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Poroshenko unveils Instagram account while presidential website faces DDos attack

August 6, 2014

As Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and others become ubiquitous, many Ukrainian leaders now communicate via social networks. Since the Maidan revolution these networks have even been used by several top officials to announce important government decisions. Following the trend is Petro Poroshenko. The newly-elected Ukrainian president, who already maintained an official presence on Twitter and Facebook, last …

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Google and TNS offer portrait of typical Ukrainian Internet user

August 4, 2014

Google has revealed the results of a study of consumer behavior among Ukrainian Internet users, reports Ukrainian IT-news portal proIT. According to the report, which involved the survey of 1,000 adults (aged 16+) in in January of this year and was completed by market-research firm TNS at Google’s request, 56% of those polled state that …

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New Ukrainian social networks emerge to challenge Facebook, VK, and Odnoklassniki in domestic market

July 30, 2014

Facebook may have established itself as a global leader in social-networking and VK (founded in Russia as Vkontakte) may have captured a strong market share in Russian speaking countries as an alternative service, but they have not stopped a host of competitors from entering the Ukrainian market. Within the past year, SocialFace, Zine, Ukrainci, Druzi, …

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Ukrainian social media advertising agency AdCenter acquired by US agency VertaMedia

July 24, 2014

New York-based VertaMedia, an online marketing agency, last week announced the acquisition of AdCenter for $400,000. Based in Odessa, AdCenter organizes targeted ad campaigns on Russian-language social networks including Vkontakte (VK.com) and Odnoklassninki.ru. The agency serves Ukrainian as well as Russian clients via an office in Krasnogorsk in the Moscow region. The AdCenter site currently operates …

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Ukrainian patriots take to Facebook to vent anger at German chancellor and French president

July 22, 2014

As Ukraine experiences one of the most difficult stretches in its young history as an independent state, it came as a surprise to many Ukrainians when German chancellor Angela Merkel was spotted sitting and talking with Russian president Vladimir Putin recently at the World Cup in Brazil, while French president Francois Hollande refused to cancel …

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How Lviv aspires to become a “smart city”

July 2, 2014

Last week, authorities from Lviv (Lvov), a major city in western Ukraine, signed a cooperation memorandum with Microsoft to launch several “smart-city” projects, reported leading Ukrainian IT portal AIN.UA. Utilizing the Microsoft CityNext platform, the city will create an interactive tourist-portal that will enable visitors to obtain quality services and necessary information. A portal allowing …

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

June 6, 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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Ukraine’s TA Venture and Russia’s ABRT team up to invest in UK startup Zesty

April 11, 2014

Zesty, a London-based service for booking medical appointments online, announced today that it has obtained $2 million in funding at an undisclosed valuation from Ukrainian VC TA Venture and Russian VC ABRT Fund. The company – which was backed at the seed stage by Luxembourg-based VC Mangrove Capital Partners, – says that it will use the new …

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Is Crimea part of Russia? – Answers found on Facebook, Vkontakte, Yandex differ; Wikipedia changes its mind

April 11, 2014

Three weeks after Russia asserted that Crimea and the city of Sebastopol have become part of its territory, Facebook and Russian-language social network Vkontakte still categorize the inhabitants of these regions as being located in Ukraine. Meanwhile, two other major social networks, Odnoklassniki (Classmates) and Moi Mir (My World), have already classified them as being part …

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Pro-Ukrainian hackers break into Russian State Duma website

April 10, 2014

The cyber-war between participants of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict carries on. Yesterday evening hackers posted an anti-Russian message on the webpage of the Russian State Duma’s Committee on Regional Politics and Problems with the North and Far East, on behalf of Russian Communist Party member Nikolay Kharitonov. The message was about how “all of the power of …

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Ukrainian IT community calls for government reforms to help create innovative Ukraine

March 27, 2014

Yevgen Sysoyev and Eugene Leng, partners of Ukrainian VC fundAVentures Capital have led the working group that prepared a proposal for Ukrainian government to boost its innovation industry called Strategic National Project “Innovation Ukraine”. In an open letter, which also included names of the working group members – representatives of Internet, Outsourcing and IT community of …

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Russian government paper’s site taken down by pro-Ukraine hackers

March 11, 2014

Hackers have taken down several Russian media website in the past week and alleged attacks on defense infrastructure in response to Russia’s actions in Ukraine. Among the latest victims, on March 7, was the website of Rossiyskaya Gazeta, one of the largest Russian dailies, the paper of record of the Russian government, and the parent …

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