Siemens doubles turnover in Ukraine. The German industrial firm has doubled the volume of orders and turnover in the 2021 fiscal year (October 2020 – September 2021) has in comparison with FY2020. The CEO of Siemens Ukraine, Maciej Tomas... #SIemens #SiemensUkraine
“IT industry can grow by 30-60% per year” , announced Valery Kraskovsky, the CEO and Co-founder of Sigma Software. Over the past 15 years, the Ukrainian IT industry has grown 115 times. Its turnover now exceeds $ 6 billion. About half of the ... #EPAM #GlobalLogic #ITgrowthinUkraine #ITsectorinUkraine #ITukraine #NiX
Construction of an industrial park has commenced in Lviv. Sparrow Capital Investment has laid the foundation of the park. “The project, which aims to build 100,000 square meters will be a boost to the local economy, employment in the region, the investors in... #IndustrialParkUkraine #Lvivconstruction #LvivIndustrialpark #SparrowCapital #Львів
Monitor.Estate has launched a service to simplify the analysis of documents for construction. The online search system Pro.Monitor.Estate collects and links permits and declarative documents about the construction site, as well as provides basic information about its participants, says website... #MonitorEstate #RealEstateApp #UkraineConstructionApp #UkraineTech
Ukrainian startup GitLab valuation increases. The coding platform GitLab Inc is now targeting a valuation of $10 billion of its IPO and will expect to sell its shares between $66 and $69, compared with an earlier valuation of $55 and $60 per shar... #GitLab #GitlabIPO #UkrainianStartUP
Ukrainian technology will be used to print human bones in US hospitals. The groundbreaking technology developed by an Odessa-based firm will enter the medical devices and implants market in the US which is estimated to be worth $180 bln. #ImplantMarket #PrintingBones #UkraineTechnology #UkrainianStartUps
Access to high-speed Internet for 95% of the population by 2024. This announcement was made by the Minister of Digital Transformation, Mikhail Fedorov, during the “Digital Transformation Forum 2.0”. “The key goal is to cover 95% of the country’s populat... #5gInternetforUkraine #5GUkraine #MykhailoFedorov #UkraineInternetCoverage
Red button for the cyber threat. The Ukrainian leadership will have a system for introducing emergency network restrictions in the event of a cyber threat. In the coming months, government officials may have a “red button”... #CyberSecurity #CyberSecurityButton #CyberSecurityUkraine #CyberSecurityWarning
The auction for the sale of frequencies for 5G communication will be held in Ukraine in 2022, said the Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov. “Next year we plan to put up frequencies [for 5G communication] at tenders for the operators,” said Fedor... #5G #5Gcommunication #5GinUkraine
The US firm, Virtuozzo, has purchased the Ukrainian developer of cloud services Jelastic. Virtuozzo is a company that specializes in virtualization software has bought the Ukrainian IT developer of cloud services Jelastic. The transaction was announced by the CEO of Jelastic, Ruslan Sinits... #ITukraine #Jelastic #JelasticUkraine #Virtuozzo
IT is the road to Ukraine’s brighter future. This is the theme of the EBA IT Conference which will be held on October 11, 2021. It will provide participants the opportunity to hear presentations by industry leaders in the IT sector, CEOs of lead... #EBAconference #EPAM #ITConference #ITukraine #NiX #SoftServe
Air taxi from Kharkiv. Kharkiv FED has signed agreements with European industrial firms to implement an air taxi project. The announcement was reported in the Kharkiv Region administration press service. Working with the pa... #AirTaxi #AirTaxiKharkiv #AirtaxiProject
Crypto ownership in Ukraine is a higher investment in this currency than in the US. As of 2021, Ukraine tops the ranking, beating the US. It is estimated that over 5.5 million people, 12.7% of Ukraine’s total population, currently own cryptocurrency (ukrinform). According to Triple-A... #Crypto #Cryptoownership #GryptoUkraine
You can buy and return a Ukrzaliznytsia ticket on the Viber and Telegram social networks. “From October 1, UZ passengers will be able to purchase tickets for all long-distance trains, including high-speed and regional routes, in the official chatbot on Viber and Tele... #TicketsonViber #UkrzaliznytsiaTickets #UZticketsonline
Technology companies have the best opportunity to attract strategic investors. “Quantitative changes in technology, the introduction of state-of-the-art solutions based on “smart systems”, associated with the widespread introduction of so-called smart, cyber-physical... #ITindustry #ITukraine #TechCompanies #TechnologyCompaniesUkraine
New automatic weight control fines are being introduced in Ukraine There will be 140 weight control complexes on Ukrainian highways by the end of 2021. From today, new automatic fines are introduced for violation of the norms of dimensional and weight control said th... #AutomaticWeightControll #TuckWeightControl #WeightControlinUkraine
Ukroboronprom presented a list of Russian-made goods that require import substitution. “As of 2014, our enterprises depended on Russian-made components for more than 12,000 items of various types of products,” said Procurement Director of Ukroboronprom, Roman Avramov. Today,... #ukroboronprom #Ukroboronprom2021 #Ukroboronpromnewstrategy
ABB’s E-mobility division strengthens global leadership with investment in Ukrainian startup GO TO-U. As part of its strategy to drive broader adoption of electric vehicles around the world, ABB’s E-mobility business has announced its investment in Los Angeles-based startup GO TO-U. Founded in 2017, G... #ABB #ABBemobility #GoToYou
Ukraine aims to digitize all public services and to switch to a paperless economy. The announcement was made by Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal during a Government meeting held on September 22. Shmyhal considers this is the best way to overcome bureaucracy, domestic corruption and abus... #DigitalizationOfUkraine #DigitalPublicServices #digitalukraine
Ukraine startups presenting at World Web Summit. The event takes place in Lisbon, Portugal between November 1-4. Web Summit brings together the people and companies redefining the global tech industry, and this year the event expects 70,000 visitors... #ITukraine #UkraineITstartups #UkraineStartups #WorldWebSummit
Turkish unmanned combat aerial vehicles (drones) to be produced in Ukraine. Ukraine’s Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba, said there will be an announcement when the heads of both states meet 112.international. The construction of the Turkish medium-altitude long-endurance comba... #Bayraktar #DefenseUkraine #DmytroKuleba #TurkishDrones
The Deputy Chairman of the Fund, Yuliya Byelova, announced that the new Automatic Real Estate Valuation Service has already issued 380 thousand certificates. The Automatic Real Estate Valuation Service is an innovative product that allows users to quickly and free of charge receive certificates with the appraised value of their real estate. The Valuation S... #RealEstateValuation #UkraineRealestate #UkraineREvaluationService
The draft State Space Program of Ukraine for 2021-2025. The government committee approved the draft State Space Program of Ukraine for 2021-2025. Among the main tasks of the Program are the creation of space Earth observation systems, the introduction of s... #StateSpaceProgram #UkraineSpace #UkraineStateSpaceProgram
Kharkiv’s IT success shows the way for other Ukrainian cities. Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, is well on its way to becoming a major regional IT powerhouse, according to a new report from the Kharkiv IT Cluster. Carried out in partnership with KPMG, the ... #ITcluster #ITkharkiv #ITukraine
New Technology Park in Kyiv planned. The National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA) together with the Bureau of Investment Programs (BIP) NGO are planning to create a technology park in an educational building located at 2/4, Glazu... #TechnologyParkKyiv #TechnologyParkUkraine #TechParkUkraine
NovaPay payment system becomes a partner of Visa and MasterCard. The NovaPay payment system has become a member of the international payment systems Visa and MasterCard. The company claims that NovaPay is the first among private non-bank financial institutions to h... #NovaPay #novaposhta
Ukrainian startup GitLab has applied for an IPO on the US stock exchange. So far, GitLab has attracted more than $ 400 million in investment. The initial public offering will take place on the US Stock Exchange NASDAQ. Placement will take place under the GTLB ticker. In 201... #GitLab #GitlabIPO #Gitlabstartup
The share of the IT industry in the Ukrainian economy is 4% of GDP. The government wants to focus on this industry and significantly increase revenues. According to the results of 10 years, the percentage increased in the IT industry, to 4.9% in 2020 and to 5.6% in th... #ITboominUkraine #ITindustryshare #ITukraine
The application “Diia” will protect consumers against fraud, and provide services. The mobile application “Action” will warn users about credit fraudsters will be available through “Diia”. It will also allow users to complete the process to receive social pay... #DIIA #DIIAapp #DIiaservices #DiiaUkraine
Strategic enterprises such as Motor Sich will remain Ukrainian said President Zelensky. Ukraine welcomes foreign business investments, but strategic enterprises must remain under state control. As for Ukraine’s strategic enterprises that have existed over t... #motorsich #MotorSichstaysinUkraine #MotorSichUkraine
Ukraine enters the top 5 of global crypto-asset perception. It’s now in 4th place in the rating of the global crypto-asset perception index in 2021, compiled by the US analytical company Chainalysis after Vietnam, India, and Pakistan. #CryptoAssetUkraine #CryptoTradingUkraine #CryptoUkraine
Cryptocurrency currency trading is around UAH bln per day. Maksym Demianiuk, the Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Digital Transformation, added that “the Ministry of Digital Transformation has set itself the task of providing regulatio... #CryptoCurrencyUkraine #CryptoTrading #CryptoUkraine
US – Ukraine Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement extended. On September 1 the latest extension of the bilateral Science and Technology Agreement entered into force. According to the US State Department, it will address advancing progress on Ukraine’s sustaina... #USandUkraine #USUkraineScience
Master Agreement on Research, Development, Testing and Evaluation Projects signed. Its purpose is to deepen bilateral cooperation in science, technology, and military-technical areas, and contribute to the development of an international legal base for the conclusion of contracts on... #MilitaryCooperation #R&DbeweenUkraineandUS #USandUkraineDevelopment
MOU on space-related cooperation concluded between Ukraine’s State Space Agency and the US Department of Defense Space Command. Corresponding to Ukraine’s participation in the US-led Artemis space program, it covers space fligh... #MOU #SpaceCooperation #USandUkraineSpaceCooperation
Motor Sich and Antonov sign UAH 920 million agreement. Motor Sich has signed a major contract with Antonov aimed at increasing engine life for the Mriya and Ruslan cargo aircraft, Defense Express reports. According to the ProZorro site, the expected volum... #motorsich #MotorSichandAntonov #MotorSichUkraine #MriyaAircraft #RuslanCargo
Ukrainian-made engines yesterday powered a European Vega rocket into space yesterday, allowing the launch of five satellites into orbits. Designed and manufactured in Dnipro by the Yuzhmash, the engines were transported to Kourou, French Guyana for launching the Italian-made rocket. Th... #UkraineEngines #UkraineMadeEngines #VegaRocket #VegaROcketwithUkraineEngines
NASA launched a Ukrainian-powered Antares rocket last week to the International Space Station, carrying 3,724 kg of cargo, the US space agency reports. Dnirpo’s Yuzhmash engines powered the Northrop Grumman rocket carrying a Cygnus resupply spacecraft. Video on PBS NewsHour shows a smooth launch. This is the 15th Antares ... #NASALaunchesAntares #RocketAntares #UkrainianpoweredAntares
By December, a Dutch company, Isilaunch, is to launch Ukraine’s Sich-2-30 satellite from a Space X launch pad in the US , according to a contract signed with the satellite maker, Yuzhnoye Design Bureau. The remote sensing, near earth orbit satellite is one of seven satellites that Ukraine’s Space Agency plans to launch... #SpaceXlaunchesSetellite #UkraineSetellite #YuzhnoyeDesignBureau
Ukraine and Turkey can carry out joint space projects, Volodymyr Taftay, head of Ukraine’s Space Agency, told Turkey’s Anaadolu Agency. With cooperation, a space rocket or satellite co-produced by Ukraine and Turkey can be sent into space, said Taftay, wh... #SpaceProjectwithTurkey #UkraineTurkey #UkraineTurkeySpaceProjects
The Zaporizhia Automobile Building Plant, or ZAZ, is to start assembling Mercedes-Benz buses, board chairman Nikolay Evdokimenko announced. Equipped with Mercedes engines and transmissions the 36-seat are to be built for sale in Ukraine and for export. In a larger joint venture with European m... #MercedesBussesZaporizhia #MercedesinUkraine #ZAZ #ZAZukraine
A Ukrainian-designed and manufactured electric motorcycle, the Dnepr, set a world speed record in its class last week at the Bonneville Speed Week in Utah. Powered by 36 batteries cranking out 100 kW power, the equivalent to 134 hp, the Delfast Dnepr hit 104.78 mph, or 168.62 kph. The rider was was Serhii Malyk, a Ukrainian racer. Christian Curmei writes... #DniproMotorcycle #DniproMotorcycleRecord #SerhiiMalyk
Poland and Ukraine are the primary beneficiaries of the exodus of up to 20% of Belarus’ 70,000 IT workers over the last year, AFP reports in a story headlined “Belarus IT sector hit by exodus after post-vote crackdown.” Massive protests erupted last August after Alexander Lukashenko declared himself president after election ... #BelarusImmigrate #ITdraintoUkraine #ITimmigratetoPoland
Nervous about the brain drain to Ukraine, Belarus’ government may be behind Monday’s murder in Kyiv of Vitaliy Shyshov, exiles told the UBN yesterday. Shyshov ran Belarusian House, an NGO devoted to helping Belarusia emigrants find work and housing in Ukraine. For the last year, Ukraine’s Ministry of Digitalization has... #BelarusianBrainDrain #BelarusPeopleImmigrate #VitaliyShyshovDeath
Canada and Ukraine are preparing a project to produce a modernized version of the An-74TK-200 mixed cargo and passenger jet for international markets, focusing on North America, Ukroboronprom reports. In March, Kyiv’s Antonov opened Antonov Aircraft Canada in Montréal, the business capital of Québec. The largest of Canada’s 10 provinces, Québec is a... #AntonovJetProduction #CanadaUkraine #CanadaUkraineJetProduction
Under a proposed bilateral cooperation document, “design and final assembly” of the jet would be done in Québec, Desmond Burke, head of Gold Leaf Aviation, an Ontario company representing Antonov’s interests in Canada, tells Le Devoir newspaper. Appropriate for Canada, the Soviet-designed aircraft operates... #AntonovJetProduction #JetproductionCanada #JetproductionUkraine
By 2025, the EU plans to make batteries for 6 to 8 million electric cars per year. To build this industry, “investments in the sector reached more than €120 billion in 2019 and 2020 alone – that is three times more than in China,” Maroš Šefčovič, the European Commission’s Vice-Presi... #DemandForElectricCars #ElectricCarsinEU #ElectricCarsProduction
Culminating a three-year effort, yesterday the Rada gave final approval to two bills designed to stimulate in Ukraine the manufacture of electric cars, components and chargers. For the next five years, VAT taxes are suspended on the import cars powered by electricity, methane or biogas. For the next 10 years, VAT taxes are suspended on the import of equipment to produce elec... #ElectricCarsManufacturing #ElectricCarsUkraine
During the 2020s, South Korea plans to invest $35 billion in the development of electric car batteries , reports 3dnews. “LG Energy Solution, SK Innovation and Samsung SDI are key players in the battery market, and are planning to invest both in battery technology research and in manufacturing itself,”... #ChinaAmperexTechnology #ElectricCarBatteries #InvestinginCarBatteriesProduction
Ukraine’s defense ministry said hackers linked to the Russian government attacked the website of the Ukrainian Naval Forces on Friday, posting fake reports about the international Sea Breeze-2021 military drills. The official website was restored within hours. The two-week naval exercise involved units from 32 countries, including 5,... #HackerAttacks #RussianHackerAttacks #UkraineunderHackerAttacks
