Facebook announced the launch of its third-party fact-checking program today in Bangladesh as part of its ongoing efforts to reduce the spread of misinformation and improve the quality of news people find online. Facebook will partner with BOOM, which has been certified by the Poynter Institute's non-partisan International Fact Checking Network.

As the country continues to be on lockdown for an uncertain timeline, toddlers and adults alike grow restless indoors. While the adults

Email is a remarkably convenient medium used in business communication. Given the current situation with the Corona pandemic where working from home is adopted by more companies every day, it has become even more important for effective communication.

WaterSHED Holdings Singapore Ltd recently launched the first-ever portable hand washing solution of in world -- called HappyTap -- in Bangladesh.

Apple and Google announced they are working on a Bluetooth-based contact tracing system for COVID 19, which will allow users to share data through approved apps from health organisations.

Bidyanondo Foundation is a non-profit social welfare organization that has been helping the unfortunate even before the coronavirus

To prevent spread of coronavirus, Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) have launched a mobile app aiming to monitor the home-quarantine of people who came into contact with Covid-19 positive patients.

Spring graduation ceremonies in Japan have been cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic, but students at one school were able to attend remotely by controlling avatar robots while logged on at home.

Jobike, the bicycle hailing service, has extended its services for free to the healthcare professionals working at IEDCR. Ten bicycles are to be made available for IEDCR to help medical staff to commute inside the city to collect samples from patients in a safe and convenient way.

The culture of working from home or social distancing might be quite alien to a society like ours. However, companies in different corners of the world have already adapted before even the current crisis we are facing. The coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak has officially been termed a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) -- an alarming wakeup call as the disease is accelerating in multiple countries simultaneously at a rapid pace. Given that this is an era of the connected world, mass traveling did very little help towards the initial containment.

As coronavirus continues to spread, working from home has become the new reality for many Bangladeshi personnel.

As of 7:30pm today (March 29), Dhaka’s Air Quality Index (AQI) stands at 91 -- a giant leap forward from a typical range of 260-319 at the beginning of the year.

Mobile operators in the country have started sending text messages to users to determine potential carriers of coronavirus.

Despite enduring heavy toll on their businesses, some startups have come forward to help the customers, the community as a whole the country. Here we have listed what some of the startups are doing:

Internet Service Providers Association of Bangladesh (ISPAB) today complained that the workers of different internet service providers have been physically assaulted by members of law enforcement agencies at different places across the country over the last two days.

Amidst the Covid-19 outbreak, most offices have already gone into a work-from-home process. The younger, tech-savvy crowd is all for it because most are already using apps like Slack, Basecamp and even the humble Facebook Messenger to communicate.

Huawei Technologies (Bangladesh) Limited will provide video conference systems and Artificial Solution (AI) to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to help fight COVID-19.

As part of an awareness drive, from today, Grameenphone users have already noticed a cautionary message “Stay Home” next to the signal bar on their phones.

You can divide your academic life into two phases. One in which you don’t know how to use Microsoft Excel and the other where eventually you start discovering it.

Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited is planning to introduce free Wi-Fi hotspots in 1,216 union parishads where the state owned company has its own fiber-optic connectivity, says its managing director on Facebook Live.