Business Finance for the Poor in Bangladesh (BFP-B), funded by the Department for International Development (DFID) of The UK

Taking the stairs is rare these days unless and until you're someone who loses sleep over calories. You come home after a long day, jam your fingers on the elevator button twice or thrice or up to the point where someone asks how bad your day went and get inside for a few awkward seconds standing beside strangers who are equally eager to get off from this temporary confinement. We don't really care about something as trivial as “how good the elevator functioned”. Call it our habit of shutting out certain matters we deem as insignificant or simply being ignorant- ironically, there's an entire industry that cares a lot about how smoothly you get from the ground floor to your apartment or to that kickass hotel suite.

Did you know that seven out of ten Bangladeshis, while buying a smartphone, prefer one with a better camera than a bigger battery?

Magnito Digital, one of the leading digital marketing agencies in Bangladesh has won the Silver Award in the prestigious "Campaign South Asia - Digital Agency of the year 2016" in the 'Rest of South Asia' category.

You can now play "Pac-Man" with your Facebook Messenger buddies. Facebook is adding the option to play games with your contacts on the messaging app beginning Tuesday. You can access the feature in the latest version of the app by tapping a game controller icon.

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Recently in Bangkok, Huawei and the International Telecommuni-cations Union (ITU) jointly hosted the first Asia Pacific Exchange on

First presentation session of top 500 teams in EATL-Prothom Alo App Contest 2016-season 4 was held on Saturday, 26th November

Ride-hailing service Uber is the talk of the town now. Although this very concept of 'Uberisation' is new in Bangladesh, Uber isn't

Ride-hailing service Uber is the talk of the town now. Although this very concept of 'Uberisation' is new in Bangladesh, Uber isn't the first or only ride-hailing service operating in the country. In the last couple of years, we have seen a significant number of local startups (some backed by foreign VCs) getting into the ride-hailing business. Some of these services are very good, providing premium ride quality and levels of service. Others are not so great, but get the job done somewhat. Here are some of the few that caught our attention:

For a company well-known pretty much everywhere in the world, Uber sure has its fair share of controversy. Recently, the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) has declared that the service is illegal, after it failed to obtain necessary permissions from the concerned authorities. This comes less than a week after its launch.

Plenty of confusion with what is Uber. Is it anyone’s car that is lying around? Is it a taxi? Is it a plane? The confusion stems from Uber itself for pretending to be like Johnny Depp: reclusive and quiet. Except Depp can handle the grief. Can Uber?

Uber [UBER.UL] is to seek to convince Europe's top court next week that it is a digital service, not a transport company, in a case that can determine whether app-based startups should be exempt from strict laws meant for regular companies.

In the shadows of Samsung Electronics' (005930.KS) Note 7 smartphone crisis, affiliate Samsung SDI (006400.KS) is quietly reassuring anxious clients including Apple Inc (AAPL.O) that its batteries are safe.

Facebook will open a new London headquarters next year and create another 500 jobs, the leading social network said Monday, despite uncertainty over Brexit.

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Bangladeshi technology startup Chalo has introduced four new services including – Air Ticket, Packet, Microbus and Short Message

SSLCOMMERZ will provide online payment gateway service for Eastern University. An online payment gateway service agreement has been

ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM-ICPC) is an annual multi-tiered competitive programming competition among

Dell has announced an addition in its Inspiron 15 5000 series of laptops in Bangladesh, with the launch of the Inspiron 5567. The