu Science Park, one of the largest high-tech incubators in the Baltics, Buildit is the first accelerator in the Baltic and Nordic region with focus on physical devices (hardware in combination with software). With smart physical things one of the trendsetters in the startup world this year – Google’s purchase of Nest
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The Estonian mobile payments startup, Fortumo, has announced a direct carrier billing partnership with Smart Communications, the largest mobile operator in the Philippines that will allow its subscribers to pay for games conveniently through their phone. “The Philippines is a market which is very well suited for this kind of operator billing payment. Through the
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Eesti Laul (“The Song of Estonia”), the national selection process in Estonia for the Eurovision Song Contest 2014, is underway. If in the UK and Germany the Eurovision Song Contest is usually regarded as something to laugh at on a Saturday night, a small country like Estonia uses every opportunity to make it heard and better known on the
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Estonian startup GoWorkaBit has won the Seedcamp London 2014 – a five-day event aimed at connecting the 20 best fresh web-tech, mobile and software talents with some of the leading entrepreneurs, developers, experts and investors from all across Europe and all over the world. GoWorkaBit, founded by an Estonian HR-specialist, Kei Karlson, specialises in providing a way for
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The Estonian mobile payments company, Fortumo, has announced direct carrier billing with SingTel, the leading mobile operator in Singapore, with presence in 26 other countries, including Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines and Thailand. Fortumo helps web/mobile developers collect payments through mobile carrier billing. The one-click in-app payment solution doesn’t require users to do anything
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The 11-year-old Estonian, Kelly Sildaru, won’t be representing her country in the winter Olympics which started on 7 February in Sochi, Russia – simply because she is too young to participate. But an international sports press is predicting a great future for her. Euronews recently called her “the future star of freestyle skiing” and said
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From 30 January to 1 February, a Garage48 “hackathon” took place in Ramallah, the West Bank – the first time for the event to take place in the Middle East. Garage48 hackathon is an event where computer programmers and others in the field of software development – like graphic designers, interface designers and project managers –
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While addressing the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the Estonian President, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, emphasised the need for a common digital market for Europe. “Today, Europe does not have a working common digital market and as long as countries do not understand the need to ensure the legislation and infrastructure required for the
