Eveline Buchatski, Managing Partner of the Incubator, has informed AIN.UA that EastLabs is absolutely ready to receive application forms from the startups. Those shortlisted projects will be granted investments in the amount of up to $20.000 in exchange for 15% of company shares, an office premises in Kiev downtown, an intensive program of business development and advice of core experts.

PickPoint allows delivering goods from internet-shops to automated pick-point terminals (postamats) installed in the shopping centers where customers can pick up their purchases. Thus the customers will be able to order goods delivery whenever convenient to them, as well as to pay for goods straight through this postamat.

According to the estimates made by Aleksandr Olshanskiy, General Director of Imena.ua, the volume of non-cash payments in UAnet makes up $200 mln. per year and in 2011 this volume substantially doubled. And this is only the small part of the sales volume in the Ukrainian internet shops, since they are usually paid as-received in cash.

On January 11, the President of Ukraine vetoed the new version of the Tax Code and sent it back to be improved and postponed the date of its becoming effective until January 01, 2013.

Ukrainian Direct Marketing Association (UDMA) and Hot Skills Club of Call-Centre Directors jointly found out the improvement of call centers service which serve mail order companies in Ukraine.

In last 11 months volume of Ukrainian enterprises’ retail goods turnover grew by 13.7% and made 346 billion 497.9 million UAH (about $43 billion 312 million), State Statistics Service of Ukraine informs.

On January 13, 2012 the Law of Ukraine “On Amendments to Final Provisions of the Law of Ukraine “On Amendments to Certain Laws of Ukraine Regarding Increase of Liability for Violation of the Personal Data Protection Law” (the Law) was adopted.

Last year Ukrainians have spent about 2 billion EURO in e-shops, as the Association “Participants of electronic business of Ukraine” announces.

«Research of the level of prices of outsourcing contact centres (OCC) of Ukraine» was initiated and held together by the Outsourcing and Research Committees of Ukrainian Contact Centres Association (UCCA) with the aim of popularization the rules of pricing on the market of outsourcing contact centres (OCC) of Ukraine and their stabilization.

Currently a distance selling industry in Ukraine is exclusively regulated by the three clauses of «Bill on domestic trade» scheduled to be passed in the first quarter of 2012.