Stablecoin startup ZAR raised $12.9M led by a16z to test USD-backed coins for Pakistan, which the World Bank estimates has the third-largest unbanked population
Andreessen Horowitz is leading funding for a year-old startup that seeks to popularize the use of stablecoins through neighborhood stores …
OpenAI expands its ~$5 ChatGPT Go plan to 16 new Asian countries, including Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Vietnam, after launching it in August
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Leaked docs: Chinese network-monitoring provider Geedge Networks has sold Great Firewall-style censorship systems to at least four countries, including Pakistan
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Amnesty: Pakistan is spying on millions via phone tapping and a Chinese-built internet firewall, in one of the broadest surveillance programs outside China
Pakistan is spying on millions of its citizens using a phone-tapping system and a Chinese-built internet firewall that censors social media …
Careem, Uber's ride-hailing MENA arm, will suspend its decade-old Pakistan service on July 18, citing economic challenges, competition, and capital constraints
It is with a heavy heart that I share this update: Careem will suspend its ride-hailing service in Pakistan on July 18. …
A profile of Zach Witkoff, World Liberty Financial co-founder and son of Trump's Middle East envoy, who is pursuing crypto deals with countries like Pakistan
Wall Street Journal : Bluesky: @charlesornstein . X: @chellaney and @husainhaqqani Bluesky: Charles Ornstein / @charlesornstein : “The extraordinary blurring of government negotiations and private bu...
Pakistan's parliament passes a controversial bill giving the government sweeping controls on social media, including prison terms for spreading “disinformation”
Remember, he is NOT a diplomat. X: Usama Khilji / @usamakhilji : Writing to PM @CMShehbaz, @MoitOfficial minister, @PTAofficialpk chair, & IT Parliamentary committee chairs, @theGNI expresses deep con...
Microsoft and Lumen's Black Lotus Labs find Russia-linked Turla hackers hijacked Pakistan-based hackers' servers to launch their own attacks since December 2022
The notorious Russian cyber-espionage group Turla is hacking other hackers, hijacking the Pakistani threat actor Storm-0156's infrastructure …
Malwarebytes: 77% of ad accounts used for “malvertising”, like in search results, are used just once and 90% of the ad fraud comes from Pakistan and Vietnam
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Startups say Pakistan's new China-like firewall is making it harder for them to raise funds, amid complaints about censorship and internet speeds falling by 40%
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