An Estonian startup called PetWorld Global, has launched an app that helps pet owners across the world identify their lost pets and reunite them with their owners. So far, dog microchips are only registered in the country of origin. The new solution helps track lost pets wherever they and their owners are. The company founder, […]
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The Estonian startup, Playluggage, that produces suitcases equipped with board games, has found a new market in Germany. As the company is focussing on external markets, its sales managers, Leila Tamm and Martin Rungi, had travelled to Cologne, Germany, with nine suitcases in order to introduce their products to the suitcase category directors of Galeria
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The Estonian-founded, London-based money transfer service, TransferWise, has announced it has for the first time become profitable on operational basis. That does not necessarily mean the company is going to make a profit in the fiscal year of 2017-2018, and is certainly going to make a loss in the fiscal year 2016-2017 (that ended in
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The Estonian strategic change and technology company, Nortal, has opened an office in Seattle, WA, after securing a cooperation project with a North American telecom company. The cooperation project with an unnamed company is, according to Nortal, its largest ever, entailing the development of a “holistic and comprehensive e-commerce solution servicing tens of millions end
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The former president of Estonia, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, presented the former US president, George W. Bush, with the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, First Class, the highest award granted by Estonia. Ilves, while president, bestowed the decoration on Bush in 2012, but didn’t have a chance to present it in person until now.
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Ayrton Kasemets, a 21-year-old Estonian-American openly gay swimmer from Chicago is to compete at the World University Games in August in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan. The World University Games, also called Universiade, is a multinational sporting event held every other year. This year’s games are expected to draw athletes from 150 countries. For Ayrton
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Three sisters and a brother – all originally from the island of Saaremaa, but now living across the globe – came together to build an unusual business of selling Estonian birch water to the world. This writer remembers from his childhood how every spring, his grandfather drilled a hole into a birch tree at the
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From 2018, Denmark will again offer a contribution to the NATO enforcement of the Baltic countries’ airspace sovereignty, taking part in the Baltic Air Policing mission. “Denmark should make a robust contribution to security and stability in the Baltic Sea and the Baltic region. Therefore, I am pleased that Denmark will again from 2018 offer
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Poland and Spain are taking over NATO’s Baltic Air Policing mission with Poland having already sent its aircraft to Šiauliai, Lithuania, and Spain deploying its aircraft to Ämari, Estonia. Poland took the lead of the Balti Air Policing mission on 2 May, succeeding the Royal Netherlands Air Force. The Polish Air Force will carry out
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In the autumn of 2018, a new shopping centre will open in the Estonian capital, Tallinn, accompanied by a Ferris wheel with the highest point at 120 metres above the sea level. The new shopping centre, to be built near the Tallinn Airport, will have a new transport hub, a children’s indoor playing ground and
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