Pro-Ukrainian hackers have reported that they have hacked the Crimean cells of the Donetsk People’s Republic, as the insurgents of Eastern Ukraine call themselves (abbreviated as “DNR” in Russian). This has resulted in an online database of documents and photo-materials from the DNR, representatives of Russian nationalist organizations in Crimea, and representatives of government agencies …
Non-profit educational initiative Bionic University, which was created as a part of currently frozen Bionic Hill project, has teamed up with Ukrainian software development company MacPaw to launch free courses on creating applications for Apple’s iOS operating system. After completing a 2.5 months-long course, students are expected to be able to write an app from scratch in …
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The first bitcoin embassy in the CIS has opened on Lviv Square in Kyiv (Kiev), reports tech blog AIN.UA The initiator of the project was Kuna, an agency dedicated to the sale of bitcoins. Kyiv is joining three similar bitcoin embassies in the world, located in Montreal, Tel-Aviv, and Warsaw. Within the embassy, there is a …
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In a new illustration of investor interest in Ukrainian e-commerce, Prom.ua, a major B2B and B2C marketplace owned by Poland’s Allegro Group, has aquired Zakupki-online.com, a platform that helps companies organize sales and purchases online without middlemen. The news was reported last week by the Ukrainian online edition of Forbes magazine, which estimates the transaction …
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Fidomobile, a virtual operator of mobile networks, has won a competition held by the Kyiv (Kiev) state administration for selecting an operator for a high-speed WiFi network in the city’s metro. The company plans to invest approximately 100 million hryvnias (approximately $7.7 million) in the project and to provide WiFi coverage throughout the metro, from escalators …
AmazingHiring, a Moscow-based service for finding IT professionals, has attracted $500,000 in a second seed round, with equal contributions brought in by SMRK, a Kyiv (Kiev) based venture fund, and Altair, the seed-stage fund backed by Russo-Austrian serial investor Igor Ryabenkiy. The startup is developing a search engine and browser plug-in for Chrome that recruiters can use …
Kyiv City State Administration is working with Igor Shoifot, chairman of Ukrainian Happy Farm incubator and the U.S. representative of TMT Investments, to open a co-working space in Kyiv, where startup teams will be able to work on their projects free of charge. Existing spaces in the Ukrainian capital charge anywhere from $70 to $200 per …
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China’s Xinwei Telecom Enterprise Group has made further inroads into the Ukrainian market with an agreement to invest about $400 million in the telecom and hi-tech projects of telecom operator Datagroup. Datagroup CEO Alexander Danchenko signed a memorandum of cooperation with his counterpart from Xinwei, Wang Jin. A press release announcing the agreement was posted …
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Last week, a new section for books appeared in the Ukrainian version of the Google Play store. Users can go there to purchase or download, for free, electronic publications in 11 categories, ranging from books on computers to fiction. The price of paid copies varies widely, with books for children available for cheaper than a …
Beetroot, a Swedish information technology staffing company, on Sept. 19 opened an academy in Poltava to train website developers on the WordPress platform. Twelve students will undergo a three-month course after which they will be fully employable within Ukraine’s expanding IT sector, reads the company news release. Called Beetroot Academy, the frontend developer center is supported by the …
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PrivatBank, a leading Ukrainian bank, has launched a network of offline e-commerce access points. These points, christened “Magazin,” are equipped with computers which allow users to place orders at local and foreign e-commerce sites. The sites currently displayed are Comfy, Praktiker, 5ok, TopMall, Gold.ua, daily deal sites Pokupon and Groupon, as well as eBay, Amazon …
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After testing its interactive surfaces in restaurants in Cyprus, Dubai and Abu-Dhabi, Ukrainian technology company Interactive Restaurant Technology is set to start working in the United States. The startup, which is a brainchild of another Ukrainian company, Kodisoft, is planning to build three “interactive venues” in San Antonio, Texas, and launch a manufacturing line in …
