Sri Lanka was voting on Saturday. 16 million voters choose a new president. 35 candidates are in the running. An election against a backdrop of latent tensions over the country’s Muslim minority, 10% of the population of 22 million. The attacks on behalf of the Islamic State group, which killed 269 people at Easter, in…
The Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing (SLIM) proudly unveiled the launch of the SLIM DIGIS 2.3 Awards, setting a prestigious benchmark for excellence in digital marketing. These awards are an integral recognition platform that heralds the most innovative and effective digital marketing campaigns. With the landscape of digital marketing rapidly evolving, SLIM DIGIS 2.3 is…
The death toll of the attacks that hit luxury hotels and Catholic churches celebrating Easter on Sunday worsened to 207 dead and more than 450 injured, police said. The Sri Lankan authorities have declared an immediate curfew and the temporary blocking of social networks to prevent the dissemination of “incorrect and false information” in response…
Thousands of civilians abandoned to their fate, hundreds of wounded trapped without medical aid. In Sri Lanka, the International Committee of the Red Cross says it is powerless in the face of an unimaginable catastrophe. And the Sri Lankan government has once again rejected calls from the international community to stop the offensive against the…
At least 60 people died in the explosion of a truck carrying ammunition near the port of Batticaloa in eastern Sri Lanka. It is an accident. The explosion took place inside a police station and most of the victims are police officers. According to local media, two Chinese entrepreneurs were also among those killed. The…
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…
Here is the option to listen at double speed. Users cheer on social media On WhatsApp it is now possible to listen to audio messages even at double the speed. The novelty is part of the latest application update, already available for iPhone users on the App Store. The new function allows you to choose…
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…
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…
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 cricket match between Sri Lanka and Pakistan, which was played this Sunday in Colombo, was interrupted for about twenty minutes following throwing of various objects. Marvan Atapattu’s men were not very enterprising and never really managed to worry their opponents, a spectacle that did not please their supporters. Pakistan ultimately won and leads 2-1…
Riots have broken out in Sri Lanka in several parts of the country, under tension since the carnage of the Easter attacks. In Kurunegala, about 90 km northeast of the capital Colombo, police arrested a group of men who attacked businesses run by Muslims. It was Monday morning, testimony of a trader: “They came with…
Because “it’s hard to trust what you don’t understand,” Instagram decided to communicate the four things the system analyzes to decide which posts to show its users first. These “signals” concern in particular the history of interactions and likes, information linked to a post or the profile of its author. Instagram has partially lifted the…
Sri Lanka is now banning veils that hide the face, and therefore, without naming them, the niqab or the burqa, eight days after the attacks claimed by the Islamic State group which have plagued the country. Measures taken to strengthen national security, according to the presidency, but which do not fail to react. According to…
The landscape of financial services in Sri Lanka receives another significant enhancement, as ComBank proudly announces the grand opening of its newly constructed branch in Kegalle. This latest expansion by ComBank is more than a mere addition of a new location; it’s a testament to the bank’s unwavering commitment to bring advanced banking services and…
During the campaign he was accused of corruption and of failing to seal national reconciliation. It was his former Minister of Health, Maithripala Sirisena, who had gone to the opposition, who therefore won the election.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has put his first tweet, authenticated on the blockchain, up for sale. The highest bid so far is $ 2 million. Twitter boss Jack Dorsey put his very first tweet up for sale on Friday, March 5, and the highest bid was $ 2 million on Saturday, a sign of appetite…
The group criticizes that he will be forced to allow other app stores on his iPhone. This would worsen the security of the users. Cupertino Apple is warning of negative consequences for consumers against parts of the EU’s plans for new rules in the digital business. The group specifically criticizes that it will be forced…
Sri Lanka voted today in parliamentary elections that should unsurprisingly end with the victory of President Rajapakse’s party. The head of state called on voters to give his party, the UPFA , the two-thirds majority needed to amend the constitution. Faced with the UPFA , an exploded opposition. The main opponent, the former head of…
Microsoft’s bid to buy the US business of the TikTok application was rejected by ByteDance, the Chinese owner of the platform, according to the announcement made on Sunday evening by the American computer giant. “ByteDance informed us today that they will not sell TikTok operations in the US to Microsoft. We are convinced that our…