President Joe Biden on Wednesday withdrew a series of Trump-era executive orders that sought to ban new downloads of WeChat and TikTok, and ordered a Commerce Department review of security concerns posed by those apps and others.

Shohoz, the ticketing, food-delivery, ride-sharing, utility-vehicle hiring platform, has yet added another vertical: an ed-tech platform called 'Shohoz Learn'. Launched on June 10, this platform houses 100 kids' eBooks with an audio reader and assessment tools in partnership with the global ed-tech platform MommyDaddyMe (MDM).

Facebook on Wednesday confirmed it is working on a smartwatch that might one day connect with augmented reality glasses being developed by the leading social network. Facebook Reality Labs is investing in ways to make AR glasses more useful, unit head Andrew “Boz” Bosworth said in a tweet responding to a Verge report that the social network is aiming to unveil a smartwatch next year.

The Hon'ble State Minister of ICT Division Mr Zunaid Ahmed Palak MP enlightened the media about the present state and the future action plans of BIG 2021.

Apple Inc is in early-stage talks with China's CATL and BYD about the supply of batteries for its planned electric vehicle, four people with knowledge of the matter said. The discussions are subject to change and it is not clear if agreements with either CATL or BYD will be reached, said the people who declined to be named as the discussions are private.

Multiple news and commerce websites are reportedly down in a massive outage early Tuesday. Affected websites include The New York Times, BBC, The Guardian and Amazon. Users accessing these sites are being redirected to an error page that reads “Error 503 Service Unavailable.”

Ride sharing service Uber has made CNG auto-rickshaws available for ridesharing in Dhaka city. Accessing the app earlier today, users noticed that a ‘CNG’ option was popping up alongside the regular UberX, Premier, Moto and UberXL options, after choosing a destination within Dhaka.

Finance Ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) rich nations reached a landmark accord on Saturday backing the creation of a global minimum corporate tax rate of at least 15%, an agreement that could then form the basis of a worldwide deal.

BTRC has fixed the maximum tariff for broadband internet connection today. A customer now has to pay Tk 500 a month for using a broadband connection with a minimum internet speed of 5 Mbps.

Prices up, prices down for gadgets and appliances.

Bangladesh’s first space sharing platform, Chaya, has raised USD 45K in pre-seed funding from angel investors Mr. Mohammad Maaz Mamoon and Ms. Isra Mamoon.

While the danger of what seems to the ever-evolving variants of the coronavirus still looms large over our heads, the black fungus has made an

Realme has launched the new Realme 8 Pro along with Buds Air 2 & Buds Air 2 Neo – through an online launch event on 24 May 2021.

Xiaomi has recently unveiled their flagship Mi 11X in Bangladesh. The smartphone comes 6.67 FHD+ 120Hz E4 AMOLED Dot type display,

Fitbit may soon include snoring and noise detection to its devices, which would certainly pleasure snoring spouses and partners while also pique the curiosity of those who believe snoring is an indication of a health problem.

The world is already reeling under the Covid-19 threat, and now a new epidemic of ‘black fungus’ has surged in the neighbouring country, India. In Bangladesh,

In 2015, Habib Ullah Bahar, a graduate of BUET, founded a start-up called Field Buzz with his co-founder Alexis Rawlinson. They started with the little savings they had from their previous venture and did not take any salary for the first 2.5 years.

Smartphone brand Vivo has launched its new V21 smartphone in Bangladesh. The device is the latest addition to Vivo’s V-series smartphones.

Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission is going to implement uniform accounting software for all companies in Gas Sector. They have recently signed an agreement with Divine IT Limited and Giga Tech Limited. Rubina Ferdoushy (Secretary, Admin & Law) and Iqbal Ahmed Fakhrul Hasan (Managing Director, Divine IT Limited) signed the contract for the respective organisation.

Shuttle, a mass-transit startup based in Bangladesh, has raised US$750,000 in a seed round, led by Accelerating Asia. Robi Axiata Limited (r-ventures), Impact Collective (The Ventures, South Korea) and Bangladesh Angels Network (BAN) are some of the investors that participated in the round in addition to angel investors from home and abroad including industry (logistics) experts.