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Ukrainians urge Amazon to drop Donetsk separatist kitsch from ‘marketplace’

November 20, 2018

While a variety of Donetsk separatist kitsch items, such as this one, have been made available on Amazon’s marketplace, some Ukrainians consider them as “terrorist” swag and are demanding a ban, preferably in time for Christmas. “Amazon profits from promoting terrorism,” Health Minister Ulana Suprun charged in a bilingual Facebook post alongside images of the …

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Ukrainian tech news site AIN.UA launches English-language version

October 22, 2018

Earlier this month AIN.UA, a popular Ukrainian online tech publication, launched an international version, making a part of its content available in English language. Launched in 1999, the site published stories only in Russian so far. “There are no boundaries for the Ukrainian tech industry: Ukrainian startups focus on international markets [from their very start],” …

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How Ukrainian and Russian hackers turned stolen press releases into $100 million

August 27, 2018

At a Kiev nightclub in the spring of 2012, 24-year-old Ivan Turchynov made a fateful drunken boast to some fellow hackers. For years, Turchynov said, he’d been hacking unpublished press releases from business newswires and selling them, via Moscow-based middlemen, to stock traders for a cut of the sizable profits. Oleksandr Ieremenko, one of the …

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PrivatBank makes its online banking service Privat24 available to all

August 2, 2018

PrivatBank, Ukraine’s largest and innovation-friendly bank, has just rolled out an extended version of its Internet bank Privat24, making its services available to users of any bank around the world. Positioned as a “bank of a new generation,” Privat24 is still in beta mode. However, even now anyone can test the service using its trial website …

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A startup with Ukrainian roots raises $2.8 million to reign on US online long-term rental market

October 9, 2017

A bevy of international venture funds and business angels from eleven countries have just invested $2.8 million in Rentberry, a San Francisco-headquartered startup with Ukrainian roots. The transaction, which was announced on Oct. 5 by the startup, follows last year’s $1.2 million seed round, bringing the total capital amount raised so far by the startup to …

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Google rolls out flight booking search service in Ukraine

September 13, 2017

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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Mail.Ru Group has lost 1.5% of its annual revenue after being banned in Ukraine

September 6, 2017

In its unaudited IFRS results made public last month, Mail.Ru Group, a leading LSE-listed Russian Internet group, has estimated “the negative effect of the blocking of its services in Ukraine in Q2 is around 1.5% of total revenues in 2017.” In mid-May, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed a decree applying sanctions to 468 legal entities …

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Yandex’s Ukrainian offices searched by security service

May 30, 2017

Two weeks after the Ukrainian authorities banned leading Russian Internet sites as part of sanctions affecting 468 Russian legal entities, Yandex announced that the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) conducted searches at the company’s offices in Kiev and Odessa. Yandex.Ukraine management and employees are accused of having gathered personal data of Ukrainian users and transmitted them to Russian …

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Why Ukraine said ‘Nyet’ to Russian social networks

May 18, 2017

When Ukrainian government took the decision to ban the use of Russian internet services such as the Yandex search engine and the social network Vkontakte, it looked like another example of the country’s propensity to ape Russia’s own worst practices even while it talks about joining the European fold. But the ban is part of a broader debate …

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Ukraine bans leading Russian Internet sites

May 16, 2017

Confirming that the relations between Ukraine and Russia are currently at their lowest, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko yesterday signed a decree applying sanctions to 468 legal entities and 1,228 individuals from Russia. Among the targeted organizations are the two leading Russian Internet groups — Yandex and Mail.Ru Group — the services of which will be made …

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US-Ukrainian Grammarly secures $110 million from top international investors

May 9, 2017

Grammarly, a San Francisco-based startup with Ukrainian roots, has just raised $110 million in growth equity funding at an undisclosed valuation. The round was led by General Catalyst with participation from Breyer Capital, IVP, SignalFire, and Spark Capital. The company was founded in 2009 by Kyiv natives Aleksey Shevchenko and Maksim Litvin. Its AI-powered software helps people improve …

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Ukrainian startup aims to revolutionize sport facility booking across the world

April 26, 2017

A team from Dnipro, a city of Central Ukraine formerly known as Dnipropetrovsk, has created “first global booking platform for sport facilities and sport teams.” Dubbed Smartsport, the platform covers a variety of disciplines (including swimming, water polo, weightlifting, gymnastics, martial arts, tennis, and football), with 500 sport facilities made available in almost 20 countries, mostly in Europe.