A Ukrainian startup is now helping heavyweight companies find and hire Ukrainian programmers to work for them. Called YouTeam, the startup “bridges” tech people from Eastern Europe with the rest of the world, giving access to a pool of programmers who are ready to jump on a tech project. The list of the firms that have used …
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Tired of life in California, where he’s sold tech companies for millions of dollars, Korean-American John Kim has come to Ukraine to start again. Kim has been working in the information technology industry for most of his life. Quite successfully, if one counts earning millions of dollars as an aim of running a tech business. …
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Amazon has acquired a U.S. tech startup for reportedly $1 billion. Called Ring, the startup, which develops smart home systems, has one of its largest development centers in Ukraine. Ring makes high-tech doorbells, and by purchasing it on late Feb. 27, Amazon expects to improve its parcel delivery service. Ring doorbells record live video of …
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UberEats is coming to Ukraine: taxi tech startup Uber has posted a vacancy on its website, looking to hire a general manager in Kyiv to “scale our food delivery platform in one of our key markets globally.” The general manager will be responsible for the launch and marketing of the service, and handling the company’s general …
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Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine’s richest billionaire, will get slightly richer after Ukraine’s state regulator auctions off the rights to the 4G frequency band at the end of January. Akhmetov’s company MMDS-Ukraine, which owned the right to use the frequencies for years, will get half a billion hryvnias ($17.5 million) in compensation. This money will be paid …
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Ukraine is among top 50 most innovative countries in the world – just. According to the 2018 Bloomberg Innovation Index published on Jan. 23, Ukraine is in 46th place, one place above Cyprus and one below Thailand. While Ukraine’s IT Association claims Ukraine’s IT industry is continuing growing, ranking third in terms of revenues in Ukraine, Bloomberg reckons Ukraine (together with …
Ukrainian officials bought around $7 million in Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies in 2017, spending more on them than on any other type of asset, according to the Ukrainian investigative organization BIHUS.info, which studied Ukrainian officials’ electronic declarations of assets for last year. Odesa City Council deputy Dmytro Fisinchuk, obtained 7,700 Bitcoins in August, paying Hr 58 million, or …
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The purchase of a $60,000 apartment in Kyiv by U.S. citizen Michael Arrington doesn’t at first sound like a real estate deal that would merit global attention. But when you add in the facts that Arrington is the founder of the popular US tech news website TechCrunch, and that he purchased the property with a cryptocurrency, …
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Billionaire Yuriy Kosyuk, the owner of Ukraine’s largest agricultural holding Myronivsky Hliboprodukt, known as MHP, is now investing in the information technology sector. Kosyuk is partnering with two enterprises – tech cluster Radar Tech and Agrohub – to organize a startup accelerator MHP Accelerator for IT startups working on agriculture projects. Agrohub is owned by …
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Google has rolled out its web service for searching for and booking airline flights in Ukraine. Called Google Flights, the service was available to Ukrainians before on Google’s main site, but starting from Sept. 6 the U.S. tech giant launched it on the Ukrainian domain “.com.ua” offering an interface in Ukrainian and prices in hryvnias, the country’s national currency. …
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A Ukrainian-American startup has created a smartmount for hands-off control of smartphones, and crowdfunded $125,000 on Kickstarter to develop it, while pitching for only $40,000. Called QLYX, the company is developing a contraption that sticks to any surface, and can itself hold a smartphone with a magnet, allowing users hands-off control of the apps on their device.
Ukraine has some of the slowest mobile internet speeds in the world, according to Global Index ranking by Speedtest published earlier this month. The ranking measured both mobile and fixed broadband speeds worldwide. Ukraine was in 109th place out of 122 countries in terms of the speed of its mobile internet, between Egypt (faster) and Venezuela (slower). The …
