Internet - Ukraine Digital News

EastOne Group strikes media-for-equity deal with top fashion e-commerce site

October 15, 2014

The Ukrainain Internet store Topmall.ua, has agreed a media-for-equity transaction with broadcasting group company StarLightMedia, which is part of the EastOne group. According to the parties to the agreement, this represents the first such deal in the Ukrainian market. The essence of the deal is that StarLightMedia will provide Topmall.ua with concessional TV advertising on …

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Pro-Ukrainian hackers have leaked secret documents from Donetsk insurgents, Crimea, and Russia

October 10, 2014

Pro-Ukrainian hackers have reported that they have hacked the Crimean cells of the Donetsk People’s Republic, as the insurgents of Eastern Ukraine call themselves (abbreviated as “DNR” in Russian). This has resulted in an online database of documents and photo-materials from the DNR, representatives of Russian nationalist organizations in Crimea, and representatives of government agencies …

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Allegro Group acquires B2B trading platform Zakupki-online

October 6, 2014

In a new illustration of investor interest in Ukrainian e-commerce, Prom.ua, a major B2B and B2C marketplace owned by Poland’s Allegro Group, has aquired Zakupki-online.com, a platform that helps companies organize sales and purchases online without middlemen. The news was reported last week by the Ukrainian online edition of Forbes magazine, which estimates the transaction …

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Ukrainian Google Play store begins to offer books

September 29, 2014

Last week, a new section for books appeared in the Ukrainian version of the Google Play store. Users can go there to purchase or download, for free, electronic publications in 11 categories, ranging from books on computers to fiction. The price of paid copies varies widely, with books for children available for cheaper than a …

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Online ad platform ClickGanic raises $300,000 and prepares itself for international expansion

September 17, 2014

Last month, ClickGanic, an online ad platform based in Kyiv (Kiev) and launched in February of this year, secured a $300,000 investment from business angel Evgeny Medvednikov and Clickky, an internationally oriented Ukrainian company offering a mobile app marketing platform. The deal valued ClickGanic at $557,000 (pre-money), 24-year-old co-founder Evgeny Kukharchuk told Ukraine Digital News. …

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New online map aims to provide Ukrainian tech players with international visibility

September 16, 2014

The past few months have seen the emergence of several initiatives aimed at raising Ukraine’s visibility on the global high-tech map – Ukraine Digital News not being the least. Another one is Mappedinua, an English-language, user-generated map of the Ukrainian digital and IT scene launched in mid-August. Apparently inspired by Israeli start-up map MappedInIsrael, Mappedinua is …

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Putin’s new weapon in the Ukraine propaganda war: Internet trolls

September 12, 2014

The internet troll army’s selling of the Kremlin’s parallel universe to the Russian people and to a skeptical Western audience is a matter of life and death for the Putin regime. If the Russian people do not buy their story, Putin loses the high “ratings” on which his regime rests. If he cannot convince his …

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SBU claims that Russian intelligence creates fake social media accounts and spreads mobile viruses in Ukraine

September 5, 2014

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) says that Russian intelligence has begun to create a panic on social networks and to spread viruses to Ukrainian phones, UNIAN reports. According to the the first claim, Russian intelligence are preparing fake information about losses by Ukrainian forces in clashes in the eastern part of the country and …

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Ukrainians have more than 40 million social network accounts, Russian sites still dominate the market

September 1, 2014

According to research by Yandex Ukraine, Ukrainians have created 40 million accounts on popular social networks like Odnoklassniki, Vkontakte (VK.com), Facebook, and Twitter as of summer 2014. Russian social networks still dominate the market, as 27 million accounts have been created on Vkontakte and 11 million have been created on Odnoklassniki, as opposed to only …

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Kiev police testing new online tracking platform for resident queries

August 28, 2014

Police in Ukraine’s capital city of Kiev (Kyiv) are testing a new innovation that allows residents to track queries made to the police through an online platform. As reported by Ukrainian online publication AIN.UA, the initiative is part of a growing state strategy to liberalize and digitalize the relationship and interactions between citizens and government …

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Russia’s Quadro Capital Partners and Forex Club ready to invest in Ukraine

August 25, 2014

Last week Russian venture fund Quadro Capital Partners (FXC-QCP VC) and online trading service provider Forex Club announced investment plans in the field of Internet trading on the international stock market. The target geography includes Russia, Ukraine, other states of the former Soviet Union, and Europe. The total volume of investments could reach up to $200 million, a Forex Club executive …

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Ukraine could block Russian “propaganda websites”

August 22, 2014

The Ukrainian authorities may block Russian web resources which they believe to be responsible for propaganda, as well as those linked to the Donbass insurgency. “At the moment we are working at both the legal and technical level in order to follow the examples of Israel, America and China, closing down sites which pose a …

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