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e-commerce platforms facilitating trade of smuggled smartphones?

KARACHI: Some of the leading e-commerce platforms have said to be the biggest source for trading non-PTA-approved...

Updated 15 Mar, 2024 08:28am

Business & Finance

‘Pakistan Mobile Summit’ held: Govt to grant 3pc R&D allowance to mobile makers: minister

ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to grant a three percent research and development (R&D) allowance to ...

Published 30 Jan, 2024 04:52am

Technology

Samsung to add real-time translation to smartphone model

SEOUL: South Korean smartphone giant Samsung Electronics will roll out a real-time translation service on calls...

Published 10 Nov, 2023 11:46am

Business & Finance

Affordable instalment options: Ministry to take step to make smartphones more accessible

ISLAMABAD: Ministry of IT and Telecommunication (MoITT) will issue a policy directive in the next few days to make...

Published 03 Nov, 2023 06:11am

Business & Finance

Jan-May: 4.88m mobile phones manufactured in country

ISLAMABAD: Local manufacturing plants have manufactured/assembled 4.88 million mobile handsets during the first four...

Published 11 Jul, 2023 06:08am

Business & Finance

China’s Meizu unveils first smartphones since deal with Geely founder

SHANGHAI: China’s Meizu on Thursday unveiled its first smartphone products since it was taken over by a venture...

Published 31 Mar, 2023 06:45am

Business & Finance

vivo launches new V series smartphones

KARACHI: vivo launched its latest V series smartphones — V25 5G and V25e in Pakistan. Following the immense...

Published 09 Jan, 2023 06:00am

Business & Finance

1.21m handsets imported: 15.61m cell phones manufactured locally in eight months: PTA

ISLAMABAD: The local manufacturing plants have manufactured/ assembled 15.61 million phone handsets during the first...

Published 27 Sep, 2022 04:06am

BR Research

From Digital Emergency to Digital Enablement?

In these tough economic times, the status of the telecom industry is no better than many others. Perhaps, it's worse...

Published 15 Aug, 2022 09:14am

Business & Finance

14.08m mobile phones manufactured during Jan-June: PTA

ISLAMABAD: The local manufacturing plants have manufactured/assembled 14.08 million mobile phone handsets during the...

Published 24 Jul, 2022 06:07am

Business & Finance

Reliance Chairman Mukesh Ambani steps down as director of telecom arm

Mukesh's son and non-executive director Akash Ambani appointed Reliance Jio's board chairman

Updated 28 Jun, 2022 06:26pm

Business & Finance

Jan-May: 12.41m mobile phones made locally

ISLAMABAD: The local manufacturing plants have manufactured/ assembled 12.41 million phones handsets during the ...

Updated 21 Jun, 2022 04:56pm

July-May mobile phone imports soar 4.62pc to $1.946bn

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan imported mobile phones worth $ 1.946 billion during the first 11 months (July-May) 2021-22...

Updated 19 Jun, 2022 09:02am

Business & Finance

Taiwan’s TSMC reports record first-quarter revenue

TAIPEI: Taiwanese tech giant TSMC posted record revenue for the first three months of the year Thursday as demand...

Published 14 Apr, 2022 02:32pm

Business & Finance

$16m investment: ‘realme’ begins assembling smartphones in Pakistan

KARACHI: Emerging mobile phone brand realme has started assembly of smartphones in the country to reduce the cost of...

Updated 19 Feb, 2022 01:27pm

BR Research

Digital economy: start listening!

This column had recently highlighted that the additional revenue from the government’s act of increasing the taxes...

Published 01 Feb, 2022 07:48am

Business & Finance

Apple to turn iPhones into payment terminals, rival Square: Bloomberg

NEW YORK: Apple Inc is planning a new service that will allow small businesses to accept payments directly on their...

Published 28 Jan, 2022 04:44am

Business & Finance

LG Display Q4 profit drops 30% on year, hit by lower TV panel prices

SEOUL: South Korea's LG Display Co Ltd posted on Wednesday a 30% drop in quarterly operating profit on the year, hit...

Published 26 Jan, 2022 01:18pm

BR Research

Mini-budget and Telecoms

Say a prayer for the goose that lays golden eggs! The fidgeting, budgeting, tax-chasing government has historically...

Published 06 Jan, 2022 07:44am

Technology

China Oct smartphone shipments up 30.6% y/y, likely driven by iPhone

SHANGHAI: Shipments of smartphones within China rose 30.6% year-on-year to 32.7 million handsets in October, the...

Published 24 Nov, 2021 11:56am

Business & Finance

Pakistan becomes exporter of 4G smartphones: Dawood

In a significant development for Pakistan’s mobile phone industry, the country has become an exporter of 4G...

Published 25 Sep, 2021 02:33pm

Opinion

Critics warn of Apple, Google ‘chokepoint’ repression

The global dominance of tech giants serves as a convenient online chokepoint for authoritarian governments to crack...

Published 19 Sep, 2021 03:56am

PM inaugurates Nadra’s PAK-ID mobile app

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan Tuesday inaugurated PAK-ID mobile application, developed by the National...

Published 01 Sep, 2021 02:30am

Technology

Ahead of the times: Ushering in a new era of smartphone innovation

KARACHI: “The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is...

Published 13 Aug, 2021 04:44am

Technology

WhatsApp tests breaking free from smartphones

With this new capability, you can now use WhatsApp on your phone and up to four other non-phone devices simultaneously - even if your phone battery is dead, say Facebook engineers in blog post

Updated 16 Jul, 2021 10:25am

Business & Finance

Walmart to give 740,000 US store workers free Samsung phones

The world's largest retailer, which employs nearly 1.6 million people in the United States, said more than 740,000 workers would receive Samsung Galaxy XCover Pro smartphones, cases and protection plans. Currently, most people share company devices.

Published 03 Jun, 2021 08:14pm

Technology

Xiaomi surpasses Apple in Europe due to Impressive Growth

Xiaomi has surpassed Apple in terms of market share in Europe.
Xiaomi now accounts for 23 percent share of the European region as compared to Apple's 19 percent and witnessed impressive 85 percent year-on-year growth in Europe as compared to Apple's 22 percent.

Updated 08 May, 2021 05:37pm

Technology

Samsung's best phone ever officially retires after its last security update

Samsung has officially ended its android support for its known smartphone Galaxy 8.
Launched in the Spring of 2017, Samsung's favourite phone received its last security update four years after its release.

Updated 05 May, 2021 02:37pm

Business & Finance

Huawei cedes further ground as smaller smartphone rivals swoop in

China shipments fell to 14.9 million handsets in the quarter ended March from 30.1 million in the same period last year, according to research firm Canalys. Outside China, Huawei shipped 3.7 million units.
Its market share slumped to 16% from 41% a year ago, while Vivo and Oppo saw their shipments grow 79% and 65%, respectively. Vivo shipped 21.6 million units in the first quarter, while Oppo shipped 20.6 million.

Updated 29 Apr, 2021 07:44pm

Technology

United Mobile Becomes OnePlus' First Official Distributor in Pakistan

United Mobile has joined hands with OnePlus to become its first official distributor in Pakistan.
OnePlus will be officially launched by United Mobile in Pakistan on the 19th of April, 2021.

Updated 16 Apr, 2021 07:42pm

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Apr 25	278.52
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Apr 25	278.32
USD to Japanese Yen / Apr 25	155.60
USD to Swiss Franc / Apr 25	0.91
Pound Sterling to USD / Apr 25	1.25
Euro to USD / Apr 25	1.07

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Apr 24	5070.63
Nasdaq / Apr 24	15712.75
Dow Jones / Apr 24	38460.92
India Sensex / Apr 25	73780.80
Tokyo Nikkei / Apr 25	37628.48
Hang Seng / Apr 25	17264.90
FTSE 100 / Apr 25	8077.84
Germany DAX 30 / Apr 25	17994.97

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Apr 23	21035
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Apr 23	213220
Petrol/Litre / Apr 25	293.94
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Apr 25	83.02
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Apr 25	2325.45
Diesel/Litre / Apr 25	290.38

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Apr 25 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Apr 25 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Apr 25 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Apr 25 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Apr 25 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Apr 25 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Apr 25 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Apr 25 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Apr 25 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Apr 25 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Apr 25 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Apr 25 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Apr 25 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Apr 25 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Apr 25 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Apr 25 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Apr 25 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Apr 25 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
P.I.A.C.(A) / Apr 25 Pakistan International Airlines Corp(PIAA)	47,200,500 ▲ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / Apr 25 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	29,719,327 ▲ 0.00
Pak Petroleum / Apr 25 Pakistan Petroleum Limited(PPL)	21,170,581 ▲ 0.00
Pak Refinery / Apr 25 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	16,965,134 ▲ 0.00
The Searle Co. / Apr 25 The Searle Company Limited(SEARL)	15,793,227 ▲ 0.00
P.T.C.L. / Apr 25 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	15,054,641 ▲ 0.00
K-Electric Ltd. / Apr 25 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	14,145,556 ▲ 0.00
WorldCall Telecom / Apr 25 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	13,158,668 ▲ 0.00
Telecard Limited / Apr 25 Telecard Limited(TELE)	12,358,668 ▲ 0.00

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