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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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Ukrainian players respond: How the association agreement will impact the country’s IT, e-commerce and startup industries

July 10, 2014

Following the signature of the EU-Ukraine association agreement in late June, six figures of the Ukrainian high tech industry – EastLabs CEO Eveline Butchaskiy, Bionic Hill CEO Victor Galasyuk, Alexandr Ladyvir of Nova Poshta, UADM President Valentin Kalashnik, N-IX founder Andrew Pavliv, AVentures Capital’s Yevgen Sysoyev and TA Venture’s Viktoriya Tigipko – have shared with Ukraine Digital News their views on the …

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Ukraine wants to lessen reliance on foreign software and develop local IT industry

July 10, 2014

On July 3rd, the Ukrainian parliament voted to recommend that the national government cease using Russian-created software in state agencies. The move is billed as being in the interests of national security, as software created in Russia may carry cyber threats, Ukrainian lawmakers believe. The bill, which was proposed by MPs Oleksandr Mochkov from Udar …

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Energy-management startup EcoisMe announces investment from Deutsche Telekom and Polish incubator Hubraum

July 8, 2014

EcoisMe, which has developed a system for managing energy at home, has obtained 30,000 euro from Polish incubator Hubraum at an undisclosed valuation. Consequently, the Ukrainian startup will move operations to Krakow, Poland. EcoisMe has also reached an investment agreement with Deutsche Telekom, which manages Hubraum. According to the second agreement, the German telco giant will …

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How Ukraine’s IT outsourcing industry has been impacted by the Maidan revolution

July 7, 2014

Since Ukraine popped up on the front pages of newspapers around the globe at the beginning of this year, there have been concerns – from both overseas customers and employees here in Ukraine – about how the Maidan revolution and its aftermath will impact the IT industry. Let us try to quantify what’s happening right now in the industry with …

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Google and Microsoft rated most appealing employers for Ukrainian students

July 7, 2014

Universum, a global leader in employer branding, has released its first student survey in Ukraine. The survey reveals how attractive an employer is for students and indicates its position in relation to recruitment competitors. Not only have Google and Microsoft been judged the most attractive IT employers, they also take the lead in the Business/Commerce and Engineering/Natural science rankings.