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Trend Watch: 5 areas phone & accessory-powered AI can impact you

(1) Interior Decoration: Through image recognition, you can receive advice on the “suggested price” to sell your furniture. (2) Gardening: Your smartphone can detect with remarkable accuracy if your plant is sick. (3) Language translation: Want to know how it feels like to have a ‘personal translator’ by your side? Headphones can provide you with […]
Announcement

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.