A Ukrainian lawmaker has written to Elon Musk, the CEO of U.S. electric car producer Tesla Motors, asking that the tech entrepreneur consider building a Tesla car factory in Ukraine. The letter, from People’s Front party lawmaker Viktor Romaniuk, comes after Musk announced his company was to make a “significant investment” in expanding its European operations. However, Tesla …
Ukraine was represented by 20 startups at the CES this year, which was held Jan. 5 – Jan. 8 in Las Vegas. “Ukrainian startups are very competitive,” Olga Afanasyeva, the UVCA executive director, told the Kyiv Post. “We weren’t anyhow ashamed by their level.” However, the fact that there were 20 projects from Ukraine and 200 from France …
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Ukrainian company Polyteda Cloud has attracted €1.2 million in funding from Horizon 2020, the EU’s biggest research and innovation program, which has nearly 80 billion euros of funding available over seven years until 2020. Polyteda will use the funding to roll the product onto the European market and promote itself on it.
Viber, a messaging app with nearly 800 million active users in 193 countries around the world, has entered the Ukrainian business market, touting its latest and “most important (feature) for the last two years” – public accounts. Viber Media Inc., a subsidiary of Japanese company Rakuten Inc., announced the roll out of its new business …
In a huge Soviet-style building of a former clothing factory in the north-west part of Kyiv, about hundred workers develop an alarm system, which, according to its inventor Aleksandr Konotopskyi, is “the first step to the automatization” of Ukrainian households. It has taken Konotopskyi four years to build his wireless security system startup, which has since …
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Five Ukrainians have won places on the New Europe 100 list of 100 of the “brightest and best people” in Central and Eastern Europe. The third annual list, which was organized by U.K. business daily Financial Times, the Visegrad Fund, Google and Polish journal Res Publica, includes 100 business and social leaders, creative inventors and go-getting entrepreneurs …
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A chain-smoking driver talks on the phone while driving a beat-up car. His passenger is sweating, both because of the erratic driving and the absence of air conditioning – it’s either broken or not there at all. Until just a couple years ago, that used to be what an average taxi ride in Ukraine was like. …
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Head of Ukraine’s Fiscal Service Roman Nasirov said on Sept. 27 that all the iPhones 7 that are found in Ukraine have been smuggled into the country. “If you see someone with an iPhone 7, you can tell those people that they are criminals,” Nasirov said at the Cabinet of Ministers’ meeting. According to him, for the …
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Multimillionaire Vasyl Khmelnytsky, 50, couldn’t even wait for the construction workers to finish the new IT school that he’s building in the northwest part of Kyiv. Reflecting the fast pace of the IT industry, Khmelnytsky went ahead and opened the first classroom in the semi-constructed building in August. Today — two months before opening, — 300 applicants …
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Ukraine’s state railway network administrator, Ukrzaliznytsia, plans to develop its own mobile application to sell train tickets, its chief executive officer has announced. CEO Wojciech Balczun said during an Aug. 10 meeting with representatives of the American Chamber of Commerce that Ukrzaliznytsia plans to launch an Android app to selling railway tickets by the end …
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U.S. authorities have charged a Ukrainian citizen, the alleged owner of the world’s most visited illegal file-sharing website KickassTorrent, with criminal copyright infringement and have seized domain names associated with the website. Artem Vaulin, 30-year-old from Kharkiv, was arrested on July 20 in Poland and was charged under a criminal complaint filed in the U.S. …
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They’re not robocops from the movies, but 84 graduates of a special four-month cyberpolice course, who on July 17 started serving in Kharkiv at a special police department devoted to online law enforcement and security. The 84 new cybercops include 20 special IT agents and 64 inspectors who will “ensure the online security of every …
