Hailing from BUP, team Meraki consisted of fresh undergrads seeking to make their mark in the business competition arena. What really

There is a saying: “Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won't, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can't.” It is true that every entrepreneur has a different tale about why he or she decided to start a business. No matter how diverse and weird and crazy the story might seem, all would agree that being an entrepreneur is great. This week we talked with Wikipedia co-founder and American internet entrepreneur Jimmy Wales during his short trip to Dhaka about his take on entrepreneurship.

Last month, a memorandum was signed between Access to Information (a2i) of the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) and National Centre for Information Technology (NCIT) of Maldives government, aiming to build digital Maldives in style of the concept of 'Digital Bangladesh'. Deputy Minister for Home Affairs of Maldives government Ahmed Adim and Project Director of the a2i Kabir Bin Anwar signed the MoU on behalf their respective organizations. Later, Deputy Minister Ahmed Adim talked with The Daily Star to talk about of his trip and the MoU.

Real Time Snickometer. First Used: Though Snickometer was first used in 1999, but the enhanced 'Real Time Snickometer' was first used at 2013 Ashes

Logitech M280 Wireless Mouse

On February 19th of 2015, it became known that Lenovo's laptops had been shipped with an adware called Superfish preinstalled. There are two major problems with this issue.

Scientists say that record-breaking speed has been achieved during tests of 5G data connections.

It started out as something quite harmless. That one page application that he needed to submit to his university – why not take a print from the office – it is just one page after all. Next week when the eight page copy-pasted assignment needed to be printed out, the office printer was again the obvious choice.

The British Council in partnership with Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) organised a policy dialogue titled “Social Enterprise: Policy and Practice” in Dhaka at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre on the 25 and 26 February, 2015.

As much as we all love a bit of vintage charm around the office now and then, there are some things that just have to go.

With more than 17 years of experience in human resources, brand communication and corporate communication under her belt, Mononita Syed-Haq became the first female director on the management committee when she joined as Human Resource Director at Unilever Bangladesh Ltd (UBL).

Technology that allows a drone to be piloted from the ground using only a person's brainwaves is demonstrated in Portugal

Symphony makes affordable phones. And affordable usually means cutting a few options out of the list. And now they have gone and built a range topping device tagged with a sub 15k price tag that is bound to make this a favorite. WE find out whether this is just good enough or something even better.

Last week Kaspersky Lab unveiled the predecessor of Stuxnet and Flame – a potent threat actor called Equation Group. The malware used in their operations, dubbed EquationDrug and GrayFish, is found to be capable of reprogramming hard disk drive firmware. This ‘outstandingly professional’ group has been in play for more than a decade- experts say. Though Kaspersky Lab wasn’t able to pinpoint the origin but security experts have pointed their fingers toward an American Intelligence Agency with prior history. Nearly 30+ countries were attacked or infected by this group including Bangladesh. We got in touch with Igor Soumenkov Principal Security Researcher; Global Research & Analysis Team, Kaspersky Lab Moscow. Igor, a virus analyst and malware expert, shares his concern with The Daily Star.

Bangla is the 7th most widely spoken language in the world, and still Bangla was the 65th language to be added to Google translation service. Hence Google Developer Group Bangla (GDG Bangla) has undertaken an initiative to improve the Bangla translation of Google Translate. Google Translation-a-Thon- the name of the initiative to add Bangla words to Google Translate, will be going on throughout the month of February. This entire project is a result of initiatives from individuals and voluntary work. People from all across the world are enriching Google translate through their own efforts and with their own language. Anyone can help make Google Bangla translate an even better experience.

In order to infiltrate the bank's intranet, the attackers used spear phishing emails, luring users to open them, infecting machines with malware. A backdoor was installed onto the victim's PC based on the Carberp malicious code, which, in turn gave the name to the campaign — Carbanak.

Music invokes the deepest emotions in me. That must be the reason I have the most intense feeling of rage and fantasise of scenarios

Research says coffee shop sounds improve concentration - those hipsters got something right! Coffitivity is a website which produces coffee shop ambiance to help you focus. Classical music has been known to do the same and we recommend Pachelbel’s Canon in D Major. For something more contemporary go for Radiohead’s Nude or Max Richter’s Infra 5.

Initially influenced by his mother's love for music and later on learning to play numerous instruments himself, Arjun did not need lose much sleep over the decision to enter the music industry. However, interestingly enough, singing was not his first choice as a career; nor did he particularly like his now famous R&B style of singing.