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BRAMERZ Acquires DEXTEAM to Scale Operations in Karachi

By Fatima Rizwan ⏐ 11 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Digital Marketing and New Media Agency based out of Lahore, Bramerz, has acquired DEXTeam digital agency based out of Karachi. This is a strategic move…

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Public hearing of Cyber Crime Bill is not so public

By Mohammad Farooq ⏐ 11 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The much delayed but anticipated public hearing in regards to the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill 2015 has been scheduled for Friday, May 22nd, 2015…

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Warid expands its 4G LTE network to 12 cities of Pakistan

By Mohammad Farooq ⏐ 11 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Warid Telecom, one of Pakistan’s largest and fastest growing 4G LTE network, has just announced the launch of its 4G LTE services in four major…

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10 gold points from CEO of Housing, Rahul Yadav’s, AMA on Reddit

By Fatima Rizwan ⏐ 11 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 7 min read

Love him, hate him but you can’t ignore him. Rahul Yadav, the cofounder and CEO of Housing.com – a house renting portal for India -…

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Data Protection Act & Privacy: Pakistan needs it badly

By Mohammad Farooq ⏐ 11 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 5 min read

In this digital day and age, when everything is getting transformed by technology and revolutionizing the world, Pakistan still lacks a Data Protection Act and…

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A hacker takes over the plane through the in-flight entertainment system

By Fatima Rizwan ⏐ 11 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Security researcher Chris Roberts sent out the following tweet during a flight and those 140 characters landed him behind bars. According to Roberts, it was…

Messiah was offered an undisclosed amount of funding from two Pakistani-American investors, Shubber Ali & Kash Rehman and from a Jordan-based investment company, Oasis 500 at Digital Youth Summit (DYS) 2015. *TechJuice *reached out to the Founder of Messiah app, Ebtihaj Khan for the details on their startup which has gained tremendous attention in the past few months. Messiah is an emergency responder app designed to relay distress signal to friends, family or fellow Messiahs in case of an accident or an emergency. The idea of Messiah was born in Code for Pakistan's Civic Hackathon held in Peshawar last year where the team stood second. They were offered to participate in 6-month Code for Pakistan's Peshawar fellowship program which, according to Ebtihaj, helped a lot in gaining the attention of both local and international investors. See also: Raising the first million for your startup and clueless about where to begin? Here are 7 lessons from Digital Youth Summit (http://www.techjuice.pk/raising-the-first-million-for-your-startup-and-clueless-about-where-to-begin-here-are-7-lessons-from-digital-youth-summit/) Speaking of the angel investment at DYS 2015, Ebtihaj told *TechJuice* that the details for the investment has not been finalized yet. He added that the investment from the Oasis-500 was already in talk after they won the Bootcamp earlier this year, but it was put on hold as they came back to Pakistan. They will have to incubate at Oasis 500 for 100 days in order to receive the investment. However, Messiah has not yet signed any investment agreement with either of the investors. See also: Digital Youth Summit 2015: Panel Discussion Revealed horrifying facts about Cyber Crime Bill (http://www.techjuice.pk/digital-youth-summit-2015-panel-discussion-revealed-horrifying-facts-about-cyber-crime-bill/) *TechJuice *asked Ebtihaj about the reasons in the delay of the launch of the Messiah app. He pointed out that the main reason for the delay is the fulfillment of the testing procedures for the application; otherwise, the application is fully developed to be launched on both Android and iOS platform. He added that currently they have around 50 beta users within the Peshawar region and they will soon launch the applications. While talking about the future of Messiah, Ebtihaj shared with *TechJuice* that they will bring more functionalities to Messiah in addition to one-click messenger such as Accident detection mode. *Keep following TechJuice for more updates on Messiah application. *

Messiah secures angel investments at Digital Youth Summit 2015

By Sarwat Fatima ⏐ 11 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Messiah was offered an undisclosed amount of funding from two Pakistani-American investors, Shubber Ali & Kash Rehman and from a Jordan-based investment company, Oasis 500…

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Islamabad Police implements Emergency Panic Alert System for security of schools, hospitals, churches & media houses

By TechJuice ⏐ 11 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Islamabad police in collaboration with Save the Nation has successfully developed an Emergency Panic Alert System (EPAS) for the safety of everyone especially areas which…

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Habab Idrees becomes the 1st Pakistani to receive dual honor at Intel ISEF 2015

By Sarwat Fatima ⏐ 11 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Earlier this year, TechJuice reported the winners for Intel Pakistan National Science Competition who were to represent Pakistan at the Intel International Science & Engineering…

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Facebook Launches Instant Articles: A Faster Way To Read Your Favorite Content On Your Smartphone

By Fahad Ullah ⏐ 11 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

We reported earlier that Facebook will introduce Instant Articles this month with select partners. Well, the wait is over. Facebook has officially launched Instant Articles…

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RoboCup 2015: Team Pakistan, the only team from South-Asia, Qualifies

By Sarwat Fatima ⏐ 11 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Team-NUST, Pakistan is the only team from South Asia which has been qualified for “RoboCup 2015 Standard Platform League Competition”. The team will compete against…

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Join the Global Feminist Hackathon Organized in Memory of Sabeen Mahmud

By Sarwat Fatima ⏐ 11 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

On 24th April, 2015, unidentified gunmen shot one of Pakistan’s leading Human Rights activist, Sabeen Mahmud. She was on her way back to home after…

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Women outperform men…yet again

By Sadia Arshad ⏐ 11 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

Since the beginning of civilization and perhaps even prior to that, men and women have quarreled over…well, everything. And let’s face it, women have outperformed…

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