Estonian tech stories around the world.
Estonia has allowed the testing of self-driving cars on the country’s roads; however, an additional condition is that the vehicle must also have a driver who can take control if needed. According to Pirko Konsa, the head of the governmental group of experts on self-driving vehicles, Estonia as a small and flexible country has the […]
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The nation of Singapore is planning to implement a digital identity programme that is inspired by the one in Estonia. The aim of the programme is to revamp its current national IDs, potentially allowing citizens simpler access to government services, financial transactions, and more. According to the country’s prime minister Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore is
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The Estonian government and defence industry delegation recently took a trip to Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, to introduce the country’s capabilities in cyber defence, border defence and unmanned systems. The delegation, led by the country’s minister of defence, Margus Tsahkna, met with the local industry as well as political leaders.
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The Estonian-founded money transfer startup, TransferWise, has integrated its system with Facebook Messenger, a popular chatting application. This enables TransferWise customers to send money and set up rate alerts without leaving the Messenger application. The TransferWise Bot, as the Messenger add-on is called, guides clients through the transfers and it can be used to set
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The European Investment Bank has invested €15 million in Skeleton Technologies, an Estonian producer of ultracapacitors and ultracapacitor-based energy storage solutions. The company describes the investment both as a loan and a “quasi equity” financing; the latter being a form of debt that could also be considered to possess some traits of equity, such as
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The Estonian language learning startup, Lingvist, has concluded its €1.5 million partnership with the EU Horizon 2020 programme, having used the funding to further develop its learning platform. Lingvist received the €1.5 million grant in May 2015 from the European SME Instrument initiative. According to the company, the grant provided it with the resources to
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The Estonian transport information technology provider, Ridango, has been awarded the first prize at the Transport Ticketing Global Awards in the Best Smart Ticketing Programme category for its ticketing solution implemented in Sweden. The ticketing solution the company was awarded for has been implemented in Sörmland County in Sweden. The company said in a statement
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The former president of Estonia, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, has been awarded this year’s Reinhard Mohn Prize, “Smart Country: Connected. Intelligent. Digital.”, for his work on the promotion of digitalisation in government, education and public services. According to the Bertelsmann Stiftung (“foundation” in German), during his ten-year tenure as the president of Estonia, “Ilves made digital
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Nasdaq Stock Market, the second-largest exchange in the world, has successfully completed a blockchain technology test to run e-voting on its Estonian exchange. The technology allows the shareholders of companies listed on Nasdaq’s Tallinn Stock Exchange to vote in shareholder meetings using e-voting through Estonia’s e-residency platform. Now the stock market is assessing whether to
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The Estonian-founded startup, Starship Technologies, that builds a fleet of autonomous robots designed to deliver goods locally, today announced it had secured USD17.2 million in seed funding. The round was led by Daimler AG, along with Shasta Ventures, Matrix Partners, ZX Ventures, Morpheus Ventures, Grishin Robotics, Playfair Capital and a number of other investors. “This
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