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...
Pakistan’s first ‘electric bike sharing service’ launched in Islamabad
ISLAMABAD: Roamer Technologies, a NIC Islamabad startup, has launched “ezBike”, Pakistan’s first electric bike sharing service powered by Jazz sims for connectivity,...
Apple unveils iPhone 12 with 5G, HomePod Mini smart speaker
Apple Inc on Tuesday launched the iPhone 12 with faster 5G connectivity, which the Cupertino, California company hopes will spur a wave...
Cashew Financial Services gets SECP’s NOC to launch digital micro-financing
Digital lending provides small retailers easy access to a much-needed new line of financing that is fully transparent
Conventional & Sharia-compliant...
Eliminate all media upfronts for 2021: Gary Vaynerchuk
The outspoken founder of VaynerMedia urged marketers, particularly those at CPG companies, to limit or eliminate upfront media commitments due to the uncertainty around the ability to supply demand
Telenor retains Ogilvy as its creative agency in Pakistan, hands boutique agency deal to IAL Saatchi & Saatchi
The WPP owned creative agency has retained the telecommunications business for the fourth year in a row and has demonstrated a track record of creative effectiveness
PTA blocks TikTok for ‘immoral and indecent’ content
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s telecom regulator blocked TikTok on Friday for failing to filter out “immoral and indecent” content, another blow to the social...
Pakistan’s Healthwire raises $700,000 from 47 Ventures in pre-Series A round
LAHORE: Healthwire, a health-tech startup focused on aggregating all stakeholders of the healthcare ecosystem on its platform and providing a seamless digital...
Nielsen shutters retail intelligence operations in Pakistan
LAHORE: Nielsen has reportedly shuttered its retail measurement service (RMS) business unit in Pakistan. In an internal email, Nielsen Managing Director for...
With pandemic abating, Naspers backs Bykea in $13mn Series-B round
ISLAMABAD: What do you do when you are a startup and you have survived a ruthless pandemic? If you are Bykea, you...
Ali Zaidi inaugurates online portal, website for ports & shipping wing
Maritime Affairs Minister Ali Haider Zaidi has inaugurated an online portal and a website for the ports & shipping wing, Radio Pakistan...