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Police Shut Down Telegrass, Online Telegram-based Drug-trading Network

Police Shut Down Telegrass, Online Telegram-based Drug-trading Network

What is Telegrass? The Israel Police reported that a group of 42 people was arrested on March 12. They are suspected of managing Telegrass, a major Telegram-based marketplace used for selling cannabis, ecstasy, and cocaine. It was estimated that the marketplace had hundreds of thousands of buyers. Now Telegrass is offline. The news was reported by several Israeli [...]
Facebook Sues Ukrainian Quiz-makers for Stealing User Data with Malware Plugins

Facebook Sues Ukrainian Quiz-makers for Stealing User Data with Malware Plugins

Facebook has sued two Ukrainian men for allegedly using quiz apps to scrape Facebook users’ private data and inject advertisements into their News Feeds. The lawsuit, filed Friday, accuses Gleb Sluchevsky and Andrey Gorbachov of running a years-long hacking scheme.Between 2017 and 2018, they enticed users to install malicious browser plugins promising horoscopes or “character [...]
Kyiv Company Developed a Drone Monitoring System for NASA

Kyiv Company Developed a Drone Monitoring System for NASA

    Avision Robotics, founded in 2014 with offices in the USA and Ukraine, participated in the development of a traffic management system for Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) drones in a joint project with the US space agency NASA. As the company informed the editorial of AIN.UA, work on the project went on for four [...]
With 13 million users, Facebook is now Ukraine’s leading social network

With 13 million users, Facebook is now Ukraine’s leading social network

PlusOne, a Kyiv (Kiev)-based communication agency, has just published a study on Facebook use in Ukraine. According to this study, the US social network attracts some 13 million users in the country monthly, which accounts for more than a half of total Internet audience (21.4 million). Notably, Facebook’s popularity in the country seems to have [...]
Google Rolls Out YouTube Kids in Ukraine

Google Rolls Out YouTube Kids in Ukraine

  Google launched its children-friendly YouTube app in Ukraine on Feb. 21. Called YouTube Kids, the mobile app eliminates not-so-kid-friendly parts of the video-sharing platform. In YT Kids app, Google allows only videos suitable for children, including content it creates itself. For Ukrainian users, YT Kids offers videos in Ukrainian and English. The channels and [...]
Tech Firm Ciklum Attracts Investment from Dragon Capital, AVentures Capital

Tech Firm Ciklum Attracts Investment from Dragon Capital, AVentures Capital

Tech firm Ciklum announced on Feb. 4 it had sold minority stakes to two Ukrainian investment companies — Dragon Capital and AVentures Capital. The companies would not disclose the value of the transaction, and as they are private they can opt to keep this information to themselves. But according to Ciklum CEO Michael Boustridge, the [...]
Ukrainian startup raises 1.5 million, works with Google, Microsoft

Ukrainian startup raises 1.5 million, works with Google, Microsoft

Ukrainian tech startup Spinbackup, which makes software to back up online data, has raised $1.5 million from international investors, the company announced on Jan 21. Spinbackup works with big tech names: Google, Microsoft and Amazon. The $1.5-million investment round was led by Polish venture fund bValue. A London-based fund with Russian connections, TMT Investments, also took part in [...]