Business News

The Positive Sri Lanka initiative is generating an overwhelming response from the local business community as leading brands step forward to do their bit to restore the economy.

The Commercial Bank of Ceylon has announced a limited duration reduction in the interest rates applicable to the Bank’s Home Loans along with fast-tracked approvals and discounts from selected suppliers of materials and fittings.

Ceylinco Life has launched a two-month campaign to encourage policyholders to revive lapsed policies and is offering to waive 50 per cent of the late payment fee for those who respond before end August 2019.

Sustainability has always occupied a prime position on leading chicken producer Crysbro’s list of operational priorities.

Some of the leading Chief Data and Analytics Officers from across the Asia Pacific region, including one of my colleagues, Oracle’s Han Chung Heng, Senior Vice President, Systems, in Europe Middle East Africa, Asia Pacific and Japan, will come together for a Summit (23-24 July 2019) in Singapore.

The grand finale of Inter-University Esports Championship 2019, powered by SLT’s ultra-high speed fibre and organized by Gamer.LK came to a successful conclusion recently at Stein Studios, Rathmalana.

The tech dragon Huawei is impending the release of Y9 Prime 2019, Y7 Pro 2019 (finger print) and Y5 Lite (leather back) with enhanced new features, which is dedicatedly living up the expectations of the younger generation of Sri Lanka.

The Teaching Hospital Kandy, the second-largest medical institution in the country, has become the fifth government hospital to receive a fully-equipped and furnished High Dependency Unit (HDU) from Ceylinco Life under a corporate social responsibility initiative of the life insurance leader.

Sophos (LSE: SOPH), a global leader in network and endpoint security, today announced the findings of its global survey, The Impossible Puzzle of Cybersecurity, which reveals IT managers are inundated with cyberattacks coming from all directions and are struggling to keep up due to a lack of security expertise, budget and up to date technology.

Sri Lanka's National Information and Communication Technology Solutions Provider Sri Lanka Telecom PLC collaborated with Sri Lanka Karting Circuit, Bandaragama (SLKC) to successfully conduct the 'SLT Speedup Karting Challenge 2019' under the theme of 'SLT Speed Up', initiated in 2015.