“Careem and Uber services are not suspended”

By Maheen Kanwal ⏐ 9 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Sindh Transport Minister announces that Careem and Uber services have not been suspended in Karachi. They are only notified to show fitness certificates and permits…

10Pearls acquires Brilliant Experience, a user experience and research firm

By Maheen Kanwal ⏐ 9 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

10Pearls, a P@SHA Member software application design company that provides innovative digital solutions, has acquired Brilliant Experience, a research and innovation consultancy firm that fulfill…

Punjab govt declares Careem & Uber illegal

By Maheen Kanwal ⏐ 9 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

Punjab Government has declared the mobile app taxi service providers including Careem, Uber, and A-One as illegal. A notice “Illegal Operations of private cars as…

Xiaomi partners with Smartlink Technologies to officially launch in Pakistan

By Maheen Kanwal ⏐ 9 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Xiaomi has partnered with Smartlink Technologies to officially launch in Pakistan. In November 2016, Xiaomi got approval from PTA and a no objection certificate (NOC)…

Law Enforcement Agency confiscates counterfeit smartphones during a raid in Karachi

By Maheen Kanwal ⏐ 9 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Law Enforcement Agency has conducted a successful raid on a mobile market in Karachi and confiscated counterfeit smartphones. Law Enforcement Agency raided Al-Najeebi Market at…

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ITU to open first ever FinTech center in Pakistan

By Maheen Kanwal ⏐ 9 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Information Technology University (ITU) and Digital Financial Services Research Group (DFSRG) University of Washington (Seattle, USA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish…

Nearpeer raises investment at 6 figure (USD) valuation from Shopistan

By Maheen Kanwal ⏐ 9 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 4 min read

Nearpeer, Plan9’s startup incubated under Ilm Ideas 2, has raised a product acceleration investment at 6 figure (USD) valuation from Shopistan.pk. Nearpeer is a Massive…

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Over 2000 employees offered permanent jobs at Jazz

By Maheen Kanwal ⏐ 9 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Jazz has announced that the company has offered 2000 employees with permanent, full-time jobs. The announcement came after the unification of Mobilink and Warid under…

Google beats Microsoft in revenue for third consecutive quarter, LinkedIn loses $100 million

By Maheen Kanwal ⏐ 9 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Google beats Microsoft in terms of revenue for the third consecutive quarter. Google’s parent company, Alphabet, and Microsoft have released their financial results. Microsoft has…

Twitter’s new Explore tab has trends, Moments, search & live videos all in one place

By Maheen Kanwal ⏐ 9 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Twitter is merging its Moments, trends, search and live videos into a new “Explore” tab. Previously, the online news and social networking website, Twitter, had…

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Facebook updates Trending & introduces new Privacy Basics

By Maheen Kanwal ⏐ 9 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Facebook has updated its Trending section and has introduced new privacy basics. Trending Previously, users from all over the world used to see same and…

Google blocked 1.7 billion ads & banned 200 publishers in fake news crackdown in 2016

By Maheen Kanwal ⏐ 9 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Google took down billions of misleading ads and websites in 2016 in its crackdown against scammers. Google aims to provide an open and secure web…

Hoax Alert: WhatsApp will not notify others if you take screenshot of chat

By Maheen Kanwal ⏐ 9 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

WhatsApp will not notify you when someone takes a screenshot of your chat. A humor-based website, 8shit, announced on January 23 that WhatsApp will let…

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