Estonian start-up stories by Toivo Tänavsuu
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26 Oct 2009I am glad to announce that TigerPrises.com has turned 100! No, we are not 100 years old (only about 16 months actually). But we have covered about 100 Estonian start-ups thus far: followed their product or service development, rejoiced over their success and encouraged them! I can say without exaggerations that you can’t find any [...]
Estonian start-up SelfDiagnostics is developing a quick-test that could easily be used at home to identify sexually transmitted diseases. In the future such minilabs could become commodities avalible at a pharmacy for a couple of hundred kroons. Executive director of SelfDiagnostics, Marko Lehes reports that a patent application has been filed and a test model is planned to be [...]
Jouko Vierumäki (pictured), founder of the Estonian technology company Fromdistance, says that the smart phones in our pockets are full of sensitive personal information, whereas no one has really thought about the security of this information. No one, except for Fromdistance. Fromdistance is a software company based in Tallinn, which develops mobile phone service platforms [...]
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16 Oct 2009Interview with a leading researcher of the NATO Cyber Defence Center, Kenneth Geers (pictured). Please name one of the main trends in cyber crime in 2009. A major trend in 2009 is that attackers have shifted from sending a small number of threats to a large number of people to sending many unique threats to [...]
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16 Oct 2009In the era of the Internet, global cyber crime is spreading like the Plague. No longer is it the hobby of isolated hackers, but a source of income for the mob and a virtual weapon of hostile states. Most worryingly, no one is immune, not Barack Obama, not Bill Gates, not you. At the same [...]
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15 Oct 2009Estonian based startup Propaganda LLC has recently released to the public a web-based social media utility WhosRich. WhosRich makes it fun and easy for people to track their friends’ shopping habits. The utility gives eager shoppers a scene to exhibit publicly their [...]
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15 Oct 2009How to find foreign customers for corporate IT solutions? CEO of Terabill, Teet Lõhmus shares his experience. Terabill offers a billing solution for telecoms with a software service model. Billing, the core IT system of every telecom company, gathers information about telephone calls from the telephone stations, calculates how much each customer must pay according [...]
VTT Optik - a company operating in Tartu Science Park is small and little-known. But its partners include the Japanese and Korean giants Samsung, Nikon and Canon. As one of the high technology companies in Estonia, VTT Optik produces quality measurement instruments used in the optical industry – interferometers (pictured). Such a fine instrument costs 100 000 [...]
Frenchman Fabrice Schott has established a new kind of translation service in Estonia. Transeeo.com, operated by a company called Linxaccross and launched only few months ago uses time zone differences as a key in its business model. The Operation Director of Transeeo Viktooria Boldoreva (pictured) says that the aim is to provide high-speed and high [...]
Estonian high-tech surveillance equipment (bugs) developer Borthwick-Pignon Solutions (BPS) has launched a new platform and established close cooperation with US giant Texas Instruments. The new platform from one of the most mysterious Estonian tech company is aimed at surveillance, PDA and medical sectors, where hand held power management solutions with laptop performance are [...]