Ride-hailing service has been operating in Bangladesh for almost six years. It has been an integral part of the public transport ecosystem in major metropolises in Bangladesh. On the occasion of the launching of Uber's 2021 Bangladesh Economic Impact Report, we spoke with Mike Orgill, Senior Director, Public Policy & Government Relations, Asia Pacific at Uber. Here’s the gist of the conversation that we had:

Depending on the demands of your work, both laser and colour printers may be required in your new office.

Letting the thesis out of the bag

Two Bangladeshi projects are among the six winners of the 2022 Aga Khan Award for Architecture (AKAA).  The Urban River Spaces project in Jhenaidah created by Khondakar Hasibul Kabir and Suhailey Farzana, and the community spaces of the Rohingya Refugee Response programme by architects Rizvi Hassan, Khwaja Fatmi and Saad Ben Mostafa, will, together with four other winning projects, share the USD $1 million award, one of the largest in architecture. 

Banglalink has officially kicked off the registration process for the 6th season of ennovators, the largest digital ideation competition in the country.

Grameenphone recently hosted the GP Accelerator 3.0 “Demo Day” at the GP headquarters, where six participating startups pitched their ventures to potential investors.

Grameenphone Accelerator 3.0 “Demo Day” was held on September 21 at GP House where six participating startups pitched for their ventures to potential investors. The journey of GP Accelerator this year began in February with the seventh batch of the national award wining initiative, which has been supporting the startup ecosystem in Bangladesh since 2015. 

The iPhone has a long history of being a challenging phone to fix. Even simple repairs are difficult to performppl because of the internal disarray of parts that needs specialized tools and a steady hand. The redesign of the iPhone 14 has largely eliminated that. The phone has an entirely new frame that features a thin metal sheet in the middle that makes it simple to replace the back glass and the front screen. Since it can be opened from both the front and the back, replacing the screen and the back glass is much simpler than it was for earlier models.

Zatiq's Pocket Pay device is a portable card reader that can be used by delivery merchants for home deliveries.

Nvidia has launched the new RTX 40-series GPUs. The RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 are now both officially released following months of rumours and a recent tease from Nvidia. The RTX 4090 will be available on October 12th for $1,599, while the RTX 4080 will go on sale in November starting at $899. The next-generation Ada Lovelace architecture from Nvidia powers both.

US graphics card maker Nvidia recently announced that it will be officially launching its RTX 40 series GPUs in the global market next month.

Apple, the makers of the iPhone, recently mentioned that the prices of apps and in-app purchases on its App Store will increase in several countries from next month.

Zoom Video Communications, the American software company behind the popular videoconferencing app Zoom, is reportedly launching its own email and calendar apps.

Global video-sharing platform TikTok recently expanded their suite of creation tools with TikTok Now, a new feature which will send users daily notifications to take pictures or videos using the cameras of their smartphones.

The newly added community chats feature allows users to make custom chatrooms for their Facebook groups. Here's how to create one.

Team Interplanetar, a Mars Rover team from BUET, has reached the finals at European Rover Challenge (ERC) 2022, the largest international space and robotics competition in Europe.

Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, recently announced that it is making the desktop version of its app, Snapchat for Web, available to all its users.

Adobe has entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire the web-based collaborative platform Figma for approximately $20 billion in cash and stock.

Founded only a year ago, the makers of this keyboard have received much appraisal from the local mechanical keyboard enthusiast community at a fast pace.

Organisations are shifting away from their perspective that views people as a cost of doing business. Nowadays, they are choosing to see people as human capital. Such a perspective gives them a better chance of standing out from the competition and gaining an edge in the cutthroat market.