Estonian technology stories
Every fifth scanning microscope in the world’s research facilities or big company labs contains a micro needle produced by Estonia’s most successful nanotechnology undertaking Mikromasch. The micro needle is the most important part of a scanning microscope. A micro needle is an extremely small – its diameter is a mere 0.3 micro meters – diamond [...]
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25 Aug 2008Skype’s former leading engineer Toivo Annus and the Estonian Business School (EBS) are taking part in a fascinating business project that will soon introduce a tricycle vehicle with an electric engine on the streets. The three wheeled invention called Roadside Monoposto resembles a pedicab or a rickshaw and is being developed by designer Tarmo Härmaorg [...]
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20 Aug 2008CEO of drug research company EGeen International Kalev Kask (pictured) discloses the brutal thinking of the capitalists working in the pharmaceutical industry. Kask, who is Estonian, lives in Silicon Valley in the US and manages the EGeen international business – drug research on Europe’s eastern “front” from Finland to Turkey. EGeen that was founded in 2001, earned a [...]
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15 Aug 2008Estonian company UNITe that engineers and builds environment friendly module houses has set up approximately ten straw houses in Estonia. As the green way of thinking is spreading, this promises to be only the beginning. UNITe’s owners Mikk Suursild and Rene Valner built the first so called straw house in Estonia – a sauna in [...]
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13 Aug 2008Estonian cat-dog social network United Dogs and Cats is creating huge waves in Latin-American countries such as Colombia, Chile and Venezuela. Manager of United Dogs and Cats, Ragnar Sass says in Colombia alone the company’s Spanish sites have 20 000 users, in Chile and Venezuela there are approximately 10 000 users. 3000 new registered users are added in [...]
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12 Aug 2008Ambient Sound Investments (ASI), the investment firm established by the former founding engineers of Skype, has invested 200,000 euros in return for a 14 percent stake in AirDio Wireless, a developer of tiny wireless networking components that reduce the size of handhelds such as smartphones and mobile internet devices. Taiwan-based AirDio manufactures some of the [...]
The leading risk capitalists in Estonia – Toivo Annus, Allan Martinson and Joakim Helenius – invested in companies in Russia and Singapore, related to web and video games. MartinsonTrigon, an investment undertaking owned by Martinson and Helenius that mainly focuses on the Eastern market, recently acquired a holding in the largest Russian computer game production [...]