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Japan’s Rakuten owner of messaging app Viber, will open its second office in Ukraine – an R&D center in Kyiv.

Thursday, February 6, 2020
Japan’s Rakuten owner of messaging app Viber, will open its second office in Ukraine – an R&D center in Kyiv.

Japan’s Rakuten owner of messaging app Viber, will open its second office in Ukraine – an R&D center in Kyiv. Viber currently has an office in Odesa, where 120 people work. Created a decade ago, Viber now is installed on 96% of Ukrainian smartphones, the company reports, citing a study by Kantar. In Ukraine, one third of users are aged 25-35. Overall, women account for 55% of users, men for 45%.

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A 65 km eastern extension of EU gauge train tracks, from the Polish border to a rail junction near Lviv airport, will generate almost 650,000 passenger rides a year

A 65 km eastern extension of EU gauge train tracks, from the Polish border to a rail junction near Lviv airport, will generate almost 650,000 passenger rides a year

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Digitizing government services, the new Diya (Action) mobile allows Ukrainians to access their driver’s licenses and car registration documents from their smartphones.

Digitizing government services, the new Diya (Action) mobile allows Ukrainians to access their driver’s licenses and car registration documents from their smartphones.

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