The past year was a big one for Donald Trump, but also for Pokemon Go. According to Google's global trends report released Wednesday, the augmented reality game from Nintendo was the most-searched item online in 2016.

Twitter begins streaming 360-degree video, allowing users to interact and get behind the scenes of live broadcasts.

Pickaboo.com is offering exciting deals & offers on handsets, computers, TV, home appliance and kitchen appliance for celebrating the New Year. The `New Year Mega Offer’ has been started for pickaboo.com’s customers. Customers who will spend the most during this offer will each get a couple tickets to Dhaka – Bangkok – Dhaka, Dhaka- Kolkata- Dhaka and Dhaka – Cox’s Bazar- Dhaka. To top it off Master Card will gift the following four big spender customers with BDT 10,000 and BDT 5,000 pre-paid cards. The offer will valid till 31st December, 2016.

Presidential politics and celebrity interviews help The New York Times Co surpass 100 million views for its Facebook Live videos, the company says.

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Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) brings its entire daily "information services" to mobile platform through a dedicated mobile application "BMD Weather App".

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Okapia Mobile is going to launch new flagship smartphone TITAN in coming year. The sleekest smartphone comes with a full metal body

Fortinet, a provider of cyber security solutions, recently announced that it has appointed Smart Technologies as its first value-added

This year, in celebration of Computer Science Education Week, MentorNations organised Hour of Code with upward of 10,000 youth

A new range extender by Netgear is currently available in Bangladesh. The model of the device is EX3700. It can transmit up to 750 MBits

Computer source has introduced Macbook Pro 2016 in local market. This new generation of 13.3 and 15.4 inch Macbook pro isn't just

2016 was a roller coaster ride in the tech world. This year we saw so many gadgets exploding, how numbers game can change everything and tech giants going lengths to protect their egos(!). Here we listed the top seven tech stories that broke the headlines:

Sex with robots is "just around the corner", an expert says at a global conference in London featuring interactive sex toys and discussions on the ethics of relationships with humanoids.

Nokia Corp (NOKIA.HE) says it has filed a number of lawsuits against Apple Inc (AAPL.O) for violating 32 technology patents, striking back at the iPhone maker's legal action targeting the one-time cellphone industry leader.

Yahoo Inc's secret scanning of customer emails at the behest of a US spy agency is part of a growing push by officials to loosen constitutional protections Americans have against arbitrary governmental searches, according to legal documents and people briefed on closed court hearings.

When you finally get stonewalled or finish Score Hero, the itch for a good football game on your phone remains.

In Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, Mimimi Productions has married the gameplay of Commandos with intrigues and conflicts of Edo Japan.

Microsoft Corp wins a $927 million contract to provide technical support to the Defense Information Systems Agency, the Pentagon says.