Guest post by Hassan Baig who runs Islamabad based Facebook development start-up called White Rabbits. After the introduction of Facebook’s Open Platform in late 2007, the social gaming industry has become hot with hundreds of millions of dollars poured in by venture capitalists. Moreover since 2007, several large Facebook gaming companies have...
Blogging has taken the world by storm. It is increasingly becoming the most popular method to express one’s thoughts and feelings on the internet, as well as an effective medium to earn a respectable living. These days, all the business around the world, and specifically the technology industry maintains at least one official web log to announce its...
Websites in Pakistan are doubling up, no doubt about it. More websites mean more opportunity for hosting companies. But when I look around, at my friends, friends of friends I don’t see them trusting much on local hosting companies. As a matter of fact, ProPakistani would love to do business with a local company, for instance our servers are locally...
The electronic payments continued to show a rising trend as both the number and value of such transactions increased in the second quarter (Oct-December) of the current 2009-10 fiscal year (FY10). According to State Bank’s Second Quarterly Report on Retail E-Payments and Paper Based Instruments released on Friday, the volume and value of E-Payments...
The Cellular companies in Pakistan are providing Jobs to thousands of people in different areas of their organizations, This includes but not limited to Engineering, Call Centers, Marketing, HR, Operations, Accounts and many others. Vacancies for jobs are advertised in Newspapers, through online portals, or sometimes people are hired by internal references....
Just seconds ago, Dr. Awab tweeted that he took backup of his blog, and downloaded almost 1 GB of files on local computer. Just that moment, a co-incidence maybe, I was reading this post by CyberDera about taking online backups of almost every online activity that we usually do – for FREE. Yes, this very amazing service Backupify, is offering backups...
E-Commerce in Pakistan is pretty much scary. The real reason is trust deficit. This habit is maybe inherited in ourselves, we don’t trust anybody, but when it comes to online shopping, we don’t trust online stores at all. When we think of buying something from website (local), we first think of “Are they reliable? Will they provide the original...
Last Week, HP conducted a bloggers meetup in three cities of Pakistan, Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad. The intention of the event was to bring the bloggers community on platform where they can help teach HP that how can they reach online masses in Pakistan successfully. HP gave ample time to people to register for the event. Long and short, I went in...
Are you one of those PTV Classic Dramas’ lover? And you end up with no option to watch them, as you are too busy to buy a CD or DVD, or maybe because DVDs of those Classic PTV hits are not available anymore…! Pakistanica.com is a treat for you in this case. This website has got plenty of PTV Dramas’ collection, and hopefully the base will...
Rozee.pk is known as Pakistan’s number one Job website. There is no doubt that rozee.pk has grasped the biggest market share over the internet for spreading mouth of word for good jobs in the diversified industries like Information Technology, Telecom, FMCG’s, Pharmaceuticals and Insurance. Today let’s analyze the No.1 job portal to know some...
A real estate agency or broker is a party who acts as an intermediary between sellers and buyers of real estate and attempts to find sellers who wish to sell and buyers who wish to buy. In Pakistan you can easily find one in your area, some years back when there was a boom in real estate business, many people started their agencies but as the time passes,...
Now you can check the status of any case in Supreme court through its website, by just giving the case number, parties’ name or the date of the case. Here is the link: http://www.supremecourt.gov.pk/case_status/default.asp Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry inaugurated the online case status software, recently. The software aims...
Do you know that former President of Pakistan Gen (Retd) Pervez Musharraf created a Facebook page just a month ago and he has collected 36,000 fans during this period? This is no doubt, the most successful Facebook campaign by any politician in Pakistan, which is apparently backed by social media experts. First of all page ad is very powerful and appealing,...
Bloggers’ community and those who earn their money through online resources, ever you thought that the money you earn is taxable? It’s little hard to digest, but yes, the money we earn through our blogs, forums, online portals and through any other online resource is taxable. In this post I will try to explore on why and how much should we (online...
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