News Desk KARACHI: First successful Pakistan – Belarus Business Council meeting of FPCCI convened by Chairman Shahzad Sabir, held on Saturday 19 June 2021 conducted by physical attendance and participation by members, relevant authorities, and businessmen through zoom link. The council was briefed on JWC on Belarus Pakistan Joint Working Group on Industrial cooperation and Joint chamber of Commerce. The …

InMobi, the world’s leading independent marketing cloud, today announced two new talented additions to its team, covering the Middle East, Turkey and Africa.    Damian Murphy joins as Senior Sales Manager, and heads Telco, Travel, BFSI and Real Estate verticals. He brings fourteen years’ experience of helping brands and agencies expand and improve their programmatic buying. His previous roles include Head of Sales – Media Agency & Developer, at …

Etisalat today announced that it has joined forces with Ericsson to deploy 5G millimeter wave (mmWave) across its commercial network. The 5G high-band commercial deployment will help achieve high performance 5G downlink data speeds of 4.2Gbps and latency of 8 milliseconds (ms). Etisalat has built a 5G network infrastructure that can be enabled with superior performance, including ultra-high speeds and ultra-low latency …

News Desk DUBAI: Emirates will be ramping up operations to Jordan during the summer with the introduction of double daily A380 services during the months of July and August. The airline will operate a second daily A380 service to Amman, from 15-20 July 2021 ahead of the Eid Al Adha period. Emirates will also operate double daily A380 services from …

News Desk SHARJAH: After the successful edition of the event in 2019, The Flag Island, operated under Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq) will organize a special yoga event on 21 June 2021, in conjunction with the International Day of Yoga. The event will be held from 06:00 p.m. to 07:30 p.m., in collaboration with Fitness First, Sharjah. The activity …

Project Management Institute (PMI), the world’s leading association for project professionals and changemakers, has called for decisive and unified action to overcome pressing global challenges. Underlining its commitment as a “for purpose” organization, PMI urged global leaders at this year’s UN Global Compact Leaders Summit (UNGC) to tackle a range of urgent issues.   Last year, the annual Leaders Summit brought over …

By Rafiiq Vayani KARACHI: Mian Nasser Hyatt Maggo, President FPCCI, has lauded Syed Amin Ul Haque, Federal Minister for IT & Telecom on increasing IT exports and fast spreading 4G connectivity in the country. Mian Nasser Hyatt Maggo criticized the inclusion of IT sector in tax regime in the Federal Budget 2021-22 – whereas, it was exempted till 2025. He …

Seeing the impact of third wave of COVID-19, PTCL Group, as part of its social responsibility, has announced its commitment to support its 26,000 employees including its contractual employees and their dependents with COVID-19 vaccination in collaboration with the Government of Pakistan. PTCL Group, one of the country’s largest telecom groups and backbone of connectivity in Pakistan, has the highest …

Spotify and Facebook are continuing to roll out the new miniplayer experience in Pakistan. The miniplayer allows listeners to enjoy music from Spotify directly within Facebook on iOS and Android, without switching between apps. Driven by social discovery, the miniplayer experience will improve how users listen and share songs without leaving the Facebook app. Spotify Premium users can access full …

Pakistan Aluminium Beverage Cans Ltd (PABC) is planning to raise at least Rs 3.3 billion by offering a 26 per cent stake to institutional and ordinary investors in an initial public offer (IPO) on the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX). Book building will take place on June 22 and 23, followed by public subscription on June 29 and 30. The entire offer of 93.8 million ordinary shares, …