According to the investigation made by GfK Ukraine in Q3 of 2011 17% of Ukrainians were the users of social networks, 5% of them use chats, forums and blogs.

In the region of Eastern and Central Europe (ECE) Ukraine occupies second to the next-to-last place according to the popularity of web purchases. Only 8.5% of Ukrainian users purchase in internet.

The Corporation 139 Group (China) has opened a Chinese e-shop 139 shopping for Ukrainian customers, as the President of 139 Group Huang Qin Hung informed at the press-conference held in Kyiv on Monday.

In the nearest two years MANGO company plans to introduce on the national market shops of men clothes MANGO HE and accessories MANGO TOUCH.

Improvement of consumer confidence of Ukrainians was observed in October 2011: the relevant index was 78.6 which is 3.9 p. higher than the indicator value in September.

In the nearest future Ukrainian entrepreneurs will have to open their office facilities. Otherwise strict punitive measures will be applied to them.

A new shop of American brand GAP, represented by the company GAP Ukraine LTD., will be opened in November in Ukraine (Kyiv).

The Search system Yandex has made the analysis of customers’ behavior in internet and development of e-commerce in Ukraine. The research can be conveniently divided into three parts: shops, the most popular goods, and competition.

Ukraine to prohibit selling of medicines via Internet. Government Plenipotentiary for deregulation of economic activities Mikhail Brodsky presented this information on his blog.

Ukraine was named one of the world’s five most promising economies by the member of the U.S. House of Representatives Michael Grimm.