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Sri Lanka's Dialog Axiata completes acquisition of Bharti Airtel Lanka

Dialog issued 952,694,689 ordinary voting shares by way of a share swap to Bharti on Wednesday

June 27, 2024 1 min read

Startup Genome ranks Sri Lanka among world’s top 10 for affordable talent

Ranking was made in the latest Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2024

June 12, 2024 1 min read

Sri Lanka grants preliminary approval for Starlink: State Minister

The details of the public consultation will be published tomorrow

June 6, 2024 2 min read

Sri Lanka President discusses Starlink with Elon Musk

President Wickremesinghe has met Musk at a World Water Forum High-Level Meeting in Indonesia

May 19, 2024 1 min read
Sri Lanka mandates re-registration for SIM cards issued before Aug 2019

Information of some subscribers registered before 2019-08-02 is not in the possession of the telephone operator companie

Sri Lanka restores 2,800 mobile base stations hit by floods

The remaining 949, inactive due to power outages, are being restored to functionality as soon as possible,

Australia edtech start-up Vygo to set up Sri Lanka engineering unit

Vygo, an Australia based education technology company said it will set up an engineering office in Sri Lanka which may s...

January 24, 2021 2 min read
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Sri Lanka budget 2021 impact on the information technology sector

Sri Lanka's budget 2021 comes after the last administration raised tax on cross-border e-commerce transactions to 3.5 pe...

November 26, 2020 4 min read

Harin urges President to move fast on a digital future

Opposition MP Harin Fernando is saying that if Sri Lanka is to go forward as a digital country, first, there is a need f...

Imesh Ranasinghe
November 23, 2020 2 min read
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ICTA to introduce high-tech contact tracing for pandemic control – Chairman de Silva

Sri Lanka’s Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) will launch the new Stay Safe Digital Project on Mo...

Imesh Ranasinghe
November 6, 2020 3 min read
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Sri Lanka's Mobitel offers 5G smartphone

Sri Lanka's Mobitel said it is offering a 5G smartphone which can be pre-ordered.

October 1, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Dialog Axiata offers 5G smartphone

Sri Lanka's Dialog Axiata said it has launched a mid-range 5G smartphone, Huawei Nova 7 SE in several locations where th...

October 1, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka fintech start-ups seek funding in virtual pitch

Seven Sri Lanka fintech start-ups, which are developing applications for insurance, payments and credit products, are se...

Mahadiya Hamza
September 15, 2020 4 min read
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Sri Lanka mobile network Dialog adopts QR code payments

Mobile operator Dialog Axiata said it had adopted Sri Lanka's national quick response code (QR) which will enable paymen...

September 13, 2020 2 min read

Virtusa to be bought by Baring Private Equity Asia for US$2.0bn

Baring Private Equity Asia (BEPA) is to buy Virtusa, a technology company which has a development centre in Sri Lanka in...

September 11, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka stock exchange woos IT firms with revised requirements

Sri Lanka's stock exchange has offered options for information technology firms with a track record to list, including ...

September 1, 2020 2 min read
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Sri Lanka planned number portability welcomed by Dialog

Sri Lanka's largest mobile operator Dialog Axiata Plc has welcomed an announcement by the regulator that the island will...

August 25, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka blockchain start-up gets venture capital from Japan

Tracified, a Sri Lanka-based start-up which is developing a blockchain based solution to track supply chains has receive...

August 17, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka Telecom profits double in June 2020 quarter

Profits at Sri Lanka Telecom Plc, which also has a mobile unit doubled to 2.8 billion rupees in the June 2020 quarter fr...

August 12, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka Angel Fund says seeking early-stage Post-Covid start-ups

The Angel Fund, start-up fund which has collected 100 million rupees says it is looking for innovative early-stage entit...

August 11, 2020 2 min read

Arjuna Nanayakkara to head London Stock Exchange tech centre in Sri Lanka

London Stock Exchange Group said it had appointed Arjuna Nanayakkara who has a background in information technology and ...

July 21, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka Telecom to roll out 200,000 optical fibre links with Nokia tech

Sri Lanka telecom will boost its capacity for optical fibre to the home (FTTH) connections by 200,000 from the current 3...

July 16, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka SME's using ICTs get double the profits, information gulf blocks wider use: LirneAsia

Small and medium enterprises in Sri Lanka can grow their businesses and make more profits by connecting to the internet...

Chanka Jayasinghe
July 5, 2020 4 min read
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Sri Lanka's start-ups slammed by Coronavirus, seeking help

Sri Lanka's start-ups have been badly hit by Coronavirus, with the sector generally not getting support from banks indus...

Tania Madies
June 24, 2020 4 min read

Sri Lanka’s tech firm gets Microsoft's AI grant for healthcare app

Microsoft said it will give a grant to Sri Lanka based Fortude, a technology firm for developing an application dealing ...

June 23, 2020 2 min read

India's HCL Technologies looks to hire 1,500 into Sri Lanka unit amid Covid-19

India based HCL Technologies, an information technology (IT) service and engineering group which is entering Sri Lanka a...

Mahadiya Hamza
June 17, 2020 3 min read
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