Technology
They may be called smartphones, but one man came up with a very dumb way to smuggle them. A 51-year-old Ukrainian citizen was caught at Kyiv’s Boryspil airport on Dec. 10 trying to bring 26 iPhones in
Dec. 12, 2019
Ukraine’s mobile-only bank Monobank is coming to the United Kingdom. Two Ukrainians, who are also former top executives of the notorious PrivatBank, are banking stars in today’s Ukraine: they co-found
Nov. 28, 2019
They’re an iconic feature of Ukrainian public transport: “marshrutkas,” the sometimes rickety, oft maligned, and almost always overcrowded private buses zipping down city streets. They also form an im
May. 14, 2019
A Ukrainian model-making startup, Time 4 Machine, announced late on May 4 that it had raised $430,000 on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter to produce its metal, mechanical models. The money was pl
May. 5, 2019
It’s enough to make some Ukrainian gamers want to hit something. WB Games, a branch of the U.S. Warner Bros. entertainment company, has canceled the release of its video game Mortal Kombat 11 schedule
Apr. 18, 2019
The green smiley of e-commerce giant Rozetka is one of the most recognizable logos in Ukraine — every day millions of people visit its website, tens of thousands order through it every day. And yet, n
Apr. 1, 2019
A Ukrainian has become world’s best cybersportsman in the online shooter game “Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.” Professional video game player Alexander Kostylev — nicknamed s1mple and aged 21 — has
Jan. 21, 2019
Typically, buses drive around cities and don’t raise any eyebrows as they ply their routes. But this bus is the complete opposite: it dwells off road, and it’s hard to miss when it approaches. Called
Jan. 14, 2019
Ukraine can’t claim to lead in many global rankings, but it has strong-armed its way into one more: the country is now among the top 20 by daily traffic on Pornhub, the world’s largest pornography sit
Dec. 13, 2018
Ukrainian entrepreneur Petro Golota sells handmade woolen shoes online, on such U.S. marketplaces as Etsy and eBay. Both websites support only one payment system — PayPal. It is a convenient internet-
Oct. 5, 2018
While most of Ukraine’s successful tech entrepreneurs long ago relocated to the European Union or the United States, Dmitriy Zaporozhets, the founder of GitLab, a startup now worth $1 billion, is dete
Oct. 5, 2018
BRUSSELS – Lithuanian specialists say they have invented a new artificial intelligence program which can identify fake news within two minutes. The program can be translated into any language, also in
Sep. 21, 2018
Ukraine’s largest bank PrivatBank just rolled out on Aug. 2 an extended version of its internet bank Privat24, making its services available to users of any bank around the world. The state-owned bank
Aug. 2, 2018
U.S. tech giant Amazon acquired Ring for an impressive $1 billion this February. But the startup, which is developing smart home security systems, still has its largest R&D center in Ukraine and i
Jul. 8, 2018
Grammarly is going up in the world. The Ukrainian startup has been so successful in helping English speakers to check their writing that they have moved to a new office on the 14th floor of Kyiv’s cen
Jul. 6, 2018
Ukraine’s Infrastructure Ministry has reached an agreement with U.S. research company Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) to develop its high-speed vacuum transport technology in Ukraine. Mini
Jun. 14, 2018
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