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Virtusa to be bought by Baring Private Equity Asia for US$2.0bn

Baring Private Equity Asia (BEPA) is to buy Virtusa, a technology company which has a development centre in Sri Lanka in...

September 11, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka stock exchange woos IT firms with revised requirements

Sri Lanka's stock exchange has offered options for information technology firms with a track record to list, including ...

September 1, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka planned number portability welcomed by Dialog

Sri Lanka's largest mobile operator Dialog Axiata Plc has welcomed an announcement by the regulator that the island will...

August 25, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka blockchain start-up gets venture capital from Japan

Tracified, a Sri Lanka-based start-up which is developing a blockchain based solution to track supply chains has receive...

August 17, 2020 2 min read
Dustbin, toothbrush and waste app win at Sri Lanka youth innovator awards

Competition showcased undergrad students' solutions to waste problems

Sri Lanka allows e-documents in grama niladhari services

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

Sri Lanka Telecom's outlook changed to stable, sales slowdown seen

ECONOMYNEXT - Fitch Ratings said it has changed the outlook on Sri Lanka Telecom's (SLT) Long-Term Foreign- and Local-Cu...

February 14, 2017 5 min read

Sri Lanka's Dialog Axiata December net doubles to Rs1.25bn

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lankan celco Dialog Axiata said December 2016 quarter net profit rose 102% to Rs1.25 billion from a ye...

February 9, 2017 2 min read

Google doodle to celebrate Sri Lanka Independence Day 2017

Google, a popular search engine has posted a google doodle on its front page to celebrate Sri Lanka's Independence from ...

February 4, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka says Alibaba to invest in the country

Sri Lanka's Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake has invited Jack Ma, boss of Chinese internet portal Alibaba, to invest i...

January 20, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka seeks Indian state help for major IT push

Chief minister of India's Andhra Pradesh said Sunday that Sri Lanka sought help from his southern state to adopt interne...

January 8, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka’s NicNac wins contest to go for Helsinki Accelerator event

ECONOMYNEXT – NicNac, which offers a delivery service, has been chosen as the best Sri Lankan impact oriented sta...

November 24, 2016 1 min read

Carpooling app wins Sri Lanka's Janashakthi tech prize

A carpooling app written by group of undergraduates had won the top prize of million rupees from a contest sponsored by ...

November 6, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lankan cyber-athletes to battle it out

ECONOMYNEXT – Cyber games and comic book entertainment will feature the Sri Lanka Cyber Games Central Qualifier a...

October 28, 2016 2 min read

Fitch sees strong growth for Sri Lankan telcos despite higher taxes

ECONOMYNEXT – Higher use of data services should help Sri Lankan telecommunications firms like Dialog Axiata and ...

October 21, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka Telecom gets govt high-speed broadband deal

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka Telecom has been selected to provide a high-speed broadband fibre optic government commun...

October 20, 2016 2 min read
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LSE's MillenniumIT to fix issues at global stock exchanges from Sri Lanka

MillenniumIT, a unit of the London Stock Exchange that provides securities trading software said an operations centre ha...

October 11, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka in Facebook Messenger app launch

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 3(Reuters) - Facebook Inc launched a stripped down version of its popular Messenger app for emerging ...

October 3, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka Telecom launches ‘Digital Excellence Awards’

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) has launched its ‘Digital Excellence Awards’ to recognise initiatives...

September 28, 2016 2 min read

Seven firms short-listed in Sri Lanka digital ID tender

ECONOMYNEXT – Seven international companies have been shortlisted to supply Sri Lankans with a digital identifica...

September 20, 2016 1 min read

Google to resume Sri Lanka balloon trials in November

Google will resume trial balloon flights in Sri Lankan under its Project Loon aerial wireless network in November, Minis...

September 15, 2016 2 min read

SriLankan Airlines call centre to be run by Malaysia's Scicom

State-run SriLankan Airlines said its global call centre has been upgraded, with operations being handed over to Scicom,...

September 7, 2016 1 min read

General Electric buys Sri Lanka linked ShipXpress

GE Transporation, a unit of US-based General Electric Group dealing in rail and transport, said it had acquired ShipXpre...

August 31, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Janashakthi calls budding app developers with million rupee prize

Sri Lanka Janashakthi Insurance Plc is offering a million rupee prize for young developers who can come up with apps tha...

August 19, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Dialog Axiata June net up 20-pct, 11 mn subscribers

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan celco Dialog Axiata said June 2016 quarter profit rose almost 20 percent to Rs2.3 billio...

August 8, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka approves national payment platform for digital commerce

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Cabinet of Ministers has approved the setting up of a National Payments Platform...

July 13, 2016 2 min read