In mid-September, the Ukrainian hacker group Hdr0 attacked the website of Mosoblenergo, a Russian state energy service provider. The hackers put on the home page a picture of Oleksiy Danilov, a high-ranking Ukrainian defense official, walking on the Red Square while the Kremlin was on fire. The hackers also obtained the database of company employees. …
On Sept. 8 in Warsaw, the Polish-Ukrainian Startup Bridge (PUSB) will “open a co-working for Ukrainian startups looking for temporary relocation” due to the war, reports Ukrainian tech blog AIN. Entrepreneurs will receive “a place for work and business meetings,” together with opportunity to exchange experience with peers. They can take advantage of various forms of …
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Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, many cybersecurity experts and activists have joined the Ukrainian cyber front. They carry out DDoS attacks on Russian resources, defacing Russian sites, taking their popular services offline, and even more drastic operations. One of the coordinators of such IT armies is Kharkiv cybersecurity specialist Mykyta Knysh. Having worked …
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Ukrainian programmers have created an online browser game to help Ukraine fight Russian aggression. The game was created so that each ‘move’ brings Russian websites closer to being blocked: one player can send about 20,000 requests in one hour of play to block sites serving the Russian army. The list of the targeted sites has not …
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Google users in Ukraine have received a letter from the company about the price rise of its services. This is related to the recently adopted and signed so-called “Tax on Facebook” law, initiated by Danylo Hetmantsev, Chairman of the Committee on Finance, Taxation, and Customs Policy. AIN.UA explains what will change. In June 2021, the Ukrainian …
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Animal ID, a Ukrainian startup that “brings together responsible pet owners,” has raised $500,000, according to local tech blog AIN.UA. The project launched in 2011 as a public initiative “for systematic assistance to homeless and domestic animals in Ukraine.” Animal ID became a private startup four years later, and currently claims about 120,000 users in 15 …
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Uber Shuttle operates in Ukraine with multiple violations, a local journalist found. In her article for Ekonomichna Pravda, Iryna Latysh noted the following issues: The van parked at a pedestrian crossing. During a police inspection, turned out that the driver did not have the necessary driving category. Drivers work 10-14 hours a day. Uber Shuttle …
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise has shut down its Kyiv (Kiev) office. Now the Californian company will provide its services via an intermediary, Sophela, which has become its exclusive representative in the country. In a press release, HPE says it took this step to “optimize expenses in the current market environment,” but that the provision of services …
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As events in central Kyiv (Kiev) unfolded before the eyes of the world during the Maidan protests in early 2014, conflicting news reports flooded the international media. At the same time, three founders of IT company Altwork began to think of a way to resolve the media mess and separate fact from fiction. Their solution was …
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Leading Ukrainian online tech publication AIN.UA has revealed their list of the top 10 most promising domestic startups that have appeared in recent years. The publication asked experts (angels, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs) to identify their top five startups, based primarily on achievements from 2014. Notable achievements may have included the completion of new investment …
Last week Las Vegas played host to the Consumer Electronic Show (CES), a huge annual event which draws nearly 150,000 attendees from more than 100 countries. While participation among startups was quite high with around 375 in attendance, several Ukrainian startups, hardware and non-hardware in focus, stood out. All of them have successfully carried out …
International game developer Gameloft is opening a second office in Ukraine. The company has operated in Kharkiv (Kharkov) since 2007, but now announces plans to open a Lviv (Lvov) location. Evgeniy Birenbaum, HR manager at the company’s Kharkov office, said that the company intends to hire 50-100 new employees at the Lviv office, with the …
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