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 media app...
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 healthcare experience...
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 Arabian Peninsula...
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 raise $10...
Omnicom Media Group wins $1.4m Zong 4G digital media account
The digital media pitch starred an oddly conversative number of bids, due to a brief that phrased media as a cost instead of an investment, a set of expectations that demonstrably failed to understand the nuances of digital buying, and an unprofitable monthly retainer
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 reported on...
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 Foodpanda in...
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 the country...
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 Corridor, as...
China’s expanded export controls pose fresh challenge to global tech industry
SHANGHAI: The latest additions to China’s list of controlled technology exports could upset a broad range of industries and raise the possibility that some global...
Data usage jumped 25pc, revenue from voice traffic declined 10pc during lockdown
ISLAMABAD: Apart from other impacts of the outbreak of coronavirus, the lockdowns and work from home initiatives have also changed the consumers’ behaviour and...
MAGniTT’s first report outside MENA region bodes well for Pakistani startups
ISLAMABAD:
Dubai-based venture data platform MAGNiTT has revealed that Pakistan-based companies raised $10 million in H1 2020, a decline of nine percent from $11 million...
