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E-residency enables Nasdaq Tallinn-listed companies’ shareholders to e-vote

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The shareholders of companies listed on Nasdaq’s Tallinn Stock Exchange can soon start voting in shareholder meetings using e-voting through Estonia’s e-residency platform. As part of the programme’s pilot, shareholders who are Estonian or Estonian e-residents will be able to participate in the corporate governance of companies more conveniently, Nasdaq said in a statement. The […]

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Estonian big data firm Planet OS partners up with German energy giant RWE

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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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Former US ambassador Jeff Levine joins Estonian startup Teleport

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The former US ambassador to Tallinn, Jeff Levine, has joined the Estonian startup, Teleport, a company that helps people find the best and most affordable place to live and work. Teleport announced Levine will join the company to lead its “user engagement efforts”. With the assignment, Levine, who recently retired from the US Department of

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TransferWise is among the world’s leading fintech innovators

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The Estonian-founded, London-based, money transfer firm TransferWise is among the 50 world’s leading fintech innovators, according to the latest Fintech 100 list. The Fintech 100 list is a collaborative effort between Australian fintech investment firm H2 Ventures and global professional services firm KPMG, and analyses the fintech space globally (fintech refers to new solutions which demonstrate

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Estonian-developed web app helps Americans find their ideal candidate for president

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An electoral compass that was partly developed by the University of Tartu (UT) scientist helps Americans find their ideal candidate for president in the 2016 election. The compass, called Societly.com, has been launched in the US for the presidential election that will take place on 8 November 2016. One of the main architects of the

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PICTURES: Estonian designer suggests an estate version for Tesla

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An aspiring Estonian designer, Rain Prisk, has designed an estate version of the Tesla Model S electric vehicle as well as proposing hatchback models for Rolls-Royce, Bentley, Aston Martin, Ferrari and other car marks. Prisk (24), who is using Adobe Photoshop photo editing software and Wacom Bamboo pens, is self-taught – he has never officially studied

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Trolls and open-source editing: the Wikimedia Conference 2015 in Tartu

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An unlimited number of monkeys typing on an unlimited number of keyboards will eventually re-write the works of Shakespeare, goes the infinite monkey theorem. An untested original corollary to this theorem, newly created by the author of this piece: if a large number of people make a large number of edits to a large number

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INFOGRAM: Estonia has the second best public wifi in the world

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According to a new survey, based on users’ experiences, Estonia provides the second best public wifi in the world, while Lithuania has emerged as the leader. Lithuania is the country providing the best public WiFi services, according to the survey, followed by Estonia. The two nations beat out wealthier nations such as Singapore and Switzerland.

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Estonian gaming accelerator wins a prestigious award

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The Estonian gaming accelerator, GameFounders, took home the first prize in the category of Supporting Internationalisation of Business at the European Enterprise Promotion Awards (EEPA). Hundreds of projects competed in the 2015 national competitions for a chance to represent their country in the EEPAs. A record number of 32 countries entered the awards this year,

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TransferWise founders win the European Web Entrepreneur of the Year award

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The founders of the Estonian money transfer service, Transferwise, Taavet Hinrikus and Kristo Käärmann, won the Web Entrepreneur of the Year award, presented by the European Commission and Deloitte during the Slush startup conference in Helsinki, Finland. The annual award is given as part of the Europioneers programme, an initiative of the European Commission that

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