Eastern Europe, and Ukraine in particular, has occupied one of the leading positions in the IT outsourcing. The main attractiveness of software developers from this country is that their hourly rate is rather low, their skills and education level are very high, and they have a special attitude to work - they care for what they create. But what's the portrait of...

Communication is the pivotal part of outsourcing, no matter if we talk about software development or something else. The impossibility of 'being in a nearby room' bears many potential complications. Meanwhile the definition of communication is also rather obscure and depends on the goals you need to achieve. If the goal is a working software...

When you deploy your app and kickstart the marketing campaign, you start tracking a set of metrics to measure the success of your application. But everything depends on how you define success and on your vision of the app's goals. There is no app owner who doesn't want his creation to become an overnight sensation with a million downloads. But are these download numbers that much...

Setting the price for a mobile app is by no means less important than choosing the way it will monetize. If you have a great app, how will you price it? If we take Apple App Store and Google Play, we'll see that they have completely different approaches to free/paid apps and monetization. For example, on the App Store applications are priced at an incremental tag of $X.99 ($0.99,...

The latest version of Android is called KitKat, and without a doubt it's the tastiest Android flavor to date. Overall, the changes are not that visually radical in comparison with transition from iOS 6 to iOS 7. Yet it's a step forth, which is full of internal optimizations. The Nexus 5 is the first device that will benefit from all upgrades of KitKat - and excluding countless improvements...