Facebook copies Snapchat Stories again to introduce ‘Messenger Day’

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

Facebook has rolled out ‘Messenger Day’ – a Snapchat Stories clone – in the Messenger app, globally. At the end of last year, Facebook introduced…

Microsoft & HEC Pakistan to host Imagine Cup with $100,000 prize money

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

Higher Education Commission (HEC) and Microsoft are teaming up again to bring Microsoft’s Imagine Cup – the premium student technology competition- to Pakistan. Started in…

Daastan’s Qissa is the Pakistan’s first online self-publishing platform

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

Daastan, Pakistan’s online literary forum, has conducted a successful book launch of their first ever author Tooba Arshad, who self-published her work through crowd funding.…

Popular startup doctHERs breaks up into two entities

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

doctHERs, a healthcare startup that connects female doctors to underserved patients in real-time while leveraging technology, has reportedly divided into two independent entities. The news…

[Video] A guide for women entrepreneurs in raising investments, advice corner by Fawzia Naqvi

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

Women are turning to entrepreneurship to escape the glass ceiling and to avoid sexism at the workplace. It offers them the freedom to live the…

You can now play Nokia’s iconic Snake game on Messenger

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

HMD Global, the home for Nokia phones, has released a new version of Snake game for Facebook’s Messenger. Nokia unveiled three smartphones and the iconic…

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Facebook founder will finally get his Harvard degree after dropping out 12 years ago

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

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook and a Harvard dropout, will be getting a college degree more than a decade after leaving Harvard. The founder of…

Easypaisa to part ways with Telenor Pakistan

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

Easypaisa is reportedly parting ways with Telenor Pakistan. Telenor Pakistan launched Easypaisa in 2009 with the approval of the State Bank of Pakistan. ProPakistani reported…

PTCL and China Telecom Global ink MoU to establish optical fiber network

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

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) and China Telecom Global (CTG) have signed an agreement for the establishment of an optical fiber network in the underserved…

Pakistan-India officials stress importance of technology for better governance

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

Pakistan and India legislators and public officials highlighted the importance of technology for good governance in both countries in the 10th round of Dialogue on…

Google Play turns 5! Here are the top 5 apps and games of all time

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

Google Play is celebrating its 5th birthday today. On March 6, 2012, Google introduced a one-stop shop for all entertainment offering apps, games, movies, TV…

No Pakistani university in top 30 of Muslim world

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

The latest ranking issued by the Scientometrics Lab of Information Technology University (ITU) show that no Pakistani university has made it to the top 30…

Locally built hybrid rickshaws displayed at Auto Parts Show in Karachi

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

Pakistani company Green Wheels Private Limited has introduced a locally-built hybrid rickshaw in an auto parts show organized at Karachi’s Expo center. Rickshaw is one…

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