In the tech age, the hallmark of a well-organized conference is a branded mobile application for the event, through which conference-goers can chat, swap contacts and information, check out the conference agenda, register for get-togethers, and more. One of Ukraine’s most promising startups offers a customizable mobile app called Attendify to do all of that, …
Note: This story has been updated following new elements brought by one of Teleport’s founders Snapchat has hired some of the best developers of Teleport, a startup launched by tech entrepreneurs from Ukraine, Estonia and Russia. The US company is also said to have acquired the processing image technology developed by this company, which claims it …
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Flawless App, a Ukrainian service which allows “a real-time comparison of expected and implemented design of a mobile app” with the help of iOS simulator, has attracted an investment from Ukrainian entrepreneur Oleksandr Kosovan. The news was announced by the startup’s co-founder Ahmad Sulaiman on Monday.
Last week PrivatBank, Ukraine’s major innovation-friendly bank, announced the launch of Apple Pay, Apple’s mobile payment and digital wallet service, for its cardholders in Ukraine. The service is available to holders of both credit and debit cards, Visa or Mastercard. Presenting the service as “one of the most expected payment innovations in Ukraine,” Dmytro Krepak, Acting Group Country …
Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine’s richest billionaire, will get slightly richer after Ukraine’s state regulator auctions off the rights to the 4G frequency band at the end of January. Akhmetov’s company MMDS-Ukraine, which owned the right to use the frequencies for years, will get half a billion hryvnias ($17.5 million) in compensation. This money will be paid …
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Ukraine has some of the slowest mobile internet speeds in the world, according to Global Index ranking by Speedtest published earlier this month. The ranking measured both mobile and fixed broadband speeds worldwide. Ukraine was in 109th place out of 122 countries in terms of the speed of its mobile internet, between Egypt (faster) and Venezuela (slower). The …
Telecom-accelerator 2.0, a joint project by Ukrainian technological cluster Radar Tech and major telco Kyivstar, announced the start of its second acceleration program for Ukrainian startups earlier this month. Eleven startups have been selected out of 34 applications to participate in the project.
Last month Mobile Beach Conference, which presents itself as Europe’s biggest mobile marketing event, held its third edition in Odessa, southern Ukraine. Some 1,000 attendees from 29 countries participated in the event, which targeted marketers, app developers, startupers, investors, advertisers and publishers.
More than one in four Ukrainian online shoppers bought smartphones and mobiles phones in the first quarter of this year, the Ukrainian Retail Association reported, citing a research released by local e-commerce platform Price.ua. With nearly 5% of online consumers buying them, car tyres were the second most popular category. TV sets (4%), tablets (2%) and laptops …
If Ukrainian mobile phone users are tired of their tariff plans or fed up with poor service, they face a tough choice: either they stay with their current provider and suffer on, or change networks and be forced to change their number as well. Such a dilemma doesn’t exist in the more than 70 countries …
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Uber and its Russian competitor Yandex.Taxi keep enhancing their presence in Ukraine. After their almost simultaneous launch in southern Ukraine last month, the taxi-hailing services are now competing in Lviv (Lvov), a major city in western Ukraine. Lviv is the fifth Ukrainian city after Kyiv (Kiev), Kharkiv (Kharkov), Dnipro (Dnepr) and Odessa for Yandex.Taxi and the …
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On May 20-21, Odessa, a city in the Southern Ukraine, will play host to a major international mobile marketing event Mobile Beach Conference 2017. Some 1,500 international mobile marketing professionals are expected to attend. Presented as “the most unconventional mobile marketing event,” it will take place at the Ibiza resort by the Black Sea.
