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Uber rival Bolt launches food delivery service in Europe Competition in Europe’s food delivery market is getting even more heated. Uber rival Bolt announced Wednesday it will launch a food delivery service in Tallinn, Estonia, where it is headquartered. The Estonian start-up said it would expand the service to Latvia, Lithuania, and South Africa later this […]
Estonia: a springboard for global startups and AI applications Artificial Intelligence is taking the world by storm. Where does Estonia stand in the AI ecosystem? Are Estonian businesses ready for AI? We know that tech giants like Amazon, Baidu, Facebook and Google have AI advantages like collecting enormous amounts of data, access to top talent, […]
While Britain frets over Brexit, other countries are rebooting their public realm. We talked to the two chief architects of the world’s most advanced digital nation, Estonia. By Charles Orton-Jones Some facts about Estonia. At the last election, 44 per cent of ballots were cast online. Voters are able to vote on their PC or […]
The last few years have shown that the Estonian startup ecosystem is becoming more attractive. Startups in Estonia are raising record amounts of investments, the Startup Visa program is one of the most successful in the world and the whole sector is growing at a fast pace. Yes, Estonia is being noticed. Why is that? […]
Ninety-nine percent of public services are available online 24/7 in the country of Estonia. So how did this nation of 1.3 million people become one of the most advanced digital societies in the world? CNBC’s Elizabeth Schulze reports from Tallinn. How Estonia became one of the world’s most advanced digital societies from CNBC.
Only ten years ago it seemed unfathomable to hail a taxi in just a few moves of a fingertip on your phone and pay less than 10 euros for a ride from one side of the city to another. Neither could anyone have predicted that the company to disrupt the taxi industry all over Europe […]
How it all started in Estonia? After graduating from university, Thomas Padovani spent three and a half years working at a start-up for online payments. During this time, the company’s turnover increased from two million euros to one hundred million euros and went to the stock exchange. But then, Padovani felt that the company wanted […]
