Hackers delete Bykea database, company unaffected due to backups
LAHORE: Early on Tuesday morning, Bykea experienced a breach wherein hackers managed to infiltrate and delete an entire database, though the company...
PTA bans five dating apps citing ‘immoral content’
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has blocked five dating and live streaming applications citing "immoral content", it said in a statement on...
Bytedance names Jack of Digital as TikTok reseller in Pakistan
Digital advertising products under the video-sharing social networking service will now be sold by Jack of Digital in Pakistan, consisting of reservation ads, the branded hashtag challenge, auction ads, and more
PTA asks TikTok to block ‘vulgar, immoral content’
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Monday asked TikToK to block the vulgar, indecent and immoral content for viewership in Pakistan.
"Keeping in...
Pakistani e-commerce platform PriceOye announces six-figure funding in recent round
LAHORE: E-commerce platform PriceOye on Saturday announced that it has raised six-figure funding in its ongoing pre Series-A round led by a...
Musk’s Neuralink puts computer chips in animal brains
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s neuroscience startup Neuralink on Friday unveiled a pig named Gertrude that has had a coin-sized computer chip in...
Hyphen’s internal audit software enters international market
Pakistan has recently seen decent growth in IT related exports, and “Abilite” – Pakistan’s first Internal Audit Software – developed by Hyphen...
B2B e-commerce marketplace Dastgyr raises six-figure funding to scale operations
LAHORE: B2B e-commerce marketplace Dastgyr has raised undisclosed six-figure funding from angel investors in the United States (US), Pakistan and the Middle...
Number of IT companies increases by 592 in two years: report
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Information Technology (IT) and Telecommunications released its two-year performance report on Saturday which showed that the number of...
Tech competition to offer $15,000 cash prize, investment opportunities to women-led startups
LAHORE: She Loves Tech, a women-centric global technology startup competition, is coming to Pakistan for the fourth time, offering women-led startups a...
Pakistan’s IT exports to touch $5bn-mark by 2023: minister
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication Syed Aminul Haque has said that Pakistan's IT industry is progressing rapidly and the...
KP’s Pakistan Digital City expected to create 30,000 jobs: report
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) will finalise the masterplan for Pakistan Digital City in October 2020, which is expected to create around 30,000 jobs,...
VRG loses patience with red-tape to release ‘operational readiness’ ads on Independence Day
PTA irked by ads and reminds VRG that it has still to issue final commencement certificate
Netflix beats YouTube in US streaming preferences: Nielsen
Netflix comprised 34pc of users' total streaming time, nearly double that of YouTube and thrice as large as Hulu, according to the Q2 2020 Total Audience Report from Nielsen
Kubient goes public on Nasdaq
The digital advertising cloud-based infrastructure solution provider announced its IPO this week and will be joining the Nasdaq technology community as a public company