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PriceSpy-Prices from All Pakistan

Online shopping sites has been increasing recently. We now have a lot of sites almost offering competitive prices, so the next natural thing would be sites which compare offering of these site. PriceSpy is one such site, it aggregates from other etailers and allows you to do a quick comparison of who is selling it the cheapest.

PriceSpy is one stop solution for those who are looking for reliable price list of Laptops, Mobiles, Gaming products and Gaming Accessories, Home Entertainment, Cameras, Network products, Computer Accessories and Home Appliances, so can imagine how convenient will be for the buyer to check the price (which is as reliable as getting out…

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Qurtaba released “Urdu Writer App”

  Qurtaba has launched a mobile app  named “Urdu Writer”, the app allows you to write in Urdu language using your iPhone keyboard and you can send it as a SMS, email, share it on social media (Facebook, Twitter and on other social media sites).

This app allows people to use urdu language for communication, it will specially be attractive to people who live abroad but want to some times feel the sweetness of urdu language.

Also some times we feel the limitation of english language to express our true feelings and need to revert to our mother tongue. Qurtaba has recently been focusing on Urdu language apps with this…

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Of People and a website; Pakistan’s Social Media scene

Social media needs to introduction; it is so intrinsically sewed into today’s marketing and technology DNA as furniture is to a home. For something so infant, it has grown rather rapidly. To say it has matured would perhaps be incorrect, as the innovation and evolution is still underway.

Perhaps we can all agree that while internet provided the world with a connected global village, social media further enhanced it by making those connections easier, more engaging and perhaps even taking down barriers that so exist in the traditional world. The one thing we  cannot deny is that social media empowers! From the recent revolutions in the Arab world, to the London’s riots in…

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P@SHA social innovation fund announces first round winners

P@SHA today announced winners of first round of Social innovation fund. Following are the winners of first round.

There will be another round soon, details of which along with other information about the fund and how it operates can be found here

1. Alif Laila – Sabah Rehman

A Program which plans to equip atleast 10 Government Schools with Laptops connected to internet through EvDO devices. It also plans to train the teachers to fully utilize these provided laptops to impart education to students of these government schools.

2. Bloodline – Farhan Masood

This comes from Frahan Masood who has been behind the popular Go Green Pakistan movement…

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Dr Umar Saif selected to lead Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) as Chairman

This comes as great news, Dr Umar Saif who recently was being ackonowledge recently for his great research projiect like poor man’s broadband and startup ventures like bumpin, smsall coming out of his Incubator (Saif Center of Innovation) has been appointed as Chairman of Punjab Information Technology Board.

Timing could not have been more perfect for our industry with Imran Zia at the helm of PSEB Dr Umar Saif as Chairman PITB will make a great killer combination for growth of the Industry.

Both of these gentleman have shown great inclination to support  startup culture. I personally believe that startups are the only way we can grow and compete in the…

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Update to Job area of Green White

Some of you might remember we launched a startup focused job area few months back. At that time it was just a limited functionality area.

How ever people from bayt came forward and offered me to help make it better. And they have been able to setup a job portal for greenwhite users. you can go check it out at

http://jobs.greenwhite.org

Now you can create your organizations profiles and post jobs, also now you can control all aspects of jobs posting. As earlier the jobs will be approved before they go public, I just want this bareer to make sure we get jobs coming from new startups, as I…

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