DHAKA: Google has announced plans to ban ads from so-called payday lenders, in a move the company hopes will limit what it calls a ‘harmful’ industry. The search giant plans to stop allowing ads for loans due within 60 days or with an interest rate of 36% or higher. Google's

DHAKA: Online retail giant Amazon has launched an online video service to rival Google’s YouTube. Amazon Video Direct will allow users to post videos and earn royalties. Viewers can rent and buy content or watch it for free with adverts. An ad-free version is offered to Amazon

DHAKA: Symphony Mobile the leading brand of Bangladesh has launched a new Smartphone name “Symphony H300”. This handset contains Android 5.1 Lollipop version with 1.4 GHz Octacore Processor, includes a 5-inch IPS HD display, Two GB of RAM and 16 GB of ROM, containing designs from a

DHAKA: A three-day Summer Laptop Fair-2016 will kick off at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) at Agargaon in city on Friday (May 13). This is the 17th edition of laptop expo, says a press release issued on Monday (May 9). Local and International technology product

DHAKA: Beijing court has ruled in favour of Facebook and against a Chinese company which had registered ‘face book’ as a separate trademark. The court said the firm had ‘violated moral principles’ with ‘obvious intention to duplicate and copy from another high-profile

DHAKA: South Korea on Sunday (May 8) donated 130 computers for some rural areas of Bangladesh as contribution to latter’s overall ICT development. The donation came from a program, organized by the ICT Division, at Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) in city. The

DHAKA: A seminar on Cyber Security defense was held Thursday (May 5) at the auditorium of Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management (BIBM) at Mirpur in the capital. The theme of the seminar was ‘Cyber Defense: Don’t wait to be breached, know your risks!”.  It was jointly

DHAKA: Have you ever expressed love to your mother? Do you celebrate Mother’s Day?  To find out the answers to these questions of young Bangladeshi, UCWeb conducted a survey on April 29th among mobile netizens, on the occasion of International Mother’s Day, using its flagship

DHAKA: Country’s mobile operator Robi decided to work with Internet provider Aamra Networks in a bid to provide better internet services to its subscribers. Robi’s managing director and CEO Supun Weerasinghe and Aamra Networks Limited’s CEO Syed Farhad Ahmed have recently signed

DHAKA: The government has extended the time for re-registering mobile SIM and RIM cards through biometric system by one month to May 31 as more than four crores users are still to be re-registered. State Minister for Posts and Telecommunication Tarana Halim said the deadline was

DHAKA: Posts and telecommunications state minister Tarana Halim said that cell phone SIMs will not be closed due to the biometric error. She made this assertion while visiting Grameenphone Service Center in city’s Farmgate area on Friday afternoon (April 29). According to her, so

DHAKA: The country’s first towerco, edotco Bangladesh Co. Ltd. recently introduced its first rooftop camouflaged tower structure, on the Chittagong Boat Club building. Edotco’s innovative camouflage designed tower structure protects the aesthetic look of the city and reduced the

DHAKA: State minister for posts and telecommunications Tarana Halim said that the cell phone customers will be allowed to complete their biometric registration of SIMs by 10:00pm on Saturday (April 30). The unregistered SIMs will be closed for three hours as warning from May 1, she

DHAKA: Young Bangla along with Microsoft Bangladesh has taken an initiative to create ‘Service Engineers’ across the country. With the participation of Young Bangla volunteers from Moulavibazar and Sylhet, daylong ‘Service Engineering Training’ with Microsoft certification

DHAKA: Apple reported a 13% drop in its second quarter revenue on Tuesday as sales of iPhones slipped. The technology giant reported quarterly sales of $50.56bn down from $58bn last year - the first fall in sales for the company since 2003. Apple sold 51.2 million iPhones during the

DHAKA: Nokia is expanding in the healthcare market with the acquisition of Withings, a French provider of digital health devices and services. Healthcare is expected to be one of the largest vertical markets in the Internet of Things, a key growth area for Nokia. In particular

DHAKA: Posts and telecommunications state minister Tarana Halim categorically said that biometrically unregistered SIMs will be permanently deactivated soon after April 30. She made this assertion while taking part at a biometric SIM registration awareness program, organized by private

DHAKA: All companies, including Apple, should pay a 50% tax rate, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has told the BBC. He said he doesn’t like the idea that Apple does not pay tax at the same rate he does personally. Apple, Google and Amazon have been criticized for not paying enough

DHAKA: US tech giant Intel is shedding 12,000 jobs as it seeks to cut reliance on the declining personal computer market. The maker of computer chips will take a $1.2bn charge to cover restructuring costs. The job cuts, about 11% of Intel's workforce, will be made over the next

DHAKA: Banglalink, Country's second-largest telecom operator has partnered with Opera, to introduce the largest premium app store, the 'Banglalink App Store', in Bangladesh. Aligned with a focus towards digitalization, Banglalink has created an exclusive opportunity for its