According to data from developer community DOU.UA, the number of employees at the 25 largest Ukrainian IT-service companies increased by a total of 843 from August 2014 through January 2015. This is one and a half times less than the previous period (January through August 2014). As for why growth has been limited, 50% of businesses …
Preply, a platform to find foreign language tutors for home or Skype lessons, has just entered the Polish market with a localized version of its website. Launched in 2012 by Kirill Bigai, Serge Lukianov and Dmytro Voloshyn, three Ukrainian entrepreneurs, the startup initially expanded to the Russian, Belarussian and Kazakhstani markets.
On the fast-changing Ukrainian high tech scene, one fund, Fison, is conducting a pioneering experiment to drive savers’ money to IT startups. It claims that more than 1,000 individual investors have contributed $2 million in total so far in exchange for an equity stake. Launched in 2013 by Dmitry Tomchuk and Dmitry Vishnyov, two entrepreneurs …
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Ukrainian tech NGO Social Boost, with the support of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), has launched Redonbass.org (Russian), an online platform that allows users to monitor destruction in Donetsk and Luhansk (Lugansk) oblasts, where an armed struggle with pro-Russian rebels has been ongoing since last spring. All information on the destruction is presented in …
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Russia’s absorption of the Crimea region in early 2014 continues to be a source of friction between Washington and Moscow. The issue was illustrated recently by several US firms which cut ties with the disputed territory altogether. Due to sanctions placed on the region last year by the US authorities, which include an export ban of US …
As events in central Kyiv (Kiev) unfolded before the eyes of the world during the Maidan protests in early 2014, conflicting news reports flooded the international media. At the same time, three founders of IT company Altwork began to think of a way to resolve the media mess and separate fact from fiction. Their solution was …
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Ukrainian startup Poptop.fm, which provides a marketplace for hiring musicians and photographers, has obtained $30,000 from Torben Majgaard, the Danish businessman who founded Ciklum, a leading Ukrainian nearshore software development firm. Further details of the deal were not disclosed. “I like Poptop’s area of business as well as the team’s attitude,” Majgaard said in an exchange with Ukraine Digital News. …
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Leading Ukrainian online tech publication AIN.UA has revealed their list of the top 10 most promising domestic startups that have appeared in recent years. The publication asked experts (angels, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs) to identify their top five startups, based primarily on achievements from 2014. Notable achievements may have included the completion of new investment …
Last week Las Vegas played host to the Consumer Electronic Show (CES), a huge annual event which draws nearly 150,000 attendees from more than 100 countries. While participation among startups was quite high with around 375 in attendance, several Ukrainian startups, hardware and non-hardware in focus, stood out. All of them have successfully carried out …
By March 1, 2015, an information system for urban management called “Electronic City” will be launched in Odessa, a major city in southern Ukraine, announced Serhiy Dubenko, adviser to the mayor. As reported by the publication IT Vesti, the purpose of the system will be to improve control by city officials and their staff over …
Media attention to the ongoing Ukraine-Russia conflict has focused on a significant number of hacking and malware attacks by private actors. As an example, the pro-Russian hacker group CyberBerkut has assumed responsibility for cyber operations against NATO, the vote counting system for Ukrainian elections, and a mobile device within the U.S. vice-president’s delegation during a …
Leading Ukrainian tech blog AIN.UA has just announced its yearly ranking of the most influential individuals in the local Internet scene. The final list was determined by a committee of experts, comprised of 33 representatives of various sectors of the online community. In order to compile the rating, the experts were asked to name the five …
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