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LUMS Center for Entrepreneurship reveals it’s achievements on first Birthday

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

Pakistani Entrepreneurship Center housed at LUMS and commonly known as LUMS Center for Entrepreneurship (LCE) has just completed its first year of operations. With the…

5 business accounting and financial tools for Startups

By Mohammad Farooq ⏐ 11 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

Emerging Startups have plenty of ideas at hand, but innovation remains the key to success. After receiving the initial round of investment from Venture Capitalists,…

How RFIDs are taking over Barcodes in Pakistan?

By Asra Rizwan ⏐ 11 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 4 min read

Business processes are now becoming ‘smart’ due to the tremendous progress in business technology since a couple of years. It has become essential for local…

Cyber Child Protection: Dangers and Guidelines of using Internet

By Mohammad Farooq ⏐ 11 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

Dangers In this era of the internet; it is important that we protect our children online in the same manner as we do in the…

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Startup Weekend Islamabad 2015, great ideas, okay industrial representation!

By Sarwat Fatima ⏐ 11 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

Earlier this week, Air University organized a Startup Weekend at Islamabad – a global event that has already happened in over 120+ countries for about…

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Rozee.pk raises $6.5 million in Series C venture funding from Vostok Nafta and Piton Capital

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

Rozee.pk has raised over $6.5 million in Series C venture funding from Vostok Nafta and Piton Capital Lead Investment with the help from its parent…

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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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20 reasons why Pakistan’s Technology Industry is much more than a fake degree scam

By TechJuice ⏐ 11 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 4 min read

Amidst all the chaos nowadays, let’s forget everything for a moment and tell the world that Pakistan’s IT industry is flourishing and a great deal…

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Meet the 3 winners of SEECS Social Hackathon

By Maryam Dodhy ⏐ 11 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

It would not be wrong to say that Pakistan has a pool of talented and innovative individuals. Over the past decade, the entrepreneurship culture has…

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Peshawar Digital Youth Summit 2015 – A Quick Glance

By TechJuice ⏐ 11 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 5 min read

TechJuice has had the opportunity to attend various technology, digital and entrepreneurship events all over the country, but Digital Youth Summit(DYS) at Peshawar is incomparable…

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Pakistan Innovation Foundation Collaborates With I Am Karachi For A 3-Day Hackathon

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

The I AM Karachi Innovation Challenge is a 3 day Hackathon happening from 12th June – 14th June 2015 at Habib University, Karachi. The event…

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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Pakathon DC announces a series of civic hacking and startup events for global hackathon 2015

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

Pakathon DC organized a successful weekend hackathon in September last year where students from Pakistan and USA solved Pakistani community problems through a cross-Atlantic collaboration.…

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