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Ride-hailing service Bolt (Taxify) launches in Odesa

Ride-hailing service Bolt (formerly Taxify), has been launched in Odesa. It was reported to AIN.UA by the company representatives. The rates are as follows: Service Bolt category Comfort category Car delivery 20 UAH 30 UAH 1 km 4.5 UAH 4.5

Rada passes language law mandating the translation of software and sites into Ukrainian

On April 25, 2019, Ukraine’s parliament passed the draft law “On Ensuring the Functioning of the Ukrainian Language as a State Language” during the second reading. If the draft law is signed by the president, online businesses and software developers

Research: Top 10 deals in the Ukrainian venture capital market for 2018

Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (UVCA) presented the results of a study of the venture investment market in 2018. According to analysts, the market has grown in almost all indicators compared with 2017, breaking records in the amounts

Kharkiv developer wins ticket to Apple event, but gets refused a U.S. visa

In May last year Oleg Dreiman, a student from Ukraine, won a scholarship to attend WWDC, the largest conference of Apple for developers. He applied for a visa twice and was denied both times. A year later, the story repeats

“Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong”: Pix about creating a backpack that raised $300k

Inception Pix began working on the backpack back in 2016. Initially, a team comprised Ivan Kaunov (former CTO, who left the project) and Sergii Iezdin (CMO). Later, Margaret Rimek joined the team as CEO. The team wanted to revamp an

Delivery service Glovo launches in Lviv

Fast delivery service Glovo launched its operations in Lviv on April 22, as informed by “Ekonomicheskaya Pravda” citing Dmitri Rasnovskiy, Glovo’s general manager in Ukraine. He also added that the service might start soon in Vinnytsia, Zaporizhzhia, and Mykolaiv. But

You still take a jitney in Ukraine even if you earn $2k: Ukrainian engineer on relocation to Paris and London

From 2011 to 2015, Aleksandr Kaidannik lived and worked as a system admin and DevOps ― from working at the physical data center, writing tiny snippets, to failover architecture for 1kk QPS ― half the time in Amsterdam, and half

Ukrainian AxDraft attracts $1.1mln in investments valued at $10mln

Ukrainian legal-tech startup AxDraft closed a round of funding to the tune of $1,110,000. The project was valued at $10 million during the round. The founder of the project, Yuriy Zaremba, shared the details with AIN.UA. Who are investors The

12 techies per 1,000 population: IT market growth in terms of people

IT-PEs in numbers In 2018, the number of IT-PEs increased by 23%, while the total number of all private entrepreneurs in Ukraine increased by only 4%. According to the United State Register of Legal Entities, Private Entrepreneurs and Public Organizations of

Ukraine ranks 7th by number of visits to pirate websites with the U.S. topping the list

Analytical company Muso has presented a report on the number of visits to pirated websites, reports Comma.com.ua. The company is engaged in the fight against illegal online distribution. According to Muso, in 2018 pirate websites received over 189 billion unique