DHAKA: Corporate, industrial and commercial institutions are becoming interested about online news portals as the people are becoming more interested and dependent on it.

The banglanews24.com is also refurbishing itself in the form of creating Android and iPhone versions to reach the people of remote areas.

Alamgir Hossain, Editor-in-Chief of banglanews24.com, made the observation while addressing an agreement signing ceremony between Banglanews24.com and VU Mobile Ltd at the head office of the news portal on Wednesday evening.

Alamgir Hossain and Managing Director of VU Mobile Ltd Kaymun Amin signed the deal on behalf of the respective institutions.

The VU Mobile will work to find out new areas of advertisements for the Android and iPhone versions of the news portal.

Addressing the function, Kaymun Amin said they are going to work with a market with a good prospect and it is important to have a partner like banglanews.

Head of Marketing of the banglanews Sirajul Islam, Head of Programming Sohrab H Khan, VU Mobile Chief Business Officer Ashish Bavishi and Marketing Specialist Muradul Mustakin were present on the occasion.

BDST: 2100 HRS, OCT 01, 2014