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EDB, JICA to promote Sri Lanka ICT companies in Japanese market

To assist 30 SME ICT/BPM companies and tech startups over a two-year period

January 22, 2024 1 min read

Regional rivals China, India eye Sri Lanka Telecom

China and India are both involved in Sri Lanka's port sector

January 15, 2024 1 min read

Dustbin, toothbrush and waste app win at Sri Lanka youth innovator awards

Competition showcased undergrad students' solutions to waste problems

January 4, 2024 2 min read

Sri Lanka allows e-documents in grama niladhari services

This allows the use of electronic documents and reports when obtaining government services

January 2, 2024 1 min read
WHO calls for volume control messages and sound tracking in video games

“A WHO-led systematic scoping review suggests that video gameplay may be a common source of unsafe listening

Sri Lanka seeks global IT partnerships, investments at Disrupt Asia 2025

The summit, scheduled for September, seeks to harness diplomatic network strength

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
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Sri Lanka-based LSEG Technology to clear securities in Philippines stock exchange

Sri Lanka-based LSEG Technology, a unit of London Stock Exchange will provide clearing, settlement and risk management t...

December 15, 2019 1 min read

Mobitel to provide all communications for Hatton National Bank

Mobile telecom provider Mobitel said it has entered into a partnership to provide all communications facilities to Hatto...

December 14, 2019 1 min read

More girls in STEM-classes could bridge Sri Lanka gender digital divide

Sri Lanka should make extra efforts to get more girls educated in STEM or science-based subjects to eliminate gender dis...

November 26, 2019 3 min read

Sri Lanka's IT industry takes aim at artificial intelligence

Sri Lanka's information technology industry is aiming to expand deeper into artificial intelligence and use its strength...

November 25, 2019 2 min read

Moody’s Analytics Knowledge Services rebrands as Acuity Knowledge Partners

Moody’s Analytics Knowledge Services said it was re-branding as Acuity Knowledge Partners (“Acuity”) following the...

November 12, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Dialog Axiata Sept profits down on higher operating costs

Net profits at Sri Lankan telco Dialog Axiata fell 14.3 percent to 1.47 billion rupees in the September quarter due to h...

November 7, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka's draft data protection and privacy laws should not hamper markets, innovation: IPS

Sri Lanka's draft privacy and data protection laws, while important, should not place unnecessary burdens on businesses ...

November 6, 2019 3 min read

Dialog Broadband launches software defined WAN for companies in Sri Lanka

Dialog Broadband Networks (Pvt) Ltd, a unit of Dialog Axiata has launched software defined wide area network (SD-WAN) se...

September 24, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Dialog says Axiata-Telenor merger off

Sri Lanka's Dialog Axiata said a planned merger of its parent with Telenor has been called off.

September 9, 2019 1 min read

State funds to buy Sri Lanka Telecom stocks for minimum public float

Sri Lanka's cabinet has cleared the way for state-run funds and banks to buy Sri Lanka Telecom stock to meet a public fl...

September 4, 2019 1 min read