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Instagram Creator Accounts are coming for Influencers

December 12, 2018

When social media platform began gaining popularity, marketers spotted an opportunity. That opportunity was influencer marketing. Over the years it’s become a part of digital marketing campaigns and has transformed significantly. Today, many influencers utilize Instagram to reach their audiences and the platform has taken notice of this. And according to news reports, Instagram is […]

Why entrepreneurship isn’t a one man show

December 11, 2018

Entrepreneurship is by no means a walk in the park, A few years ago, when I was working in Chile, I met a budding young entrepreneur (let’s call him Eduardo) at one of the country’s top incubators. When I asked him to tell me a bit about himself, he opened up by saying “A few years […]

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Learning About Risks in Entrepreneurship at Talk the Walks

December 3, 2018

Entrepreneurship. A word often tossed around. But in essence, what does it really mean? Well, we were at the 9th session of Talk the Walks hosted by Anura De Alwis. Intrigued after the previous session of Talk the Walks, we were curious on as to how this session would proceed. The speakers for this session […]

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Working with Generations At The 8th Talk The Walks

November 30, 2018

Do you believe in generation differences? That was the opening statement at the 8th edition of Talk The Walks hosted by Anura De Alwis. Answering this was Prof. Lalith Gamage – President and CEO of SLIIT. There are generational differences. But you cannot categorize them based on Gen X, Gen Y or Millennials, Prof. Lalith […]

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The Secret Sauce to Build a Startup: Digital Media

November 23, 2018

Digital media. We all use it. It can be your website, a photo on Instagram, or a post on Facebook. The point is, the stories we share on digital media can be used to make or break our products. But what is the secret sauce here? How do we use digital media effectively to achieve […]

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GDPR 101 by shoutout

Understand how to navigate GDPR at ShoutOUT Connect

November 22, 2018

$20 million or 4% of the company’s global revenue, whichever is larger. This is the stiff penalty for not meeting your business would have to pay if it doesn’t comply with GDPR. So how do you comply with it? That’s what ShoutOUT Connect aims to help you figure out. The basics of GDPR In case […]

IIT Big Dat Forum

Big Data and AI: How Will It Change The Future?

November 20, 2018

Approximately 90% of data in the world has been generated within just the last two years. But what is the point of all this data if we cannot process it? “This the challenge for data scientists today,” said Prof. Nirmalie Wiratunga at the at the recently held Big Data Forum for Data Enthusiasts organized by Informatics […]

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IFS celebrates 21 years in Sri Lanka: Where talent fuels growth

November 16, 2018

The company was founded in 1983. In 1997, it decided to establish an R&D center here in Sri Lanka. Fast forward to today and the company has enjoyed massive growth. It’s a globally recognized leader in developing ERP, EAM and ESM applications. It’s offices here in Sri Lanka employ over 1,000 people across Colombo and […]

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Ericsson & Dialog recognized for IoT Initiative of the Year

November 13, 2018

At the recently held, Global Telecom Awards, Sri Lanka bagged an interesting award. Ericsson and Dialog walked away as winners of the ‘IoT Initiative of the Year’ award. The award was given in recognition of Dialog’s Massive IoT network, supporting both Cat-M1 and Nb-IoT technologies. The network was implemented with the vision of accelerating the […]

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What to expect at the SLASSCOM AI Asia Summit

November 6, 2018

Artificial Intelligence. If you’re living in the world of tech, this has become a word that you’ve become very familiar with. It’s hard to find a device or an app that doesn’t use it in one form or the other. It takes on different forms. But with the vast quantities of data we generate, AI […]

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Turning Empathy to Engineering At The IEEE SS12

October 24, 2018

The IEEE SS12 is an innovation competition organized to recognize the best social innovators on a global level. Under the theme of Empathy to Engineering: Solutions for Macro Issues, the IEEE SS12 was organized by the IEEE Sri Lanka Section together with the IEEE Madras Section Education Society. The final leg of the competition was […]

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WTTx: On the Road to 5G & affordable internet in Sri Lanka

October 22, 2018

“You cannot connect everyone with a wire or fibre optics because the affordability is such that you need to have wireless solutions,” said Supun Weerasinghe – Group CEO of Dialog Axiata at the Asia-Pacific WTTx Summit. Organized by Huawei, GTI, and Informa, the event saw ICT leaders from across the Asia Pacific region. The goal […]

SLSC Partners Up With Arimac to Commemorate 75 Years

October 12, 2018

The Sri Lanka Signals Corps. Sound familiar? Well if they’re not, then you would be interested to know that the Sri Lanka Signals Corps or SLSC for short, is one of the oldest regiments of the Sri Lanka Army. They’ve also contributed and continue to contribute essential ICT requirements of the Sri Lanka Army. Commemorating […]

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Sagittarius | Digital

Building a world-class digital team in Colombo: The Sagittarius way

October 3, 2018

Sagittarius wanted to build a company that offers world-class digital solutions and evaluated several locations across the region. They needed a place with a culture that resonated well with the UK and their global clients but also contained the skills required to deliver industry-leading digital solutions. Ultimately, Sagittarius made the decision to invest in Sri […]

Hackathons

A glimpse inside an inter-university hackathon: HackX 2K18

September 27, 2018

HackX 2K18 was a hackathon open to undergraduates from universities across the island. From the many applicants, 15 teams were selected as the finalists. These finalists then sat inside the Dialog Auditorium and spent 12 hours building their prototypes. And then as always, they pitched their ideas to the judges. These are some of the […]

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Take a Break With the Inter-school eSports Championship 2018

September 18, 2018

“Video games are bad and a waste of time”. This is probably a sentence that you have heard parents in Sri Lanka tell their children. You yourself might have had this said to you. But what if you were told that you can make a career out of playing video games? Well, that’s where the […]

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ISM APAC Colombo Net Meetup 2018

Connecting the dots at the ISM APAC .NET Meetup

September 14, 2018

The .NET framework is a classic piece of technology developed in Microsoft that’s being used heavily even today. You might not have seen it, but you’ve likely used it with some of your daily applications. That’s because .NET is used by developers to build those applications. Recently we saw ISM APAC, share their experiences in […]

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The iPhone XS, iOS 12, & everything else Apple is giving us in 2018

September 13, 2018

Many of the rumors proved to be true. The new iPhone does have Dual-SIM support. The watch has FDA approval and can monitor your heartbeat. The speaker got a few updates too but they’re inconsequential. Here’s everything Apple announced at its annual September unveiling in 2018. The Apple Watch Series 4 with an ECG monitor […]

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Design Symposium

The learning experience we found at a Design Symposium

September 11, 2018

Stuart Brown once said, “The best designs are timeless.” Good design is an integral silent component of modern society. But how does one create well-designed experiences and facilitate their creation? That’s what we went to learn at the Design Symposium organized by George Bernard Consulting that was held inside Colombo Cooperative. Creating a design economy […]

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Improving Software Quality With Pearson Quality Quest 2018

September 7, 2018

For those of you who don’t know, the Pearson Quality Quest is an event organized by Pearson Lanka. We saw one such event back in 2014. The main purpose of the event is to share expertise on improving software quality through Dev-Ops. Once again, the event returns in the form of Pearson Quality Quest 2018. The […]

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