Bangladesh's retail market is transforming as traditional shops, modern retail, e-commerce and digital distribution converge. We look into what's changing and what's next.
When Sayed Rizban Hussain, Masnur Rahman, and Abdul Ghafur Bashir, three founders of AquaLink- more on that in a moment- began visiting factories, retail outlets, and farms across Bangladesh, they kept running into the same problem: businesses were making critical operational decisions with little or no real-time data. In many instances, they didn’t have any […]
“We wish to change and be transformed, we wish to make our lives as full and as useful as possible and to find and realize our own destiny. All these wishes have their place in all of us; they are there because there is an Ideal. All religions and all teachings agree that there is […]
Bangladesh's investment bureaucracy just got smaller, at least on paper. On August 20, 2026, the government issued a gazette notification bringing the Invest Bangladesh Act, 2026 into force, formally dissolving three of the country's important economic institutions: the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA), the Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA), and the Public-Private Partnership Authority (PPPA); […]
Bangladesh's government has started a serious conversation about deregulation. On August 9, the Cabinet Division formed a 22-member National Taskforce on Deregulation and Business Facilitation. Finance and Planning Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury is heading the taskforce. Other taskforce members are senior officials from Bangladesh Bank, NBR, BSEC and RJSC, along with representatives of major […]
Space is building a distributed filesystem that lets humans and agents instantly access and work across petabytes of live data while using zero local disk space. Cloud storage was supposed to make computers feel limitless. Yet workflows remain constrained by the disk inside each device. The cloud gave data another place to live, but not […]
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