Its easy to think that Skype is the only kid on the block, but its VOIP competitors are hitting significant numbers. Rebtel, the worlds second largest VOIP network, announces today that it has hit 15...
Travelers going to the Estonian Air website are given quick access to booking flights and to the typical add-ons such as car rental, hotels, travel insurance, and now taxi booking through Cabforce. T...
According to reports by IFPI and some other data available, it seems that Spotify doubled its market share in 2011 as compared to 2010. And by market share we mean the global streaming music market a...
BaltCap has invested in Clusterpoint to the tune of €1 million, TechCrunch reports. The Latvian company produces its own, designed from ground up database software product-- Clusterpoint data base ma...
Following the companys €2.2 million investment from Industrifonden and angel-investors last year, Sweden-based Burt is expanding to Norway, as part of their expansion program. The company produces to...
(Article edited to correct that Wiseguys does take 8% equity) Hot and fresh out of an event in Riga is a new Tallinn based accelerator: Startup Wise Guys. The accelerator is built in the modified Y C...
In the fifth episode we talk to Estonian investor and serial entrepreneur Allan Martinson. Allan Martinson is the managing and founding partner of MTVP. MTVP is one of the more well known and success...
A big issue to consider with any ongoing Facebook marketing campaign is Edgerank-- the algorithm that determines what items pop up in the newsfeed. Facebook tries to show you items that are most rele...
Ovelin, the creators of WildChords, has just announced it has received $1.4 (€1.1) million in seed funding from True Ventures. The Finnish company has already seen a great deal of successes for its i...
Iron Sky has been one of the more anticipated films in the Finnish movie industry in the past years. The movie is a sequel to the Star Wreck, a fully crowdsourced movie that has become the most watch...
Who has the right to enter the artistic scene? Who decides the criteria’s on access to public funding? How would public art funding be designed if we invented the concept now? CrowdCulture is a new c...
Were back with organising ArcticEvenings! This year well do altogether six ArcticEvenings and our annual Arctic15 conference (more on the other events soon). We will kick off our events this year wit...
Nokia has just announced, according to Reuters that it is cutting down 4000 jobs in Finland, Hungary and Mexico as it struggles for better profitability. Finnish Helsingin Sanomat expects that the fa...
Heres some nice news for Danish entrepreneurs: SEED Capital has raised another €20 million for SEED Capital Denmark II, their fund focused on Danish investments. This brings the total investment fund...
The Russian online retailer for sports, leisure, and travel goods, Heverest.ru, has received $4.3 million (€3.2 million) in financing led by Fastlane Ventures and eVenture Capital Partners. The compa...
Editors note: This is a sponsored post by Graduateland part of their prize for winning the public vote in the 2011 Arctic15 conference. As Graduateland spreads to universities, students, graduates, a...
As the saying goes, one mans trash is another mans treasure. But who knew you could make money just by looking at other peoples trash? Out of Finland, Enevo is a company creating smart sensors to imp...
Fits.me, the virtual fitting room, has announced it has raised "seven figures" from the Entrepreneurs Fund, a London-based venture capital fund. The investment will be used to accelerate the ...
The Helsinki-based social network site aimed at the worlds muslim community, Muxlim, has shut down and now points to DisruptionManifesto.com, a teaser page for founder Mohamed El-Fatatrys new biograp...
Latvian-based Cobook is seeing a good deal of news hype and downloads in its first week of release. Yesterday on their blog they announced theyve seen 20000 downloads of the application, which is ess...
Seedcamp London is kicking off this week, and with it they announced for this round theyve received a record number of applications and are hosting a record number of teams. For those who arent famil...
There are times when you need an extra hand to get an errand done, but at the same time the task is too minor to hire a full-blown professional to help you. A good neighbor will always give you a han...
One of the largest Finnish media groups, Alma Media, has acquired CV Online, the internet recruitment service company in the Baltic countries. The size of the deal was not announced, but CV Online es...
The fourth episode of Unfair Advantage takes us to Denmark as we chat with Klaus Nyengaard, the Group CEO of Just Eat. Just Eat is originally from Denmark, where it was set up more than 10 years ago....
Allan Martinson, one of the most best known and experienced investors from Estonia (currently the founding and managing partner of MTVP), has cast concern about the amount of new accelerators and dif...
Startup Incubator, a new program aimed at helping startups, has spun off from Tallinn Science Park Tehnopol and begun accepting applications. The program is named Startup Incubator and it was set apa...
Editors Note: This series of posts is sponsored by Tekes and produced in co-operation with ArcticStartup to share experiences from startups about their funding experiences. From offhand comments in f...
This years CeBIT trade show will feature a brand new global innovation contest called CODE_n. Short for ’Code of the New’, the contest aims to seek out and promote the world’s most innovative startup...
Finnish cloud-based video and gaming service provider G-cluster has received a significant financial investment from French telecom operator SFR. SFR was one of the first companies to deploy G-cluste...
Editorial note: This post is part of Microsofts sponsored posts series Hear it from the startups. Microsoft Finland is throwing its annual conference, TechDays in Helsinki in just over a months time....
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