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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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3:51 pm
Well I am not sure why it should be of any surprise! There is a level in every product’s life cycle where it cools down, next in the line is a sharp dip even, that is if the companies don’t keep on innovating with newer solutions…
Recently looking at the Wimax scene, I am even wondering if a Wimax operator can have a network spread like that of lets say Mobilink GSM in next 5 years. I am sure majority of Pakistani cell phone users will be more than happy to move to a Wimax service which offer them both data and voice (over VOIP) on their handhelds.
10:24 pm
UJMi – I think the disappointment is due to the self-inflicted wounds. The other day PTA chairman joined the mobile companies to complain about the increase in telecom GST to 21%. What is the government thinking?
4:26 pm
Well I call it a unnatural way of slowing down.. Telecom is Pakistan is not slowing down because we hit its peak but due to the other financial and political factors.
5:37 pm
I think the telecom still has the muscle to sustain the hit. Think about the other industries especially those which employ a lot of human resources. Agriculture for example. We decrease the price of petrol and increase that of diesel and kerosene. Where is the sense in that? And that finance minister says on TV that common man will not be effected because they ride a motorcycle. And he said ON TV. Can you imagine.
5:21 pm
I agree with Mohsin’s comments.
Other than this the goverment has not taken any substantial measures in past one to two years to help assist this industry to uplift but have been more focused to earn out of it as much as possible even at the stake of loosing it.
10:49 pm
i m agree with,s zain. now we should be convert our attention towords the other productive resources like agiculture and multinational company also increse our manufacturing process.govt should open new govt industries in rural areas they are also the part of pakistan.we how belong the rural area faces many problem for job.so govt should think for us.
10:52 pm
i m agree with,s zain. now we should be convert our attention towords the other productive resources like agiculture and multinational company also increse our manufacturing process.govt should open new govt industries in rural areas they are also the part of pakistan.we who
belong the rural area faces many problem for job.so govt should think for us.
1:52 am
telecom industry is still in its boom phase in pakistan because different players in this field are continuesly bringing innovatve products and services to attract customers.telecom industry can sustain its booming pahse by continuesly doing its SWOT analysis with international industries…
1:48 pm
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