Business News

The Leasing Association of Sri Lanka Ltd (LASL) at their recent AGM appointed Nishaman Karunapala as its Chairman and Chaminda Sampath Hettiarachchi of Central Finance Co PLC as the Deputy Chairman.

Global internet users hits three billion mark

Tuesday, 04 November 2014 09:16

There are officially over three billion internet users globally, research from InternetLiveStats has found: 41 per cent of the world’s population of 7.2 billion.

JD Williams has branded Victoria’s Secret latest campaign - #PerfectBody – as exclusive and misguided.

Branston has unveiled digital out of home advertising at Waterloo Station in time for National Sandwich Day (3 November).

The SLASH Festival, (Sri Lanka Shopping Festival), was officially launched at a glamorous event at the Cinnamon Grand on November 1st.

Blackberry’s BBM messaging service has taken a leaf out of Snapchat’s book, now letting users destruct and retract messages and images sent using the app.

The Apple Watch looks set for a spring launch in 2015 following a leaked memo from the firm’s senior vice president of retail and online stores Angela Ahrendts.

Facebook has unblocked users of the online anonymity service, The Onion Router (Tor), from logging into accounts in a move which will likely encourage growth in countries where the service is banned.

Coca-Cola has teamed with (Red) with the aim of ending mother-to-child transmission of HIV through a music campaign.

Global hygiene company SCA has launched the next phase of its ‘Three Trees’ campaign for Velvet, developed to further illuminate the brand’s promise that for every tree Velvet takes from the world it’ll plant three more.