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...
NIFT, Checkout.com aim to bring int’l payment methods to Pakistan
'Implementation of the project, MoU for which was signed last month, will enable both organisations provide payment services through each other's infrastructure'
Users call for ban on PTA as internet services disrupted countrywide
Online gaming community badly affected by ping, packet losses; businesses facing loss of productivity
Karachi restaurants suspend delivery through Foodpanda
KARACHI: Citing "unfair practices" as reasons, the All Pakistan Restaurant Association (APRA) has announced suspension of business with mobile food delivery marketplace...
PTA proposes regulations under Mobile Device Manufacturing Policy
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has prepared a draft of regulations to be enforced under the first-ever Mobile Device Manufacturing Policy in...
Chinese robots to be employed for Matiari-Lahore transmission line
ISLAMABAD: China is all set to employ first Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to the infrastructure projects being constructed under the China-Pakistan Economic...