Estonian tech stories around the world.
Start-up fund Prototron was established on August 14 with the aim of supporting innovative ideas in making the first finished product or prototype. The fund was established by the Tallinn University of Technology, Swedbank and Tallinn Science Park Tehnopol. Swedbank supports the fund with 120,000 euros during the first three years. President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, […]
Just a few years ago, Estonia had no gaming industry to speak of. Although we were proud of our advanced IT and mobile sector development, games had been somehow left out of the big picture. Yes, there was Playtech, one of the worlds leading online gambling and casino companies, but these are not the types
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It’s rarely when “mafia” actually refers to something positive. However, “Estonian mafia” (or #estonianmafia for Twitter users) has come to describe the entrepreneurial phenomenon stemming from the small country in the Baltics. The term was allegedly coined by the US venture capitalist Dave McClure at a well-known event for tech start-ups, Seedcamp in London. McClure
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One of the founding engineers of Skype and Kazaa recently visited Australia to sound a warning to the human race: fasten your seatbelts, as machines are becoming so intelligent that they could pose an existential threat. Jaan Tallinn (40) argues that human-driven technological progress has largely replaced evolution as the dominant force shaping our future. Machines are becoming
The Tallinn University of Technology, in co-operation with tech giants Samsung and Microsoft organised a large-scale event in Tallinn – The European Innovation Academy (EIA) from July 16 to August 3, 2012. It was the biggest training course in the field of innovation ever organised in Europe, bringing together experts from all around the world
