National Single Window to facilitate investments, traders: FBR chairman
'Govt intends to fully implement e-governance system so as to make the import processes easier'
ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Chairman...
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...
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...
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...
Pakistan’s mobile internet users stand at 21 percent of the population: Report
LAHORE: Pakistan’s mobile internet users as a percentage of the population were recorded at 21 percent at end of January 2018, according...
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,...
Active social media users in Pakistan grow by 5.7%: Report
As of January 2019, the total number of active social media users was recorded at 37 million and active social media users as a percentage of the population were 18%
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...
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...
Amazon does not have a Pakistan presence. These Pakistani entrepreneurs are selling on it anyway
The global e-commerce giant has ignored Pakistan, but many enterprising individuals and companies have found ways to use the platform to their advantage by getting around the legal hurdles
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,...
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...
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...
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...
