John Keells Holdings PLC announced the six winners of its second John Keells X Open Innovation Challenge at a Pitch Day recently. These 6 winners would advance to the JKX six month Accelerator Programme. Here, they would gain access to a plethora of JKH resources including seed funding, office space, and access to support services. These services would include legal, ...
At a recently held media briefing at the Movenpick Hotel in Colombo, Dell announced the launch of the new Inspiron 7000 notebook with the latest 8th Generation Intel Core processors. Designed for the mobile multi-tasker or multi-user household, the new Inspiron 13 7000 notebook, specifically the 7370 combines stunning with matching performance, all in a small footprint. The Dell Inspiron ...
Google recently announced a new app for monitoring data. Called Datally, this is a smart and simple Android app that helps smartphone users understand, control, and save mobile data. Datally works on all smartphones running Android 5.0 (Lollipop) and higher, and is available today on the Google Play Store globally. Datally helps solve one of the biggest pain points for ...
The opening of QBITS, Sri Lanka’s first Artificial Intelligence (AI) Innovation Lab was held on the 23rd of November 2017 at the University of Moratuwa. The QBITS AI Lab was declared open by the Vice Chancellor, Prof. A. K. W. Jayawardane of the University of Moratuwa and Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Harsha Subasinghe of CodeGen, in the presence of the ...
Huawei launched their latest addition to the popular Huawei Y series. Called the Huawei Y7, the newest smartphone from the company merges an all new design with long lasting performance. At the launch of the Huawei Y7, Ruwan Gamage, Marketing Manager of Huawei Sri Lanka stated, “We are pleased to have unveiled the latest smartphone addition to the Huawei Y ...
Huawei is participating in the Smart City Expo World Congress 2017 (SCEWC) in Barcelona. Under the theme of “Leading New ICT, creating a Smart City Nervous System, Huawei’s plan is to highlight how a Smart City can be like a living organism that works seamlessly to continuously learn and enhance the city’s services. The Huawei booth in the Smart City ...
The SLIM Brand Excellence Awards is a celebration of brand excellence at national level and rewards the outstanding efforts of outstanding marketers. As the national body of marketing, the Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing (SLIM) encourages strategic and result-oriented thinking in the fields of brand development, sales, advertising and research through events such as the SLIM Brand Excellence Awards, NASCO, ...
Optiemus Infracom Limited, a leading Indian telecom enterprise, announced its entry in the Sri Lanka market with the launch of BlackBerry KEYone Limited Edition Black. Optiemus signed a licensing deal with BlackBerry in February 2017 to design, manufacture and distribute BlackBerry branded smartphones In India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal. After successfully launching the BlackBerry KEYone Limited Edition Black in ...
99X Technology was awarded Gold in the Business and Professional Services category at the National Chamber of Exporters’ Export Awards 2017. The National Chamber of Exporters of Sri Lanka (NCE) is the only private sector organization that exclusively serves Sri Lankan exporters and plays a major role in supporting the efforts of the State to achieve export targets for economic ...
If you use Viber, you would have probably used your fair share of stickers. Stickers in Viber are used in conversations to express an emotion, a reaction or a statement, rather than a regular text message. Helping Sri Lanka control and fight against the dangerous and potentially life threatening Dengue disease, Viber recently launched a novel awareness sticker pack. The ...
DFCC Bank PLC launched “DFCC Premier Go”, the first ever banking app in the industry, exclusively for its Premier customers, at a special launch event held on November 2, 2017, at DFCC Bank’s Executive Lounge. DFCC Premier Go is yet another revolutionary feature in DFCC Bank’s mobile banking platform, developed by Synapsys. This is DFCC’s Fintech subsidiary that has been ...
IFS, the global enterprise software company recently celebrated two decades of partnerships with the nation’s leading universities. Since the establishment of the R&D center of IFS in Sri Lanka in the year 1997, the company has grown to become one of the leading software development companies in Sri Lanka. They are also a key part of IFS’s global operations. Image ...
Huawei launched their eagerly awaited Huawei nova 2i smartphone at a gala ceremony held at Park Street Mews Colombo. The event was held under the patronage of Huawei Sri Lanka CEO Shunli Wang, Marketing Director Kumar Samarasinghe Singer Sri Lanka PLC including the management of Singer Sri Lanka PLC, Huawei Sri Lanka, valued dealers and partners. The Huawei Nova2i The ...
Over 400 million users are protected by Kaspersky Lab technologies and the company’s solutions help 270,000 corporate clients protect what matters most to them. The latest version of the popular antivirus and internet security software, Kaspersky took place recently with Avian Technologies, sole distributor for Kaspersky in Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Commenting on the launch, Directors Ranil Francisco and ...
Hatch, a Sri Lankan start-up incubation and acceleration platform, recently announced their plans for launching the Sri Lanka’s single largest co-working office space designed exclusively for start-ups to collaborate, create and grow. Located in the commercial heart of Colombo, the main goal of Hatch is to redefine the future of work by providing a vibrant, cost-effective, innovative and convenient workspace ...
Huawei has once again combined forces with the Ministry of Telecommunication and Digital Infrastructure to launch their global CSR program ‘Seeds for the Future’. This is the second time that the program is being launched in Sri Lanka following its initial launch in Sri Lanka last year. The aim of the program is to support local ICT talents by presenting ...
Insights Advertising, an integrated marketing and communications agency completed their tenth year of successful operations in the field of creative solutions in media. Founded by four creative heads; Nalin, Indu, Chaminda and Sharman in September 2007, their dream of expanding their creative streak in the ad-trade involved clever ideas which helped in forming some of the most iconic, long-lasting and ...
At an exclusive launch held at Taj Samudra Hotel Colombo, Sony Electronics announced their new lineup of 4K HDR TVs. These TVs are designed to deliver even wider brightness range and higher contrast. The new BRAVIA™ TVs utilize the use of 4K HDR (High Dynamic Range) content with the combination of their unique image processors and display device technologies. The ...
MTI Corporate Finance is the corporate finance arm of MTI Consulting, which is a boutique strategy consultancy with a network of associates across Asia, Africa and Middle East. They provide a wide range of services such as due diligence, feasibility studies, funding new businesses or capitalization of existing ones – from IPOs to private placement facilitation, M&A facilitation, and advisory ...
Digibrush, one of Sri Lanka’s fastest growing digital media agencies added another laurel to their wreath by bagging an award at the CMO Asia annual awards this year. Their client? Union Bank. As such, Union Bank PLC earned the prestigious Social Media and Digital Marketing Awards 2017 for Best Facebook Campaign at the recently concluded awards in Singapore. The CMO ...
