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Team at Qurtaba have added another front to their impressive Urdu language based apps, they have launched their Alif Bay Pay app for Amazon Kindle, as well. Earlier it was released on iTunes.
I love what Qurtaba are doing in a niche area of Urdu Language. Although their start was from Nan-Map for which they now have an iPhone App.There love for Urdu language related apps has been flourishing in recent months. Most of their apps are doing very well on app store, some impressive numbers for their popular Urdu apps are as follows.
Urdu Writer: 10K downloads in 3 months – average 200 downloads…
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Featured Startup General
I happened to be in Quetta on a business trip last month with no idea of where to dine alone. Being a typical Lahoriite, a die-hard food lover, it matters to me that I try the best food of the place I visit. So this is where FCPakistan came to my rescue. I simply logged in, typed in my desired specifications and got atleast 5 suggestions.
The listing included their opening times, specific facilities like ease for physically disabled customers, credit card acceptance, smoking areas, take away facility, whether valet parking was available or not, and even directions to get there! What more could you want.
Although that was the…
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Featured Startup General
If you have any thing to do with entrepreneurship, its impossible you have not come across Jawwad Farid either in person or in virtual world of his blogs and judging different events realting to startups in Pakistan. He is also the author of Reboot which we reviewed a while back.
Jawwad has been writing on Finance, Risk and Treasury for some time now on learning corporate finance.
I guess that has lead to FourQuants.com. FourQuants helps people understand concepts related to finance. Following topics are mentioned in about us section of the website
- Risk management
- Derivatives products
- Option pricing models
- Basel and capital adequacy regulation
- Financial modeling
- Treasury
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Coffee Session General Marketing/Adv
OLX is a global online retailer and auction site. They have an impressive footprint in a little less than 100 countries, each with their own specific domain (like .pk for Pakistan and .in for India).
In Pakistan they have been operating under olx.com.pk for some time with people using it to sell things online.
Recently they have started advertising heavily on Television, a medium seldom used by online businesses previously. The ads (two of which have appeared ) are witty and fun to watch.
The most important factor of these adds is that they are being advertised on media which previously none of our online businesses have used.
Most of…
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Round 1 of TiE is about to reach its completion on 22nd of Jan, 2012 at Marriott, Islamabad in which ten teams will participate. Four teams will be shortlisted for the level 2. I also had the opportunity to participate in TiE All Asia Business Plan Competition 2012 along with my team members in the first few stages of level 1. Although we didn’t have the chance to go beyond stage1 but just participating helped us understand our own idea better and to polish our proposed technique along with development of a solid business plan. TiE all Asia Business Plan Competition provides a platform for generation and development of new…
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Announcements General Mobile Apps Software & I.T.
TenPearls has announced the successful delivery of mobile apps for Dawn.com on multiple platforms, including Apple iOS (iPad and iPhone), Android and Symbian (Nokia). The mobile apps have received great feedback from the users from around the world. It may be worth mentioning here that DAWN.COM is the #1 English News website from Pakistan averaging over 16 million page views a month, and 3.1 million unique visitors from around the world.
More details can be accessed at mobile apps for Dawn Media Group by TenPearls.
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CIO Pakistan started blog awards last year. Its is a good sign when some one takes initiative and starts some thing new. However its also difficult to introduce this into an already budding field of new media in Pakistan. Last years (or two years back now since its 2012) Awards were initiated so as it is expected it faced initial growing up pains. It always takes time for such thing to wins the trust of the community. And bloggers are one of the most hard people to win over, most of these are rebels in their own rights people who have started blogging to show the world their opinion…
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Featured Startup General
Pakreport.org a tool which was instrumental in gathering statistics during the massive flooding in Pakistan, has created another study/stats gathering tool for our electoral activities. Interestingly its called do we vote
With political scene in Pakistan heating up it provides very valuable information to party supporters and their leaders. A quick look at it shows the all known facts that people in rural areas take their voting more seriously than all of us supposedly educated and enlightened urban population.
Pakreport.org was an initiative launched by Faisal Chohan of BrightSpyre during the floods, the effort enabled people on the ground to send sms (the most spread out communication medium in country)…
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Featured Startup General
This is a revelation that came to me when I recently quit my comfy corporate job for the second time. If you are below 40 and some one asks you about how is your job going and your answer is not in tune of “I like my job because I love the work”.
You need to pause and asses your career, last time I answered this question my answer was “I like the job, because the benefits are good”, and that made me think (offcourse there were other factors as well). But if you are doing a job in which to satisfy your own self you have to look at…
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ProPakistan has started what they’re calling a "Professionals Board" which is further being marketed as being a "social network for Pakistani community, especially for the people presently associated as an expert or lead in any of the industry. The board is open for people within Pakistan as well as over seas Pakistanis."
12:20 am
Well, spammers have accounts at Monster and other job sites. What can you do about that?
12:33 am
Well Hazi, for starters I can track them down with their accounts and shut down those accounts?
Atleast I’ll know who’s taking the info and spamming? And yes Monster and others are directly legally liable for such things under privacy protection. I can sue Monster if they give my private info to a legitimate spammer account.
This board has no such tracing
12:41 am
This is seriously very worrisome, but what I would like to know, if this was published with their consent
Secondly I feel its just a n00b attempt to jump into the job market. Blog style
1:03 am
Hmmm! We will surely look into what you guys just said and will try to make few changes to it. Just to add to your knowledge, all the information has been shared with consent of the users and they all have seen it.
I agree there are few issues and i appreciate that you pointed them out for us and we will surely rectify them after consultation with the team.
Teeth! For you i have one simple line “You never appreciated what we have been doing till date but you were one of the first to come out with you criticism!”
I think that is enough for you to understand what i mean!
1:29 am
Junaid – good professional comeback. There’s a lot of value in professional profiles but not in terms of resumes.
Good luck and let me know as soon as you’ve fixed some of the challenges so that I can do a followup post.
1:44 am
looks like a university graduate book
format in which candidate information has been inserted is indeed very specific.
There should be an employer accounts who can access these resumes after a specific validation process in term of registration but it shouldn’t be public – but neway people who posted their info have no issue being public. Best of luck !!
10:45 am
******ProPakistan has started what they’re calling a “Professionals Board” ……..”********
Thanks for the timely post Osama! Highly appreciated!
********Actually what it really is, is a blog with people’s resumes’ as posts……….********
Yes we’re using an Open Source for it that we found better for the execution of idea and testing different things at this moment. We’ll definitely be moving for a better one, and will keep you updated accordingly. Now coming to the point you mentioned, there’s no phone number display thingy at all… Please do let me know if you’ve found any!
Secondly yes, we do display email addresses [with profile holders’ consent], that’s in fact not hyperlinked, on some places you may find emails hyperlinked, but we’re working on to remove that. We’ll be removing the email completely and add a contact option shortly.
********Even worse is the fact that anyone can submit anyone else’s profile on this anonymously – they verify the info provided but not who submitted it to them… ……..
That’s exactly we’re to do! Besides that, all the profiles on board have been published with the consent of profile holders, and this will be same in future. Yes, we’re working on privacy policy and user agreement that will be added shortly!
********There’s a reason people invented login mechanisms and elaborate verification processes. ……..”
Agreed, but ‘A’ can submit ‘B’s’ profile more appropriately then. That case can verify an email only! I’ll highly appreciate your ideas in this context!
@Teeth
I did answer your point in above context, please let me know if something left untouched
@smaak
Thanks for the feedback; we’ll be moving that step ahead, inshaAllah!