Beauty startup Conatural raises $825,000 in Pre-Series A round to scale click-and-mortar operations

LAHORE: Pakistan’s natural and organic skin and hair care brand, Conatural, has raised $825,000 in a Pre-Series A round from experienced institutional and...

GroupM chief strategy officer Kiran Khan Ali resigns

KARACHI: Kiran Khan Ali, the chief strategy officer of GroupM, has resigned from the media investment firm. Her resignation comes just as...

Pakistan’s beauty fashion e-commerce startup Bagallery.com raises $900,000 from Lakson VC

LAHORE: Karachi-based beauty and fashion e-commerce platform Bagallery (Private) Limited has closed a $900,000 Pre-Series A funding round from Lakson Venture Capital...

Huawei to set up ICT academy at Air University

ISLAMABAD: A strategic memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between Air University and Huawei Technologies Pakistan for the establishment of the Huawei...

Foodpanda Pakistan shortlists three agencies for media strategy development

The mobile food delivery marketplace will select the winning media agency on Monday

Pakistan set to launch ‘its own version of Netflix’, says Fawad Chaudhry

Science & Technology Minister Fawad Chaudhry took to Twitter on Friday to reveal that a Pakistani version of Netflix is in the...

Punjab labour dept to develop mobile app for registration of small businesses

LAHORE: The Punjab Labour & Human Resource Department (PL&HRD) has decided to develop a mobile application with the help of Punjab Information...

PayPal to allow cryptocurrency buying, selling and shopping on its network

LONDON: PayPal Holdings Inc joined the cryptocurrency market on Wednesday, allowing customers to buy, sell and hold bitcoin and other virtual coins...

Pandemic speeds labour shift from humans to robots

ZURICH: Robots will destroy 85 million jobs at mid-sized to large businesses over the next five years as the Covid-19 pandemic accelerates...

Google antitrust case to turn on how search engine grew dominant: experts

OAKLAND, NEW YORK: The US government's antitrust case against Alphabet Inc's Google appears strong, but could face an uphill battle from a...

Healthtech startup MedznMore claims raising Pakistan’s largest seed round of $2.6m

LAHORE: Karachi-based health-tech startup MedznMore Sunday claimed to have raised $2.6 million in seed round for its medicines and healthcare products delivery...

PTA lifts ban on TikTok, warns accounts posting obscene content will be blocked

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Monday lifted the ban on popular Chinese video-sharing service TikTok, with a caveat that accounts of...

State Bank digitises forex-related operations

KARACHI: State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Governor Dr Reza Baqir on Friday launched the SBP FX Regulatory Approval System (RAS) for end-to-end...

British executive Matthew Wilsher confirmed as PTCL CEO

Wilsher headed Etisalat Nigeria as CEO during a debacle that led to Etisalat Group’s departure from African country

IT ministry, Microsoft discuss digital initiatives, avenues for collaboration

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Information Technology & Telecommunication and Microsoft, the world's leading software company, have discussed possible investment avenues to establish...