The world première of an orchestral piece by Arvo Pärt will take place at the festival “Mozart & Pärt”, held on 19-29 May in Los Angeles, California. The festival will focus on Pärt’s music and culminate with the world première of a new piece by the maestro, performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The orchestra is […]
The controversial American presidential candidate, Donald Trump, has applied and been granted Estonian e-residency, Estonian World can exclusively reveal.* Trump’s interest about the e-residency was sparked after a successful covert operation by the Estonian secret service ESSAD, its agent, who asked anonymity, disclosed to Estonian World. Despite the property mogul’s contentious image and his offensive
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“We don’t necessarily need a physical tunnel between Helsinki and Tallinn – time will show whether that will ever happen – but what we do need is a ‘mental tunnel’ at least, connecting the two countries by innovation and in cross-border digital solutions,” says Taavi Rõivas, Europe’s youngest prime minister. He is making his pitch
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In “Expats corner” we catch up with foreigners who live or have lived in Estonia, to find out what they really think of the country. Renae Rain, originally from London, the UK, is a singer-songwriter who has lived in Tallinn for a year. Renae, what brought you to Estonia? I came for personal reasons and
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Objects’ skill to communicate is the future direction in technology and for developing this, the University of Tartu (UT) and communication company Telia Eesti have opened Estonia’s first internet of things lab. A unique laboratory in Estonia and the Baltic states, it is furnished as a smart home and smart office that can be controlled
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The Estonian peer-to-peer invoice finance platform, Investly, has launched in the UK, offering its services to small and medium-sized businesses. The company’s UK launch follows the investment of €600,000 from Venture Capital Group, Investly said in a statement. Initially, the invoice finance product – giving companies an instant access to working capital – will be
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A Garage48 Hardware & Arts hackathon, devoted to building physical gadgets, was won by Genosity – an affordable gene testing machine that aims to have students learn about genetics at school by testing their own genes. Since 2010, the Tallinn-based organisation, Garage48, has been organising hackathons where participants create prototypes to test their business ideas
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The influential British daily, the Daily Telegraph, has named the UK-based Estonian fashion designer, Roberta Einer, as one of the “emerging designers to watch at the London Fashion Week”. The Telegraph said the London Fashion Week was traditionally seen on the global fashion stage as the city where young, fresh talent has been given a platform. The paper presented
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The Los Angeles-based entertainment magazine, The Hollywood Reporter, has included Estonia among the “five Eastern European countries to shoot your next film and save money”. “Where once Hollywood and international producers could pick low-cost territories to shoot in the region based on currency value, location and crew availability, the expansion of the European Union, economic
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RWE and Planet OS signed a strategic partnership agreement in California to build big data infrastructure for geospatial IoT (Internet of Things), Planet OS announced. The first joint project of two companies is a next generation dashboard for RWE’s Gwynt Y Mor wind farm in Wales, the second largest offshore windfarm in the world. Planet
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