"Your idea is good. But we do not need this technology." This is how most companies respond when Sigmind – one of the leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) start-ups in Bangladesh – pitches its products, said its Chief Marketing Officer Arif Hussain. Sigmind recently developed some high AI...
Private sector entrepreneurs should be given priority so that they can lead the country's economic recovery from losses incurred due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, said Salman F Rahman, private sector industry and investment adviser to the prime minister, yesterday. In the proposed budget for fiscal 2020-21,...
The Covid-19 pandemic continued it onslaught and expanded over 200 countries and regions around the world since its outbreak in China on December last. In case of pessimistic scenario assuming that the virus is not highly seasonal and that cases continue to grow throughout 2020, there will...
Krishibid Feed, a sister concern of Krishibid Group, has deisgns to go public to raise Tk 30 crore to expand its business to meet the growing demand for feeds in the livestock sector. The poultry, fish and cattle feed producer has already applied to the stock market...
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has launched a business integrity toolkit for young entrepreneurs in Asia-Pacific including Cambodia to be followed by a webinar titled “Leading with Integrity” which will be held on the 18th of this month. The toolkit aimed to provide young people a key...
No entrepreneur in the shipbuilding sector has received any incentives so far despite the government announcing incentives for various heavy industries to mitigate the loss due to Covid-19 outbreak. According to this industry insiders, investment in this shipbuilding sector, which exports ships abroad after meeting the local...
While Covid-19 has been wreaking havoc across the globe, there has been an unprecedented wave of backlash from the major economies and global corporations, which has put China's position as the 'largest factory of the world' under jeopardy.
USA President Donald Trump not only...
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba's subsidiary Daraz has announced plans to invest Tk 500 crore by 2021 in Bangladesh to set up logistics infrastructure and hubs that would help expand its footprint to all 64 districts. The announcement comes at a time when the novel coronavirus pandemic is...
Covid-19 has laid bare the vulnerabilities of global supply chain, upending the long-established business models of corporations and governments across the globe that took decades to develop. As nations are grappling with containing an invisible pathogen, everything from lithium mines in Chile to semi-conductor makers of China's...
