Back in late 90s, people used to have device for everything. Mobile for calling, navigation system for maps, pager for messages, PDA for managing contacts, notes taking etc. Slowly it was getting difficult to manage all these gadgets at once (if a person can afford them all. Technology evolved and converged
Author: Faisal Mahmud
‘ACQUIRING FUNDS STILL REMAIN A BIG STRUGGLE FOR BANGLADESHI COMPANIES’
Maliha Quadir, a Bangladeshi -American, is a technology entrepreneur. Her start up Shohoz.com has done breakthrough work in digitizing the disorganized and male-dominated transportation industry in Bangladesh. Before Shohoz.com, she was based in Singapore as Director of Vistaprint’s digital business in global emerging markets. Prior to this, she worked for
BPO PROMISES OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED
BPO or business process outsourcing is a part of the umbrella term outsourcing, which simply stands for a system where the responsibilities of a particular business process can be contracted to a third party service provider. This system was originally associated with manufacturing firms, but over the years that scenario
BTRC PLANS TO CURB USE OF ILLEGAL HANDSETS THROUGH THIRD PARTIES
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has decided to formulate a policy to curb the use of illegal handsets through third parties. According to the minutes of the 221st meeting of the commission, the commission has finalised a set of draft guidelines and sought the opinion of telecom operators and other
LEGAL BATTLES OVER BB HEIST STARTS
IT TRAINING FOR HIJRAS: HOW EFFECTIVE WILL IT BE?
On Dhaka’s roads, hijras, including transgender and intersex people, are hard to miss. Dressed in glittering saris, their faces heavily coated with cheap makeup, they sashay through crowded intersections, knocking on car windows with the edge of a coin and offering their blessings. They crash fancy weddings and birth ceremonies, singing
‘Never invest more than you can afford’
Ride-sharing apps: Another rent-a-car service?
Global ride sharing giant Uber had celebrated its two year anniversary in Bangladesh in the last month. Uber has logged a meteoric rise in these two years and it has shown other local entrepreneurs the way to venture into the 'ride-sharing' business. Following in its footsteps, local ride-sharing services like
That’s how you get your weather forecast…
In chapter-4 of the book ‘Three men on a boat’- Jerome K Jerome lamented about weather forecast. In his unparallel sarcastic tones, he wrote-“I do think that, of all the silly, irritating tomfoolishness by which we are plagued, this “weather-forecast” fraud is about the most aggravating. It “forecasts” precisely what happened
The way forward: rooting for our home-grown CBS
In the beginning of the last decade, banks in Bangladesh gradually started shifting from maintaining financial data in pages of manual ledgers to computer hard drives. The apparent ‘magic manager’ that helped them keeping together a mammoth and complex set of data amalgamation of banking ecosystem is the core banking
