Huawei’s P9 duo of flagship smartphones have been in the rumor mill for a long time and their phone specifications have leaked on several occasions as well. Today, the Chinese tech giant has put the rumors to rest by announcing its flagship duo dubbed P9 and P9 Plus, both of which were unveiled at the launch ceremony held in London, UK.
Continue reading Huawei P9 and P9 Plus with Leica’s Dual Camera Setup Are Now Official
One of the most coveted startup-accelerator for university students around the world, The Hult Prize Foundation aspires young social entrepreneurs emerging from the world’s universities to share ideas that can solve some of the world’s fundamental social problems. Every year the foundation holds a competition in the associated universities and teams fiercely compete with each other to reach the finals held at New York where former President Bill Clinton selects the challenge topic and announces the winner each September. Continue reading TeamNUST and their Hult Prize Journey
While Zong has come out as a clearer winner in data speeds, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority’s Quality of Service (QoS) survey has raised question marks on the Cellular Mobile Operators (CMOs) while saying that call connection time of all the mobile operators is not satisfactory.
It takes an average of 3 to 4 years to get professional recognition in Pakistan. For skill-based education where the candidate is awarded a certificate or a diploma, the time duration is shorter. In reality, things take longer in Pakistan when it comes to completing your documents and being truly done with it all. This is what I will be going through today.
To keep things simple, I am going to depict everything here as per the Higher Education Commission’s website. This way the readers can realize how, with HEC in the mix, the time taken to get recognition may vary. I shall not go into the details of the HEC websites functionality and they way it is designed. That is a topic for another day.
Continue reading Getting Your Degrees Certified From HEC Is Not As Simple As You Think It Is
Tahir Shah. The man. The mystique. The one who brought Pakistanis a veritable hit with ‘Eye to Eye.’
And for a song that was loaded with an unbeatable combo of lol-worthy visuals and even tummy-ache inducing lyrics, Tahir Shah basically became the de-facto music maestro for the social media generation.
His fans (and detractors), which he has many, has had one question on their minds. Will Tahir Shah ever return with another chart-topper of an earworm?
It seems that the time of the reckoning is at hand. Behold this tweet that is another breaking-the-internet act in the making.
Yes. He is back. And he’s ready to take on the Qandeels and Amir Liaquats that have thrived in his absence.
Continue reading Tahir Shah Releases New Internet-Breaking ‘Angel’ Music Video
Finja, a recent entrant in Pakistan’s FinTech scene, today announced the pilot launch of its new mobile wallet and its appointment as a Super Agent by Finca Microfinance Bank under the branchless banking framework approved by the State Bank of Pakistan.
Finja is jointly conceived by co-founders Qasif Shahid and Monis Rahman, who are known industry veterans with extensive domain experience.
Qasif recently led the development of mobile payment and wallet platforms at MCB Bank Pakistan and AccessBank Tanzania. He previously headed digital banking at ABN AMRO playing a lead role in introducing mobile led commerce in Singapore during the early 2000’s.
Monis is one of Pakistan’s Internet pioneers. He launched ROZEE.PK, Pakistan’s largest online recruitment powerhouse in 2007, serving 65,000 employers and 5.5 Million registered professionals. He has raised $11 Million to date in venture funding for online startups.
The mobile wallet, jointly deployed by Finja and Finca Microfinance Bank, is built on top of Finca Microfinance Bank’s branchless banking platform powered by AutoSoft Dynamic’s AutoMWALLET engine.
The mobile wallet brings several features that will help digital payments scale rapidly. The service is telco, bank and handset agnostic with the philosophy of inter-operating collaboratively with existing payment plumbing.
The product promises a zero customer switching cost with maximum convenience in the spirit of modern social networks. Finja believes that existing payment regimes are not conducive to large-scale behavior change.
“We believe banking products should look more like social networks than conventional banking products,” said Finja’s Founding CEO Qasif Shahid. “Our mobile wallet’s open API platform will allow much needed collaborative creativity from other FinTechs to be leveraged to create building blocks for a wider array of useful financial products”, added Monis Rahman, Finja’s Founding investor.
Mudassir Aqil, CEO of Finca Microfinance Bank, commented on the first of its kind partnership between a bank and FinTech, “What’s new in this partnership is the fact that a microfinance bank’s core and DNA is to lend, which we plan to leverage to incentivize behavior transformation from cash to digital payments”.