Kristin Tynski is co-founder and SVP creative at Fractl, a growth marketing agency that’s helped Fortune 500 companies and boutique businesses earn quality media coverage, backlinks, awareness and authority. Most marketers believe there’s a lot of value in having relevant, engaging images featured in content. But selecting the “right” images for blog posts, social media posts or video thumbnails has …

The fintech company, Avanza Premier Payment Services (APPS), has partnered with one of Pakistan’s leading e-commerce marketplaces, Telemart, to enable its customers to pay online with APPS’ robust payment gateway, PayFast. Approved for Pilot Operations by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), PayFast empowers multi-instrument acceptance of Scheme Cards, Mobile Wallets, and Bank Account Numbers. They address merchant pain points …

Federal government has launched a national job portal to help the unemployed especially the young people to find employability in the public sector. The job portal – njp.gov.pk is aimed for job seekers from all over the country, to get a job in public sector. National Job Portal (NJP) is among the major initiatives of the current Government of PAKISTAN, …

The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has guided the insurance policyholders across Pakistan and Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK) to file their complaints or grievances against the insurance company, agent, or bank representative regarding insurance policy directly with the relevant insurance company. This has been highlighted by the SECP through Circular no 27 of 2020 (Awareness among policyholders …

Google Maps has had a sort of spotty relationship with the Apple Watch over the years. Google first shipped a Watch-friendly build of Maps back in September of 2015, just months after the Apple Watch first hit the shelves. In 2017, however, Google nixed Map’s Watch support with little more than a suggestion that it’d be back… eventually. Google didn’t …

Quick, what was the first portable gaming system Nintendo made? If you said “Game Boy”… solid guess, but not quite. For nearly a decade before Nintendo released that iconic gray beast, it was making the Game & Watch — a collection of handheld devices, each dedicated to playing just one or two simple games and, occasionally, doubling as a clock. …

The federal government has decided to raise the matter of sale tax on information technology export revenue in Sindh as IT industries/companies are moving to other provinces. Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication Syed Amin-Ul- Haque while chairing the 7th meeting of the Prime Minister’s Taskforce on IT and Telecom stated that he will soon meet Chief Minister Sindh …

Kevin Mayer, known for his role as the president of TikTok’s US operations, has left the company on account of the ongoing political turmoil. Since the past month, Trump administration has been forcing ByteDance to sell the US operations of TikTok to any of the interested US companies. Amidst all this, Mayer believes that the global role he took on …

Airschool has announced a 4 weeks long course on public speaking for students and professionals who want to learn the art of public speaking through a complete guide based on instructions and practice; to add influence to the words you speak! The course is conducted by Bilal Khiyani. He is a certified digital marketer and consultant in Pakistan. The course …

Pakistan Telecom Authority (PTA) has asked video-sharing platform YouTube to immediately block vulgar, indecent, immoral, nude and hate speech content for viewing in Pakistan. PTA has done so keeping in view the extremely negative effects of indecent/immoral/nude content available on YouTube and to prevent repugnant discord due to the presence of hate speech and sectarian material. PTA has approached YouTube …

Sindh Education Foundation (SEF) of the Government of Sindh not only began online classes but also provided training to teachers on conducting online classes on the digital platform of Microsoft Teams and 365 Office Software. Despite the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, the foundation has been able to engage teachers and students in digital classrooms through a pioneering collaboration with …

FINCA Microfinance Bank Ltd’s profits saw a decline of 31.7% in 2019 to Rs. 653 million as compared to a profit of Rs. 956.48 million in 2018. According to the annual report, during 2019 the bank’s net-markup income registered an increase of 13% and closed at Rs. 5.314 million as compared to Rs. 4.703 billion in 2018. The mark-up on …

Government apps for Islamabad Traffic Police (ITP), ICT Police, CDA, and others were reportedly hacked by Indian groups and were being siphoned for personal data. This forced the authorities to halt these services and prevent any further damage. These applications, ‘Capital Smart City’ and ‘ICT Administration’, were launched by Islamabad Administration to provide convenience, but it was later discovered that …

Dastgyr, a Karachi-based B2B E-commerce startup founded earlier this year, has raised a six-figure (USD) investment from angel investors in the US, Middle East, and Pakistan, the company has announced without disclosing the exact amount of the investment. Dastgyr connects small retailers to suppliers all over Pakistan, aiming to revolutionize the traditional retail business through empowering technologies and innovative supply-chain …

E-commerce in Pakistan has a huge potential for creating 2 million jobs and boosting the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) up to the level of $40 billion in the next couple of years. This was stated by the Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI), President Saboor Malik. He stated that transformation is required to promote the Information, Communications, and …

Byonyks, an American startup based in Lahore, has successfully invented Pakistan’s first of its kind dialysis machine that would allow kidney patients to receive dialysis treatment at their homes. Named “Robo-Kidney,” the machine will go into mass production in the coming few months after receiving approval from the healthcare regulators. Robo-Kidney has been designed in consultation with Pakistan’s leading nephrologists and …

For years businessmen have had the trouble of making digitizing their business and payments, the technical and financial resources required to digitize any business was a risk not everyone was prepared to take. On the other hand ordering from something online has been a difficult decision to make for customers. The problems with CODs, frauds in eCommerce, unavailability of  verified …

Twitter may describe itself as the town square, but that doesn’t mean you have to talk to everyone walking past your seat at the cafe. Today, to increase the amount of “meaningful conversations” that take place on Twitter, and to help people weed out abuse and spam in their replies, the company announced that it is rolling out a new …

Last week’s hack of over 100 very high-profile Twitter accounts did in fact expose the direct messages of many of those accounts, the company admitted today — including those of an elected official in the Netherlands, Geert Wilders. The attack saw numerous popular accounts of celebrities and politicians taken over and tweeting a very obvious Bitcoin scam that nevertheless seems …

Google has been expanding its video call functionality and accessibility to support people during the pandemic. Therefore, the integration for Google Meet is being introduced to different platforms and now it is Gmail’s turn. Just as the search engine giant promised, Google has started rolling out Google Meet integration for Gmail for iOS and Android. It is rolling out for …