Electric car retailer Oxygen Group has launched Oxy-Taxi, the first electric car taxi service in Ukraine. The company provides clients with electric taxicabs, and says it will expand its fleet to 50 vehicles over the next three months. The eventual goal is to have 500 cars, including ones manufactured by U.S. company Tesla Motors, and to …
U.S. multinational financial services corporation MasterCard has launched its digital wallet service, MasterPass, in Ukraine. Ukraine on July 15 became the 32nd country in which the electronic service has been introduced. MasterPass is an online service that helps users pay electronically with any bankcard or electronic money from one place.
Meeting with representatives of IT community on July 6, Poroshenko promised his administration would draft legislation to issue special visas for IT specialists to attract more foreign investors and qualified IT professionals to Ukraine’s burgeoning tech sector. Lithuania’s parliament at the end of June passed a bill on startup visas to attract foreign IT specialists to …
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This year Lviv, dubbed the IT capital of western Ukraine, held a new conference — the “Lviv IT Jazz Conference,” — where top business leaders, investors and state officials discussed the country’s up-and-coming IT industry. While most other tech conferences in Ukraine focus on narrow subjects, this one brought in a wide range experts to paint a …
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Whether it’s two Swedes who want to start a small information technology company, or a huge Swedish multinational company looking to open research and development center, Ukraine has proven to be a good fit for both types. In fact, a total of six IT companies either originally from Sweden or with Swedish investments have been …
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on June 7 signed a decree on creating a national cybersecurity center. The decree takes effect from June 8, the date of its official publication. According to the decree, the center is to coordinate its activities with the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine to implement the Ukrainian Cybersecurity Strategy that the NSDC …
It’s been a good year for Ukraine’s electronic commerce market. The rollout of third-generation mobile telecommunications technology, which has increased smartphone use, means there are more e-customers online to sell to. And Ukraine’s first law on e-commerce, which entered force in September 2015, has made it considerably easier to run an online business in Ukraine.
A new tech startup from Ukraine aims to improve the efficiency of small farmers with help from out-of-this-world technology – the GPS satellite network. Michael Utkin, 36, is the founder of eFarmer, which has harnessed the GPS satellite-based navigation system to optimize the use of farm machinery on the ground. “My mission in life is to …
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Andreas Flodström and Gustav Henman, two young Swedish entrepreneurs, came to Ukraine in September 2012 knowing “OK Russian” and with the shared goal of setting up a business in Eastern Europe “from scratch.” That same year they set up a software development company in Poltava, a provincial capital of 290,000 people some 350 kilometers east …
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Looking like a blend of high-tech car and an old fashioned horse-drawn carriage, the Ukrainian-developed Synchronous electric car could soon be a common sight in cities around Europe and beyond. A prototype of the car, which has been designed to serve as an eco-friendly taxi or hotel shuttle in Monaco, was presented at the 11th …
Ukrainian company organizes electric car rally through 20 European cities to Monaco Read More
Navy man Igor Kabanenko, 55, dedicated over 30 years to his military career. Now out of the military, he’s gone into business with a startup to produce military equipment. His career had its ups and downs: in December 2013 former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych transferred Kabanenko to the reserves on medical grounds — right after …
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For the last three years Iryna Slavinska has dedicated her life to one thing – boosting blood donation in Ukraine. The head of the non-profit Association of Young Blood Donors, Slavinska, says most people don’t understand how vital blood donors are to the health sector, and the Ukrainian government is doing nothing to help. In fact, patients themselves often …
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