Google recently held a virtual graduation event celebrating the first cohort of graduates from its inaugural Google Cloud student developer program in Pakistan. Called CloudSeekho, the initiative by Google is aimed at helping students learn cloud skills at home at their own pace and prepare themselves with job-ready skills.  The initiative consists of self-study online […]

Irfan Wahab Khan from Telenor Pakistan discusses strategy & operations and the role technology is playing in coping with the recent Pandemic. Irfan Wahab Khan CEO of Telenor Pakistan says, “The COVID-19 pandemic has brought upon increased dependency on data and connectivity as people work/study from home. Thus, areas of e-education, e-commerce, financial and health […]

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 by foreign companies. In order to ease of doing business in the country, the central bank on Thursday issued a new mechanism for payments to globally recognized digital service provider companies […]

State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) grants pilot launch approval to Keenu (Wemsol Private Limited) to operate as Electronic Money Institution (EMI). This will allow the leading Pakistani payments brand to initiate the pilot phase of the E-Money Wallet for EMI Wallets and Internet Payment Gateway under the supervision of SBP. Keenu, a Pakistani Fintech launched […]

Facebook is acquiring Giphy, a popular website for making and sharing animated images, or GIFs, and will integrate it with its rapidly growing Instagram photo-sharing app, Facebook said in a blog post on Friday. The cost, which Facebook and Giphy declined to disclose, was placed at around US$400 million by news website Axios. The announcement […]

“The Coronavirus has emerged as an opportunity to stall this free fall in the short term and has forced us to do some introspection”, expressed Dr. Shahid Qureshi, Associate Professor and Program Director, AMAN Centre for Entrepreneurial Development, IBA, during an exclusive Q&A session on COVID-19 on the market and start-up eco-system with our editor […]

As people around the world are staying at home due to COVID-19, many are turning to new apps and communications tools to work, learn, access information, and stay connected with loved ones.  While these digital platforms are helpful in our daily lives, they can also introduce new online security risks. Google’s Threat Analysis Group continually […]

Starting today, Google’s own video conferencing app is now going free for all users globally, the search engine giant announced. The meet was initially launched as a premium app for paid users, but looking at the surging demand for video call services across the globe owing to the lockdowns imposed by several governments in order […]