Business

News Hour: Aiming to bring affordable smartphones in the hands of the Bangladeshi people, Grameenphone has partnered with Symphony and itel on August 16th to launch the Grameenphone Cobranded Symphony G20 and Itel it1409 in the Bangladesh...

News Hour: The Grameenphone Accelerator (GPA) has held a combined event at GPHouse for Demo Day for GPA Batch 3 in conjunction with the media launch for GPA Batch 4. Startups from Batch 3 have successfully...

News Hour: On the occasion of Eid-ul-Adha, Huawei Consumer Business Group is providing smartphone customers an opportunity to get gifts signed by Shakib Al Hasan, the best cricket All-Rounder in the world. Under the campaign ‘Shakib...

News Hour: Three startups out of 37 initially selected have won an opportunity today to take their innovative business ideas to Helsinki, Finland and pitch them to global investors. They earned the opportunity at Slush Global...

News Hour: Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, has named James Wu as the new President of Southern-East Asia Region. Based in Bangkok, Huawei Southern-East Asia includes 11 markets- Bangladesh, India,...

News Hour: U.S. buyout firm KKR has put on hold a planned acquisition of Hitachi Ltd’s chip making equipment and video solution business, the companies said, citing issues over the terms of the deal. KKR in...

News Hour: U.S. credit card processing company Vantiv moved closer to creating a $29 billion global payments powerhouse on Wednesday with a formal offer to buy Britain’s Worldpay for 8 billion pounds ($10 billion). Vantiv’s move...

News Hour: Toshiba shares jumped on Wednesday on expectations it will meet a deadline to submit long-delayed earnings to financial regulators, easing fears the troubled conglomerate’s stock will be yanked from the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The...

News Hour: China’s factory price inflation remained steady for the third consecutive month in July, the government said Wednesday, coming in slightly below expectations as experts warn of a further slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy....

News Hour: Indonesia said Tuesday it would trade palm oil, coffee, and tea for Russian fighter jets, saying it wanted to capitalize on international sanctions on Moscow as Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was due to arrive...