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After 3G/4G, Pakistan Now Needs an Online Payment Gateway

After 3G/4G, Pakistan Now Needs an Online Payment Gateway Around four years or so ago I had written this piece titled: “Why Does a Pakistani Website Earn 32 Times Lesser than any American Counterpart?” In this post I explained that why e-commerce infrastructure is important and how it could boost Pakistan’s economy in general and online businesses in specific. This

Google Starts Supporting Physical Security Keys for Accoount Logins

Google Starts Supporting Physical Security Keys for Accoount Logins   Earlier today, Google launched support for USB Security Key for Google Logins — an open standard that replaces the part where a verification code is sent to your phone with a physical device you can insert into your computer to verify your identity. This step comes after

Google Adds Pakistan to the List of Supported Countries for Play Store Merchant Accounts

Google Adds Pakistan to the List of Supported Countries for Play Store Merchant Accounts   Previously Android developers from Pakistan were only able to create publishers’ accounts to publish their free apps on Google’s play store, however, they were denied to have merchant accounts that are essential or a prerequisite for publishers to sell paid apps or

IT Innovation Award: Win Rs. 1 Million to Execute Your Idea

IT Innovation Award: Win Rs. 1 Million to Execute Your Idea+   Do you have a great idea that has social impact and is relevant to Pakistan? Well then you need to hurry up and submit your proposal to the 3rd annual Best IT Innovation Awards (BITA). Organized by COMSATS and co-sponsored by NTS, the

Fundstak: Crowd Funding Comes to Pakistan

Fundstak: Crowd Funding Comes to Pakistan Fundstak is a crowd-funding platform for Pakistan where ordinary people, teams and organizations can raise money online for anything and everything. Creating a short movie, developing a video game or making a new product are all possible options. If you have a good idea about a new product, service

Huawei Launched Y550 4G with Zong Offer in Pakistan

Huawei Launched Y550 4G with Zong Offer in Pakistan Huawei and Zong co-partners for Huawei Ascend Y550 launch in Pakistan. Huawei Y550 is another mid range 4G LTE enabled smartphone. Not only that it is powered by Qualcomm Chipset and 1.2GHz Quad-core processor together with 1GB RAM. Else it has 4.5 inches IPS touchscreen with 480

PTA Blocked SMS Donations for SKMCH Peshawar

PTA Blocked SMS Donations for SKMCH Peshawar   To build another Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital (SKMCH) in Peshawar by the end of this year, Imran Khan together with celebrities around country and staff of Hospital started a more than 2 hours Telethon on Ary Entertainment Television to boost the donation process. The task was simple, collection

Re-Verify Sims SMS Alert by Telecom Mobile Companies

Re-Verify Sims SMS Alert by Telecom Mobile Companies After more than 4 sit-in between PTA, Interior Ministry, IT Ministry, NADRA and 5 Cellular Mobile companies i.e Mobilink, Ufone, Telenor, Warid and Zong, it was decided by Interior Ministry that re-verification of SIMs through Biometric Verification System (BVS) must be initiated so as to stop any

Google Adds Pakistan to the List of Supported Countries for Play Store Merchant Accounts

Google Adds Pakistan to the List of Supported Countries for Play Store Merchant Accounts   Previously Android developers from Pakistan were only able to create publishers’ accounts to publish their free apps on Google’s play store, however, they were denied to have merchant accounts that are essential or a prerequisite for publishers to sell paid apps or

After 3G/4G, Pakistan Now Needs an Online Payment Gateway

After 3G/4G, Pakistan Now Needs an Online Payment Gateway     Around four years or so ago I had written this piece titled: “Why Does a Pakistani Website Earn 32 Times Lesser than any American Counterpart?” In this post I explained that why e-commerce infrastructure is important and how it could boost Pakistan’s economy in general and online businesses in