MOIT&T urges SBP to make regulations more favourable
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunications (MOIT&T) along with the Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB), and in conjunction with the...
IT export remittances surge 24pc in 6MFY20
ISLAMABAD: The Information Technology and IT Enabled Services (ITeS) export remittances were increased by 24.71 per cent to $550.503 million during the...
ePay Punjab fetches Rs1bn revenue in five months
LAHORE: ePay Punjab, the first-ever government payment aggregator for citizens’ facilitation and ease of business, has collected over Rs1 billion in tax...
Rs50bn to be spent for IT sector development, says Dr Attaur Rahman
KARACHI: Prime Minister’s National Task Force on Science and Technology Chairman Dr Attaur Rehman has said the incumbent government has planned to...
Pakistan’s IT exports soar 9% MoM to $259mn in November
SBP policy and stable currency boost the IT sector, while computer services lead the growth
PTA approves investment in telecom tower-sharing services company
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has approved edotco Pakistan's change of shareholding by way of subscription by Dawood Hercules Corporation Limited (DH Corp) of 45 per cent of the share capital of edotco Pakistan.
Google to help Pakistani businesses with remote working
Google has announced a free virtual workshop in a bid to help Pakistani businesses cope with remote working and transition into digital...
Tech startup from Karachi wins Rs1mn in StartUp Cup
LAHORE: The fourth edition of the 2017-18 StartUp Cup, funded by the United States was won by a team from Karachi, Retailistan, that beat 17 other...
VEON eyes to buy GTH’s assets in Jazz for $2.55 billion
Global Telecom’s capital amounts to EGP 2.7 billion distributed over 4.7 billion shares at a par value of EGP 0.58 per share.
Advancement of ICT led development, a priority for the government
Mr Maqbool shared with the advent of mobile internet, Pakistan is on the same route of development as that of neighbouring countries
Facebook undersea cable to boost South East Asia internet
Facebook and Google are planning two new undersea internet cables to connect South East Asia to North America.
The project with regional telecoms...
Veon reports $109mn loss in Q1 while Russian arm improves
Veon, which also operates in Pakistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and Algeria, reported a loss of $109 million, versus a loss of $5 million in the same period a year ago.
Broadband connections witness 67 per cent growth
In 2013-14 the number of broadband connections stood at 13,205, which grew to 15,084 in 2014-15, 18,012 in 2015-16 and clocked in at 22,004 during 2016-17.
98pc increase in budget allocation to boost IT sector
All the projects were funded by the indigenous resources of the government and not a single penny is taken as a foreign grant, revealed the budgetary document
Google says its AI supercomputer is faster, greener than Nvidia A100 chip
Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O)Â Google released on Tuesday new details about the supercomputers it uses to train its artificial intelligence models, saying the systems...