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NASA uses Estonian-founded GrabCAD to design a part for the International Space Station

Silver Tambur / January 21, 2015

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the US government agency responsible for the civilian space programme as well as aeronautics and aerospace research, is using the Estonian-founded, US-based, online engineering platform GrabCAD to design a handrail clamp assembly (HCA) for the International Space Station (ISS) that can be printed on the ISS 3D printer. […]

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First 3D printer designed in Estonia

Estonian World / January 20, 2015

Most 3D printers available in Estonia are either imported or designed abroad and assembled there; now Estonia has its own 3D printer that was constructed by EDM Machinery, a spin-off company of the University of Tartu. “The build of this 3D printer has been inspired by milling machines and it is mostly made of stainless

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19 new designs created at first web design hackathon in the Baltics

Estonian World / January 13, 2015

Estonian startup YourDesignWorks held a Garage48 hackathon-inspired web design workshop from 9-11 January for non-designers in Tallinn where over 40 people created 19 new web designs. The event, held at the Pipedrive office, covered the design process from fundamental design thinking to executing a visually attractive solution in 48 hours. The participants learned how to

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Global P2P medical expense donation platform launched in Estonia

Silver Tambur / January 7, 2015

DonoBot is a multidimensional, personalised charity platform, set up in Estonia. The firm is a unique peer-to-peer (P2P) donation platform and combines different approaches and services for donors, donees and small charities. DonoBot focuses on medical conditions like diseases, accidents, hereditary conditions or situations that arise from the former. Estonian World spoke with Mai-Liis Kivistik from

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Estonian company looks to change digital learning across the globe

Adam Garrie / January 5, 2015

KidED is a new learning app developed in Estonia that looks to be a game changer both literally and metaphorically. The first app that is directly integrated into any other activity a child is engaged in on a tablet or smart phone, KidED gives kids the freedom to play the games they love while learning

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INFOGRAM: Estonia has the third fastest public Wi-Fi in the world

Estonian World / December 18, 2014

According to Rotten WiFi, a global WiFi and 3G/4G testing and evaluation service, Estonia has the third fastest public WiFi in the world, behind Lithuania and Croatia. Rotten’s users have measured and evaluated the quality of public hotspots in 172 countries worldwide, testing hundreds of networks. The collected data revealed the top 20 countries with

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Taxify raises €1.4 million to expand in Central Europe 

Estonian World / December 18, 2014

The ambition to expand into four new countries helped the Estonian-founded taxi app, Taxify, raise €1.4 million in funding from multiple international investors – Adcash (one of the world’s largest advertising networks), Rubylight (the investor of Ask.fm and Odnoklassniki) and the London-based investment fund, TMT Investments. According to the founder of Taxify, Markus Villig, the investment

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Norma’s safety systems for cars help save 30,000 lives a year

Life in Estonia / December 14, 2014

The company which became famous in Estonia for the production of car safety belts forty years ago is today a part of the international corporation Autoliv. The history of AS Norma dates back to the 19th century, when in 1891 a tinsheet workshopwas founded in Tallinn. In 1957, Norma became the first factory in the

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SignWise – the e-signing solution from Estonia

Estonian World / December 9, 2014

SignWise is a two-year-old Estonian company that has developed an e-signature and authentication technology that aims to be at the forefront in the digital signature world. And it may very well be possible, too, as this little country just started off with the ambitious national startup project of giving e-residency to people around the globe. Estonia

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Tallinn tech university and Samsung set up a mobile app testing lab in Tallinn

Estonian World / December 9, 2014

The Tallinn University of Technology, Samsung and communications firm Eesti Telekom are collaborating to set up a mobile applications testing lab in the Mektory innovation and business centre in Tallinn. “It is the first time that we have such an environment in Estonia where we can properly test mobile applications. We are expecting that it will bring

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