Apple’s 2018 Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) kicked off on June 4, 2018, in San Jose, California, with a keynote by Tim Cook, the chief executive officer. Given the major announcements made during Google I/O, there was a lot riding on the line …Continue reading
AI reigns over day one of Google I/O conference
Google’s three-day annual developers conference has kicked off at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California. Before the conference started, the company had announced that it was rebranding its Google Research division to Google AI — a move that signaled Google’s future …Continue reading
Travoney and Jeevay Sehat Make it to the Top 15 at Startup Istanbul 2017
Two Pakistani companies, Travoney and Jeevay Sehat, made it to the list of top 15 startups that participated in Startup Istanbul last month. Jeevay Sehat is a Karachi-based startup making use of technology to connect patients with doctors. It removes the need …Continue reading
Blockstack Announces $25 Million Fund for Blockchain Applications
Blockstack, a platform for decentralized internet, has revealed a $25 million investment fund to support developers utilizing its technology to build applications. The startup says that in order to improve an app’s chances of success, it requires access to resources. For this …Continue reading
Blockstack Unveils Its Blockchain-Powered Browser
The internet was born on October 29, 1969. Twenty years later in 1989 Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist, invented the World Wide Web leading to the version of Internet we know and use today. Now a startup called Blockstack is claiming …Continue reading
Freelancers Set to Throng Arfa Tech Park for National Convention on March 28th
The National Freelancing Convention (NFC) will take place at Arfa Software Technology Park, Lahore on the 28th March, 2017. The day-long event will incorporate four sessions and six meetups running parallel. These will showcase more than 150 bloggers, co-working spaces, fin-tech companies, …Continue reading
Google Launches App Maker for Non-Developers
Google has announced the launching of App Maker, a low-code integrated development environment (IDE), which organizations can use to build instant custom applications for their business needs. Currently, Google is accepting applications for early access to the App Maker from organizations that …Continue reading
First Facebook for Developers Workshop Held in Pakistan
Facebook for Developers, in collaboration with startup accelerator PlanX, conducted a one day workshop in Lahore. The aim of the workshop was to introduce developers to tools from Facebook that would enable them to share, monetize and grow their applications. This is …Continue reading
Pakistani Girls Take on the Gaming Industry
A CNNMoney report in 2015 listed Video Game Designer as one of the best and fastest growing jobs for the next decade. However, the gaming industry is male-dominated, from the development of the video games to those who play them. Even today, …Continue reading