Bangladeshi AI-focused Startup, Sigmind.ai has been nominated to take part in K-Startup this year. The K-Startup Grand Challenge, the competitive accelerator program held every year in Seoul, Korea offers startups all over the world a global platform to break into Asia using the Korean market as a stepping stone.

Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has formed an eight-member committee to formulate a guideline to operate OTT (over-the-top) platforms and for collecting revenues from them in compliance with a High Court directive. 

El Salvador will on Tuesday become the first country in the world to recognize bitcoin as legal tender, a move President Nayib Bukele says will save Salvadorans living abroad millions of dollars in commissions on money they send home.

Facebook on Friday said it disabled its topic recommendation feature after it mistook Black men for "primates" in video at the social network.

Redefining the smartphone experiences to a significant extent, Samsung introduced its ‘Galaxy Z Fold3 5G’ and ‘Galaxy Z Flip3 5G’ android handsets to the global market quite recently. And perhaps to nobody’s surprise, these two models have received a grand market success with their innovational dazzle! In Bangladesh, preorders for Samsung Z Flip3 5G and Z Fold3 5G began on September 01, 2021.

OPPO A16 is now available in all outlets and online marketplaces.

Ireland hit Facebook's (FB.O) WhatsApp with a record 225 million euro ($266 million) fine on Thursday following an inquiry into the messaging app's transparency around sharing personal data with other Facebook companies.

Bangladesh’s first-ever cross-border eCommerce platform, Aadi, is celebrating the Bangladesh cricket team’s T20 journey by offering free delivery of the cricket team’s T20 official matchday jerseys and official caps worldwide, with the global delivery support of DHL express. 

Protein Market, an agrotech startup that’s working to provide safe and unadulterated protein products to B2B & B2C, has raised their first round of Angel investment.

Much debated short video platform, TikTok yesterday has made the announcement of launching a dedicated Safety Centre for Bangladesh. This online Safety Centre will act as a one-stop destination providing access to safety policies, and resources in both Bengali and English, according to a press release issued by the platform yesterday.

Usually, PlayStation game console systems do not receive a hardware update until the consoles reach the half-life in their life cycle when Sony usually releases a slimmer version of the existing console, which is also cheaper to buy.  This time around, however, Sony released a newly updated version of their existing PlayStation 5 model, not even after a full year. 

Leaks and teases- that’s all we had for more than a couple of months about the third installment of Samsung’s foldable device-based Z series. And after much anticipation, just a few weeks back, I had the pleasure of playing around with the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3 5G and Galaxy Z Flip3 5G. Right after the global unveiling, Samsung was able to showcase the devices to a few of the top reviewers of the country. After fiddling with the devices for a couple of hours, here’s my first impression:

Instagram will begin requiring users to confirm their birthdays as part of an effort to create new safety features for young people, the Facebook Inc-owned social media app said Monday.

Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar has called on Facebook not to host content that propagates terrorism, militancy, sectarianism, sedition, pornography, and those that go against the socio-cultural values in Bangladesh.

China has forbidden under-18s from playing video games for more than three hours a week, a stringent social intervention that it said was needed to pull the plug on a growing addiction to what it once described as "spiritual opium".

A team of the Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Dhaka University has crowned champions at the grand finale of talent competitions of the country, Battle of Minds. Team Fan Club won the 18th edition of the competition after beating four other teams that made their way to the finals.

Youth-favorite brand realme has been leaving no stone unturned to ameliorate the life of the youth since its inception by introducing leap-forward technology. Of late, realme has become the top 1 smartphone maker in Bangladesh in Q2, 2021, according to Canalys and they have been trying to develop a diverse portfolio as they have entered AIoT 2.0 development phase with their advanced ‘1+5+T’ strategy. As part of this new strategy, realme has come up with its first-ever laptop ‘realme Book Slim’.

Smartphone brand Realme has launched the ‘Narzo 30’ and its first laptop ‘Realme Book Slim’ through an online launch event held at 12 PM onAugust 28, 2021.

The new desktop series features the 'Kaiman EX B', 'Kaiman EX G' and 'Kaiman EX Pro'.

A Russian court on Thursday fined Twitter 17 million roubles ($229,730), Facebook 15 million roubles and WhatsApp 4 million roubles over their refusal to localise user data as required by Russian law, Interfax news agency reported.