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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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General
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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10:53 pm
Green n White’s quality is going down. Someone save this site!
1:43 am
The recession is blessing in disguise for the local IT industry, even though it spells disaster for most businesses. It will expose fundamental, structural weaknesses in the setup leading to major realization, and hopefully major rethink. This is needed. The few who are brave will embrace the new reality and make the required changes to become more competitive, globally. Others will simply fail. Which is fine. In times of recession only those who deserve success, get success – it becomes easy to filter the good from the bad. An ideal time for self-analysis. The economic tsunami will leave behind a set of truths on which to build the future of the IT industry. These truths will be invaluable. To sum it up – I’m optimistic
1:48 am
Suggestion: User posts – if this was one – should be accessible from a “Community” section/forum. The GnW main page should only display posts from authorized/official contributors to sustain quality and maintain credibility.
9:49 am
I can’t understand why Mahmood consider this thread as poor quality. I think it is an important topic. Will comment on this thread soon……..
12:16 pm
Jaywalker – its your site now. Why’re you letting the quality go down? Step up and take charge, fix the issues.
4:46 pm
Haha. I didn’t know the new user-generated initiative was already underway! This should be fun! So how do I post?
Regarding this post – I didn’t say anything about it being poor. Kami has a valid concern and he has the opportunity at GnW to pose the question to the community. I’m simply suggesting the possibility of creating a Q&A forum where people can share questions or concerns with the rest of the community. The main platform could be a place for opinion-pieces… or something along those lines… simply to make the new “user-generated” GnW as reader-friendly as it can be.
In short – I’m not really saying anything!
9:23 am
Mahmood, just register at http://greenwhite.org/wp-register.php and go from there… login and start posting.
You have a good idea with the QA forum – but its a matter of putting it together and in this case we’ll need everyone to pitch in in all places. Would you know anyone willing to put the code together to make that happen?
2:21 am
Can’t think of anyone at the moment, but will float the idea nonetheless and if I find anyone interested, I’ll connect them with you.
8:18 am
Well tell u the truth … there is no such financial crises for NetSol .(i worked in netsol) … the reason Netsol is safe is bcoz of china .. we have alot of projects of china . yes netsol has suffered a little because we didnt get as many projects that we were hopping …
clients of other regions are waiting for current crises to end . inshallah netsol will be in full business near dec this year
any body want to share ?
9:35 am
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4:25 pm
Hi,
Sorry i cud nt continue to my thread as i was on long annual leaves and just got back. “Unkown” y u r talkig only abt NetSol? look at the other companies as well. I know lot of ppl have left Netsol in first half of 2009 bcos of no increments. If its nt the crises then wats that? Go and visit the job portals like rozee.pk where u wud find that SW companies are hiring less experianced resources (1-3 yrs exp) bcos:
1. They want to pay less/invest less
2. They dont have much work/projects
So i think v r suffering but really i have observed some stability in IT industry during last couple of months but you cant say it as a recovery or boost again…..
Like to know the comments of other guys on this topic.
10:45 am
Man! in this country does not matter you have money or not as employer always has upper edge. If employer dont want to pay u then he wont as we ppl dont take action on this. Dont u ppl know the case of INNOV8 in Lahore? Those poor guys who left them or fired by INNOV8 have still not received a single penie yet. Those who filed the case are waiting for court verdict due to the old and slow judicial system of Pakistan. They made lives of their employees miserable by denying their hard earned money and still they are running their business with same name at some different location (Kot Lakhpat area). According to my information INNOV8 got crores as loan and advance of some projects at the end of last year but did not pay a single penie to poor guys. So now where is the fincial factor u r talking abt? The main thing is to change the mindset of businessmen here to run their business in fair way……
8:24 am
Yes you r right Maqsood and thats the reason that most of the talent individuals tries to go abroad for bright future. SO such companies liek INOV8 should change their mind sets else these should b penalized like legal action or bycot not only from employees but also frm the companies working with them
3:07 pm
News is that again INNOV8 has started delaying salaries. They paid the salary of July 2009 at around 20th August and September salaries are still nt paid till Date. Poor employees.
11:11 am
what the hell is this?? why dont they close the company if they dont have the money to pay salaries? i think Inov8 should be banned and IT professionals should bycot this company coz they hav already disturbed many families in a country where there is no justice for the general public.
SHAME ON INOV8 MANAGEMENT!!!!!
4:52 pm
First of all shame on innov8 for such a bad things they are doing. Secondly Yes current financial crisis is effecting our IT Industry. These days companies are downsizing are employees are not getting reasonable salary increments and i am also effected by this. So truely and surely it is effecting us.
5:57 pm
Latest updates from innov8: Salaries of October are still not paid to employees. what they are doing?