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Pakistan has witnessed a 63% increase in venture capital funding between 2019 and 2020
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The current age of COVID-19 has made it difficult for venture capital activity to keep up at its usual pace, but an interesting exception to…
PTA confronts Twitter over fake news and anti-Pakistan propaganda
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Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has approached the Twitter administration to immediately sensitize its moderation teams and ensure that the platform is not used as a…
Investor of Pakistani origin invests $125M in a company whose founder also has Pakistani roots
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Lux Capital, an investment firm that counts Pakistani-origin Bilal Zuberi as a VC partner, just led a $125 million Series C financing round of Applied…
SBP allows IT exporters to keep a major piece of their Foreign Exchange Earnings
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To encourage IT exporters, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has relaxed up the requirements of keeping up foreign exchange permitting them to hold up…
Huawei recorded 9.9% Increase in Q3 2020 Business Results
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Huawei today announced its business results for the first three quarters of 2020. During this period, Huawei generated CNY671.3 billion in revenue, an increase of…
Caviar releases custom warrior themed iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max
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Caviar has released custom themed iPhones for the market. The themes will only be available in the iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max…
Startup Weekly – These Pakistani startups have raised funding in the last few weeks
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October has been great for startups with many of them receiving huge funding in the previous weeks. The Pakistani startup industry has been growing exponentially…
Google is killing Google Play Music for YouTube Music
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Google has finally shut down its Google Play Music app that was a favorite of many but remained widely unused. If you haven’t opened the…
Harvard professor launches startup to help companies protect their AI systems from hackers
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It is one thing to climb the academic ladder at one of the world’s most prestigious universities and gain full professorship in just seven years,…
Corporate spending on AI is set to pass $50b this year, but there’s little to show for it
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It can be hard to believe that massive investments in any form of technology could be money down the drain, let alone for a buzzword…
HEC’s PERIDOT Research Funding now also open for faculty members
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The Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan has now opened their PERIDOT Research funding program for full-time faculty members of both the public and private…
Microsoft creates a portable data center with Elon Musk as one of the first partners
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Imagine being able to access the power of cloud computing even within a remote, far flung region. This is about to become a very real…
JavaScript remains the most popular programming language among developers, according to survey
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According to analyst firm SlashData’s latest survey of developers, JavaScript is the most popular programming language in the world for 2020, with Python and Java…