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Bangladesh’s biggest chip-design school opens in Dhaka: what UVTI teaches, and who should apply
Ulkasemi’s VLSI Training Institute has started classes in Niketan with about 50 students, industry EDA tools and 240-hour courses in IC…
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Huawei brings its LUNA2000 battery storage to Bangladesh — why factories, not homes, are the target
Huawei has launched its LUNA2000 series of solar energy storage systems for Bangladesh’s commercial and industrial users. With…
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From Lalmonirhat to Intel’s fabs: what a Bangladeshi metrology engineer actually does all day
Mohammad Mashrur Hossain finished school in Lalmonirhat, studied mechanical engineering at IUT and joined Intel two months after his US…
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The PMO’s new Facebook page hit 562,000 followers in five days — how that compares across South Asia
Bangladesh’s Prime Minister’s Office launched verified Facebook and Instagram accounts on 17 February. The Facebook page passed 562,000…
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From the Banglabandha border to two million subscribers: how Movkidz built Bangladesh’s answer to Cocomelon
Selim Hossain grew up at the northern tip of Bangladesh, nearly joined the army, and taught thirty tuition batches to survive in Dhaka…
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Banglalink renews ISO 27001 — what the certificate does and does not tell subscribers
The operator has been re-certified against ISO 27001:2022, the international standard for managing information security. A plain-language…
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Three class-nine students built a self-charging delivery robot for Tk 1 lakh — and it is taking them to the world finals in Malaysia
Deligo follows a lane, finds its own charging station, checks the customer with an OTP or card swipe and hands over a one-foot box — built…
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BPO Summit 2025 opens in Dhaka with a warning from the government’s tech adviser: adopt AI or lose the business
Thirty local and international outsourcing firms, a job fair, an experience zone with drones and robots, and two days of seminars at Sena…
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Starlink switched on in Bangladesh for the first time — 220 Mbps at the investment summit, and the question nobody at the stall could answer
Visitors to the Bangladesh Investment Summit at the InterContinental scanned a QR code at the satellite company’s stall and got their first…
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S M Kamal, 1946–2024: the IBM man who came home to build Bangladesh’s computer industry and its first trade body
Born in Bhanga, Faridpur, a graduate of IBA’s first batch, hired by IBM in 1968, S M Kamal turned down an international career to run…
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Starlink tripled its traffic in 2024: 6,764 satellites, airlines and cruise ships signed, a laptop-sized dish — and a receiver being shown around Dhaka
Cloudflare’s year-end data shows Starlink usage more than tripled in 2024. SpaceX now has 6,764 satellites in orbit after launching 1,866…
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The “freelancer master of Azimpur”: how Kazi Amjad Hossain failed his way to two lakh taka a month and trained 1,500 people, most of them for free
He learned some digital marketing in Mymensingh in 2011, came to Dhaka in 2013, paid for courses in Farmgate that taught nothing, and…