Since the Covid-19 pandemic hit the world in 2020, Meta has connected two billion people to resources from health authorities and carried out awareness campaigns on Facebook and Instagram. The company also supported the Bangladesh government and national health agencies in their Covid-19 response and helped with vaccination roll-out in the country. 

The relationship between journalism and social media is crucial to the public’s right to information and media organisations should work with social media companies like Facebook to combat misinformation and cyberbullying, experts said at a virtual event today.

Walton Digi-Tech Industries Limited has launched a new model of its ‘Toronggo’ dual-band Wi-Fi router in the market. The 1200 Mbps router, modelled as 'WR15', features 4 high performance 5 dBi antennas and can provide up to 300 Mbps speed at the 2.4GHz band and up to 867 Mbps at the 5GHz band, says a press release. The device features 3 LAN and 1 WAN Gigabit ports. It also has a MAC address filter and black-list facilities along with 64/128-bit encrypted protection and a built-in firewall. The router is currently priced at Tk. 2,750/-. Users can buy it from all Walton Plaza and dealer points across the country along with the e-commerce platforms, e-plaza and Walcart. Users will also get 1-year after-sales service on the device.

10 Minute School and Shajgoj, two local startups have been selected for Sequoia Capital's prestigious accelerator program, Surge. A total of 20 startups from South-East Asia, including two from Bangladesh, were selected for this years Surge Accelerator cohort.

Walton Digi-Tech Industries has recently launched three new laptops with Intel's 11th Generation processors. 

Symphony Mobile announced that they have begun exporting locally assembled 'Made in Bangladesh' smartphones to Nepal.

The biggest E-sports tournament in Bangladesh will be held on Jan 21 involving 8 finalists, with the collaboration of Smartphone Brand Infinix.

The deal will essentially turn Microsoft into the world’s third largest gaming studio, right after Tencent and Sony. It also catapults Microsoft right into the mobile gaming industry where Microsoft had little to no foothold. With Activision’s Candy Crush, one of the world’s most popular mobile video games ever made, Microsoft is presented with an opportunity to take things forward in the fast-growing mobile gaming arena. 

World Bank President David Malpass on Wednesday criticized Microsoft's $69 billion takeover of gaming developer Activision Blizzard as a questionable allocation of capital at a time when poor countries are struggling to restructure debts and fight COVID-19 and poverty.

Government is on the verge of implementing four new initiatives to bring back trust and transparency in the e-commerce industry. These four initiatives are: unique business identification numbers for any online and Facebook based businesses; a central complaint management system; a central logistic tracking system and an Interoperable digital transaction platform.

Prominent Actor Ziaul Hoque Palash, Actress Anamika S Oyshe, Writer Taslima Nasrin, Activist Mehran Sanjana and several others’ Facebook account/page was showing ‘Remembering’.

Author Taslima Nasrin’s Facebook account is showing “Remembering” before her name on the profile page as it is apparent that the social media platform considers her to be “dead” after misinterpreting her post.

Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) said on Tuesday it was acquiring "Call of Duty" videogame maker Activision Blizzard (ATVI.O) for $68.7 billion in cash, the biggest deal in the sector that would help the Xbox maker become the third-largest gaming company by revenue.

Earlier today, Vivo officially released their latest flagship phone, Vivo V23 5G. This phone features a 64 MP rear camera, 7.39 mm metal frame and 5G support. 

The High Court today directed BTRC to take necessary steps to finalise a regulation for operations of OTT (over-the-top) web-based platforms, collecting revenues from them and to submit its progress report in four months.

According to reports, Primo S8, Walton’s newest flagship smartphone, has been released today.

On 12 January, the local digital consultancy platform SELISE hosted a formal meet and greet event for Team Mohakash, winners of NASA Space Apps Challenge 2021, where the team from KUET and BAUET were awarded with a token of appreciation.

Software and information technology-enabled services (ITES) will enjoy export incentive if they abide by some rules set by the Bangladesh Bank during virtual shipment of products worth over $5,000.

The latest addition to the iPhone SE lineup, iPhone SE3, has yet to receive any official confirmation, but the rumour mill has been ripe with expectations.

Teletalk, the lone state-owned mobile telecom operator's website was reportedly hacked today.