Overseen by officials looking for kickbacks, Ukraine’s old, flesh, bones and paper system of procurement whittled away on average about $2.3 billion a year due to shady schemes. That’s 20% of taxpayers’ money that the government allocates to buying goods, labor and services for public needs. To put a plug in that corrupt drain, the …
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Good writing is a sign of knowledged and professionalism. Thanks to two Ukrainians, the world now has an online grammar checker for English writing that is used by millions of people. Grammarly is a web-based service where one can upload a text in English and have it scanned for errors within a matter of seconds. …
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America has up to 2 million people who claim Ukrainian roots — and some of them are busy helping promote Ukraine’s informational technology sector. On Oct. 8, the IT Round Table took place with participation from executives of major Ukrainian software developers from DataArt, Eleks, EPAM and SoftServe. The venue was the non-profit Ukrainian Institute of …
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Lviv (Lvov), the unofficial capital of western Ukraine, is also the capital of IT business in Ukraine. And the city looked the part when it hosted the massive Lviv IT Arena tech conference on Oct. 2-4. More than 1,400 participants from Ukraine and abroad gathered for the event – up from 800 who came to the …
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While many Ukrainian tech companies consider locations abroad, Ukrainian IT outsourcing company Binary Studio has chosen western Ukraine as an escape from Russia’s war in the eastern Donbas. The company was started in 2005 by Donetsk region native Artem Goncharov and his university friend Anton Duzenko. They had just one weekend to escape the Russian-backed separatist Donetsk People’s Republic in …
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While most businesses are put off by instability in Ukraine, Norway’s Itera isn’t one of them. The company, one of Scandinavia’s leading tech players, headquartered in Oslo, came to Ukraine amid the 2008 global economic crisis to open a research and development center. Itera’s center in Kyiv, which is active in consulting, software design, development and …
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Celebrating colleagues’ birthdays are happy events and part of many corporate cultures. Collecting money for presents, however, can be burdensome. Online service Wishround promises an easy solution. “When we worked at a large IT company in Ukraine, we had the same issue as most companies with over 400 employees usually have,” says Yuriy Shevchenko, the co-founder at Wishround …
Demand for IT specialists is still growing in Ukraine, as illustrated by the 1,500 people hired by the 25 biggest Ukrainian IT companies in the last six months, 5% more than the previous six months, according to HR resource DOU. GoIT, a provider of tech courses in Kyiv, has been in existence for a year and 46 …
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Ukraine has more than 50,000 software engineers in the information technology industry. Also, according to the Brainbench rating of 2013, the nation ranked third in the number of certified master-level IT specialists among 50 countries. But it’s not strong everywhere. The nation suffers a deficit of sufficiently qualified specialists in high-tech electronic engineering.
As Ukraine’s technology startups struggle to connect with Silicon Valley investors, their fellow countrymen in London are trying to open doors in the U.K. investor community. To get the ball rolling, Ukrainians Serhiy Burnus and Oleksiy Kolchanov organized the Ukrainian Startups Roadshow at three London locations on July 23-25. Taking place at Bloomberg headquarters, Google Campus, and Deloitte …
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Lviv (Lvov), a western Ukrainian city with more than 700,000 residents, is also the home of dozens of technology companies. Property developers use that to their advantage. Recently Adamas, a Lviv-based property developer, announced that in the beginning of 2016 it will start building a large office building for 500 employees of information technology companies. …
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Upon his first visit to Ukraine in late May, technology entrepreneur Mark Turrell had no idea what to expect from a country that is at war. By his fourth visit two months later, though, he already had a team of six Ukrainian website and mobile application developers working on his new business. Born in Canada, …
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