News Hour: Novartis announced that it has exercised an option to in-license ECF843 for ophthalmic indications worldwide (outside Europe). The closing of the deal is subject to customary closing conditions including regulatory approvals. The financial and...

News Hour: Sanofi announced the appointment of Bill Sibold as Executive Vice President Sanofi Genzyme, effective July 1, 2017.  In this role, Mr. Sibold will be a member of the Executive Committee. He succeeds David Meeker,...

News Hour: The British Council and the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC) celebrated the Global Money Week 2017 by organizing a panel discussion titled ‘Building the Next Generation Socio-Economically Capable and Responsible’. This year...

News Hour: Truecaller today announced a strategic agreement to integrate Google Duo, a high-quality video calling service, within the Truecaller app. This will add a crucial communications layer that strengthens the value of Truecaller’s wildly popular...

News Hour: Microsoft announced the latest language addition to Microsoft Translator; Bangla the language spoken and loved by Bangladesh citizens and people from the Indian subcontinent. Speaking about the launch, Sonia Bashir Kabir, Managing Director of...

News Hour: Grameenphone and White-Board in association with ICT Division have launched Game Jam, a platform that will crowdsource, develop, and launch the next big mobile game for Bangladesh, by Bangladesh, and in Bangladesh. The Call...

News Hour: ITmedicus (a healthcare IT startup) recently launched an android app in Bangladesh named Patient Aid to help the patients & general people to get information about different health care services. Patient Aid is the...

News Hour: Panasonic Corporation announced the opening of the Refrigeration Compressor Business Unit (RCBU) in Singapore. Relocated from Kusatsu City, Shiga, Japan to the heart of Asia, the RCBU’s move serves to more effectively meet growing...

News Hour: Intel Movidius, the world leader in embedded machine vision technology, is helping bring artificial intelligence (AI) to video surveillance cameras. Movidius participated in an announcement from Dahua Technology USA in which Dahua outlined how...

News Hour: Intel is collaborating with Japan-based Preferred Networks Inc. (PFN) on the development of Chainer, PFN’s open source framework for deep learning, with the aim of accelerating deep learning performance on general purpose infrastructure powered...