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There is little doubt in the fact that the UAE and Pakistani economies are increasingly inter-twined. On this very blog, we’ve talked about substantial UAE investments in Pakistan, in particular in real-estate, Banking and Telecommunications. And of course, in one of the most important new projects under construction in Pakistan, the $5BN Khalifa Refinery.
This, however, [...]

Pakistan is such an absolutely amazing place. If you put that copy of Newsweek down for a moment and think what we’ve built in the last 60 years, I think rationality would require you to be close to awe-struck. Today we are a country on the verge of ascent into globally acknowledged greatness. We were [...]

This is a reader contributed post. The article was written and contributed by Shahid Saeed.
The two biggest names in community created online free for all maps are OpenStreetMap (http://www.openstreetmap.org/) and Google MapMaker (http://www.google.com/mapmaker). The main difference between the two is that OpenStreetMap provides its map data under a Creative Commons license, any maps created [...]

You KNOW it’s going to happen! We can either extend our own biological capabilities by tapping into the science and innovation fuelling robotics and AI, or we’ll essentially become irrelevant.
I’m not the only one saying it. Ray Kurzweil’s been on this bandwagon for a while, in fact, I think he’s behind the wheel! Hans Moravec, [...]

It certainly seems so. Even when the bar has been set so low for lumbering financial institutions, Vikram Pandit is managing to make a name for himself through his stupidity and incompetence. According to CNN, “while many major banks have only reported losses for the past two quarters, Citi has lost money for five straight [...]

Thanks to Mohtashim of ITtazee.com for bringing this to our attention. SanDisk is the latest in a long list of organizations, including the World Bank and others, terminating embattled Indian IT company, Satyam’s services. As we’ve mentioned here before, Satyam was at the epicenter of corporate espionage, fraud and other wrongdoings that have landed it’s [...]