BEIJING, ( MEDIA REPORT ) The Chinese government’s top diplomat Wang Yi said U.S. pressure on Chinese firms such as tech giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd is economic bullying and a move to try to prevent the country’s development process. “The use of U.S. power to suppress China’s private enterprises,Read More →

ISLAMABAD (PRESS RELEASE) It’s Huawei vs. the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and most of Europe and Japan. It’s almost as if the world’s biggest surveillance superpowers don’t want Huawei cell tower and networking router equipment inside critical networks in their countries, amid concerns of the company’s linksRead More →

ISLAMABAD (MEDIA REPORT) Meng Wanzhou was detained by Canadian authorities at the request of the United States, early last week Huawei’s chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, has been released on bail by a Canadian court, following her arrest in Vancouver, earlier last week.  Huawei confirmed the release late last night,Read More →

EUROPE (MEDIA REPORT) Google faced a record EU anti-trust fine of 4.3 billion Euros on Wednesday over its Android Smartphone system, in a ruling that risks a fresh clash between Brussels and Washington. EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager is expected to say that the US tech giant abused Android’s dominantRead More →

ISLAMABAD (MEDIA REPORT) Iran banned government bodies on Wednesday from using the popular Telegram instant messaging app as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s office said his account would shut down to protect national security, Iranian media reported. ISNA news agency did not give a reason for the government ban onRead More →

ISLAMABAD ( PRESS RELEASE ) Chairman Consumer Rights Protection Bureau Dr Jamal Mirza has said that American government is expanding investigation into Huawei breaking trade control Laws on Iran, Sudan, Cuba and Syria. An administrative subpoena was issued to Huawei in the same regard, by the United States Treasury Department’s office of Foreign Assets Control.  The same department oversees complianceRead More →

International Women Day this March 8, 2017 ISLAMABAD ( PRESS RELEASE ) Can freelancing empower women in Pakistan? According to the World Bank, the women participation rate in the work force of Pakistan is 24% in 2014. Pakistan’s female population is estimated to be 48.65 percent of the total, theRead More →

GENEVA ( International Desk )  For the first time since 2009, the value of global imports of information and communications technology (ICT) goods declined in 2015 by 3.6 percent in current prices to just over $2 trillion (Chart 1). Whereas the 2009 decline was connected to the 2008 global economicRead More →