Technology
Competitive video gaming, or esports, is now an official sport in Ukraine. And just like in football or tennis, local esports athletes need a place to train and play. They used to do it in the comfort
Apr. 1, 2021
Ukraine will become the first country in the world to make its digital and physical passports interchangeable. The Ukrainian parliament in the second reading on March 30 passed the bill on digital pas
Mar. 30, 2021
Russian tech behemoth Playrix has acquired Ukrainian game company Boolat Games and rebranded it under the new name Boolat Play, Playrix announced on March 22. Now the team of 30 Ukrainians based in Ky
Mar. 22, 2021
Eleven tech companies that work in Ukraine have made it onto the list of the best tech firms in the world — the 2020 Global Outsourcing 100. The list includes local information technology companies Ci
Feb. 22, 2021
Ukrainian tech companies are losing money because they lack tech specialists. Judging by how quickly they grow, tech firms need about 50,000 techies a year, while there are only a bit over 16,000 tech
Feb. 15, 2021
Israeli tech firm Playtika, which has three offices in Ukraine, raised $1.9 billion in an initial public offering on the Nasdaq stock exchange. A developer of mobile casino games, Playtika sold 79.9 m
Jan. 25, 2021
Streaming giant Netflix has released its first feature film with Ukrainian dubbing. Called “Outside the Wire”, it is the first feature-length motion picture that has premiered on Netflix with an audio
Jan. 20, 2021
Forty Belarusian tech companies and nearly 2,000 freelancers have moved to Ukraine since protests against the regime of self-proclaimed Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko began on Aug. 9, accor
Dec. 9, 2020
Ukrainian techies from Jooble help people in 71 countries find a job online. On its website, Jooble publishes nearly 700,000 vacancies a day — it collects them from the companies’ career pages, social
Sep. 23, 2020
Popular U.S. streaming platform Netflix will shoot its first movie in Kyiv, Ukraine’s Culture Minister Oleksandr Tkachenko announced on July 31. Netflix’s action-comedy “The Last Mercenary” will star
Jul. 31, 2020
Ukraine has prolonged its ban on Russian websites VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, Mail.ru and Yandex. In the past, all of them were hugely popular in the country. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky sign
May. 16, 2020
The introduction of mobile number portability, a service allowing users to change mobile operators and retain their phone number, was meant to help escape “mobile slavery” and to level the playing fie
Feb. 28, 2020
Editor’s Note: This is a corrected version of the story originally published on Feb. 24. We have changed the headline and parts of the story. The Kyiv Post reached out to Reddit while preparing the st
Feb. 24, 2020
The Japanese tech firm Rakuten, which owns the popular messaging app Viber, plans to open a second research and development center in Ukraine, Ukraine’s Digital Transformation Ministry announced late
Feb. 5, 2020
Google has reportedly opened its second office in Ukraine. The U.S. tech giant launched its new research and development (R&D) center in Kyiv in January 2020, Ukrainian online tech journal AIN.ua
Jan. 15, 2020
In his ministry’s conference room, Alexander Bornyakov, 37, has posters of superheroes and videogame characters. But Bornyakov isn’t just a geek – he’s a serious man with a serious task. Appointed as
Dec. 23, 2019