Category: Business and Economy

Date, Location – Huawei today announced the newest member of its HUAWEI Band Series, HUAWEI Band 6. With consumers increasingly demanding more from their wearable devices, the new HUAWEI Band 6 has been greatly enhanced in terms of design, battery life and health and fitness monitoring. HUAWEI Band 6 is Huawei’s first smart band to…

Synonymous with innovation, the leading technology solutions provider Huawei recently launched two new products in Sri Lanka- Huawei FreeBuds 4i and Huawei Band 6, further expanding its most exciting wearables and wireless earphones range. The long awaited release of Huawei FreeBuds 4i and Huawei Band 6 Huawei’s audio and fitness solutions, which have over the…

Singer (Sri Lanka) PLC, the country’s premier consumer durables retailer was recently bestowed with the coveted “Retail Brand of the Year Sri Lanka 2021” award at the 11th Global Banking and Finance Review Awards-one of the most prominent events in the corporate awards calendar. Singer brought home this prestigious award for the second consecutive year,…

HUAWEI Women Developers Summit • Guangzhou was successfully closed recently, in which women from different fields and at different career development stages joined together and showed their empowerment. At the summit, several outstanding women representatives from science and technology were invited to share their technical knowledge, work experience, and personal stories, aiming to encourage more…

Ernst & Young (EY) facilitated a timely discussion on Digital Cities as the knowledge partner at the “Sri Lanka Internet Day 2021”, the inaugural virtual event organized by the Digital Chapter of the Federation of Information Technology in Sri Lanka (FITIS) which was held in line with FITIS mandates on digital economy and regional hub…

The World’s Biggest Book Sale is set to captivate Sri Lankas for an additional four days with the extension of the Book Sale till May 16th 2021! Book fans can continue to hunt and shop for affordable books from the comfort of their own homes – or wherever they are – with discounts of up…

Amana Takaful Insurance – Sri Lanka’s homegrown and pioneering insurance company, is pleased to introduce the latest dynamic additions to its Board of Directors. Deepthie Wickramasuriya was appointed as Independent Non-Executive Director of Amana Takaful General Insurance with effect from 22nd December 2020 while Sharhan Muhseen took up his position as Independent Director at Amana…

As Sri Lanka looks to entice foreign investors to encourage FDIs into the country, EY and HSBC collectively hosted a virtual investment forum for Chinese businesses seeking investment opportunities in Sri Lanka. His excellency Dr. Palitha Kohona, the Sri Lankan Ambassador to China delivering his keynote speech stated Sri Lanka must identify strategic opportunities and…

Smart Keyboard offers local language typing, voice-to-text, and superior content experience in Sinhala, Tamil, & English HUTCH, in a first for Sri Lanka, today announced a partnership withBobble AI, the world’s first Conversation Media Platform that offers highly engaging smartphone keyboard solutions, trusted by millions of users globally. With this launch, smartphone subscribers across Sri…

The St. Gallen Symposium, an annual gathering of current and future leaders from across the globe, celebrated its 50th anniversary this year. At the event, 1,000 participants took part in the three-day cross-generational dialogue, joining from the University of St. Gallen campus, an international hub in Singapore, ten Swiss Embassies around the world, and elsewhere…