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

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

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

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

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


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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SignWise – the e-signing solution from Estonia

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

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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