Global financial watchdogs take aim at Big Tech’s data dominance
LONDON: Google, Alibaba and other “Big Tech” companies could be forced to share data on financial services customers with banks and financial...
Govt targeting $4bn biotech exports in 10 years: minister
LAHORE: Science and Technology (S&T) Minister Chaudhry Fawad Hussain has said that the government was focusing on biotechnology to ensure its contribution to...
Samsung, LUMS join hands to accelerate social startups in Pakistan
LAHORE: Samsung Electronics Pakistan and Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) have joined hands to support and empower social startups contributing towards the...
Is e-commerce dying in Pakistan?
E-commerce in Pakistan is burgeoning and it is burgeoning at breakneck speed. In sheer numbers, e-commerce sales swelled 93.7pc in 2018, reaching...
Samsung Electronics third-quarter net profit slumps 52pc
Samsung Electronics, the world's largest smartphone and memory chip maker, saw net profits slump by more than half in the third quarter,...
China rolls out 5G services in race to narrow tech gap
BEIJING: China's three major state telecom operators rolled out 5G wireless technology Thursday, as the country races to narrow its technology gap...
Internet services disrupted across Pakistan as submarine cables go offline
Internet services across the country partially crashed on Tuesday evening, due to a fault that developed in international submarine cables that connect...
PTCL’s failure to deliver Smart TV set-top boxes irks customers
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) had heavily advertised its Smart TV service towards the end of the last month (September).
This was a...
Beaconhouse, LIVC invest big to promote digital education in Pakistan
The Beaconhouse School System (BSS), Lakson Investments Venture Capital (LIVC) and Knowledge Platform Pakistan, in a bid to revolutionise education in the...
Huawei phones lose access to install Google’s apps
Huawei Technologies Co Ltd’s newly launched Mate 30 devices have lost their access to manually install Google’s Android apps, Bloomberg reported.
According to...
TikTok owner ByteDance’s revenue better than expected at over $7bn
BEIJING/HONG KONG: China's ByteDance, owner of video-sharing app TikTok and one of the world’s most valuable unicorns, booked revenue of 50-60 billion...
Daraz launches ‘DExports’ programme to facilitate local traders
In collaboration with Alibaba, Daraz has launched 'DExports', a programme that will give local sellers the opportunity to list their products on...
National Investment Trust goes online
National Investment Trust Limited (NITL), Pakistan’s first and largest asset management company, has announced that all branches of NIT are now online,...
Senior Google female executive to lead Pakistan’s digitisation initiative
ISLAMABAD: The government has planned to take on board a female Google executive to put the digitisation initiative from the Prime Minister's...
PTA asks Zong to take down 5G advertisements
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has communicated to Zong to withdraw any advertisements that may mislead the public regarding availability of commercial...
