It-tech

This month brings triumphal news that Google and Facebook have, after a two year battle, started paying vast amounts in VAT to the Bangladeshi treasury. Other foreign companies too, like British American Tobacco, have paid further vast sums. Which is excellent of course. These big foreign companies...

The world has generated more data in this decade than at any other point in time, and it is estimated that by 2025 the world will have generated 463 Exabytes (4,004,689 Gigabytes) of data per day. The current number of internet subscribers in Bangladesh are 115 Mn...

Every day, nearly 2.5 billion people log in to one of the Facebook family of services, which include Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And as users scroll, message, like, and click, Facebook continues to scoop up data, which they package up for advertisers. Behind the...

Introduction Scaling is essential for success in the SaaS industry. If you can’t scale, you can’t reach new customers. Once your customer pool stays stagnant, your competitors will overtake you. With so much competition and such a small time frame to...

SHAREit Group, the global internet technology company, mainly dedicated to mobile internet application development and digital services, is set to strengthen business in the Bangladesh market to fulfill the diverse demands of the people of the country, says a।press release. The number of internet...

Guo Bing, a law professor in the Chinese city of Hangzhou, liked the zoo enough to purchase an annual pass. But he didn’t like it nearly enough to let the zoo take a high-resolution scan of his face. In what judges called the first...

The government, as well as the private sector, should take time-befitting measures to align artificial intelligence (AI) in manufacturing and service delivery to cope with the fourth industrial revolution (4IR). Simultaneously, future workforce should be skilled and educated with digital competencies because the 4IR-led...

Global media writes: “Bangladesh is on the rise” and the numbers are truly staggering. In 50 years in its Independence, the country, despite going through unfortunate ups and downs in its political history, coupled with its natural calamities and socio-economic challenges, has delivered head-turning progress in all...

Although the fintech ecosystem in Bangladesh has been growing — and is expected to grow in the coming years — the country seems to be lagging behind its global counterparts, according to the Global Fintech Index 2021. Bangladesh ranked 78th among 83 countries on...

Huawei and third-party data predict that the Augmented Reality (AR) market will be worth $300 billion by 2025.  On Thursday, Bob Cai, chief marketing officer of Huawei Carrier BG, reinforced the prediction in a keynote speech titled “5G + AR, Turning Dreams into Reality”...