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Olga Grabovska is a web designer with a keen marketing sense who turned personal frustration on her birthday into a full-fledged startup. Using her own money and without investors, she created the mobile application Bazhay!. In a conversation with dev.ua, Olga spoke about the wishes and gifts service, which already has its first advertisers and ambitions to enter the global market.

In a conversation with dev.ua, some representatives of the technology market outlined the problem: according to them, Google advertising for the B2B segment, regardless of the budget, has practically ceased to bring benefits and bring targeted leads to the business. Instead, applications are massively filled by bots, which negates the efforts of advertisers from the business and simply «burns» money, but in the meantime allows the tech giant to master large advertising budgets. Is this really so and how categorical are such assessments? In addition to representatives of the tech business, we talked about this with top digital agencies.

Under the guise of foreign volunteers, emissaries of the criminal world are entering Ukraine. Mexican and Colombian drug cartels are sending their people to learn how to fly attack drones, adopting Ukrainian combat experience. According to the investigation, some of them have already returned home from the war and intend to apply the acquired skills on the streets of Latin America.

What does «responsible gaming» mean in practice, what does the player protection system look like in European countries, and what does the Ukrainian market strive for?

Hacker groups Silent Crow and Cyber ​​Partisans BY announced a large-scale operation in which they completely destroyed the internal IT infrastructure of the Russian airline Aeroflot. According to the attackers, the penetration of the corporate network lasted almost a year and ended with the complete compromise of control systems, telecommunications and databases.(News supplemented with Sabre commentary)

Oleksii Borovyk, a Magento developer with over 12 years in the e-commerce industry, created the Pickapocket expense tracking app, which allows you to collaboratively manage expenses without complex systems and spreadsheets. Artificial intelligence helped implement the idea, which arose from the need to streamline the expenses of one’s own family budget. The development took 2 months — I worked after work and on weekends.

While salaries in the US are already paid in cryptocurrencies, and some utility bills can be paid in USDC, in Ukraine crypto is still perceived mainly as an investment or niche tool. But the market is changing. In 2025, stablecoins occupy a key place in the crypto ecosystem: according to CoinGecko, they account for more than 10% of the crypto asset market, and the volume of transactions in stablecoins is growing every quarter.