The landscape of commerce within Sri Lanka is witnessing a transformative phase as digital marketing becomes increasingly paramount to business success. In an age where traditional media – encompassing TV, radio, and print – once stood unchallenged, there now exists a new dominion led by the robust capabilities of online marketing. This shift not only…
In Sri Lanka, calm returned on Thursday after a new wave of violence against the Muslim minority. Violence perpetrated by radicalized Buddhists. Despite the curfew decreed since Monday, three people were killed and a dozen residents were injured in Kandy, a city in the center of the island. In a few days a hundred businesses…
BredaRelatively many successful Dutch YouTubers are highly educated. Four in ten YouTube stars have completed an HBO or WO education, while this share is more than 10 percent lower for all Dutch people. This is apparent from research by CVSter.nl into the training courses of Dutch YouTubers with more than 100,000 subscribers. Gamers often highly…
There are currently restrictions on various services such as Amazon, Spotify, PayPal and Co. Customers report malfunctions when logging in or in normal operation of the services. This is probably due to a bug in the Amazon Web Services in the background. As the malfunction page shows, problems have been increasing with a number of…
The 113 competitors of the Raid Amazones set out on the tracks of Sri Lanka to test their limits. For six days, teams of three, 100% female, compete in running, orienteering and canoeing events in breathtaking landscapes. Each team has the opportunity to sponsor a charity during their race.
US technology giant Alphabet Inc. has announced for the first time the advertising revenue generated by its YouTube video recording platform, which, in the fourth quarter of 2019, was 4.7 billion dollars, and last year as a whole 15 , $ 1 billion, DPA and Reuters report. In addition, YouTube has generated about $ 750…
New problems for Google and its services. There are difficulties in accessing Gmail services and anomalies are also recorded for YouTube. The ‘alarms’ triggered by users converge on the downdetector.it site, which collects the reports, and are poured in particular on Twitter, where the hashtag #googledown returns to peep out after the ‘earthquake’ of two…
In this small country of 20 million inhabitants, the defense budget reaches 4% of the GDP . This is to say the weight of the civil war on the economy of Sri Lanka. A war officially started in 1983 even if the first violence dates back to 1972. It left 70,000 dead, weighed heavily on…
The new WhatsApp terms and conditions will become binding on Saturday. And with it the further processing of data by Facebook. There is a bang from Hamburg. At the beginning of the year, the messenger service WhatsApp changed its general terms and conditions. After a lengthy discussion and the subsequent postponement of the date to…
About fifteen dead and up to 300 missing in Sri Lanka. These are the consequences of mudslides in Haldummulla, a village in the center of the island. These landslides were caused by several days of heavy rains.More than 150 homes were buried. According to the minister responsible for natural disaster management, 75 children escaped the…
It’s jubilation in the capital of Sri Lanka. Part of the population is savoring the near end of 37 years of a bloody conflict with the Tamil rebellion. The most irreducible Tigers, surrounded by the Sri Lankan army in a coastal area of barely a few km2, preferred to stop fighting. President Mahinda Rajapaksa purposely…
In Sri Lanka, the Tamils, mostly located in the north of the country, represent 30% of the population compared to 75% Sinhalese. They are Hindus. And it is to defend the rights of this minority that in 1972, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam took up arms. Their conflict has since left nearly 70,000 dead….
“WhatsApp is not abandoning support for older iPhones. It’s fake news.” The Wabetainfo blog, which always provides information on news related to WhatsApp, denies the rumors relating to a disengagement of the messaging app against the generically “older” iPhone models. On its website, WhatsApp specifies that the application “for iPhone requires iOS 9 or later….
Pope Francis has started a two-day visit to Sri Lanka, a country which remains deeply marked by three decades of war between the government, dominated by the Sinhala majority, and the Tamil rebels, the ethnic minority. Welcomed at Colombo airport by the new president Maithripala Sirisena, the Holy Father launched an appeal for reconciliation and…
The Sri Lankan army today announced the end of its heavy military operations in the area of around ten km2 where rebels and thousands of civilians are entrenched. She also assured that she would endeavor to rescue civilians held hostage by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Yesterday the separatists unilaterally proclaimed a ceasefire which…
The attack blamed on the Tamil rebels killed several police officers and injured more than 85 in Colombo, the country’s capital. According to the army spokesman, “the target was a police bus. A motorcycle crashed into the vehicle ”. The explosion occurred in a commercial district of the capital near the Hilton hotel, and in…
Tension remains high in Sri Lanka where the hunt for suspects continues. The leader of the attacks died on Sunday while perpetrating one of them. The security forces have arrested nearly 75 people since Sunday in connection with this bloodbath. The human toll of these deadly attacks was revised sharply down Thursday evening. A significantly…
The app of the Chinese giant ByteDance will have to respond to the accusations raised by Europe regarding the violation of consumer rights and the lack of protection of the under 18s in front of hidden advertising TikTok, the Chinese short video sharing app, will have one month to respond to multiple complaints from EU…
For over a decade, Kilinochchi served as the capital for the Liberation Tigers movement from Tamil Islam. But in November 2008, the Sri Lankan army launched attacks on the city from three different locations. The fighting raged in particular on the A9 motorway, the main axis connecting Colombo with the Tamil areas in the north…
The North Food Bank finally found its Facebook page on the night of Wednesday 5 to Thursday 6 May, while it had been deactivated since mid-March. The social network admitted that it was an error and that this page corresponded “to the standards of the community”. The 900 people subscribed to the Facebook page of…