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 tech workers leave the country as funding dries up, companies fold, and more; government data: 830K+ Pakistanis got jobs abroad in 2022, up 189% YoY
Inflation and dried-up VC funding have caused the country's tech ecosystem to plummet, prompting young people to search for greener pastures abroad. X: @sheryhydri , @kalsoom82 , and @kmzuberi . Forum...
After Pakistan banned dating apps Tinder, Grindr, and Skout in September 2020, Facebook matchmaking groups for Pakistanis gained tens of thousands of members
that these Facebook dating groups are an absolute revolution in a society like Pakistan: https://restofworld.org/... @restofworld : Facebook groups are a “hybrid version” of matchmaking for Pakistani ...
How a Pakistan-born developer's open letter to Tim Cook helped bring the Urdu language typeface to Apple devices
a script like “the wings of flying geese”—users resort to transliteration with Latin fonts. @AlizehKohari investigates. https://restofworld.org/... Tori Elliott / @telliotter : If you need something h...
How livestreaming app Bigo, banned in Pakistan in July, had enabled the country's neglected underclass and marginalized groups to speak freely like never before
a lucrative bet. Then Pakistan banned it. @khannn___ explains for @restofworld. https://restofworld.org/... @restofworld : Before it was banned by authorities, livestreaming app Bigo became the go-to ...