Archive forJune, 2012

Ukraine’s Higher Education Tops the Ranking in Eastern Europe

Ukraine’s Higher Education Tops the Ranking in Eastern Europe

Ukraine occupied the 25th position out of 48 evaluated countries. Czech Republic, Poland, Slovenia, Russia and Slovakia placed at positions 26, 27, 28, 32, and 35, respectively The head of the research, Professor Ross Williams, the University of Melbourne said: “Ukraine does so well because the UNESCO data shows it as having a very high [...]

Ukraine Macroeconomic Situation. May 2012

April’s data for Ukraine’s real sector showed a mixed picture. Buoyed by strong real wage growth, retail sales accelerated to 14.8% yoy over January-April. Agriculture also gained momentum, expanding by 1.1% yoy over the period amid a larger spring sowing area. Although industrial production was flat in April compared to the same month of the [...]
Ukrainian developers to build  health insurance exchange for the USA

Ukrainian developers to build health insurance exchange for the USA

Consumer Health Technologies, American IT company, won a state tender to develop software for the needs of healthcare and health insurance market. During the last few years, the healthcare in the U.S. has been influenced by the national healthcare reform, initiated in 2009 by Barack Obama. In the center of the reform – reducing the [...]
Unicorn wins prestigious Award at the European IT Excellence Awards 2012

Unicorn wins prestigious Award at the European IT Excellence Awards 2012

A Czech-based company Unicorn was selected as a winner of the prestigious European IT Excellence Awards 2012 held in London in category Enterprise Technology Innovation of the Year. Amongst the international competition, Unicorn took the prize with its CTDS solution and proved that Czech IT can be compared to the best. ​ “Unicorn being acknowledged [...]
A Second Forum for Odessa Java Professionals – JavaTechTalks

A Second Forum for Odessa Java Professionals – JavaTechTalks

The company Lohika Systems extends the format of open forums for communication and updating of knowledge in the world of Java. If you are an experienced and hungry for dzhavist Conferences in Odessa, dedicated to the complex technical issues in their field of specialization, you are here. A new event in Odessa Java community has [...]
Tax exemptions for IT sector will raise economy

Tax exemptions for IT sector will raise economy

Vice Prime Minister and Social Policy Minister Serhiy Tihipko is convinced that tax exemptions for IT companies will stimulate growth of one of the most perspective sectors of the Ukrainian economy. He has said about this commenting on adoption of the Law on making amendments to the tax code of Ukraine regarding special taxation regime [...]
Ukraine Macroeconomic Situation. April 2012

Ukraine Macroeconomic Situation. April 2012

The Ukrainian economy grew slower in March 2012 as, in addition to a challenging external environment, some of the domestic factors lost their intensity that month. A 2.5% yoy decrease in exports of goods in March, led by weak exports of metallurgical and mineral products as well as a sharp slowdown in overseas shipment of [...]
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