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.
A Germany-based startup with roots in Ukraine is raising money for a new gadget it says will help save on heating bills across Europe. Called eCozy, the startup produces smart thermostats that calculate the best-fit heating regime for the radiators they are attached to. According to the head of the startup’s customer support department, Alexandr Kudryashov, the …
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When Impression Electronics, a brand of Ukrainian-made gadgets, started selling computers in 1997, the must-have computing device was a bulky tower-style desktop with a CD-RW drive and an Intel Pentium II processor. Nineteen years later, Impression Electronics still makes hardware, devices that weren’t even a glint in an inventor’s eye back in the late 1990s …
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The renowned U.S. provider of on-demand Internet streaming media Netflix is expanding globally. On Jan. 6, it started offering services to about 130 new countries, including Ukraine, Russia, India, and more. In a statement announcing the expansion, the company said its strategy will bring the birth of a new global Internet TV network. The subscription starts at 7.99 euros per …
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The BrainBasket Foundation, an NGO aiming to develop IT education in Ukraine, is to set up the first television channel in Ukraine about the IT industry. According to the foundation’s director Vladimir Liulka, the channel will be able to expand the information environment of those Ukrainians who are interested in IT, as well as enhance the Ukrainian …
A United Arab Emirates business incubator – venture fund FasterCapital based in Dubai – has announced it is entering the Ukrainian market, promising up to $3 million in investment in Ukrainian startup companies. According to Sergiy Andriychuk, the head of FasterCapital’s Ukrainian unit, the incubator is mostly interested in technology startups that develop software, online …
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Ukrainian software developers are taking advantage of Germany’s Blue Card program for highly skilled immigrants. The program’s fast-track system for obtaining visas is one of the main reasons why Germany is becoming the main destination for Ukrainian information technology professionals. “They [the German embassy] only needed a work contract and a few documents with translations,” says Andrey Tkachenko, …
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Overseen by officials looking for kickbacks, Ukraine’s old, flesh, bones and paper system of procurement whittled away on average about $2.3 billion a year due to shady schemes. That’s 20% of taxpayers’ money that the government allocates to buying goods, labor and services for public needs. To put a plug in that corrupt drain, the …
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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.
Good writing is a sign of knowledged and professionalism. Thanks to two Ukrainians, the world now has an online grammar checker for English writing that is used by millions of people. Grammarly is a web-based service where one can upload a text in English and have it scanned for errors within a matter of seconds. …
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Ukrainian private postal delivery and logistics company Nova Poshta on Nov. 17 expanded its international subsidiary to provide services to over 200 countries. Last year Nova Poshta had created a separate brand in its structure — Nova Poshta International — to ship freight and deliver mail to Moldova and Georgia. Now the international daughter company is also in …
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Picture the scene: Ukraine in 2035 has become a hub of IT innovation, with some of the sector’s leaders having their gleaming new headquarters located in the high-tech capital of Kyiv (Kiev). Seems far-fetched? Not to Burak Ersoy, newly appointed CEO of Life :), Turkcell’s subsidiary in Ukraine. “Due to its huge human capital in terms …
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