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Internet is an inexpensive way to interact with people and make contacts. Over the years, many companies have brought the tools to the masses to run their lives online and it has been effective. However, the current economic scenario has put hurdles in the way of new entrants. Moreover, sustaining a business is one big […]
Karachi Capital Market dips Islamabad: (Thursday, January 19, 2012) After witnessing bullish trends for a week or so, Karachi capital market dipped today as the investors preferred to book profit in blue chip companies like Oil and Gas Development Co Ltd (OGDCL). With the day closing at 11,515.59 points, the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) 100-index […]
Asian Development Bank issues a grant of $513 million to Pakistan for development projects Wednesday, January 18, 2012: Pakistan has signed two exclusive agreements with Asian Development Bank (ADB) according to which the country will receive a grant of $513 million for the purpose of building a new barrage and improving the deteriorating transmission systems. […]
Jerry Yang’s announcement that he’d be resigning from the Yahoo!, Alibaba Group, and Yahoo! Japan boards tonight is very significant. Whether intentional or not, Yahoo!’s board has long been “Jerry’s Board.” Directors would weigh whether or not they should do something by the litmus test question: “What does Jerry think of this?” That deference, over […]
Government Imposes Tax of Rs11, 486 per ton on LPG Tuesday, January 17, 2012: Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) prices prevailing in Pakistan are supposed to take a hike once again after the federal government, Islamabad, has levied a new kind of tax names, the petroleum levy, on the production of the commodity. According to commendable […]
Once rumoured to initiate the filing process in December, Facebook—the social network—is nowhere near the process to go public. The anticipated Initial Public Offering from the company is expected at the end of the second half of calendar year 2012. However, if Facebook needs to go public by the end of May or somewhere in […]
It took Groupon five months from filing to IPO, she notes, but in that case there were thorny accounting questions that the SEC required the company to work out. Zynga’s path took about the same, while LinkedIn made it to market in a brisk three and a half months after filing its S-1. Facebook’s financial […]
Apple stepped up to add more transparency to the way it makes its products, including the human resource involved in the process of manufacturing. The company recently announced a detailed audit report listing out its operation, while saying that it increased the number of audits by 80 percent compared as compared to 2010. Apple stated […]
Current times might not be very much in favour of new businesses but some entrepreneurial ventures have seen success in the past half a decade. Most of the new ventures that are coming off the ground these days are internet-based start-ups. Although only some of such ventures have tasted the sweet fruit of success in […]
KTLA and CTV, in addition to newspapers and magazines like USA Today, Boston Globe, Forbes. 1. 2. Gonabit With Groupon.com leading the way in group purchasing business, there is no surprise that many others have towed the same line. However, unlike Groupon, these websites are not looking to become public without a solid instrument of […]
4. Mustalahatak Mustalahatak is the latest addition to the internet, especially catering the Arabic internet. With enough contribution, if it receives, the website has the potential to become the Google of Middle East. The URL is crowd-sourced and demands the services of internet users who are literate in Arabic. The website offers services of translation […]
speakers can avail to listen to the latest regional music. 6. Kngine The search engines have been dominated by the US- and Japan-based technology companies in general and Google and Yahoo in particular, since the advent of the internet. Many other companies have also been successful in this segment. Ask.com and recently overhauled Microsoft’s flagship […]
