GBKSOFT, a team of mobile app developers from Zaporizhia (Zaporozhye), has released a game for iOS devices called Defend Ukraine. The app, which is available i Ukrainian, Russian and English languages, can be purchased in AppStore for $0.99. All money from sales will be sent to Wings Phoenix, a volunteer organization that supports the Ukrainian …
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Poptop.fm, a Ukrainian service that allows users to hire musicians and photographers, has won a grant from the British government and relocated to Newcastle, project CEO Evgeniy Shestopal told Ukrainian tech blog AIN.UA. The startup has been invited to the Sirius Programme, which attracts entrepreneurs from all over the world who have the goal of …
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Ukrainian startup MyRobot.io, which defines its solution as a “mail robot secretary,” has attracted $60,000 from a group of angels through the investment platform Startup.ua. As part of a deal, the startup’s founder Bohdan Oleksandruk gave up control of 35% of the company. The MyRobot solution reminds users of deadlines for tasks by email. Luanched just weeks …
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How many IT specialists work in Ukraine and how much do they earn? Which developer are most in-demand in the labor market and why do junior specialists struggle to find their first job? Last week at the IDCEE conference Maksim Ischenko, who founded DOU.ua, a portal for developers, and Djinni.co, a service for job-seekers, presented insights into the Ukrainian …
Pro-Ukrainian hackers have reported that they have hacked the Crimean cells of the Donetsk People’s Republic, as the insurgents of Eastern Ukraine call themselves (abbreviated as “DNR” in Russian). This has resulted in an online database of documents and photo-materials from the DNR, representatives of Russian nationalist organizations in Crimea, and representatives of government agencies …
The first bitcoin embassy in the CIS has opened on Lviv Square in Kyiv (Kiev), reports tech blog AIN.UA The initiator of the project was Kuna, an agency dedicated to the sale of bitcoins. Kyiv is joining three similar bitcoin embassies in the world, located in Montreal, Tel-Aviv, and Warsaw. Within the embassy, there is a …
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Ukrainian entrepreneur Oleksii Vitchenko has launched Digital Future, a new investment company which analyses the Ukrainian startup landscape, seeks out the best new projects and takes them to the global market. Digital Future invests in startups at various stages of development, focusing on e-commerce, digital marketing and mobile technology. The company usually looks to invest from …
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The myTips team has been accepted into the famous American incubator 500 Startups, and has moved to San Francisco. The team received an investment of $75,000 from the incubator, and now intends to develop its business in the USA. myTips is developing interactive online tutorials for complex interfaces without coding. Previously, the startup had already …
Microsoft Ukraine general manager Dmitry Shimkiv, who was an active participant in the Maidan Revolution, was appointed deputy head of the presidential administration for administrative, social and economic reform last week. According to Ukrainian media, Shimkiv’s first task in his new post will be to reform the structure of the presidential administration so as to …
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EcoisMe, which has developed a system for managing energy at home, has obtained 30,000 euro from Polish incubator Hubraum at an undisclosed valuation. Consequently, the Ukrainian startup will move operations to Krakow, Poland. EcoisMe has also reached an investment agreement with Deutsche Telekom, which manages Hubraum. According to the second agreement, the German telco giant will …
The cyber-war between participants of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict carries on. Yesterday evening hackers posted an anti-Russian message on the webpage of the Russian State Duma’s Committee on Regional Politics and Problems with the North and Far East, on behalf of Russian Communist Party member Nikolay Kharitonov. The message was about how “all of the power of …
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