Startup Bangladesh, the first and only flagship venture capital fund of the government, appointed Sami Ahmed as the new Managing Director. Sami is being appoined for the position which remained vacant for six months now.

Shohoz, the online ticketing platform, has assisted transport workers at Gabtoli and Mohakhali Bus Terminal to register online for covid-19 vaccination.

Since 2013, Facebook, in collaboration with select carriers and operators, has been offering a free text-only version of its browser that–according to Facebook–wouldn’t use up mobile data. The services were targetted particularly towards developing countries with poor connectivity and as of last October, it has more than 300 million users. But recent internal documents reveal that users of the free version ended up being charged anyway. The worst part–Facebook has no idea how much. 

Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud today asked cable TV subscribers to install set-top boxes with TVs in Dhaka and Chattogram by March 31 and other cities of the country by May 30.

To promote a safer internet environment for children, State Minister for Information and Communication Technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak has launched a new digital initiative.

India’s will have its own digital currency soon in the current financial year 2022-23 (April to March), Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said today. Presenting her fourth consecutive annual budget in Lok Sabha, she said the digital currency will be issued by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in 2022-23 and it would give a big boost to the economy.

The New York Times said on Monday that it has bought Wordle, the free online word game that has exploded in popularity and, for some, become a daily obsession.

REVE Chat, a Bangladeshi SaaS-based chatbot company, is providing technical support to the Mexican Government for facilitating access to information and protection of personal data for its citizens.

Sesame Workshop Bangladesh, the producer of favourite children’s program Sisimpur, is launching Safe Internet and Early Childhood Development, an initiative to promote a safe internet environment for young children by increasing access to and awareness of safe online Internet spaces. Sesame Workshop Bangladesh will also develop and share engaging content on Sisimpur’s learning platforms as part of the initiative, which will reach children across Bangladesh.

Popular US podcaster Joe Rogan has apologized amid a backlash against Covid-19 misinformation in his programme, while his platform, Spotify Technology SA (SPOT.N), said it would add a "content advisory" to any episode with discussion of Covid.

A good news for about six lakh freelancers in the country as they now will get a 4 per cent incentive against export of software or IT-enabled services.

US government scientists said on Wednesday they have taken an important step in the long trek toward making nuclear fusion - the very process that powers stars - a viable energy source for humankind.

Toyota is working with Japan’s space agency on a vehicle to explore the lunar surface, with ambitions to help people live on the moon by 2040 and then go live on Mars, company officials said Friday.

Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc said on Monday that its research team has built a new artificial intelligence supercomputer that it thinks will be the fastest in the world when completed in mid-2022.

Google will invest up to $1 billion in India's second-largest mobile operator, Airtel, the companies said on Friday. The global tech giant will buy a $700 million stake in billionaire Sunil Mittal's Bharti Airtel, giving it 1.28 per cent ownership, the firms said in a joint statement.

Since the Covid-19 pandemic hit the world in 2020, Meta has connected two billion people to resources from health authorities and carried out awareness campaigns on Facebook and Instagram. The company also supported the Bangladesh government and national health agencies in their Covid-19 response and helped with vaccination roll-out in the country. 

The relationship between journalism and social media is crucial to the public’s right to information and media organisations should work with social media companies like Facebook to combat misinformation and cyberbullying, experts said at a virtual event today.

Walton Digi-Tech Industries Limited has launched a new model of its ‘Toronggo’ dual-band Wi-Fi router in the market. The 1200 Mbps router, modelled as 'WR15', features 4 high performance 5 dBi antennas and can provide up to 300 Mbps speed at the 2.4GHz band and up to 867 Mbps at the 5GHz band, says a press release. The device features 3 LAN and 1 WAN Gigabit ports. It also has a MAC address filter and black-list facilities along with 64/128-bit encrypted protection and a built-in firewall. The router is currently priced at Tk. 2,750/-. Users can buy it from all Walton Plaza and dealer points across the country along with the e-commerce platforms, e-plaza and Walcart. Users will also get 1-year after-sales service on the device.

10 Minute School and Shajgoj, two local startups have been selected for Sequoia Capital's prestigious accelerator program, Surge. A total of 20 startups from South-East Asia, including two from Bangladesh, were selected for this years Surge Accelerator cohort.

Walton Digi-Tech Industries has recently launched three new laptops with Intel's 11th Generation processors.