NEW DELHI (MEDIA REPORT ) While India is busy in staging ‘surgical strike’ drama, Pakistani tech experts are up to some real job by teasing the pilots of Indian planes landing into the airports close to the Line of Control (LoC) in Occupied Kashmir. According to the Times of IndiaRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( MEDIA REPORT ) VimpelCom on revealed that the CEO of its Russian unit, Mikhail Slobodin, has resigned with immediate effect following revelations about his former company, T Plus. “Kjell Johnsen, head of major markets, will lead VimpelCom’s business in Russia with immediate effect,” said VimpelCom, in a briefRead More →
WASHINGTON ( MEDIA REPORT ) A U.S. appeals court has quashed a search warrant that would have required Microsoft to disclose contents of emails stored on a server in Ireland, in a case that has broad ramifications for privacy, diplomatic relations and the ability of American companies to sell webRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( MEDIA REPORT ) Microsoft says it has signed a deal to buy the professional social networking site LinkedIn for $26.2bn. LinkedIn’s shares surged 48 percent to $194.28 on Monday, in a deal that the chairman of LinkedIn’s board, Reid Hoffman, defined as a “re-founding moment”. According to aRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( MEDIA REPORT ) The politico-business Saifullah family stays on the top by owning the highest number of offshore companies among Pakistanis, and British Virgin Islands emerges as the favourite destination of Pakistanis for registering companies that witnessed its peak in 2007. Also, the month of May has emergedRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( MEDIA REPORT ) Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s name was not mentioned in original Panama papers and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) which has said that Nawaz Sharif’s name was included in the original Panama papers by mistake. According to foreign news agency ICIJ has said PrimeRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( ABRAR MUSTAF ) The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists will release on May 9 a searchable database with information on more than 200,000 offshore entities that are part of the Panama Papers investigation. The database will likely be the largest ever release of secret offshore companies and theRead More →
Beijing ( MEDIA REPORT ) For years, there has been a limit to the success of American technology companies in China. Capture too much market share or wield too much influence, and Beijing will push back. Apple has largely been an exception to that trend. Yet the Silicon Valley companyRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( BMZ REPORT ) The Chinese government expressed its “dissatisfaction” after the US commerce department slapped ZTE with sanctions for having allegedly sold telecoms gear to Iran. The Chinese commerce ministry issued a stern statement on its website following the US decision earlier this week to require ZTE’s suppliersRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( MEDIA REPORT ) Apple has positioned itself as a strong guardian of its user privacy by denying the federal authorities encryption back doors into its products. The company claims that when it comes to Apple’s iMessage service, it cannot read messages sent between its devices because they useRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( MEDIA REPORT ) The Anonymous group Ghost Sec, whose stated goal is to “eliminate the online presence of Islamic extremist groups such as Islamic State (IS), Al-Qaeda, Al-Nusra, Boko Haram and Al-Shabaab,” has taken down a large online ISIS site and replaced it with a message telling readersRead More →
KABUL ( MEDIA REPORT ) One might presume that the deposition of the tax might come as a relief to the many telecom users. On the contrary, Afghans unsatisfied with the parliaments decision took to social media platforms. Last month, Afghanistan’s telecom companies imposed a 10% tax on Afghan networksRead More →