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Poroshenko unveils Instagram account while presidential website faces DDos attack

August 6, 2014

As Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and others become ubiquitous, many Ukrainian leaders now communicate via social networks. Since the Maidan revolution these networks have even been used by several top officials to announce important government decisions. Following the trend is Petro Poroshenko. The newly-elected Ukrainian president, who already maintained an official presence on Twitter and Facebook, last …

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Kyiv startup Advice Wallet secures $1.5 million from Russia’s Life.SREDA

August 1, 2014

Life.SREDA, a Moscow-based venture capital firm focusing on mobile and online fintech startups, is to invest $1.5 million in Settle, a mobile payment service developed by Kyiv (Kiev) -based startup Advice Wallet. Combining mobile payments and a loyalty scheme in one app, Settle makes it possible to both order and then pay your bill at a restaurant or café through …

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New Ukrainian social networks emerge to challenge Facebook, VK, and Odnoklassniki in domestic market

July 30, 2014

Facebook may have established itself as a global leader in social-networking and VK (founded in Russia as Vkontakte) may have captured a strong market share in Russian speaking countries as an alternative service, but they have not stopped a host of competitors from entering the Ukrainian market. Within the past year, SocialFace, Zine, Ukrainci, Druzi, …

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eBay’s Magento business under threat from continuing Ukraine crisis

July 28, 2014

The ongoing crisis in Ukraine is threatening to destabilize the operations of Magento, an open-source content management system for e-commerce web sites owned by eBay and based in Kyiv (Kiev). In its last quarterly report for the second quarter ending June 31, 2014, eBay noted that “The current situation in Ukraine and the Crimean peninsula, along …

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Ukrainian social media advertising agency AdCenter acquired by US agency VertaMedia

July 24, 2014

New York-based VertaMedia, an online marketing agency, last week announced the acquisition of AdCenter for $400,000. Based in Odessa, AdCenter organizes targeted ad campaigns on Russian-language social networks including Vkontakte (VK.com) and Odnoklassninki.ru. The agency serves Ukrainian as well as Russian clients via an office in Krasnogorsk in the Moscow region. The AdCenter site currently operates …

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Miratech announces opening of development center in Slovakia

July 23, 2014

Earlier this month Miratech, a Kiyv (Kiev)-headquartered IT outsourcing companies operating in several European countries and the United States, announced that they have opened a new development center in Slovakia. The opening of this center will allow the firm to attract English, French, and German-speaking engineers in order to better serve clients in Western European countries, …

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Ukrainian patriots take to Facebook to vent anger at German chancellor and French president

July 22, 2014

As Ukraine experiences one of the most difficult stretches in its young history as an independent state, it came as a surprise to many Ukrainians when German chancellor Angela Merkel was spotted sitting and talking with Russian president Vladimir Putin recently at the World Cup in Brazil, while French president Francois Hollande refused to cancel …

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Google announces expansion of All Access Music service to Ukraine

July 21, 2014

Google announced last week that they are expanding their All Access Music service to Ukraine among five other countries – Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Peru. With this latest move, Ukraine joins Russia as the only former Soviet republics with access to the service. The All Access Music service launched last summer as a streaming music platform to compete with …

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President Poroshenko promises 3G and 4G soon: Their implementation was held up by corruption

July 16, 2014

In a meeting met with representatives of public organizations last week, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said he was astounded that Ukraine was one of the last countries in the world where 4G technology has not been implemented and 3G is weakly deployed. The introduction of modern 3G and 4G communications technologies will quickly have a …

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Microsoft Ukraine GM joins presidential administration to carry out reforms

July 15, 2014

Microsoft Ukraine general manager Dmitry Shimkiv, who was an active participant in the Maidan Revolution, was appointed deputy head of the presidential administration for administrative, social and economic reform last week. According to Ukrainian media, Shimkiv’s first task in his new post will be to reform the structure of the presidential administration so as to …

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Game of Code: Checkio gamifies and crowdsources the task of programming

July 14, 2014

Who says coding has to be boring? Checkio, a Las Vegas company with Ukrainian origins funded by Zappos founder Tony Hsieh, has come up with a way to turn writing code and helping others write code into a game. The company’s latest addition to its web-based code-editing platform is a publish-and-share feature, where players can …

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Association agreement shows strong EU commitment to high tech cooperation; local businesses have mixed reactions

July 10, 2014

Hopes, fears and expectations are high in Ukraine following the signature of the association agreement with the European Union (EU) in late June. The science, research and innovation sectors, as well as high-tech investment and e-commerce, are no exceptions, since they are directly or indirectly impacted by important sections of the economic part of the …

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