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TORONTO — Ontario’s libraries are asking the government to create a provincewide digital public library, to ensure residents in smaller municipalities have the same access to materials as people in large, urban centres. Libraries are mostly funded by municipalities, so each library system has to purchase their own material, said …

TORONTO — A major Toronto hospital network said its digital systems went down on Monday and it was working to investigate what was causing the outage. The University Health Network issued a “code grey” — a hospital code for system failure — but released few other details about what happened. …

Deepti Sri / Tech in Asia: Vietnam-based Timo Bank raises $20M led by Square Peg, its first outside funding since its 2015 founding, as it aims to acquire a digital banking license  —  Vietnam-based Timo Bank has raised US$20 million in a fresh financing round led by Square Peg, a …

New Delhi: A couple’s social standing in India still largely depends on their family and ability or willingness to have one. As infertility becomes a new epidemic, the new-age technology is developing an ecosystem to embrace advancements in fertility and to adapt reproductive-health-supporting technologies. The second edition of ETHealthworld’s National …

New Delhi: Doceree launches opti-channel marketing in an attempt to accelerate adoption of digital mediums and to ease the process for the pharmaceutical companies to reach out to physicians via different communication means such as Emails, messages and other communication platforms. Moving out from single-channel communication to opti-channel marketing will …

Express News Service Before the pandemic hit, Ruchika Rana (name changed) had a packed calendar. She volunteered at an NGO thrice a week, met her kitty group and women’s clubs frequently, and ran her household and a retinue of servants with an iron fist. As soon as lockdown was imposed, …

Dementia is the most common type of disability and dependency in elderly worldwide. It has a physical, psychological, social, and economic impact, not only on people with Dementia, but also on their carers, families, and society at large. Globally, India houses the second highest number of individuals suffering from Dementia …

Voyager Innovations, the Manila-based owner of PayMaya, one of the Philippines’ most popular payment and financial services apps, announced today it has raised $167 million in new funding to launch more financial services, including a digital bank. The raise includes $121 million in new funding, and $46 million from previously …

By Anurag Khosla The decade of 2020s can turn out to be an era that reshapes our healthcare system by innovating and accepting digital technology at its heart. The outbreak and continuous surge of COVID-19 have driven many developments in the healthcare space, the way people seek medical assistance, doctor-patient …

The second wave of Covid-19 has accelerated digital piracy in India. This was already on the rise when the pandemic hit the country last year. According to a senior official of consultancy firm EY India, original content creators lose money by up to five times of what they make through …