DHAKA: WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum announced Monday that the cross-platform mobile-messaging app now has 430 million active users. That`s up from 200 million in April 2013, which means its user base has more than doubled in less than a year.The number of messages sent and received via WhatsApp

DHAKA: Online registration for ‘Bangladesh IT Talent Contest 2014’, organized by Bangla Business Partner (BBP), Japan in association with Daffodil Institute of Information Technology (DIIT), begins.For registration, interested persons can visit tcontest.diit.info or banglait.biz.In

DHAKA: ZTE reported a sharp improvement in profitability for the fourth quarter and full year.The Chinese equipment maker said it expects to report an annual profit of CNY 1.2-1.5 billion for 2013, compared to a loss of CNY 2.84 billion in 2012.It earlier reported a profit of CNY 552

DHAKA: Intel plans to cut five percent of its global workforce in 2014, the company said Friday.The announcement comes a day after the company released its fourth-quarter earnings report. That report reaffirmed what we all know: PC shipments are in rapid decline.Earlier this week, Intel

DHAKA: Samsung Electronics has introduced Galaxy Tab3 Lite, combining the experience of the Galaxy Tab3 series with a slimmer, more portable design. The Samsung Galaxy Tab3 Lite runs on Android 4.2 and features a 7-inch WSVGA display, a 1.2 GHz dual core processor, a 2-megapixel

DHAKA: Yahoo’s chief operating officer has unexpectedly departed the company just over a year after he was hired to turn its advertising business around.Henrique de Castro, Yahoo’s second most senior executive, is leaving this week. No reason was given, reports the BBC.His departure

DHAKA: A shortage in skilled workers threatens to delay high-tech projects being planned across Saudi Arabia, a market research executive told Al Arabiya News.The difficulty in recruiting staff with the right information technology (IT) skills ‘can increase the challenge in

DHAKA: Motorola announced its new Moto X smartphone will be available in the UK, France and Germany from February 1.The Android phone will retail for GBP 380 or EUR 399 unlocked.Launched in North and South America last year, the Moto X is Motorola’s second major device, after the

DHAKA: Major Apple iPhone assembler Foxconn has shipped around 1.4 million iPhone 5S devices to China Mobile recently.This initial shipment, which does not represent the total sales at China Mobile for January, comes ahead of China Mobile’s iPhone launch on 17 January, the Wall Street

DHAKA: Sony Mobile has unveiled two new Android smartphones, the Xperia E1 and T2 Ultra.The E1 is a low-end phone with a 4-inch WVGA (800x480) display, HSPA+, 1.2 GHz dual-core processor, 4GB internal memory and the Walkman app with a 30-day trial of the Sony music streaming service.The

Here are some of the highlights and trends seen at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas:WearablesFrom connected socks and bras to baby clothing, wearable technology with the ability to transform computing was an overriding theme at the huge electronics fair. There was no

DHAKA: Indian born British national Rajendra Pangrekar has taken the charge of LM Ericsson Bangladesh Ltd from February 2014 replacing Managing Director Gary Dewing.He has expressed his vision to empower Bangladesh with world class technologies by EricssonRajendra Pangrekar joined

DHAKA: Plant in Egypt’s Beni Suef has sold 10,000 computer monitors to Europe since last November.Egypt is positioned to become a regional export hub for Samsung products, with locally-manufactured computer monitors being shipped to Europe.Kinam Lee, president of Samsung`s factory in

DHAKA: Google has sold struggling US mobile phone company Motorola Mobility to Chinese computer maker Lenovo for $2.91bn, in a surprise move.Google had paid $12.5bn for the company less than two years ago.Lenovo plans to build up its smartphone unit through the Motorola purchase, which

DHAKA: Bangla Business Partner (BBP), Japan in association with Daffodil Institute of Information Technology (DIIT) will organise a “IT Talent Contest-2014” to create employment opportunity in Japan for the country’s younger students in the field of information technology.In the

DHAKA: Microsoft founder Bill Gates has been named as the most admired person on the planet in a list of 30 people compiled after a poll in 13 countries.The ‘World’s most admired people poll’ was conducted by YouGov for Times by surveying almost 14,000 people in Great Britain,

DHAKA: Chinese online game developer Snail Electronic has unveiled a new mobile internet strategy. The new strategy includes an own-branded mobile phone, a game download platform, and a mobile data package, the Marbridge Daily writes citing a DoNews report. The Snail phone is a customised

DHAKA: Samsung plans to release its next flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S5, by April and will present a new version of its Galaxy Gear smartwatch at the same time, said Lee Young Hee, executive vice president of the company’s mobile business. In an interview with Bloomberg, Lee said

DHAKA: Facebook has bought an Indian mobile technology start-up called Little Eye Labs, the first business deal in the country by the world’s biggest social network, the Indian firm said.With Facebook users increasingly logging in from mobile phones, Bangalore-based Little Eye will help

DHAKA: Apple announced that customers spent over USD 10 billion on its App Store in 2013, including over USD 1 billion in December alone.App Store customers downloaded almost three billion apps in December, making it the most successful month in the App Store’s history.Apple said