Full Picture of the Estonian VC’s ... Last year Estonian venture capital firms joined forces by founding the Estonian Ventur Capital Association (EstVCA). Who are the players on the market today? Here’s a short overview which shows that: the Estonian venture capital market is expanding, VC culture is developing there are several...

IN DEPTH REPORT: Estonia’s Groovy ... What a coincidence: Estonian telecom companies declared joint efforts to provide the whole country with fast broadband Internet access by 2015 and the next day, the telecom giant Ericsson announced that it will develop a mobile networks factory in Estonia of key importance for the whole region. The recently...

Skype Founders to Make Marine Navigation... There’s an interesting technology evolving in the incubator of Ambient Sound Investments - the investments vehicle of the Estonians who founded Skype. The company with the initial name InkSpinTwo is developing digital forward-looking sonar, that would make marine navigation safer and easier. Arno...

GuardTime: Timestamping our Digital Life... The digitized world screams for technologies that would help to prove the validity of any digital data. One such timestamping infrastructure solution is provided by GuardTime, a company founded in Estonia. The technology invented by digital data security experts and cryptology specialists Märt Saarepera...

Skype-men to Launch News Site that Predi... The Estonian tech-visionaries, led by Ahti Heinla – one of the Founders of Skype, and Rainer Nõlvak are developing what they call “predictive content personalization technology”. They plan to debut this technology in a project called DailyPerfect. That is a news site that predicts your interests...

Innovation of the Year: 50 000 Persons C... Yesterday it was announced that Estonia’s most innovative person of 2008 is Rainer Nõlvak (pictured) – entrepreneur and visionaire, who came up with the idea of nationwide cleanup campaign Let’s Do It! 2008. About 10 000 tons of illegal waste was lying around all over Estonia, but Nõlvak and...

High-Speed Internet in Aircraft Flying 1... Is it realistic to have high-speed broadband Internet access in a Boeing aircraft, while flying above The Atlantic, so that the passangers could surf the web or watch satellite TV? Or in an express train, while moving over 400 km/h, for same reasons? Or even in a NATO fighter jet, while being up there,...

MarkIT Gives You the Best Deal for IT St... Estonian Internet-based IT equipment procurement company MarkIT, that already operates in eight Scandinavian and Eastern European markets, enters Sweden, Slovenia, Austria and Spain. The company aims to conquer whole Europe in the long run. The idea behind MarkIT is connecting numerous local IT distributors’...

No more layzing about at work for US pro... The Silicon Valley innovation center in the US is attracting ambitious Estonian companies like a magnet.  A number of Estonian undertakings are looking to open their representations in the area and thus plant roots in the US market, among them software company Programeter (formerly SourceKibitzer). Programeter,...

Skype Founders to Establish Free Video C... Estonians who brought world wide fame to the Internet telephone Skype are working on a new and interesting software solution enabling free video calls via television. The project, currently named InkSpin1, hatching in the Ambient Sound Investments (ASI) investment group’s incubator, incorporates the...