Rabeel Warraich’s $30 million bet on Pakistani entrepreneurship

How a 33-year-old middle-class Pindi boy became the first professional venture capitalist in Pakistani history

021Disrupt: First step towards building a Silicon Gali in Pakistan?

How one conference wants to help create an entrepreneurship ecosystem in the country that badly needs one

Zanroo will allow Pakistani social media marketers to ‘listen’ to you

Thai social media platform is launching its multilingual social listening tool in Pakistan

Uber posts $1 billion loss in quarter as growth in bookings slows

Revenue for the quarter was $2.95 billion, a 5 percent boost from the previous quarter and up 38 percent from a year ago

FIA instructs banks to bolster their cybersecurity in compliance with global standards

BankIslami admitted that a major amount had been transferred from it by the hackers based in 45 countries

PTCL, Convo collaborate to facilitate Pakistani enterprises

Partnership aims to bring the next-generation employee collaboration and communication solution to Pakistan  KARACHI: Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited (PTCL) has signed a...

Spotify launches in the Middle East and North Africa

Before the launch in the Middle East and North Africa, Spotify’s music streaming services were available in 65 markets, according to its website

Provinces brief Senate on IT plans, developments

ISLAMABAD: All four provinces on Tuesday briefed the Senate’s Standing Committee on Information Technology on the details of projects, development of services and...

Singapore central bank chief warns of risks to data localisation measures

A number of other countries in Asia and elsewhere are pursuing data localization laws as they seek greater control over the internet

Alibaba nets record $30 billion in Singles’ Day haul, but growth rate plunges

Despite the record haul, the annual sales growth rate fell from 39 percent to 27 percent, at the low end of analyst estimates, and the slowest rate in the event’s 10-year history

Turkey to host ‘Blockchain Economy Istanbul Summit’ for crypto investors

The most in-depth blockchain and cryptocurrency conference of the region with the best names of the field in the international arena will...

Twitter cuts suspect users from follower counts again, blames bug

Pop star Katy Perry lost about 861,000 followers, according to social measurement firm Social Blade and Twitter’s own account lost 2.4 million followers

Netflix CEO Hastings says no plans for cheaper India offerings

Netflix currently has more than 130 million subscribers worldwide

Apple finds quality problems in some iPhone X and MacBook models

Apple said displays on iPhone X, which came out in 2017 with a starting price of $999, may experience touch issues due to a component failure, adding it would replace those parts for f

SBP, FIA versions differ on ‘banking fraud’

FIA Cyber Crime Wing has cautioned that security of every Pakistani bank had been compromised because many complaints from various parts of Pakistan were coming in regarding money being transferred via security breach