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Aamra bags double awards at the Microsoft Envision Forum 2019

Aamra bags two awards at the Microsoft Envision Forum 2019 held at Pan Pacific Sonargaon on October 17.
Moner Bondhu and EMK centre celebrate World Mental Health Day 2019

A day-long observation of World Mental Health Day 2019 took place on Thursday, 10th October 2019 at EMK Centre. Throughout the day a series of talks and free psychological counselling sessions were organised with EMK Centre in collaboration with Moner Bondhu, a tech startup that facilitates online counselling.
Yoda bags BASIS National ICT Award

Yoda was declared as the champion, at the 2019 BASIS National ICT Award during the award ceremony, at a hotel in Dhaka
CodersTrust co-founder joins Vatican Technology Summit as Key Note Speaker

CEO of UTC Associates & Co-Founder of CodersTrust Mr. Aziz Ahmad participated in a special Vatican technology summit called ‘’The Common Good in the Digital Age’’ as a Key Note Speaker.
OPPO launches ‘A9 2020’ with 48MP Quad Camera, 8GB RAM and 5000mAh Battery

OPPO Bangladesh has launched OPPO ‘A9 2020’ and ‘A5 2020’ in a grand launching event recently Dhaka
Huawei's high hope: HarmonyOS

After the launch at the Huawei Developer Conference in Dongguan, China on August 9, 2019, Huawei has been showcased it's fabled 'HarmonyOS' – a new microkernel-based, distributed operating system in Dhaka with a handful of journalists.
XeonBD becomes the first certified PartnerNOC of cPanel Inc in Bangladesh

XeonBD’s have successfully completed the certification process and became Bangladesh’s first cPanel’s certified PartnerNOC. Moreover, XeonBD has also received a cPanel's certification badge too.
Excel-KYOCERA partners up to launch cutting edge printing solutions in Bangladesh

KYOCERA has recently appointed Excel Intelligent Solutions Limited as its distributor in Bangladesh.
'GoMedKit' to deliver medicines in 59 minutes

'GoMedKit', first of its kind, will deliver most of the medicines to you in just 59 minutes.
Priyoshop.com celebrates Brand Week with guaranteed gift

Priyoshop.com has launched Brand Week' to shop all the essential products from trusted brands. The campaign will run from 7th to 8th September.
CodersTrust to train and create job opportunities for underprivileged women

Recently an event titled`Developing the Skills of Women in the Freelancing World' was organised by CodersTrust, an IT training institute at the capital. This project by CodersTrust was aimed towards skill development, training, and employment at free of cost for the disadvantaged woman of the country.
ZKTeco's ZKX6550 X-ray inspection system available in BD

To ensure the security of an organisation’s premises, ZKTeco ZKX6550 X-ray inspection system offers the operator’s ability to identify potential threats.
Huawei touts achievements in 5G for Asia-Pacific Innovation Day 2019

This year’s instalment of the Asia-Pacific Innovation Day was held today at the Waldorf Astoria in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. This year’s theme, “Innovation Enables Asia-Pacific Digitisation”, saw over 200 representatives from a wide range of backgrounds—government, industry and academia included—discuss innovative 5G technologies and applications, along with sustainable development, advanced technology and their visions of the future.
Next apple event on the cards

Apple has sent out invitations for its annual iPhone event which is scheduled for September 10th. It is anticipated that the company will
Visa-SSLCOMMERZ brings you the “Save and Save” offer

SSLCOMMERZ has launched “Save and Save” campaign in partnership with Visa, the global payments solutions, to provide customers a discount of BDT 400* from over 30 merchants in 7 shopping categories when customers use their saved Visa card to make the online payment.
OpenStack celebrates 9th Anniversary at BRAC University

On the occasion of OpenStack's 9th birthday, OpenStack Bangladesh organised a workshop on OpenStack Cloud at CSE Research Lab at BRAC University, Dhaka
Divine IT awarded with National Productivity & Quality Excellence Award 2018

Divine IT Limited has been awarded in the Medium Industry category by Ministry of Industries of Bangladesh at the Institute of Diploma Engineers, Bangladesh (IDEB) last Sunday.
TigerIT blacklisted for corrupt practices in World Bank funded NID Card project

TigerIT, one of the largest IT firms of Bangladesh, was blacklisted today by the World Bank. The news broke after a report by Prothom Alo based on a sanction issued by World Bank. In the sanction dated back on April 24, 2019, the Sanctions Board of World Bank imposed sanctions of debarment on TigerIT Bangladesh and Mr. Ziaur Rahman, the CEO of TigerIT for a period of nine years and six months, and six years and six months respectively.
Razor Capital invests in Loosely Coupled Technologies

Razor Capital, through its Luxembourg investment vehicle Monsoon Tech, has concluded due diligence and proceeded in executing its investment in Loosely Coupled Technologies (LCT)
Array Network showcases networking and data centre solutions in Dhaka

Focusing the importance of emerging networking and security trends, Array Networks has organised a summit titled “Reimagine Networking and Data Centres Summit” at Banani Club Limited in the capital city Dhaka on July 18, 2019 (Thursday).
ZKTeco issues cautionary note regarding grey market products in Bangladesh

Due to the rampant supply of grey market products, ZKTeco, a leading biometric security solutions provider, has issued a cautionary note for everyone planning to purchase security solutions of ZKTeco.
Mobile Outfitters starts its journey in Bangladesh

Mobile Outfitters (MO) launches its journey in Bangladesh to provide Mobile Clear-Coat, Fusion Bumper, Style Screen service for the smartphone user of the country. Mobile Outfitters declared its official launching by participation at the three-day long Smartphone and Tab Expo (Summer) 2019 held at Bangabandhu International Convention Centre at Agargoan in the city on last Thursday.
Digital shipment agency- Doorping.com launched

Digital shipment agency Doorping.com started its journey recently. Former advisor of the caretaker government M Hafiz Uddin Khan inaugurated the service on Monday as the chief guest at a function at the agency's head office in capital's Uttara.
Pathao undergoing massive downsizing

Local ride-sharing startup Pathao underwent a massive downsizing today. According to several sources currently working in Pathao, nearly three hundred mid to top-level employees including the Head of Pathao Food and Ride Core Service were handed their letters of termination.
BIJF seeks transparency in the 2019-2020 budget

Bangladesh ICT Journalist Forum (BIJF), the largest platform for ICT Media Professionals, finds maintaining transparency as one the biggest challenge for the implementation of the proposed budget. These findings were made public in a 'Post Budget Analysis Session' hosted by BIJF yesterday. The discussion concluded with the remarks that the lack of supervision will definitely impact the ICT industry.
Google calendar app down globally

Alphabet Inc’s Google Calendar app users were unable to access their schedules on Tuesday as the app faced technical issues globally.
First ever community meet of AWS developers of Bangladesh

Two years after its inception, Amazon Web Services (AWS) User Group Bangladesh for the first time arranged “AWS Developers Meetup Dhaka” to strengthen the developers' community in Bangladesh. This community with the help of AWS & Brain Station 23 arranged the meetup on May, 31.
Content startup JustStorys begins journey

A new content startup, Juststorys started its journey to introduce digital contents for brands.
Online air ticketing agency '24tkt.com' takes off

The official online air ticketing agency ‘24tkt.com’ started its journey to provide instant air ticket services. Air Ticket agency or travel agency can buy air tickets for domestic or international routes from here at the highest discounted price.
Scopes of empowering businesses with Samsung Knox

Samsung has been promoting Knox as 'more than a security tool'. If you are a newbie then you might wonder, what is Knox? Simply put, Knox is Samsung's defense-grade mobile security platform.