From year to years Ukraine sees continuous but still slow growth of cashless settlements. However, irrespective of increase of cashless settlements share, Ukraine has still a long way to go to reach the other countries’ level of use of this payment instrument.

The managers of Ukrainian companies think that there is lack of food, cloth and shoe shops in Internet.

The number of Internet users in Ukraine as of the end of the first part of 2011 made 12.4 million.

According to the estimate of the department of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), the GDP growth in August 2011 accelerated and during 8 months reached a bit over 5% compared to the corresponding period of the previous year.

Ukrainian e-commerce market is in its active stage of development.

Considerable growth of consumer confidence of Ukrainians was observed in August 2011. Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) has reached 81.4, which is 7.8 p.p. higher than in July this year.

A study released by Pando Networks revealed the speed and reliability of Internet connections around the globe with some surprising findings.

National Commission for Communications Regulation of Ukraine (NCCRU) decided to increase rates for services of state enterprise “Ukrpochta”. Such decision was made as a result of financial problems of postal service operator.

Over the period of the last 12 months foreign direct investment to Ukraine has increased almost five times over. Comparing the first six months of 2010 and 2011 analysts have detected a 4,9-fold growth indicating a positive tendency in the national economy while proving the growing investment attractiveness of Ukraine.

Law on personal data protection (came into force on January 1st, 2011) is rather framework of normative acts than the "real" law and needs...