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 …
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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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 …
Game of Code: Checkio gamifies and crowdsources the task of programming Read More
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 …
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 …
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 …
Ukraine wants to lessen reliance on foreign software and develop local IT industry Read More
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 …
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 …
How Ukraine’s IT outsourcing industry has been impacted by the Maidan revolution Read More
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.
Scanner Pro, an app developed by leading Ukrainian app-developer Readdle that enables you to convert your iPhone or iPad into a mobile scanner, has reached 6-million downloads in the App Store. Earlier this year, Apple identified the app as the “App of the Week” and named it an “Editor’s Choice” in 70 countries, which propelled …
Last week, authorities from Lviv (Lvov), a major city in western Ukraine, signed a cooperation memorandum with Microsoft to launch several “smart-city” projects, reported leading Ukrainian IT portal AIN.UA. Utilizing the Microsoft CityNext platform, the city will create an interactive tourist-portal that will enable visitors to obtain quality services and necessary information. A portal allowing …
An astounding number of American technology companies employ engineers in Ukraine, but you would never know it. Most don’t have formal offices in Kiev, preferring to hire people through intermediaries. Many companies would prefer to not publicly acknowledge these employees exist given that “outsourcing” is a dirty word in in U.S. politics. But given the …
American technology companies have a lot at stake in Ukraine Read More
