The government has launched an online agricultural market portal, hortexbazarbd.com, to boost trade of farm products during coronavirus pandemic, said officials.
Agriculture minister Dr Mohammad Abdur Razzaque inaugurated the portal during a virtual meeting on development and evaluation of the ministry's projects and programmes...
The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday approved the initial public offering of Walton Hi-Tech Industries, allowing the company to raise Tk 100 crore by issuing 29.28 lakh shares at Tk 252-315 each. The stock market regulator gave the approval at a commission meeting presided over by its...
Online video streaming has taken over our life. The ubiquity of handheld devices, access to the internet, consistent push from platforms like Google, Facebook, and digital media platforms, video consumption has shot up in the last decade. Today’s entertainment can be defined by: endless choices, global, and...
"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...
WhatsApp has just pressed go on a big new feature: person-to-person payments. It’s just gone live in the past few hours, though only in one country right now: Brazil. In a post on the WhatsApp blog, the company has announced that digital payments for people and small businesses...
US-based ride-sharing company DRriVill wants to hit local street with its full-fledged capacity as soon as the Coronavirus pandemic is over. It has already taken all preparations in this regard and waiting for approval from Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA). “If we get BRTA approval, we will...
Walton has teamed up with Dolby Laboratories as a licensed manufacturer to produce sound quality televisions in Bangladesh. This makes Walton the first ever Bangladeshi television manufacturing company to become Dolby's licensed manufacturer, who only allows its partners to use advanced sound technologies, says a press release....
Financial technology (fintech), or the fusion of finance and technology, has emerged as a new model for financial innovation. Fintech covers a constellation of complementary technologies -- including mobile networks, big data, cloud computing, distributed ledger technology, artificial intelligence (AI), and data analytics -- that jointly shape...
Peter Brodsky was running an engineering team at SoundCloud in 2013 when he first got the urge to automate away some of his job. A machine learning expert, Brodsky spent hours inputting and processing data so it would be ready to use by SoundCloud’s more powerful algorithms...
Bangladesh yesterday rolled out a contact tracing app on a trial basis to warn users if they have been near someone who later tested positive for the coronavirus and suggest the next course of actions in a bid to flatten the curve on the rogue pathogen. Technologically...