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Sri Lanka Telecom share sale opposed on 'national security' grounds

This is despite nearly all mobile operators in Sri Lanka being private for decades.

June 9, 2023 2 min read

Low female participation in Sri Lanka's ICT sector calls for action - IPS

Females holding only 34 percent of the jobs in the sector

March 8, 2023 6 min read

Sri Lanka's IQ Global launches digital readiness index

IQ Global website is available online for companies.

March 5, 2023 1 min read

Acuity Knowledge Partners with Sri Lanka office to be bought by Permira

Acuity has a 500 person operation in Sri Lanka

January 28, 2023 1 min read
Sri Lanka Department of Government Printing website hacked

The pages included the pages carrying extra gazette notices and tenders

US Embassy, WhimsicalWits launch Cyber Hero app to promote digital safety in Sri Lanka

It teaches users how to recognize and respond to cyber threats, such as phishing, malware, and privacy breaches,

Sri Lanka lifts social media ban

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has ordered telecommunications authorities to lift a temp...

April 30, 2019 1 min read

Australia's Different to double size with Sri Lankan hires

'Different', an Australian tech company with a property development app, is looking to double its team with Sri Lankan e...

Tania Madies
April 16, 2019 2 min read

Fitch confirms Sri Lanka's Dialog Axiata at 'AAA(lka)'/Stable

ECONOMYNEXT - Fitch Ratings said it has confirmed the national long-term rating of Sri Lankan telecoms company Dialog Ax...

April 2, 2019 6 min read

Dee Liyanwala made head of LSEG Technology Sri Lanka

LSEG Techology Sri Lanka, a unit of London Stock Exchange that develops securities trading software, ealier known as Mil...

March 12, 2019 2 min read

India finances IT incubator in Sri Lanka's Jaffna

India is giving a 250 million-rupee grant to set up an information technology incubator in Jaffna in Sri Lanka's North a...

February 21, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka computer literacy falls amid shift to smartphones, tablets

ECONOMYNEXT- Computer literacy in Sri Lanka had fallen while digital literacy has increased in the first half of 2018 fr...

January 29, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka Telecom to borrow from local banks to rollover debt: Fitch

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka Telecom, the island’s main fixed line telco, is likely to borrow from local banks ...

January 25, 2019 1 min read

LSE’s Sri Lankan trade-matching technology for cryptocurrency exchange

ECONOMYNEXT – London Stock Exchange (LSE) group said its trade-matching technology developed by its Sri Lankan un...

January 24, 2019 2 min read

New Sri Lanka software industry salary survey

ECONOMYNEXT - The Sri Lanka Association of Software and Services Companies (SLASSCOM) has published a new survey pay and...

January 18, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka’s LSEG Technology improves Singapore Exchange’s settlement services

ECONOMYNEXT - LSEG Technology, a Sri Lanka-based unit of London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), formerly known as Millenniu...

December 20, 2018 2 min read
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Rohan Samarajiva wins ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ from Sri Lanka Telecom

ECONOMYNEXT - Rohan Samarajiva, founding chairperson of LIRNEasia, a think-tank, was awarded the Sri Lanka Telecom â€...

December 19, 2018 3 min read

Sri Lanka’s ComBank provides Mastercard online payment gateway to Daraz

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Commercial Bank said it has been appointed the Internet Payment Gateway (IPG) se...

December 6, 2018 1 min read

Fitch downgrades Sri Lanka Telecom to 'B' on sovereign downgrade

ECONOMYNEXT – Fitch Ratings said it has downgraded Sri Lanka Telecom PLC's (SLT) Long-Term Foreign- and Local-Cur...

December 5, 2018 8 min read

Hutchison, Etisalat complete mobile networks merger in Sri Lanka

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s smaller mobile phone companies, Hutchison Telecommunications Lanka (Private) Lim...

December 4, 2018 1 min read

Sri Lanka computer, digital literacy up in 2017

Digital and computer literacy in Sri Lanka grew in 2017 from a year earlier with greater ownership of personal computers...

November 30, 2018 1 min read

Alipay, Dialog Axiata to give mobile cash to Chinese tourists in Sri Lanka

ECONOMYNEXT – Dialog Axiata has struck a partnership with China’s Alipay, the world’s largest mobil...

November 27, 2018 2 min read

Fitch confirms Sri Lanka Telecom at 'B+'/'AAA(lka)'

ECONOMYNEXT – Fitch Ratings said it has confirmed Sri Lanka Telecom's (SLT) Long-Term Foreign- and Local-Currency...

November 23, 2018 7 min read

IFS plans more investments in Sri Lanka, undeterred by uncertainty

ECONOMYNEXT- IFS, a Swedish ICT company with a majority of software development based in Sri Lanka, is planning major in...

November 9, 2018 2 min read

AI in education, training seen as big opportunity for Sri Lanka

ECONOMYNEXT – Use of artificial intelligence (AI) in education and training presents big opportunities for Sri La...

November 9, 2018 2 min read

Sri Lanka’s internet connections up 20-pct in first half of 2018: CBSL

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka’s internet connections were up 19.7 percent for the first half of 2018 to reach 6.6 milli...

November 2, 2018 1 min read