Black Friday — the day that launched 1,000 other shopping holidays — may have lost its place as the “start” of the Christmas shopping season by now (it gets bigger and earlier with each passing year). But the day after Thanksgiving still pulls in a crowd of buyers looking for a bargain and remains a major bellwether for tracking how sales …

TikTok’s rise in the West is unprecedented for any Chinese tech company, and so is the amount of attention it has attracted from politicians worldwide. Below is a timeline of how TikTok grew from what some considered another “copycat” short video app to global dominance and eventually became a target of the U.S. government. 2012-2017: The emergence of TikTok These …

The Nest I/O, Pakistan’s most reputable technology incubator is hosting the fourth iteration of its premium technology and entrepreneurship conference, 021Disrupt 2020. The conference will be held virtually from Novmeber 30th – December 5th. The upcoming edition will host over 5000+ disruptors in the entrepreneurial, technology, and digital ecosystem of Pakistan. This year, 021 Disrupt is virtual that brings the …

A much needed and interesting discussion on digital payments was hosted by two individuals seemingly unrelated to the payment industry. Asfandyar who considers himself to be a student of Retail & E Commerce teamed up with Badar, an ex Google country Head for Pakistan to help create awareness about the available options in the realm of digital payments in Pakistan. Discussion …

Bykea, a Pakistan-based on-demand transport & logistics platform, announced today that it has raised a Series B funding round led by Prosus Ventures (formerly Naspers Ventures). The round, which brought the total funds raised to US$22m, saw participation from existing investors Middle East Venture Partners and Sarmayacar. As the pioneer and leader in motorbike taxi and on-demand delivery in Pakistan, …

Roshan Digital Account is a major initiative of State Bank of Pakistan, in collaboration with commercial banks operating in Pakistan. These accounts provide innovative banking solutions for millions of Non Resident Pakistanis (NRPs) seeking to undertake banking, payment and investment activities in Pakistan. Digital Banking For the first time in Pakistan’s history, NRPs are being provided an opportunity to remotely …

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, …

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. …

KARACHI: TPL Trakker, Pakistan’s leading IoT Company providing Tracking, Telematics, and Location Based Services and Solutions, has partnered with Rider, a rapidly growing end-to-end e-commerce logistics company. Following the partnership, TPL Maps, the mapping arm of TPL Trakker will power the Rider Mobile App to ensure accurate and hassle free deliveries. TPL Maps is Pakistan’s leading digital location technology provider licensed …

Bykea – a ride hailing and logistics service got its database deleted by the hackers.  Bykea CEO Muneeb Maayr said, The interesting part is, the hackers were trying to mine cryptocurriences by using their data servers, according to Bykea management. According to the Bykea management, the hacker who was in the system had perhaps panicked and deleted the entire data, …

TPL Trakker, Pakistan’s leading IoT Company providing Tracking, Telematics, and Location Based Services and Solutions, has partnered with Jazz, Pakistan’s leading digital services provider, to collaborate on innovative new technologies for their customers. Following the partnership, the two companies aim to jointly develop unique solutions to address key challenges for the B2B and B2C markets as well as to support …

In an effort to further enhance ease of doing business in Pakistan, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has introduced a new mechanism to enable the companies in Pakistan to make instant payments for acquiring digital services from globally recognized digital service provider companies, without any hassle. Now local companies can access various services including advertising, hosting, database access, accounting …

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 …

TPL Trakker, Pakistan’s leading Telematics Company providing IoT, Tracking, Mapping and Location Based Solutions, has partnered with the country’s leading On-Demand Ride-Hailing and Logistics Service, Bykea to power its all-in-one mobile app. (Read more about TPL Trakker powering FoodPanda delivery Service) Following the partnership, Bykea is going to use Location Based Service (LBS) APIs powered by TPL Maps, the mapping arm …

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 …

KARACHI: foodpanda Pakistan, Pakistan’s leading  delivery platform, has partnered with TPL Maps, Pakistan’s only licensed digital mapping company and the mapping arm of TPL Trakker, to power its food and grocery delivery app.  With operations in over 30 cities nationwide and a vast partner base, foodpanda Pakistan is the largest food delivery platform in the country. TPL Maps’ largest location based …

Within minutes, an apparently coordinated hack began: A mass takeover of the most prominent names in crypto. Within hours, even Barack Obama’s account was compromised. The messages pumped a bitcoin giveaway scam associated with an organization called “Crypto For Health.”   We detected what we believe to be a coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of …

AWS , announced the beta launch of Amazon Honeycode, a new, fully managed low-code/no-code development tool that aims to make it easy for anybody in a company to build their own applications. All of this, of course, is backed by a database in AWS and a web-based, drag-and-drop interface builder. Developers can build applications for up to 20 users for …

BMW today announced a number of updates to its in-car software experience during a VR press event, complete with a virtual drive through Munich to show off some of these features. These new updates will come to most recent BMWs that support the company’s Operating System 7 later this year — and new cars will already have them built-in. The …