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CarFirst launches Pakistan's first all-female purchase center
The company seeks to revolutionise the way cars are traded and sold in Pakistan
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'Huge potential in country for Facebook to tap'
Asks AGP to file a review petition before the SC on its anti-encroachment drive order in Karachi
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US 'model soldier' to be sentenced for Islamic State support
Federal prosecutors say Kang agreed to swear an oath of loyalty to IS in pseudo-ceremony held by undercover FBI agents
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Online game 'Razor Wire' highlights migrants' hardship
Anti-immigration sentiment is on the rise in Slovenia since 2015 migrant crisis
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Audi to invest 14 billion euros in e-mobility, self-driving cars
The company’s total projected expenditure for the next five years amounts to 40 billion euros
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Tesla changes plans to start Model Y production
The electric carmaker planned a production ramp of 7,000 Model SUVs
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Amazon edges out Apple for most valuable company
Briefly putting its market capitalisation at $865.0 billion
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US lawmakers make final push to win approval of self-driving car bill
The pair has been working for more than a year to try to win approval of the bill by the Senate
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SpaceX launches 64 satellites at once
The company marked another milestone in its bid to make rockets more re-usable
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Tumblr bans porn
To clean up the blogging platform
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Pakistan stack — a step towards e-governance
Data is often described as the ‘new oil’ due to its significance and impact in the process of development
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Mazari raises fake news issue in meeting with Facebook team
Social media platform to help Pakistan raise awareness about HR issues
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NASA's first asteroid sample-collector arrives at target, Bennu
Bennu asteroid, about the size of small mountain, is smallest object ever to be orbited by a human-made spacecraft
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Oppo announces $1.43b investment in R&D
The Chinese consumer electronics and mobile communication company established its 5G team in 2015
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Google CEO hearing in US House likely to be postponed
Pichai agreed to testify before the panel over Republican concerns that the company is biased against conservatives
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Grab in talks to invest $100 million in Indian hotels startup Oyo
The proposed investment is part of Oyo’s ongoing $1 billion funding round
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Fintech company Calastone to shift fund network to blockchain
Provides back and middle-office services to more than 1,700 firms
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Amazon tests cashierless tech for stores with bigger spaces
The checkout-free system which is already operational in certain Amazon Go stores
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Amazon to allow Apple Music on its Echo speakers
Amazon said it would carry more Apple products globally in time for the holiday shopping season
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Tesla achieves Model 3 production of 1,000 cars per day
The car was introduced to the public in early 2016 amid great fanfare
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Microsoft's market value overtakes Apple's to close out week
Shares of Microsoft rose 0.6 per cent to end the week at $110.89
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Does Google harm local search rivals? EU antitrust regulators ask
The search engine has been fined a total 6.76 billion euros
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Bitcoin falls over 7 per cent
Heading towards a recent one-year low in a broad-based selloff in cryptocurrencies
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Fix Facebook, whether it wants to or not
Whistleblower Christopher Wylie is pushing for the internet giant to be regulated
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Turkey to provide cybersecurity
Speakers iterate Pakistan's need to enhance its production capacity by partnering with private sector
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Marriott says up to 500 million guests fall victim to hack
Marriott is working with law enforcement and security experts to tighten security its system
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NASA chief says Elon Musk won't be smoking joints publicly again
SpaceX is contractor for NASA since 2012, ferrying supplies to International Space Station aboard its Dragon ship
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Facebook says COO Sandberg asked for info on Soros
The social media giant was directly involved in the tactical response to the philanthropist's criticism
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Japan brokers readying for new client surge ahead of SoftBank's mammoth IPO
Banking on the telco’s brand power and unprecedented marketing campaign to boost business
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Samsung says it will cancel $4.4 billion worth of shares
The South Korean giant last year rejected pressure from US activist for a major overhaul of its complicated structure
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ECB launches real-time payments in challenge to tech giants
It will allow consumers and businesses across the 19-nation euro area to send and receive money in mere seconds
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Facial recognition deployed at China marathon to stop cheats
To ensure people do not get someone else to run for them
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China's Weibo eyes global expansion, foreign-language products
The Twitter-style platform has long been prominent in China
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Six Pakistani entrepreneurs graduate from UNCTAD, Alibaba's fellowship
The aim of the fellowship is to bridge the digital divide and to hone young entrepreneurs' skills
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HBL offers instant personal loans through its core mobile app
Get a quick personal loan from the comfort of your home by simply logging on to HBL Mobile
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Ad buyers skeptical as Snap looks beyond teens for growth
Companies hoping to target young users may in turn move their ad dollars elsewhere
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Instagram to be made more accessible
It will allow people with visual impairment to hear descriptions of photos through the screen reader
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Elon Musk ducks out of one Los Angeles tunnel but pursues another
Musk’s underground transit venture the Boring Company gave up on its development of a 2.7-mile tunnel in West LA
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Microsoft's stock market value pulls ahead of Apple's
Shares of Microsoft jumped 3 per cent, pushing its market capitalisation up to $848 billion
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Apple's iPhone XR is company's best-selling model
The XR brings many key features of those phones to a lower price point
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Facebook mulled charging for access to user data
Such a move would have been a major shift away from the policy of not selling its members' information
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Google extends telecom service Fi to iPhones
The service aims to take on traditional carriers by letting people pay based on how much data they use and roam
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Tech giants warn Australia against law to break encryption
The legislation proposed by Australia's government would undermine rather than enhance the nation's security
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New application launched to facilitate motorway users
Minister Murad Saeed says steps afoot to depoliticise institutions
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Mobile Internet faster than WiFi in Pakistan
According to a study by OpenSignal
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Facebook was warned of alleged Russian meddling back in 2014
The revelation came as the British Parliament held hearings featuring lawmakers
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Google workers want plug pulled on plan for China search
Saying it could offer "better information" to people than rival services
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Online 'funeral kits' help grieving Indians
A kit includes 38 items such as earthen pots, cow urine and dung, incense sticks and rice
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British, Dutch regulators fine Uber for 2016 data hack
Uber failed to protect customers' personal information during cyber-attack involving millions of users
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Pakistani entrepreneur's chatbot 'Aurat Raaj' wins big at BAFTA
'Aurat Raaj' was nominated in the Artificial Intelligence (AI): empowering the future category