Zameen.com

Pakistani real-estate portal “Zameen.com” hacked

By Rehan Ahmed ⏐ 10 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The web portal of Pakistani property-portal “Zameen.com” was compromised today as it went down for a short while, along with all the site’s source code…

Islamabad

Only 11 percent of Pakistanis own smartphones

By Rehan Ahmed ⏐ 10 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon 2 min read

A new report on smartphone ownership statistics in 40 nations around the globe has found out that only 11 percent of Pakistanis own smartphones. More…

WhatsApp

New WhatsApp Gold scam tricks WhatsApp users into downloading malware on their phones

By Rehan Ahmed ⏐ 10 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon 2 min read

If you get a message about downloading an exclusive too-good-to-be-true version of WhatsApp called “WhatsApp Gold”, don’t download it. The new scam tries to trick…

Software Piracy

Pakistan has the second-highest software piracy rate in Asia Pacific

By Rehan Ahmed ⏐ 10 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon 2 min read

A new report on software piracy rates around the globe has found out that almost 84 percent of all software installed in Pakistan in 2015…

Code

India leads Google Summer of Code with 454 participants, Pakistan has only 4

By Maryam Dodhy ⏐ 10 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2016 just got underway and Google had some very interesting statistics to share. 1,206 students from all over the world…

Investment for Pakistani Businesses

American and Pakistani business tycoons to explore investment opportunities

By Asra Rizwan ⏐ 10 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Business Opportunities Conference is all set to be held in New York this June, where American and Pakistani business tycoons will identify areas for investment…

Jazz Pakistan

Mobilink rebrands Mobicash as ‘JazzCash’

By TechJuice ⏐ 10 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon 3 min read

Following the launch of Jazz as Mobilink’s umbrella brand, Mobilink has now introduced ‘JazzCash’ as its brand name for Mobile Financial Services (MFS) to replace…

Modular

Google’s is developing its first-ever smartphone – Ara

By Saad Mughal ⏐ 10 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon 3 min read

Much has been heard about Google’s very own modular phone, coded as Project Ara. Over the past few years, the project has been in and…

Education

Learn Smart Pakistan is offering rewards for 9-10 grade students and teachers through digital learning competition

By Rehan Ahmed ⏐ 10 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon 3 min read

Knowledge Platform has launched the third iteration of its Learn Smart Pakistan initiative, offering students as well as teachers of grade 9 and grade 10…

WhatsApp

WhatsApp goes down in Pakistan for the third time in one week

By Maryam Dodhy ⏐ 10 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon 2 min read

If you experienced WhatsApp down it probably wasn’t because of a slow WiFi connection. There have been several instances from across Pakistan that WhatsApp went…

Herself

Only 14% of co-founders at the incubator are women: Plan9

By Asra Rizwan ⏐ 10 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The recently revealed statistics by Plan9, PlanX, and TechHub Connect raise an alarm for women participation in entrepreneurial activities. The numbers tell that only 14%…

Shahid

Pakistani IT prodigy honored in U.S. by Eisenhower Fellow Award 2016

By Asra Rizwan ⏐ 10 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Dr. Shahid Mahmud, Chief Executive Officer of Interactive Group received the laurel of Distinguished Fellow Award 2016 by Eisenhower Fellowships. Eisenhower Fellow Award is an…

Barack

President Obama awards Pakistani-born Biomedical Engineer with US’s highest award for technology achievement

By Rehan Ahmed ⏐ 10 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The President of United States, Barack Obama, has awarded Mark Humayun, a Pakistani-American PhD in biomedical engineering, with the “National Medal of Technology and Innovation”,…

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