On Wednesday at the Civic Hall in New York City Ukrainian IT entrepreneurs discussed the present and future of their country’s tech industry. “Ukraine is a brain basket of Europe,” they believe, referring to the “astounding number of technological innovations from around the globe that are fueled by talents from Ukraine.” Among famous examples are …
In spite of the country’s recent political turbulence, Ukraine has seen its IT service and software R&D capacities grow every year by double-digit figures. From Cisco, to Oracle, to Rakuten, to Samsung, more than a hundred global major tech firms conduct R&D activities in Ukraine, while an array of local IT outsourcing companies of all …
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A bevy of individual investors from prestigious funds has invested in Ukrainian startup Rentberry, which is developing an online platform for long-term apartment rentals. The startup, which is still at the prototype stage, has been valued at $3 million, according to its founder. Among the investors are executives from Carlyle Group, Synergo Private Equity, Pegasus …
YouTube has released a list of the music videos that were most popular in Russia in 2015. At over 41 million views, a song by Ukrainian band “Vremya i Steklo” is number one, far ahead of all its competitors. Following Vremya i Steklo in the ranking were “A Million Voices,” the Eurovision song presented by Russia’s Polina Gagarina (14.3 million …
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On November 28 Global Pioneers, a major European startup and investor conference series, held its PioneersKyiv edition, following a festival which took place in summer. The winner of the PioneersKiyv startup contest was Roman Zadyrako. His startup Tooltip.io has developed a solution to analyze app user behavior and send personalized in-app messages. Zadyrako will participate …
The Kyiv Post, Ukraine’s leading English language media, has just released a supplement devoted to Ukrainian innovations. “The world’s headlines about Ukraine are dominated by stories of corruption, war and all the things not going right in the nation. But that’s not the whole story. Ukrainians are highly entrepreneurial, when given the freedom, and highly …
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Uber will soon start operating in Ukraine, Infrastructure Minstry said on Friday after meeting representatives of the US company, reports The Kyiv Post. “We met with company Uber. Substantial talk and mutual understanding,” Deputy Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan wrote on his Facebook profile. The penetration of Uber’s services will eliminate possible corruption in taxi business, he believes.
Kyiv (Kiev)-based startup Petiole, whose mobile technology can perform plant leaf area measurements, has been ranked in the top 20 of the world’s hottest startups in 2015 by CNBC. The plant leaf area is measured in less than one second. “This is 1,000 times faster than using graph paper and 100 times faster than scanning and processing …
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Helsinki-based Madberry offers a global automated advertising system specially designed for the needs of game companies. The company does not outsource its research and development works; yet it has launched an R&D center in Kyiv (Kiev) in partnership with Ukrainain IT firm Innovecs. Dmitry Sverdlik, Madberry’s co-founder and CEO, explains the strategy behind this offshore center and speaks frankly about …
Held on Dec. 17 in Kyiv (Kiev), the “Synergy: IT Education & IT Industry” conference aims to “create an efficient platform for dialogue and strategic cooperation between government bodies, domestic and foreign universities as well as leading IT companies.” The event — the larger of its kind in Ukraine — is organised by industry association IT Ukraine. Also supporting the event …
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Canadian mobile e-commerce solution provider Mobify has acquired Jeapie, a Ukrainian startup offering an advanced mobile notification service. The amount of the transaction has not been disclosed, but a Jeapie shareholder told Ukraine Digital News it was “a seven-digit number.” In the nearest future, the Jeapie solution will be integrated to Mobify’s cloud-based Entreprise-SaaS platform for e-commerce, Jeapie’s …
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Microsoft Ukraine has launched an Internet of Things (IoT) laboratory, as reported earlier this month by Ukrainian tech blog AIN.UA. Ukrainian projects willing to work in this field will be selected to receive an equipped working space to study and work. A six-month preparation cycle will include training, working on a product and its demonstration, …
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