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DAWN‘s business section carries an interesting story today detailing the growth of the IT market in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia and the UAE principally account for both the overall size and the rapid growth. Given Pakistan’s very close relations with both countries, and the easy accessibility of both markets, this bodes well for export [...]

Ok, this one is just plain ridiculous. The PSEB (Pakistan Software Export Board), is a government organization designed to promote software exports from Pakistan. Their website is supposed to be a resource that helps achieve this aim. Last I checked, the PSEB wasn’t a commercial startup and their website was NOT a means to earn [...]

Following up on the Netsol post from yesterday, here’s an interview TheStreet did with Najeeb Ghauri a couple of months ago. Worth listening to in order to get a better idea of what’s on his mind and how he sees Netsol’s China strategy. I just wish he would keep his head up and not look [...]

Netsol is one of Pakistan’s major software outsourcing companies. And if you’ve been following Netsol stock on the NASDAQ (NTWK), you’ll find that over the last couple of months, the stock price has roughly doubled. This is mostly due to a recent earnings call where management disclosed healthy growth and also an increasing percentage of [...]

As the Pakistani IT industry continues to grow, there will come a time when it will start to make sense to consolidate. Specifically, this will happen when the cost of obtaining additional customers outweighs the cost of “acquiring” them by means of a merger. In the Pakistani context, our feeling is that mergers will probably [...]

The Sprint-Nextel Board of Directors have decided to replace current CEO Gary Foresee because they’re apparently pretty unhappy with his massive investments in Sprint’s WiMax implementation. So far, Sprint’s WiMax implementation is the largest WiMax infrastructure effort in the US – probably the world – and is designed to support 125 million users. The softlaunch [...]

  When I read this news item in the Business Recorder earlier today, it immediately put a huge smile on my face. Partly, because I felt really proud that a local Pakistani animation studio, Post Amazers, were recognized in such a significant way. But the real reason why I’m beaming right now, is because my [...]

We recently learned quite a bit about IT practices in effect at tech companies in Pakistan by talking to some of the employees there. We asked questions about Control, Routine Services , Communications, Environment and Uptime Management. Share this:

The PSEB is arranging a series of “Mini  Events”, aka travelling sales pitches, involving several of its members. After the Mini Events focused on the UK last year, this series is going to involve symposiums in Texas, California (they don’t yet say which cities in either of these states) and Chicago. Read on for the [...]

  Just goes to show that winning a TechCrunch award doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve been endowed with an IQ above 100. You would think that since the biggest criticism of personal finance aggregator, Mint.com, has been potential security pitfalls, they would be a little apprehensive about doing things like, gee, I don’t know, SENDING CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION OUT [...]