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Lanka Pay to recognize Sri Lanka's financial innovators

Lanka Pay's Technovation awards will recognize banking and non-banking firms that had come up with innovative solutions.

March 14, 2024 1 min read

Sri Lanka tech, AI firms invited to apply to UK's Pathfinder awards

Winners will receive help to grow their business in the UK.

March 4, 2024 1 min read

Sri Lanka to get Cyber Security Act, Authority: Min

Digital economy had grown from 4.73 to 5 percent.

February 29, 2024 1 min read

Sri Lanka to begin pilot project with Microsoft to teach AI in schools

A pilot project with support from Microsoft set to begin from grade 8 upwards.

February 13, 2024 2 min read
Sri Lanka's EDB and JICA extend program to support ICT/BPM sector

extension will expand benefits to Sri Lankan ICT companies, including continued market intelligence, business coaching,

Sri Lanka telecom regulator asked find businesses to use Lotus Tower

Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had asked the telecom regulator to find local and foreign businesses to use Lot...

June 16, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka telcos to offer new data plans to study, work from home in Coronavirus

Sri Lanka's telecom firms will provide expanded data plans to help customers work and study from home to promote social ...

Chanka Jayasinghe
June 8, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka Telecom says dealing with REvil hack, customer data safe

Sri Lanka Telecom, the island's largest fixed line operators said a cyber attack has been mounted on a section of their ...

May 25, 2020 1 min read

Coats Digital, Sri Lanka's Res.Q and Serai eye tech boost for apparel industry in Covid

Tech units of thread maker Coats, HSBC Bank have teamed up with Res.Q, a technology firm backed by Sri Lanka's Hirdraman...

May 21, 2020 2 min read

Dialog Axiata traffic surge 40-pct in Sri Lanka Covid-19 curfews, but revenue hit on discounts

Dialog Axiata, Sri Lanka's largest mobile operator, which has fixed access and pay television had seen a surge in traffi...

May 1, 2020 3 min read

SL CERT|CC issues threat warnings for ‘Free Internet Data Scams’

Sri Lanka CERT|CC for cyber security issues has issued high threat warnings for ‘Free Internet Data Scams’ and asks ...

April 23, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka's main Coronavirus hospital given data, video facilities by Dialog Axiata

Sri Lanka's Dialog Axiata said it had provided high speed data links and video conference facilities to the Infectious ...

April 19, 2020 1 min read

Yara Technologies develops platform for schools to communicate with parent

Yara Technologies, a Colombo-based start-up it had launched an online platform that connects schools and pre-schools wi...

April 2, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka looks to set up broadcast regulator for television and radio

Sri Lanka is looking to regulate television and radio broadcasting and the cabinet of ministers had set up a committee ...

March 5, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Dialog Finance gets shareholder nod to raise Rs700mn

Dialog Finance Plc, a unit of Sri Lanka's Dialog Axiata has received shareholder approval to raise 701 million rupees to...

March 3, 2020 1 min read
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Sri Lanka Telecom profits up in Dec on lower income tax

State-owned Sri Lanka Telecom Plc (SLT) reported a 39.7 percent growth in net profits to 1.3 billion rupees in the Decem...

March 2, 2020 2 min read

Dialog acquires systems integration arm of Sri Lanka's VSIS

Sri Lankan telco Dialog Axiata Plc in a statement said its subsidiary Dialog Broadband Networks (Private) Ltd has acquir...

February 28, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka banks to launch request to pay services shortly

At least two Sri Lanka banks will launch request to pay services shortly, a new technology that makes it much easier for...

Tania Madies
February 23, 2020 3 min read

Dialog Axiata to invest US$254mn in Sri Lanka network expansion

Dialog Axiata, a unit of Malaysia's Axiata group said it will invest 254.1 million US dollars (46.1 billion rupees) in i...

February 19, 2020 2 min read

Mobitel in investment drive to boost rural broadband in Sri Lanka

Mobitel (Pvt) Ltd, a unit of publicly traded Sri Lanka Telecom Plc, will expand a 100 million dollar investment drive st...

Chanka Jayasinghe
February 18, 2020 2 min read

Computer literacy in Sri Lanka grows in 1H19

Computer literacy in Sri Lanka grew to 30.1 percent in the first half of 2019, rebounding from a fall to 27.5 percent a ...

February 17, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Bank of Ceylon, Mobitel team up to push digital mobile payments

Sri Lanka state-run Bank of Ceylon, Mobitel (Pvt) Ltd, a unit of Sri Lanka Telecom, said they have tied up to provide di...

Chanka Jayasinghe
February 16, 2020 2 min read

John Wiley of US to make Sri Lanka its largest technology centre in next two years

US-based John Wiley and Sons Inc, a research and education publisher, is on track to make Sri Lanka its top technology c...

February 15, 2020 2 min read

Foreign exchange gain pushes Sri Lanka's Dialog Axiata net up in Dec

Sri Lanka's Dialog Axiata Plc reported a net profit of 2.3 billion rupees for the December quarter, an over twentyfold g...

February 15, 2020 2 min read

Emerging Media invests Rs100mn in XpressJobs

Sri Lanka's Emerging Media, a digital advertising firm, invested 100 million rupees in XpressJobs in exchange for a 25 ...

January 25, 2020 2 min read