‘My dream is to establish 100,000 tech hubs in each of the 100,000 villages of Bangladesh’

by Fintech Desk - July 20, 2020August 5, 2020

From heading Microsoft’s business development for ‘South East Asia’s New Emerging Markets’ to leading the eponymous SBK Tech Ventures & SBK Foundation at the present, Sonia Bashir Kabir’s experience in the tech sector is vast. She spoke to Fintech recently to share her thoughts on the current state of the tech

‘SOCIO-ECONOMIC CULTURE IS A BIG STUMBLING BLOCK FOR THE GROWTH OF STARTUPS’

Tech Talk

by Saqib Sarker - August 13, 2018

Some of the biggest challenges startups face have to do with issues at the policy level and mentality of the general public, says Tina Jabeen, the Senior Consultant for the iDEA project. She is also the Deputy Project Director for ICT Innovation, acting essentially as the investment advisor for the

CHINA CLOSING GAP WITH SILICON VALLEY

Forensic

by Guest Writer - February 22, 2018

China’s war for technology talent is intensifying. Tens of thousands of people are being hired to shore up cybersecurity, help censor online content, and try to make China No.1 in the application of artificial intelligence (AI), as capital pours into both start-ups and more mature businesses at a time

‘I DREAM OF DEMOCRATISING TECHNOLOGY IN BANGLADESH – WHERE EVERY CITIZEN HAS ACCESS TO TECHNOLOGY’

by Saqib Sarker - December 10, 2017September 19, 2018

Sonia Bashir Kabir needs no introduction. Although often reduced to just a ‘woman’ role model, which she is, her illustrious career can certainly be an example to follow for both men and women in the tech business or any other business in any profession. With her past experiences of heading Microsoft’s

SILICON VALLEY IS HOT ON A NEW CRYPTOCURRENCY

Tech Talk

by System Posted - August 19, 2017

Ether, the unit of cryptocurrency used on the Ethereum blockchain, has given investors a wild ride lately. Its value more than doubled in May, peaked in June at more than $400 an ether, and then lost more than half that value by early this week. That may sound like a bubble bursting.

Why ‘garage venture’ can’t flourish in Dhaka?

by Faisal Mahmud - May 17, 2017October 28, 2017

Information Technology (IT) companies, especially the startups in Bangladesh has an idealized picture of the ‘Silicon Valley’ in where a company can be started from nothing by anyone in a garage. This idealized picture is sketched based on the ideas that tech giants like Amazon, Apple, Google, Harley Davidson, HP, Mattel,