Posts under ‘Latvia’

RIGA – “Which ones are ours?” asked a friend of a friend in an online chat yesterday. “For whom should we root?” Kyrgyzstan’s Bishkek may be 3,850 km away from the capital of Latvia, but it doesn’t stop a group of us from following what can only be described as...

RIGA – Fearing their impotence after the October elections, two political heavyweights have announced this week they were consolidating forces. The former Prime Minsiter, Andris Šķēle and the Prime Minister Wanna-Be Ainārs Šlesers are going to be on a single ticket. The new bloc, temporary nickna...

The Swedish-based secure mobile payments company Accumulate is looking to the Baltic market, says CEO Stefan Hultberg. I met with him at Accumulate's Stockholm office in mid-June, but only got around to editing the video today (July 8). The reason -- I have been traveling in the US, first to...

I was just at Hewlett-Packard's TechForum 2010 in Las Vegas. Some rather interesting stuff for me as a mainly business journalist who writes more about the uses of IT than its technical details. Anyway, I threw together some highlights of the keynotes. Not my best video, shaky. The trip here...