Work.ua, an online resource which claims to “provide the very best job search service“ in Ukraine, is now available in English language. Thus, international employers may post their job offers and seek potential applicants more easily, while job seekers may use an English-language interface to post their resume. The site’s base of resumes and job …
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AllRight.io, an e-learning startup with Ukrainian and Russian roots, has just secured $1.5 million in a funding round led by Buran Venture Capital. Founded in 2017, AllRight provides childrens aged 4-12 with courses of English as a foreign language. The startup claims to serve more than 1,700 active users monthly, essentially from Russia, with 150 …
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Five year after Russia took control of the peninsula, the sovereignty dispute between Russia and Ukraine over Crimea is still sensitive for online service providers. Thus, in an effort to comply with local laws regarding the depiction of international borders, Google has just “corrected an error that caused a small number of Russian iOS users” to …
Google launched its children-friendly YouTube app in Ukraine on Feb. 21. Called YouTube Kids, the mobile app eliminates not-so-kid-friendly parts of the video-sharing platform. In YT Kids app, Google allows only videos suitable for children, including content it creates itself. For Ukrainian users, YT Kids offers videos in Ukrainian and English. The channels and playlists are grouped …
PlusOne, a Kyiv (Kiev)-based communication agency, has just published a study on Facebook use in Ukraine. According to this study, the US social network attracts some 13 million users in the country monthly, which accounts for more than a half of total Internet audience (21.4 million). Notably, Facebook’s popularity in the country seems to have …
With 13 million users, Facebook is now Ukraine’s leading social network Read More
In December last year Vostok New Ventures (VNV), a major Swedish investment firm operating internationally, invested $4.5 million in online bus ticketing platform Busfor, in addition to the $4 million it had injected in the company in mid-2018. The latest transaction was revealed Wednesday by business daily Kommersant, based on VNV’s latest financial report and exchanges with Busfor’s founder …
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Ukrainian tech investor Oleksii Vitchenko has acquired Translate.com, a US-based publisher of enterprise translation solutions. Among the company’s products are such ones as ‘Website Localizer,’ which lets you “localize your entire website within minutes;” ‘GoGlobal API,’ which allows external applications “to order human translations for text content” in multiple languages; ‘Translate Zendesk App,’ which “automatically translates support …
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Russia’s biggest illegal online casino, Azino777, operates out of Ukraine and has managed some of its money flows through a Ukrainian branch of Russia’s bank Sberbank, Russian business media outlet The Bell reported on Feb. 4, referring to decisions by a Ukrainian court. The Bell journalists found a mistake in a document of Kyiv Holosiivskyi District …
Court mistake reveals Russia’s largest underground online casino works from Ukraine Read More
According to Pornhub’s latest Year In Review report, Ukraine took the 16th place in the site’s daily traffic ranking, jumping 11 spots from 2017 to 2018. “With Ukraine moving into our top 20 countries for the first time, it’s clear that much of their traffic growth came from entirely new visitors, as evidenced by the number of changes …
Ukraine moves to Pornhub’s top 20 countries in 2018 Read More
“Why is the snow yellow in Odesa?” “Why is a cow’s meat called beef?” These are some of the most popular questions Ukrainians googled in 2018, according to Google Ukraine, which on Dec. 11 released lists of the most popular search questions in the country. The ranking reveals Ukrainians’ interest in a wide range of topics …
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In recent days, some Ukrainian Facebook users saw their posts removed due to “violation of community standards.” These posts were about the military events that took place in the Kerch Strait, the preparation of Russia’s military equipment near the Ukrainian borders, and Russian President Vladimir Putin. There was also an interview with Russian political analyst …
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Ukrainian-Polish startup Newzmate has been acquired by Piano Software, a US-based international provider of solutions for digital content management, for an undisclosed amount. Newzmate’s content marketing automation product will be rebranded to ‘Piano ESP’ while the startup’s office in Kyiv (Kiev) will serve as Piano’s representative office in Ukraine. Asked about the outcome of his investment, …
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