Posts Tagged ‘Skype’

GuardTime: Timestamping our Digital Life

In: Companies

9 Jan 2009

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 (in upmost picture) and Ahto Buldas (in middle picture) has almost unlimited [...]

Skype-men to Launch News Site that Predicts Your Interests

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22 Dec 2008

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 through an automated semantic analysis of information publicly available on you on the [...]

Linnar Viik: How to Build an E-country? (VIDEO)

In: Companies

17 Dec 2008

“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 [...]

When High-Tech meets Wine-Making …

In: Companies

27 Oct 2008

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. [...]

Skype Founders to Establish Free Video Calls on Television

In: Companies

6 Sep 2008

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 [...]

Skype founders finance French real estate bureau

In: Companies

23 Jul 2008

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 [...]

Josh Silverman: crazy people don’t use Skype

In: Companies

23 Jul 2008

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 [...]




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