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Bangladesh mobile handset shipments touch 7.9 mln in 3Qs, Walton Maximus emerge as strong brands

Mumbai, Dec. 17 (NsNewsWire) — According to CyberMedia Research’s Bangladesh Quarterly Mobile Handsets Market Review, 3Q CY 2014 report released (today) Wednesday, Bangladesh continues to show consistent growth in both the featurephone as well as smartphone segments. This is among very few South East Asian markets where growth is seen in both segments. As per […]

Chinese social networking company Momo debuts on Nasdaq

DHAKA, Dec. 13 (NsNewsWire) — China’s mobile social networking platform Momo Inc. listed its shares Thursday on the NASDAQ global select market. The company announced that its initial public offering of 16 million American depositary shares (ADSs) was priced at 13.5 U.S. dollars per ADS for a total offering size of 216 million dollars, reports […]

Want to use your arm like an iPad?

Reasonably new tech such as tablets and even the Apple Watch could soon be obsolete – and replaced by a humble bracelet. Or at least, that’s the dream of French startup Cicret, who reckon that our Skin will be the smart device screen of the future, reports UK-based daily The Mirror. They’ve been working for […]

4G helps recovery of Europe’s mobile industry: GSMA repor

BRUSSELS, Dec. 10 (NsNewsWire) — Europe’s rapid migration to 4G services and devices helped to stimulate the recovery of the mobile industry, according to a new GSM Association (GSMA) report published during the GSMA Mobile 360-Europe event here on Monday. The new report, “Mobile Economy: Europe 2014,” said the financial outlook of the mobile industry […]

Mobile banking to promote countryside growth in Bangladesh

by Naim-Ul-Karim DHAKA, Dec. 9 (NsNewsWire) — In Bangladesh, less than a quarter of the impoverished country’s 153 million people are using the normal banking system in their monetary transactions. But things are changing across Bangladesh with an easy and safe way to send or receive money through the mobile banking system. Mobile banking is […]

Robi Career Carnival held at Islamic University of Technology (IUT)‏

DHAKA, Dec. 2 (NsNewsWire) — Robi Axiata Limited, one of the leading mobile phone operators has organized a day long program named “Robi Career Carnival” at Islamic University of Technology (IUT) today. Robi organized this program to make the students of IUT aware of the career opportunities available with the company and the industry at […]

Airtel launches 3G services in Habiganj

Dhaka, Dec 2 (NsNewsWire) –Airtel Bangladesh Limited, the fastest growing telecom operator in Bangladesh, has launched its 3G services in Habiganj with a colorful festive rally on Monday. Airtel thrives to deliver best in class 3G services for its valued customers of Bangladesh. The company has been relentlessly expanding its 3G network throughout the country. […]

Feature: Internet technology raises educational hopes for rural children in Bangladesh

By Naim-Ul-Karim DHAKA, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) — A charming, yet revolutionary television commercial has been garnering a great deal of attention on and off the airwaves and changing the way people in Bangladesh think about education, particularly in poorer, more rural areas, as local students are being taught by teachers hundreds of miles away in […]

Solar Homes Helping to End ‘Power Discrimination’ in Bangladesh

DHAKA, Nov. 30 (NsNewsWire) — Electricity, the very thing bringing these words to your eyes, is inaccessible to 45 percent of Bangladesh’s population. Fewer than half the people living in the country’s rural areas are on the power grid at all. That’s why the Solar Home System Project, launched in 2007, is particularly good news […]