Technology
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
Ukraine’s Supreme Economic Court has suspended the renationalization of monopoly fixed-phone operator Ukrtelecom, and it is unknown when the case will be reviewed again, news agency Interfax-Ukraine r
Jun. 6, 2018
Eighteen information technology companies operating in Ukraine have made it onto the list of the best tech firms in the world – the 2018 Global Outsourcing 100. Twelve Ukrainian-founded software devel
Feb. 22, 2018
A member of Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences has received a prestigious, $100,000 mathematics award from an Israeli foundation this week. Ukrainian-American Vladimir Drinfeld, 64, and his academ
Feb. 18, 2018
Kyiv Economic Court has ruled that Ukraine’s monopoly fixed-phone operator Ukrtelecom is to be returned to state ownership because its investor failed to meet privatization commitments. On Oct. 19, th
Oct. 20, 2017
Ukrainian startup Ugears is working out a deal with the Walt Disney Company to sell its mechanical wooden models in Disneyland parks and Disney stores worldwide. The two companies have been trying to
Aug. 12, 2017
Ukraine’s National Police have arrested several suspects who were illegally producing bitcoins at a recreation center of a Ukrainian state institute, according to newly released court documents. Polic
Aug. 10, 2017
Ukraine is soon to have 150 new ATMs for both buying and selling cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, with around 30 of the machines in place by the end of August, according to the head of t
Aug. 8, 2017
Newly founded Ukrainian tech company Nimses wants to turn all the time that people waste online into pure profit. The plan? A smartphone social media application that creates one unit of a privately d
Jul. 21, 2017
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