Olha Karpenko

Ukrainian backup service Spinbackup raised a round of $1.5 million

Ukrainian company Spinbackup, which is developing a cloud data backup service, has attracted a new round of investments in the amount of $ 1.5 million. The lead investor is the Polish foundation bValue, with the participation of TMT Investments and

Kyiv resident Aleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev from Na’Vi is recognized as the best world’s player in CS:GO

Ukrainian cybersportsman Aleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev topped the ranking by HLTV.org of the top 20 players in the world in the CS:GO discipline at the end of 2018. This is reported by the site of Natus Vincere, a club that Aleksandr

Reducing of queues: how Helsi.me service has grown from 7 to 23,000 patients per day in two years

Several years ago, IT projects manager Artem Mykhailyuk and his colleagues worked on an order for an outsourcing company, doing medical ERP with CRM elements. Back then the project instructions didn’t seem quite logical to the team, however, they didn’t

How people of Kyiv heat their houses and water by bitcoin mining

During operation, any computing device generates heat that needs to be utilized (which is why some IT companies build their data centers in cold climates). Mining boilers are actually cryptocurrency miners connected to the heating systems of the house, they

NBU may cancel the mandatory sale of currency. Or reduce it from 50% to 30%

The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) may cancel the mandatory sale of foreign exchange earnings by Ukrainian companies and individual entrepreneurs, as reported by Ekonomichna Pravda, citing the words of NBU Deputy Chairman Oleh Churii. “We have identified the priorities,

“You are a polar explorer and there is no way back, the icebreaker is gone”: an interview with a sysadmin of the station in Antarctica

How did you get on the expedition? I have long been trying to go to such places, it was boring for me to sit in one place all the time. When a vacancy appeared on the site of the Antarctic

Poland and the Russian Federation accused the Ukrainian game studio of Nazism for the game about the concentration camp, because of the video of the Polish pranker

Indie Studio Aliens Games has been working on the online game Cost of Freedom. In fact, this is not even a studio, but just two gaming amateur developers who made an online session about a concentration camp for about half

The NBU transfers the accounts of bank customers to the IBAN standard: what does this mean?

The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) will introduce the International Bank Account Number (IBAN) in 2019. Long story short, this means that this year the accounts of customers of all Ukrainian banks will change the format. Now they, in addition

What is an impact of the law on language on online shopping, software development and web sites

The draft law establishes the conditions under which the state language works in various spheres of the country’s life. Basically, all the rules relating to the Ukrainian language on the Internet are set forth in Article 23 of the draft