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Ajax Systems acquires Ukrainian engineering team to stand even stronger “against evil”

Last week Ajax Systems, a Ukrainian company that sells smart security systems in 90 countries in the world, announced the acquisition of the engineering team of Concepter, a design and product development studio. The Concepter developers will become members of Ajax’s various R&D teams. “We’ve added the Concepter developers to the Ajax Systems team to …

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By relocating to Ukraine, 1,200 Belarusian IT professionals could bring $120 million to the country every year

The current inflow of IT professionals from Belarus could bring some $120 million of foreign currency to Ukraine each year, based on the estimate that 1,200 such people have moved to Ukraine since the beginning of the unrest in belarus in August.  According to Ilya Neskhodovsky, who heads the Institute for Socio-Economic Transformation, each IT …

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Ukraine simplifies procedures to attract Belarusian IT specialists

On October 4 President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree to facilitate the relocation of Belarusian IT professionals to Ukraine, following the example of several countries of the region. These measures target Belarusian IT programmers and entrepreneurs as well as their families. Starting from now, the maximum duration of their stay in Ukraine without a visa …

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Ukraine gives quotas to foreign tech specialists to meet market demand

Ukraine will introduce an immigration quota for 5,000 foreign information technology specialists per year, the Digital Transformation Ministry announced on Feb. 26. The quota will come into effect on March 2. Since the announcement was published, the ministry has already received requests from IT companies to offer jobs through the program, Oleksandr Bornyakov, the deputy minister, said. …

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Successful US startups raise millions and develop R&D offices in Ukraine

Last week, as ThredUP, a leading US online platform to buy and sell second-hand clothing, announced a $175 million round of funding, the Ukrainian tech blog AIN.UA revealed that “almost half of [its] engineering team is based in Ukraine.” As many Silicon Valley companies, thredUP has difficulties in hiring programmers. “To fill technical vacancies thredUP …

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“New class of Ukrainian outsourcing professionals is branching out into new markets,” says international report

“Technical training helped a new class of Ukrainian outsourcing professionals branch out into new markets,” says a new report about cross-border freelancing trends. Released in early August by international digital payment company Payoneer, the research is based on data from a sample of more than 300,000 freelancers, service providers and outsourcing professionals in the Payoneer …

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Paymentwall opens new R&D office in Kyiv to boost operations

Earlier this month Paymentwall, a global payment service provider with Ukrainian roots, but headquartered in San Francisco,  announced the opening of a new research and development office in Kyiv (Kiev).  The move is explained by the recent launch of new products by the company. This requires to hire and accommodate new personnel, reported local tech blog …

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise closes its office in Ukraine, outstaffs 80 employees

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has shut down its Kyiv (Kiev) office. Now the Californian company will provide its services via an intermediary, Sophela, which has become its exclusive representative in the country. In a press release, HPE says it took this step to “optimize expenses in the current market environment,” but that the provision of services …

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Report: Lviv IT companies generated more than $1 billion in direct and induced revenues in 2018

In late December, Lviv IT Cluster released the third edition of its research about the IT industry in this major city of Western Ukraine. Completed with support from the FAMA poll agency, the research included a poll involving over 800 local IT specialists, a review of the 317 identified IT companies and eight in-depth interviews with local …

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