An Estonian company is to design and build an advanced multifunction patrol vessel, intended for protecting the country’s maritime environment. The project was commissioned by the Estonian Police and Border Guard Board and the cost of the vessel, to be built by Baltic Workboats, is €16 million. The multifunctional boat will be operated also by […]
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Startup Estonia and Funderbeam, an Estonian company that is developing a startup investments and trading platform, have launched an Estonian startup database that is aimed at helping local startups attract more foreign investments. The new database that can be found on Startup Estonia’s web page lists over 400 startups with Estonian founders with their basic
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An American digital back office provider for online private securities platforms, Crowd Valley, is to develop and extend its offering through its collaboration with the Estonian e-residency platform, allowing those with the Estonian digital ID to quickly and securely authenticate themselves or digitally sign in the private securities platforms supported by the company. According to
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According to a poll by the Levada Centre, Estonia has scored ninth on Russia’s top enemies list; in 2007, Estonia was regarded as number one enemy of its eastern neighbour. Levada Center, an independent think tank in Russia, has compiled a list of the countries Russians regard as the main enemies of their country. The
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A new Estonian project, called e-Receipt or Electronic Receipt, aims to gradually reduce the use of paper receipts in the Estonian trade and service sectors. The e-Receipt portal is a system that enables end users to manage their receipts, as well as documents related to those, such as letters of guarantee and product manuals, in
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Prince Andrew of the United Kingdom, the Duke of York, will give an opening speech and present the Pitch@Palace initiative at Estonia’s flagship tech conference Latitude59 to be held from 31 May to 1 June 2016 in Tallinn. “It is very exciting that the Duke of York will be returning to Estonia for Latitude 59, to engage
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An Estonian startup is launching a lightweight electric scooter, called “Stigo”, today in Beijing, China; the first of the scooters will reach the customers in June. The company claims its product to be “the world’s most lightweight and fastest-folding e-scooters”. According to the CEO of Stigo, Ardo Reinsaly, the scooter is “designed mainly for urban
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NATO should deploy, as a minimum, a multinational “battalion-plus” battle group with a range of enablers and force multipliers in each of the Baltic states – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – according to a recent report by the International Centre for Defence and Security. The report, titled “Closing NATO’s Baltic Gap”, suggests this battle group
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An Estonian animation studio is holding workshops in the United States for Estonian-American children who want to learn about creating animations. The project is a brainchild of the Estonian animator, Kreeta Käeri, who has been building puppets and doing stop-motion animation since 2006. “Animation speaks to everyone in a way that’s very accessible. Even the
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For the first time in 25 years since Estonia regained independence, the country’s population had an annual increase, rather than decline. On 1 January 2016, 1,315,944 people lived in Estonia, which is 2,673 people more than at the same time in 2015, Statistics Estonia announced, adding that the growth was partly influenced by external migration
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