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Australia edtech start-up Vygo to set up Sri Lanka engineering unit

Vygo, an Australia based education technology company said it will set up an engineering office in Sri Lanka which may s...

January 24, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka budget 2021 impact on the information technology sector

Sri Lanka's budget 2021 comes after the last administration raised tax on cross-border e-commerce transactions to 3.5 pe...

November 26, 2020 4 min read

Harin urges President to move fast on a digital future

Opposition MP Harin Fernando is saying that if Sri Lanka is to go forward as a digital country, first, there is a need f...

November 23, 2020 2 min read

ICTA to introduce high-tech contact tracing for pandemic control – Chairman de Silva

Sri Lanka’s Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) will launch the new Stay Safe Digital Project on Mo...

November 6, 2020 3 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

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"

Two top 'dark web' markets shut down, admins arrested

On Thursday, US and European police announced the shutdown of two huge "dark web" marketplaces that allowed the anonymou...

July 21, 2017 3 min read

American innovation expert supports Sri Lankan IT entrepreneurs

ECONOMYNEXT – Cheryl Edison, an American innovation expert, visited Sri Lanka recently to advice information tech...

July 12, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka aims to join global zero-duty IT trade pact

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka has begun work on joining the Information Technology Agreement (ITA), a global trade pact that s...

July 12, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka's State TV revenues contract, losses widen in 2016

ECONOMYNEXT - Revenues at Sri Lanka's State-run Independent Television Network plunged 27 percent in 2016 to 1,885 milli...

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June 29, 2017 3 min read

Sri Lanka Telecom field tests LTE-Advanced Pro

Sri Lanka Telecom, which has fixed and wireless networks said it had successfully tested LTE-Advanced Pro technology whi...

June 11, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka’s govt urged to enforce e-signatures to break corrupt bureaucracy

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s government has been urged to issue guidelines to all agencies to accept e-signat...

May 29, 2017 3 min read

U.S. govt funding seen key to start-up success

Raleigh-Durham, USA (ECONOMYNEXT) – A little-known American grant programme for research has been critical for th...

May 25, 2017 4 min read

Inter-agency cyber security effort mooted for Sri Lanka

ECONOMYNEXT – A national cyber security strategy and a collaborative inter-agency effort and implementation mecha...

May 22, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lankan developer community thriving, next phase IoT, says Dialog Axiata

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Dialog Axiata says its support for the local developer community has helped crea...

May 19, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka govt urged to lift restrictions on electronic bidding

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s government has been urged to lift restrictions on electronic bidding, accept e-s...

May 19, 2017 2 min read
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Mitra Innovation to double R&D team in Sri Lanka

ECONOMYNEXT – Mitra Innovation, a software company with its research unit in Sri Lanka, is growing so fast it pla...

May 18, 2017 3 min read

Sri Lanka Dialog Axiata’s March 2017 net down 42-pct

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Dialog Axiata said net profit fell 42% to Rs1.5 billion in the March 2017 quarte...

May 12, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Dialog launches Voice-over-LTE

Sri Lanka's Dialog Axiata said it was launching Voice-over-Long Term Evolution (VoLTE), a skype like service that operat...

April 2, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka e-commerce seen hampered by regulations

ECONOMYNEXT – Despite growth of electronic commerce in Sri Lanka, it remains constrained by regulations that make...

March 21, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka data protection laws seen inadequate

ECONOMYNEXT – Digital commerce in Sri Lanka is growing along with greater internet penetration but data protectio...

March 16, 2017 1 min read

Singer Sri Lanka says smartphones, tablet sales soaring

Singer Sri Lanka Plc, a publicly traded consumer durables retailer, said tablet sales rose 105 percent in 2016 from a ye...

March 14, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka Telecom returns to profit in December quarter

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka Telecom, the country's sold wireline operator, which has a mobile unit, said it returned to prof...

March 2, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka’s eChannelling reports loss in December quarter

ECONOMYNEXT – eChannelling, Sri Lanka's first listed dotcom, reported a loss of Rs1.8 million in the December 201...

February 28, 2017 1 min read

Google may abandon Sri Lanka balloon trials over legal hitch

ECONOMYNEXT – Google might abandon plans to do trial balloon flights in Sri Lanka under its Project Loon aerial w...

February 16, 2017 2 min read

Chamath Palihapitiya appointed Sri Lanka ICT ambassador

Chamath Palihapitiya, a Sri Lanka born information technology venture capitalist now residing in the US, has been appoin...

February 16, 2017 1 min read