The Kyiv Post

Launched in 1995, Kyiv Post is Ukraine’s leading English-language newspaper, produced by a team of Western and Ukrainian journalists. Over the years, the weekly newspaper has led the charge for a free press in Ukraine, and has played roles in the Georgiy Gongadze scandal, the Orange Revolution and other significant Ukrainian events. The Kyiv Post’s IT coverage is sponsored by Looksery, Ciklum, Steltec Capital and SoftServe. The content is independent of the donors.

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Lviv property developer to build office space for 500 tech employees

Lviv (Lvov), a western Ukrainian city with more than 700,000 residents, is also the home of dozens of technology companies. Property developers use that to their advantage. Recently Adamas, a Lviv-based property developer, announced that in the beginning of 2016 it will start building a large office building for 500 employees of information technology companies. …

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High-tech ‘refugees’ from Ukraine aim to take over US food delivery market

Ukrainian serial entrepreneur Yegor Anchishkin, who sold his startup Viewdle to Google-owned Motorola in 2012, is gearing up to enter the American produce delivery market. Last year he raised $2.5 million to fund Zakaz.ua, an online service that delivers produce from five grocery stores in Ukraine. To boost his new venture CartFresh in the U.S., Anchishkin and his team entered the TechStars startup …

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Estonian startup to make money transfers cheaper for Ukrainians

A new money-transfer service that helps users sidestep banking fees has opened for business in Ukraine. TransferWise, an Estonian startup, is a web-based solution that allows users to connect their bank card to an online profile and transfer any amount straight to a recipient’s own card account. Recipients in Ukraine can get their hands on the …

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Ukrainian developers offer rival player to Apple’s iTunes

For most users of Apple gadgets, iTunes, the pre-installed Apple media player, is the obvious go-to application for listening to music. More discerning music lovers who want high-quality playback in all types of audio formats, might find the Ukrainian-developed VOX app a better solution. The audio player had been downloaded 1 million times worldwide, and …

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Luhansk native’s Zen Assets makes its way in British financial technology industry

Sergii Sosnov’s 10-year journey started from a local bank in Luhansk (Lugansk) in eastern Ukraine to the Goldman Sachs office in London, and from there to a bootstrapped startup in the hot British financial technology industry. Today he is the CEO and founder of Zen Assets. Opening for business in February, the wealth management firm …

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​Ukrainian e-government initiatives progressing despite challenges

Ukraine is embracing e-government and is placing the services of more than 60 ministries and agencies on one portal: iGov.org.ua. The volunteer-run website went online in mid-June with 22 state functions currently available. 45 services are to be available “very soon,” while 484 are in the pipeline as of July 2. They are divided into services …

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​Israeli entrepreneur sees Ukraine as tech land of plenty

War and economic crisis have scared away many foreign business people but for Ukraine’s technology industry the future looks bright. Lior Tal, a 45-year-old serial entrepreneur from Israel, arrived in Ukraine for the first time in late May to participate in the Tech Bridge Israel-Ukraine networking event. He talked to young tech entrepreneurs and Kyiv …

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Mastercard contactless payments introduced in Kyiv’s subway

Kyiv (Kiev) became the fifth city in the world on June 19 to let MasterCard holders pay for subway rides with cards that have chips using the so-called PayPass technology. Kyivsky Metropoliten, the city-owned company that manages Kyiv’s subway system, installed 17 turnstiles with MasterCard payment terminals, according to a June 19 company news release. Only London, …

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Ukrainian IT companies claim superior value in global outsourcing market

Around 60,000 employees of IT outsourcing and consulting firms in Ukraine produce almost a half of $5 billion industry’s value. Ukraine, though, does not always market all competitive advantages of its tech specialists. During the Business Sweden forum held in Kyiv on June 16, the representatives of software development and IT consulting firm Sigma Software …

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How Microsoft is helping Ukrainian government and academia with IT amid political and business instability

In October 2014 Nadiya Vasylieva was appointed the new head of Microsoft’s Ukrainian division, while Dmitry Shimkiv, who had served as Microsoft’s Ukraine chief since 2009, joined the presidential administration to carry out reforms. In an interview with The Kiyv Post and Ukraine Digital News, Ms. Vasylieva commented on the group’s situation in Ukraine, its cooperation …

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