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Report: Ukraine now counts 7.5 million broadband Internet subscribers

June 12, 2014 September 5, 2014

The number of broadband subscribers in Ukraine exceeded 7.49 million in the first quarter of 2014, up 0.7% compared to Q4 2013, according to Russian consultancy iKS-Consulting. Broadband ISP revenue in the country exceeded 1.472 billion hryvnias in the first quarter of 2014. At the same time, according to the consultancy, the dynamics of broadband …

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Russia still dominates Ukraine’s money transfer market

June 10, 2014 September 5, 2014

Russian money-transfer service Zolotaya Korona (Golden Crown) has displaced Western Union as the most-popular option for sending money to Ukraine, according to Elena Makhaeva, who heads the department tasked with overseeing money-transfer services for the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU). Zolotaya Korona and Western Union together own more than half of the Ukrainian money-transfer market, …

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Almost a third of Ukrainian users access the Internet via mobile devices

June 6, 2014 September 5, 2014

According to Yandex.Metrika, the share of unique visitors in Ukraine who access websites from smartphones or tablets grew by 11 points to 29% between August 2013 and April 2014. However, so far mobile Internet users are less active than those who use computers for Internet access, so the share of tablets and smartphones accounts for …

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Technologically heeled companies are more optimistic about the future

June 6, 2014 September 5, 2014

Despite the difficult economic and political situation in the country, 23% of SMB companies in Ukraine project financial growth within the year. 64% of these optimistic market players make use of information technologies, in particular cloud-computing, according to an Ipsos MORI survey ordered by Microsoft. According to the survey, 85% of small and 66% of …

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Three Ukrainian companies rated “rising stars” in global ranking of IT outsourcing companies

June 1, 2014 September 5, 2014

In its annual ranking of the world’s best outsourcing service providers, the International Association of Outsourcing (IAOP) has included three Ukrainian companies among the “Top 5 Rising Stars:” Intetics, Miratech and Softengi made the list, occupying the 3rd, 4th, and 5th spots, respectively. EPAM and Luxoft – two companies with Russian origins and large development …

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