Category: BUSINESS

(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –Inspired by life and nature, Angie Alexander is an artist who expresses stories on canvas purely through emotions. She recently exhibited a collection of paintings at Hype Studio, Colombo 3 under the brand name ‘art.by.angie.alex’ at which 8 exhibits were sold gaining further traction online with 4 more pieces sold the subsequent day.

(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –Jetstar Asia will become the only low-cost carrier (LCC) to fly direct from Singapore to Colombo, Sri Lanka when it launches the new service on 1st July, 2020.

(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) – Sophos(LSE: SOPH),a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, today introduced a new “Xstream” architecture forSophos XG Firewallwith high performance Transport Layer Security (TLS) traffic decryption capabilitiesthat eliminate significant security risk associated with encrypted network traffic, which is often overlooked by security teams due to performance and complexity concerns. XG Firewall now also features AI-enhanced threat analysis from SophosLabs and accelerated application performance.

(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –Broadening the scope of its corporate social responsibility Sisudiriya programme, Sri Lanka’s leading and largest poultry manufacturer Crysbrocommenced offering skills training to fresh university graduates from a variety of academic streams.

(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –Boosted by the divestment of itstea plantations, diversified Sri Lankan conglomerate Sunshine Holdings PLC (CSE: SUN) reported notable growth in bottom-line performances during the first nine months of the current financial year (9MFY20). During this period, the Group posted a consolidated revenue of Rs. 15.8 billion, delivering a 32.3% Year-on-Year (YoY) increase in Profits After Tax (PAT).

(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –HMD Global, the home of Nokia phones, announces the Nokia C1 availability in Sri Lanka, a smartphone designed to entertain – anytime, anywhere. Nokia C1 featurs an impressive 5.45” display and with lighter apps and less bloatware, which enables to store up to 3,000 songs or 24 hours of videos for offline consumption, cutting down on data usage. Combined with all-day battery life[i] which has enough power to keep up with activities through-out…

(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –In a bid to extend a practical helping hand to persons with disabilities, Expo Visa Services, a subsidiary of Expolanka Holdings reached out to the Specialized Training and Disability Resource Centre of Employers’ Federation of Ceylon (EFC) to provide visa application services to persons with disabilities seeking foreign training opportunities. Accordingly, Expo Visa Services will provide all visa related services to persons with disabilities through EFC free of charge except for the visa…

(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –In line with its mission to offer valuable Information and Communication Technology (ICT) education opportunities to rural youth, Sarvodaya-Fusion recently partnered with the Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL) and National Institute of Business Management (NIBM) to facilitate advanced ICT learning opportunities to students across the island.

(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –IMI Games, Sri Lanka’s premier online gaming platform byArimac Digital has partnered with Sri Lanka’s first-ever home grown Pizza brand, Harpo’s Pizza& Pasta to launch theirbrand-orientedgamification project,‘Harpo’s Pizza Rush’on IMI games platform. This new experience allows the plethora of Sri Lanka’s ever-connected smartphone users and passionate foodies, to play and win weekly prizessponsored by the Harpo’s Pizza .

(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –Govipola, the cloud-based mobile app designed to facilitate direct selling platforms for fruit and vegetable farmers—a move aimed at cutting out middlemen and containing food inflation in Sri Lanka, will run on Microsoft Azure, a collection of cloud-based services for building reliable, scalable, and maintainable applications.