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Sri Lanka's Dialog Axiata net profits doubles in June quarter

Most profits from mobile. TV losses reduce

August 6, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka moves to protect Indian Ocean submarine cables

Enabling legislation to come

July 18, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Dialog adds more towers to expand coverage in Coronavirus pandemic

Data traffic doubles in pandemic

July 11, 2021 3 min read

Cyber attack on Sri Lankan govt websites resolved: SLCERT

"This is not a comprehensive cyber-attack,"said Meegasmulla.

May 18, 2021 2 min read
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.

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

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

Sri Lanka says unhappy with Facebook's hate-speech response

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka banned Facebook after the social media website failed to respond favourably to repeated governme...

Our Political Correspondent
March 13, 2018 2 min read

Sri Lanka Telecom profits rebound in Dec qtr

Profits at Sri Lanka Telecom, a wireline operators with mobile and pay TV, rose 470 percent to 707 million rupees in the...

March 2, 2018 1 min read

Virtusa expects to hire in Sri Lanka as revenues move to a billion dollars

Virtusa Corporation, an information technology services company which has a 3,000 person at a centre in Sri Lanka said s...

February 14, 2018 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Dialog profits up 153.5-pct in Dec

Sri Lanka's Dialog Axiata, a mobile and fixed wireless operator with pay TV said profits in the December 2017 quarter gr...

February 10, 2018 2 min read

Dialog Axiata raises stake in Sri Lankan e-learning firm

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan mobile phone operator Dialog Axiata has increased its stake in e-learning firm Headstart...

January 18, 2018 1 min read

Sri Lanka gets Indian expertise in telemedicine, e-learning

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka will get access to Indian digital expertise and infrastructure under a deal between the t...

January 15, 2018 2 min read

Data breach in India as Sri Lanka goes ahead with E-Nic surveillance

ECONOMYNEXT - An Indian newspaper has exposed another massive data breach in India's controversial Aardhar electronics c...

January 5, 2018 2 min read

Sri Lanka advised to go for open source software in schools

ECONOMYNEXT – The Asian Development Bank has advised Sri Lanka to go for open source software as opposed to brand...

December 18, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka fixed internet connections growing fast

ECONOMYNEXT – The number of fixed internet connections in Sri Lanka grew rapidly in the first half of 2017, excee...

November 27, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka ICT, commercial agri sectors seen biased against women

ECONOMYNEXT – Employers in ICT and commercial agriculture sectors, two of Sri Lanka’s most promising econo...

November 24, 2017 2 min read
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Sri Lanka Telecom Sept net profit down 60-pct, sales flat

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) said net profit fell 60.4% to Rs730 million in the September 2017 quarter f...

November 17, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka’s Dialog Axiata ups stake in e-learning firm

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s biggest mobile phone operator Dialog Axiata has increased its stake in Headstart...

November 14, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka to tax mobile phone towers, SMS ads

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s government has introduced a tax on mobile phone towers to discourage their proli...

November 10, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka’s Dialog Axiata Sept net profit up 31-pct

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s biggest mobile phone operator Dialog Axiata said September 2017 quarter net prof...

November 7, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka and Finland to ink digitalization deal

Sri Lanka and Finland expects to sign a memorandum of understanding on digitalization, Economic Minister Mika Lintila ha...

October 11, 2017 1 min read

Building Sri Lanka's young programmers, bit by bit

Winning an award for creating a digital dictionary while he was still in school has inspired Prabhath Mannapperuma to fo...

October 7, 2017 3 min read

New Sri Lanka e-commerce platform targets small business

ECONOMYNEXT – Commercial Bank said it has partnered with WEBXPAY, an online e-commerce platform for small and med...

October 6, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka president opens submarine cable station

Sri Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena had formally opened a landing station that will link the country to the lates...

October 3, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka could grow faster by joining ITA deal: think tank

Sri Lanka's economic output could grow an extra 1.4 billion over the next 10 years if the country cut tariffs by joining...

September 28, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Dialog waives charges on breakdown day

Sri Lanka's Dialog Telecom has informed customers that it is waiving the charges of customers on September 09, when the ...

September 22, 2017 1 min read