Posts Tagged ‘Skype

“It’s not about tech and money, it’s about will and people,” he says about building an e-country. The Estonian Mr. Internet and eGovernance “ambassador” Linnar Viik has travelled around the globe and advised different governments on how to build a successful package of public e-services. He just arrived from Cape Verde. Speaking about e-services  – one [...]

One of the most famous Estonian venture capitalists and former Chief Engineer of Skype, Toivo Annus is a minor stakeholder in California-based winery Crushpad. This is not a traditional winery for neat folks with “chateau and golden retriever”, this the place where tailor-made high-tech wine comes from.  I wrote about Crushpad last year in Eesti Ekspress. [...]

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 development for LCD televisions of the user interface utilized in the Skype [...]

The investment company of the founders of Skype, Ambient Sound Investments finances two innovative companies in Western Europe, both founded by former Yahoo! executives. One of these companies is a modern web-based real estate bureau in Paris, capital of France. They call it Drimki. Drimki is not just a website, that sells real estate. It [...]

Skype will become the greatest company on earth, with or without eBay. That’s a promise, given by Josh Silverman, the new president of global communication software company Skype. Silverman kicked off as the president of Skype from March 23. He gave me his first interview in his new position. We spoke in Tallinn, Estonia, where [...]




Partners


  • Toivo Tänavsuu: True. Thanks. [...]
  • martin: HumanIPO weblink is incorrect. Its www.humanipo.COM ;) [...]
  • Toivo Tänavsuu: It means Estonia is a perfect test market for technologies and all sorts of innovations, but sadly a [...]
  • MarkK: " TestMarket.eu, which is more meaningful I’d say" so what do you mean by that new name? [...]
  • Andri Möll: Okay, the second reading made it visible that you were actually aware of the language difference of [...]