DHAKA: Microsoft is buying the professional networking website LinkedIn for just over $26bn in cash. The software giant will pay $196 a share - a premium of almost 50% to Friday’s closing share price. The deal will help Microsoft boost sales of its business and email software.

DHAKA: In our society, people tend to have a heightened sense of eagerness to be an ambassador of goodwill during the holy month of Ramadan. It is in this backdrop that the Robi TVC makes an appeal to the people to extend a helping hand to the community using the power of internet.

DHAKA: India has rejected Google's plans to collect images for its Street View service in the country after objections from security agencies. Officials told that there were concerns that the service would compromise the country's security, BBC reports on Friday (June 10).

DHAKA: Lenovo has announced two unusual smartphones - a model that uses special cameras to scan its surroundings and a handset with optional snap-on parts. The Phab2Pro’s sensors allow it to make sense of objects and close-by spaces, allowing graphics to be intelligently added to

DHAKA: For the first time Apple will lower its App Store commission.  If you sell an app, subscription or other product through the App Store, Apple gets 30% of the money. That’s how it’s been since the App Store's inception seven years back. But now it is changed, apple

DHAKA: Robi observed the World Environment Day by organizing a session on “Green Dhaka” initiative at the company’s corporate office recently. Robi employees were urged, in the session, to plant trees to ensure a greener and cleaner environment as well as contributing in

DHAKA: Public servants in Singapore will be blocked from accessing the internet on work computers from May next year. The moves aim to plug ‘potential leaks from work e-mails and shared documents amid heightened security threats’, the Straits Times newspaper said, reports the BBC.

DHAKA: He might run the world’s biggest social networking site, but not even Mark Zuckerberg is immune to being hacked. The Facebook founder’s accounts on sites including Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and Pinterest appear to have been briefly compromised on Sunday, the BBC reports

DHAKA: State minister for posts and telecommunications Tarana Halim said that as many as 11.6-crore SIMs have been re-registered biometrically till Saturday (June 4). However, over 11-crore SIMs have been re-registered by May 31 and over 38-lakh SIMs have been re-registered by the

DHAKA: The leading digital services provider, Robi has brought forth a new solution called Robi Tracker to help the owners about the safety of their vehicles. This service allows users to monitor their vehicles by simply logging in to the portal from their computer or smart phones.

DHAKA: Grameenphone, the largest telecommunications company of the country thanks its customer for voluntarily re-registering their SIM through the biometric process. Grameenphone has 51.7 million biometrically registered customers as of May 31, 2016 which is around 90 percent of the

DHAKA: The mobile phone users will have to pay more as the supplementary tax on service of SIM or RIM has been proposed to increase by five percent from three percent this year. Finance minister AMA Muhith came up with the disclosure while placing budget of 2016-17 fiscal year on

DHAKA: A clone of the Facebook social media site has briefly appeared in North Korea before quickly going offline. Hosted on the StarCon.net.kp address in North Korea it had many of the features of other social networks. It is not clear who created StarCon but it is thought to be a

DHAKA: Robi customers under Dhonnobad programme can now avail special discounts while enjoying Indian delicacies at Sigree.   Robi’s General Manager (Loyalty & Winbacks) Tawfique Imam and Sigree’s Deputy General Manager M Emdadul Hoque have recently signed an agreement on behalf of

DHAKA: Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) said the disconnected SIMs can be activated within 450 days after biometric verification and paying fee. The unregistered SIMs will be disconnected on Tuesday (May 31) after 11:59pm. BTRC director (system and services)

DHAKA: Google has won a major US court scrap with software firm Oracle after a jury ruled, it did not unfairly appropriate parts of the Java programming language. Oracle had argued that Google had infringed its copyright and had sought nearly $9bn in compensation, BBC reports on Friday

DHAKA: ‘Symphony Bombastic Offer’ winner received the key of the car from the organizers at the prize giving ceremony held at Basundhara City Shopping Mall in city. The winner Mohsin received the key of the car from Jakaria Shahid Managing Director of Edison Group, said a press

DHAKA: Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has announced its first drone, pricing it significantly lower than a comparable model by the market leader DJI. The Mi Drone can stay airborne for nearly half an hour and will be sold with a choice of stabilised cameras. The move gives Xiaomi

DHAKA: Huawei is suing its tech rival Samsung over claims that its patents have been infringed. The Chinese firm said it was pursuing its South Korean rival in two courts - one in California, the other in Shenzhen. According to Huawei, several of its cellular communications and

DHAKA: Twitter is overhauling some of its rules to try to make itself simpler to use and more attractive to newcomers. Members will be able to add multimedia to tweets - including pictures and videos - without eating into the 140-characters-a-post limit. The service is also changing