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Telenor Group announces Micropower Labs of Pakistan “Digital Winner 2017”

After competing with hundreds of startups across Telenor’s startup accelerators around Asia, Telenor’s Digital Winners programme brought together seven standout emerging market startups and crowned a single “Digital Winner” yesterday in Singapore. Micropower Labs from Pakistan has won Telenor Group’s annual Digital Winners competition. Specializing in hardware development, including the world’s fastest charging power bank, […]

Telenor Culture Prize 2017

This year, Telenor Group is awarding the annual Telenor Culture Prize “Boundless Communication” to choral conductor Grete Pedersen.

Telenor to host startup double-header: Slush Singapore Founder’s Day and Telenor Digital Winners

In partnership with Slush Singapore, Telenor Group is bringing startup companies from across its Asian accelerator programmes to Singapore for Digital Winners in a three-day combined event. It’s a meeting of the minds and competition to win funding to expand into new territories. Slush Singapore Founder’s Day – September 18 Slush Singapore’s Top 45 pitching, coaching […]

Six Youth Building Peace in Asia

This International Youth Day, the world celebrates young people’s contributions to inclusion, social justice and peace – and these six digital natives from across Asia are doing more than their share. From Pakistan to Malaysia, they’re using technology to build refuges for refugees, bring education to all, make communities healthier, help war-ravaged families rebuild and […]

Four million farmers digitally empowered

GSMA’s mNutrition initiative empowered more than five million farmers in six developing countries, nearly four million of them in collaboration with Grameenphone and Telenor Pakistan.

Cyber-attack sweeps the globe

Companies worldwide are reporting that they have been hit by a major ransomware cyber-attack (Petya). The virus freezes the user’s computer and demands a ransom be paid in the digital Bitcoin currency. Initial Source Commenting on the attack, Gunnar Ugland, Head of Telenor Security Operations Center, said: “The initial source for the malware is reported […]

With iFleet, Digi ventures into IoT world

Digi are venturing into a new area of business – the internet of things (IoT). Earlier in June they launched iFleet, an IoT-based fleet management system for vehicles, targeting the B2B market.

Tapad Board Appoints Sigvart Voss Eriksen as New CEO

Current CEO and Founder Are Traasdahl to Assume New Role as Chairman Emeritus.

WowBox reaches 10 million users

WowBox has reached 10 million registered users. The Telenor-developed app was launched in Bangladesh in May 2015, and has since been launched in Pakistan and Myanmar.

Providing internet for all in Myanmar—in record time

Mobile connectivity and the many opportunities that come with it were unknown to larger population of Myanmar until 2014. In just 32 months, close to 90% of the South East Asian nation’s population and more than 94% of townships in whole or in part are covered by Telenor Myanmar’s network. Telenor Myanmar’s Chief Marketing Officer, Joslin Myrthong, explains how a non-discriminatory market approach and multi-stakeholder collaboration helped the company build the country’s largest and fastest growing network.