What is Tania Aidrus’ Dbank up to now?
On 13 January 2023, after a wait of nine months, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) finally unveiled the five successful applicants...
Is registering your VPNs with the PTA a problem?
Why is the PTA suddenly so big on monitoring VPN traffic and how complicated is it for the user and for the PTA itself?
Can Artificial Intelligence make college counselling more equitable?
Kollegio is building an AI driven platform to assist promising candidates with their college applications
After digital financial services, could startup acceleration be the new passion of Pakistani telcos?
Telenor Velocity is an accelerator that is hoping to help galvanise the telco into diversifying at a time when their original business is in freefall
Tech funding might be recovering in the US, but the trickle down effect will take its sweet time getting to Pakistan
Amidst this dreadful funding winter, can local capital be the nurturing source for Pakistan's tech scene?
Productive policies or PR fluff — How useful were the interim government’s IT initiatives?
The interim IT minister claims large successes in five different areas. Profit looks at how much is real and how much is posturing
Spotify in Pakistan: Will Pakistani artists finally be able to make a living off their work?
Despite a variety of local music streaming services being launched in Pakistan, a platform of Spotify's size and reach could be a potential game changer
Bykea managed to dodge a bullet, but will everyone else be as lucky?
The Bykea hacking incident has raised some serious data security issues across the nation
PosterMyWall’s journey of coincidence
How did a bootstrapped Pakistani-American startup gain a globe audience?
Why don’t we have phone plans in Pakistan?
All over the world there are telco providers and phone companies that band together to expand their markets. What is stopping them in Pakistan?
Pakistan’s cellphone industry: A prospective $15 billion exporter or another automotive-style catastrophe
If not India’s success, recent domestic disruptions should force reflection upon what we want the sector to be and, more importantly, what it should not be
Future Fest 2023: ‘Tis the season for a comeback?
After a shambolic showing last year and following a brutal year for startups, Future Fest 2023 came back stronger.
Marriage apps are here. Which one would you choose?
In the background of the big fat shaadi industry, two new apps are hoping to tap into how people meet
In its ambition to buy a bank, has Pakistan’s fintech poster-child killed itself?
In trying to make TAG the only fintech company with a full banking licence, Talal Ahmad Gondal may have made the worst mistake of his life. Profit looks at the entire TAG saga.
Airlift announces complete shutdown. Profit explains why
That’s all folks. After three years of operating in Pakistan, Airlift Technologies has announced a complete shutdown of its operations from tomorrow...