Denys Krasnikov - Ukraine Digital News

Ukrainian startups find refuge in Poland from Ukraine’s crisis

April 7, 2016

Given the nation’s economic setbacks in recent years, some Ukrainian entrepreneurs have been seeking better places to develop their businesses, find new customers and reach new markets. For more many, those desires have led them to Poland. According to Polish national daily newspaper Rzeczpospolita, more than 400,000 Ukrainians have moved to Poland over the last …

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Electric car market gaining momentum

April 4, 2016

Electric cars are on a roll, sort of. The number of such vehicles in Ukraine has risen to 693 from 59 two years ago. But Nazar Shymone-Davyda, the founder of the Tesla Club Ukraine, a nonprofit dedicated to popularizing electric cars, estimates that there are as many as 1,000 electric cars now being driven in the …

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Odessa startup makes computer games more realistic

March 29, 2016

With the latest innovation, invented by a Ukrainian company from Odessa, gamers get a real jolt if they bump into a virtual wall while driving a virtual racing car. The company, MMOne, has created the world’s first three-axis virtual reality simulator, in the form of chair attached to an industrial robot-like arm that moves in response …

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Cybersecurity “a threat and an opportunity for Ukraine”

March 24, 2016

While the internet has revolutioned economies and changed lives around the world, cyberattacks threaten to undo its magic, as Ukraine knows very well. In Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast on Dec. 23, the country may well have suffered the world’s first power outage caused by a cyberattack, informational technology experts say. About 230,000 Ukrainians were plunged into darkness for …

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Ukrainian startup raises $400,000 to develop automatic e-mail service for US market

March 18, 2016

Ukrainian startup ReplyApp has attracted $350,000 from investment company Digital Future and $50,000 from seed fund WannaBiz to develop its automatic email service on the U.S. market. ReplyApp’s founder, Oleg Bilozor, 29, says the money will help the company accelerate recruitment for offices in several countries, which in turn will speed up the startup’s growth.

Polish IT company brings Chernobyl zone into virtual reality

March 16, 2016

So rich in detail is the view that the strips of paint peeling from the walls and shards of glass on the floor are visible. This is “Ghost City,” a virtual reality tour of the Chernobol (Chernobyl) zone that is also part documentary and part three-dimensional excursion of a god-forsaken town near the stricken nuclear plant. …

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UK startup with Ukrainian origins launches swimming tracker

February 24, 2016

How many lengths of the pool did you do today? If you had the device invented and developed by Swimmerix Ltd., a London-based startup created by Ukrainian Yaroslav Issakov, you’d be able to say right away – and a lot more besides. A keen swimmer himself, Issakov, 48, has invented a waterproof, lightweight device that …

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IT companies add Kyiv to popular international online guide

February 22, 2016

Ukrainian information technology companies and digital agencies have added several Kyiv districts to a rapidly growing digital map of the world. Called On the Grid, this web map is a massive collaborative online project, in which hundreds of creative companies and designers from around the world place information on their cities’ sights, venues, and cafés in an online …

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Mobile app will save your memory

February 5, 2016

Do people forget something because they are overloaded with information or just always run out of time? Or do they forget because their memory is not what it once was? Chances are it’s a combination of both. However, now there seems to be a solution – an iOS mobile application that supposed to save one’s …

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Online tutoring platform Preply enters Brazilian market

January 28, 2016

A Ukrainian startup offering a website to help search for private tutors has entered the Brazilian market. Called Preply, the company announced its new strategy and readiness to support payments from Brazil on Jan. 26, after its website began supporting the Portuguese language and accepting payments in Brazilian reals. The company says it has already accepted its …

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Ukrainian IT entrepreneur enters Forbes Europe “30 Under 30” success list

January 27, 2016

U.S. business magazine Forbes has placed Ukrainian tech startup wizard Ivan Pasichnyk on its list of 30 of the most successful people in Europe aged up to 30 years in the Industry sector. Called “30-under-30 Europe,” the list includes 300 young leaders, creative inventors and go-getting entrepreneurs from Europe in 10 different sectors. But Ecoisme …

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In Odessa, a new business accelerator trains startups and teaches the elderly

January 22, 2016

A new business accelerator, christened “iQSpace,” was launch in late December in Odessa, southern Ukraine, to promote both entrepreneurship activity and IT literacy. It has three activity areas: technology school, lectureship and IT incubator. Using curriculum provided by the Lviv IT School, the school teaches the elderly basic IT skills and young professionals sophisticated programming languages.