Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The funds supported programs to immunize Syrian children in Iraq, Rohingya children in Bangladesh, and Brazilian children residing in the most remote areas of the Amazon. Google asked employees to donate to UNICEF when they received a flu shot, supporting UNICEF in providing routine immunizations for children outside the United States.

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Wired

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

An alleged job scam, led by Aiden from OpenAI, recruited workers in Bangladesh for months before disappearing overnight, according to FTC complaints obtained by WIRED.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 3, 2011

Longtime Beneblog readers may remember my visit five years ago to Bangladesh, where I was able to visit and write about a cool tech social enterprise, bracNet. They were going to bring Bangladesh better wireless internet than exists in California, and they’ve done it.

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TechSpot

MAY 30, 2024

Meta's quarterly Adversarial Threat Report includes research into six new covert influence operations that it disrupted, including ones from Bangladesh, China, Croatia, Iran, Israel, and a CIB network that targeted Moldova and Madagascar. Read Entire Article

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 21, 2006

In my recent blog postings, I documented personal impressions during my recent trip to Bangladesh. Silva's analysis presented in the report, " Judge, Jury, and Death: Torture and Executions by Bangladesh's Elite Security Force." This post takes a look at how Benetech is helping to document human rights abuses in that country.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

Fairbanc was founded in 2019 by Wharton-graduate Mir Haque, who first piloted the startup in Bangladesh before choosing Indonesia as its main market. Haque was born in Bangladesh and described it to TechCrunch as “the birthplace of micro-finance.” As a result, Fairbanc decided to pilot with Unilever in Indonesia instead.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 18, 2006

A very exciting part of my visit to Bangladesh was meeting with the team at bracNet, a for-profit internet company that is partially owned by BRAC. bracNet has so many possibilities in Bangladesh: will they be the Craigslist there? I had met Khalid Quadir, the CEO, when he was doing a Reuters Fellowship several years ago at Stanford.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 15, 2006

My primary destination in Bangladesh was to meet with BRAC , which is the world's largest NGO (nonprofit organization) with nearly 100,000 employees. Abed has accomplished an incredible amount since founding BRAC more than 30 years ago, but he is charging forward with expansion both inside and outside of Bangladesh.

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TechNode

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Fostering trust in the digital economy for local customers in Bangladesh bKash is a mobile financial service in Bangladesh, offering a diverse range of financial services, including money transfers, bill payments, mobile top-ups, and more, through a mobile app or USSD code.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

In Bangladesh, students often rely on after school learning centers for study help or test preparation, but many of the best ones are concentrated in major cities. million seed round co-led by returning investor LearnStart (the seed fund of edtech investment firm Learn Capital) and Anchorless Bangladesh. .

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Amazon has doubled profits through COVID19 but they have still not paid suppliers in Bangladesh for finished orders cancelled during the pandemic. ?Garment Garment workers stand with #MakeAmazonPay Fair wages & union rights for all Amazon supply chain workers now!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 19, 2006

Just after returning from India and Bangladesh, I received word that one of my key contacts and hosts had suddenly passed away. Vinod Sena in memoriam I had a very unfortunate reminder of the fragile state of each human being this week. Professor Vinod Sena was a retired professor of English literature at the University of Delhi.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 19, 2006

Plus, they are expanding into other areas of sustainability work, such as solar powered water pumps in rural Bangladesh. The topic of hybrid for-profit/nonprofit enterprises is a big one for me, and these guys are busy setting one up to greatly expand their operations. In a great way!

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

million to bring better healthcare to Bangladesh. Starling raised a huge new round in the fintech space, and Deliveroo dropped some financial numbers on its path to going public in short-order. Postscript raised $35 million for its Shopify-SMS service; Praava Health raised $10.6 A packed kickoff to what promises to be a packed week!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2010

Conversation Three When I got back late to the hotel and stopped by the bar, I found the founders of Waste Concern of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Maqsood Sinha and Iftekhar Enayetullah getting a late dinner of sandwiches. They have expanded from Dhaka to at least ten cities, and are now wrestling with the right way to expand outside of Bangladesh.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2010

Next, I went to the Social Entrepreneurs Corner (a space set aside for the SEs) and ended up talking in detail with Iftekhar of Waste Concern from Bangladesh about the idea they floated in the bar a couple days ago for software to help cities reduce their carbon footprint.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Chaldal Wants To Become The Amazon Fresh Of Bangladesh’s Capital. “When we started, Instacart was still the dominant model, but we took a different stand and said we want to deliver from our own warehouses because that leads to better inventory management,” co-founder and chief executive officer Waseem Alim told TechCrunch.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 24, 2007

Almost everyone here does something interesting, and you are more likely than not find a common interest with someone you would never would have a priori guessed would be passionate about human rights, or technology, or the political situation in Bangladesh, or environmental change, or.

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Medium Technology Section

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The Future of Online Shopping Has Arrived Continue reading on Medium

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

We've got an important question for all the cricket fans out there: How would you like to see Bangladesh, India , New Zealand , Pakistan, Afghanistan, Australia , England, and South Africa compete in a ODI tournament? TL;DR: Live stream the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy for free from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

This suite of services is essential in the primary markets in which Nomod is aiming to build a significant merchant base, like Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bangladesh. For Bangladesh, card POS hardware is pretty expensive for small and medium merchants. In the UAE, it can take nearly six months to set up a business bank account.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Exporters in countries like Bangladesh, China or Vietnam that have been supplying European companies for years, with stable commercial relationships. Take any global supply chain, such as apparel, automotive, electronics etc.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2021

to increase access to quality healthcare in Bangladesh. Docosan’s founders demonstrated strong experience and dedication to the healthcare issues in the region. We are proud to be supporting Docosan’s vision of better healthcare access for all.”. Praava Health raises $10.6M

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

South Africa, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh are some of the markets where the calling app is widely used. Talk360’s partnerships with agents like PesaPoint in Kenya and Flash in South Africa, also enables users to purchase airtime vouchers from a network of over 750,000 physical points of sale.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Shawn Ahmed sent us a video from Bangladesh with his reflections on how nonprofits can work with Free Agents. For example, in Bangladesh, people mistrust nonprofits, but they are more open to individuals. Please take five minutes to watch the video – it’s excellent.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Some of its clients are in Bangladesh, Malaysia, Singapore and Dubai. “We These improvements, explained co-founder Souvik Sengupta, help small manufacturers land larger clients that have higher expectations from the businesses with which they engage. He said the startup has helped small manufacturers reach customers outside of India as well.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The group claiming to be behind these attacks calls themselves Team Copyright, and purports to be based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. If you'd like faster updates, feel free to join the Telegram channel ( [link] ) – (1/3) pic.twitter.com/qjNnz0os9x — BTS UPDATES? | @BTSdailyinfo (@BTSdailyinfo) November 2, 2021.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

It currently covers some 20 countries for receiving money, some of the very poorest and/or least developed places in the world including Bangladesh, Cameroon, DRC, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Morocco, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Republic of the Congo, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Senegal and Zambia.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

How Bongo, the ‘Netflix of Bangladesh,’ won the local video streaming market with just $10M. “They are already growing and doubling each year with phenomenal SaaS metrics because they are helping content providers to connect to any audience.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

It also plans to expand its offerings to other Asian countries such as Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Vietnam in the future. Makkar said the startup will eventually broaden its offerings by integrating logistics, payments, and financing services to its platform.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The app has active users in more than 170 countries, including South Africa, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh. “We The company said its internet calling app has connected 2.3 million people worldwide so far this year, and attained 167% growth in customers and 130% in revenues.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Rali_cap is particular about startups in large markets across these regions — Nigeria, Egypt and South Africa in Africa; Brazil and Mexico in Latin America; and Pakistan and Bangladesh in South Asia. “But we’re always open for exceptions,” said Simmons.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 27, 2010

There are roughly thirty social entrepreneurs here at the Forum, headlined by such famous leading SEs as Muhammad Yunus and Fazle Abed of Bangladesh. We then joined the social entrepreneurship dinner.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Bangladesh, one of the largest exporters of ready-made garments, saw export earnings plunge from $34.13 He claims that over 200 brands and 150 factories are currently using the platform, concentrated mostly in India, Bangladesh, China, the U.S., The pandemic has majorly affected the global supply chain, with 60% of U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Klikit was founded in 2021 by Christopher Withers, who has a lot of experience in the on-demand space—he was previously vice president of marketplaces at GoJek, chief strategy officer at Bangladesh ride-hailing platform Pathao and launched UberEats in the Asia Pacific. He also owned and operated a ghost kitchen.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Pakistan , New Zealand, Bangladesh, and India have all started their 2025 ICC Champions Trophy campaigns, and now it's the turn of the teams from Group B. TL;DR: Live stream Afghanistan vs. South Africa in the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy for free from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Some of its clients are in Bangladesh, Malaysia, Singapore and Dubai. The startup aims to grow this figure to $300 million by March next year. Infra.Market is also enabling small manufacturers to reach customers outside of India.

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