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	<title>Brilliant Fixer reports on the Estonian economy &#187; ICT</title>
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	<description>The Estonian economy and business life in brief, 1998 until now. News from various public institutions and the press. Brilliant Fixer OÜ is a company, which offers B2B networking services in Estonia. Besides the contact search, the company is engaged in public relations and marketing.</description>
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		<title>Preliminary registration of EU domains containing diacritical marks launched</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starting from 10 December it will be possible to register eu-ending domain names that contain diacritical marks of the Latin alphabet or letters of the Cyrillic or Greek alphabets.
Among other things, this means that the Estonian letters ä, ö and ü with umlauts and õ with a tilde can be used in domain names, said [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&blog=2383706&post=3126&subd=brilliantfixer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Playtech acquires skill games developer GTS</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The international developer of online games and gaming environments Playtech, which does a large portion of its development work in Estonia, is to buy the gaming software company Gaming Technology Solutions (GTS).
The acquisition will take place for an initial consideration of 10.8 million euros, with a further consideration capped at 21.6 million euros over the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&blog=2383706&post=3127&subd=brilliantfixer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Webmedia ranked 2nd on Baltic IT services market</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The software developer Webmedia placed second in the latest list of the Baltic countries&#8217; top IT companies compiled by the investment bank Prime Investment, one notch higher than in the previous semi-annual ranking published in spring.
The revenue of Webmedia Group in the first half of 2009 was 112 million kroons (EUR 7.16 mln), exceeding the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&blog=2383706&post=3086&subd=brilliantfixer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Skype founders bought the company from eBay</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A consortium of investors including Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis who founded Skype have bought back the company from eBay.
eBay sold 70% of Skype for 1.9 billion US dollars. In 2005 eBay itself paid Skype founders 2.6 billion dollars for the company.
Although eBay itself said that it did not achiveve the planned synergy for Skype, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&blog=2383706&post=3060&subd=brilliantfixer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Estonian, Spanish ministers speak about EU IT Agency</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Estonian Interior Minister Marko Pomerants, in a meeting with his Spanish colleague Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, spoke about the priorities for the Spanish presidency of the European Union and the future of the IT agency for justice and interior affairs.
The two ministers met in Luxembourg on the sidelines of a session of the EU justice and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&blog=2383706&post=2990&subd=brilliantfixer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Over 100 000 people participate in e-voting</title>
		<link>http://brilliantfixer.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/over-100-000-people-participate-in-e-voting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the advance voting period for this year&#8217;s local elections that ended on Wednesday night, 236 386 votes were cast in polling stations and over the Internet, which accounts for 21.6% of the Estonian electorate.
The National Electoral Committee said 104 415 people voted electronically during the week this was possible, and in addition 131 971 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&blog=2383706&post=3008&subd=brilliantfixer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two thirds of households have access to the Internet</title>
		<link>http://brilliantfixer.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/two-thirds-of-households-have-access-to-the-internet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Statistics Estonia, in the 1st quarter of 2009 63% of Estonian households had access to the Internet at home, compared to the same period of the previous year this indicator has increased five percentage points. Almost all enterprises with 10 and more persons employed had access to the Internet as in the previous [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&blog=2383706&post=2890&subd=brilliantfixer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Skype valued at 2.75 bUSD according to transaction</title>
		<link>http://brilliantfixer.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/skype-valued-at-2-75-busd-according-to-transaction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to an agreement with Ebay, risk capital funds will acquire about 65% of the internet-based telephone company Skype and on the basis of the transaction the value of Skype totals 2.75 billion US dollars.
The buyer of the majority shares in Skype is a group of risk capital funds headed by Silver Lake Partners and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&blog=2383706&post=2874&subd=brilliantfixer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mobile payments for free-time fishing</title>
		<link>http://brilliantfixer.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/mobile-payments-for-free-time-fishing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kairikurm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Free-time fishers have had the possibility to pay for the right to fish for recreation with mobile payments for a year already, which had significantly simplified the process of receiving the right for recreational fishing. &#8220;Earlier it was possible to pay for the recreational fishing right on the internet or in a bank, whereas from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&blog=2383706&post=2795&subd=brilliantfixer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Skype’s profit grows 23 pct</title>
		<link>http://brilliantfixer.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/skype%e2%80%99s-profit-grows-23-pct/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kairikurm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Skype Technologies OÜ, the Estonian development arm of the free VoIP telephony provider Skype, earned a profit of 28 million kroons (EUR 1.8 mln) in 2008, 22.8% more than in the year before.
Revenues during the year totalled 319.3 million kroons, up 16.5% year on year, it appears from the annual report.
The Skype operation in Estonia [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&blog=2383706&post=2785&subd=brilliantfixer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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