Sunday, January 4, 2026

Microsoft aiming to buy TikTok’s entire global business: report

TikTok is currently facing a Sept 15 deadline to either complete a sale of its US operations to Microsoft or face a ban in the United States

Alibaba almost broke the internet, sales exceed Pakistan’s total exports in a span of 24 hours

LAHORE: Alibaba Group broke all records at the Singles’ Day event on Saturday, generating record sales of $ 25.3 billion (168.2 billion yuan). The...

Panasonic likely to sell security camera factory

TOKYO: Panasonic Corp is considering selling a Chinese plant that makes security cameras in a deal it hopes will fetch over $450 million, the Nikkei...

Facebook suspends app pre-installs on Huawei phones

Huawei has said it was prepared for the U.S. action and vowed to work around any disruptions. But some customers at stores in Europe and Asia have told Reuters that they are reluctant to buy Huawei phones in the face of uncertainties

Musk’s X challenges India over content takedown powers

Indian Solicitor General says all officials involved are legal authorities and that social media platforms cannot expect to operate without regulation

Student develops IoT based ‘smart’ helmet for miners in Balochistan

Tech-savvy CM Balochistan Jam Kamal Khan tweeted about Smart Helmet and assured govt's support, after watching Ignite CEO Yusuf Hussain talk about the project in a television show

Netflix’s ad-supported tier reaches 94 million users globally

However, Netflix’s international content strategy faces challenges from potential tariffs on foreign-made films

Waymo teams with Magna to build autonomous vehicles in new Arizona factory

Waymo announces plans to produce autonomous Jaguar I-PACE and Zeekr vehicles as early as this year

STZA awards COLABS with a zone enterprise license

COLABS, a coworking operator in Lahore, Pakistan has been awarded a zone enterprise license by Special Technology Zones Authority (STZA).  COLABS currently comprises a 1,000-member...

Apple betting on services to help fuel growth

Apple services segment faces margin, competitive challenges

Discos making do in the absence of 50,000-plus critical staff

ISLAMABAD: With the power sector’s circular debt standing at an astronomical Rs1.18 trillion and a whopping 20 percent in reported technical losses bleeding the...

SBP allows transfer of up to $200,000 as payment for foreign digital services

The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has allowed banks to release a maximum amount of $200,000 per year as payment for digital services provided...

Elon Musk’s xAI seeks $4.3 billion in equity funding

The company faces rising expenses linked to hardware, computing power, and skilled staff

DeepSeek R1 update narrows gap with OpenAI and Google in AI performance

The updated version improves reasoning depth, inference capabilities and enhancing performance on complex tasks

Learn how Facebook targets its users with advertisements

NEW YORK: If you want to tailor a Facebook ad to a single user out of its universe of 2.2 billion, you could. Trying to...