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Sri Lanka’s copyright laws need to be updated for artificial intelligence: Lawyers

Sri Lanka’s Intellectual Property Act needs revisions to recognize creations by artificial intelligence

February 9, 2024 1 min read

Dubai based QX Lab launches AI tool with Sinhalese and Tamil interface

Dubai based QX Lab AI has lauched an artificial intelligence platform which can be used in Sinhala and Tamil

February 3, 2024 2 min read

Asia Internet Coalition refutes Sri Lanka Minister’s Online Safety Bill claims

The Bill, in its current form, would undermine potential growth and FDI into Sri Lanka’s digital economy

January 24, 2024 2 min read

Google, Facebook could close up operations in Sri Lanka after OSB: Opposition MP

"Once this law is introduced, they will review the offences they would be accused of and most likely close up"

January 23, 2024 3 min read
Sri Lanka trains state officers on use of AI

To transform the public service into 'a productive and efficient service'

Sri Lanka to replace ICTA with GovTech

Institution with the necessary powers to enable the smooth implementation of digital transformation projects

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
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Regulations delay Sri Lanka fintech innovations at Dialog Finance

Sri Lanka's Dialog Finance Plc said that it could not invest the money raised in two rights issues in the planned fintec...

January 8, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Dialog says giving unlimited youtube data for US$1.7 a month

Sri Lanka's Dialog Axiat Plc said it is giving unlimited data to view youtube.com, for 249 rupees (1.7 US dollars) a mon...

January 5, 2020 1 min read

ICTA's Spiralation fine-tunes Sri Lankan tech startups

Spiralation, an Information and Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) organized tech startup supportive program, facilit...

December 31, 2019 3 min read

Sri Lanka President moots central database for citizen's information

Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has asked officials to look into building a central database of citizens, cont...

December 30, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka telecom regulator issues warning over premium call back scam

Sri Lanka's telecom regulator has warned subscribers not to return foreign calls from unknown numbers amid a suspected p...

December 27, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka Telecom to connect million homes with fibre, rates low: Fitch

Sri Lanka Telecom, the islands sole wireline operator is expecting to connect a million fibre optic customers in the nex...

December 23, 2019 6 min read

Sri Lanka computer literacy grows, ongoing shift from computers to smartphones

Sri Lanka's computer literacy in 2018 had grown to 29 percent from 28.6 percent a year earlier, the census and statistic...

December 20, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka phone users targeted in suspected premium callback scam

Phone users in Sri Lanka have been receiving missed calls from strange numbers in from African and other countries in a ...

December 18, 2019 2 min read
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Singapore's Zilingo acquires Sri Lanka's nCinga for US$15.5mn

Zilingo, a Singapore-based fashion platform, has acquired Sri Lanka's nCinga Innovations for 15.5 million US dollars in ...

December 17, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka state universities lack data science units: IPS

Only two state-owned Sri Lankan universities have set up units to train data scientists who are in high demand, the Inst...

December 16, 2019 2 min read