ISLAMABAD (HAFEEZ REPORT) IBM today announced the appointment of Ghazanfar Ali as Country General Manager, IBM Pakistan. He succeeds Humayun Bashir who served as Pakistan’s Country General Manager for sixteen years. Ghazanfar will be responsible for IBM’s overall business in Pakistan with a focus on deploying IBM’s advanced technology capabilitiesRead More →
LAHORE ( HAFEEZ REPORT ) Zong and LUMS have entered into a strategic partnership through anMoU for the development of a state-of-the-art 4G research lab at the varsity. Signed here on Friday, the MoU would pave the way for Pakistan’s leading telecom company and the most advanced 4G service providerRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( BMZ REPORT ) Intel Pakistan concluded the second of two Punjab Science Fairs in the run-up to the Intel® International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel® ISEF), one of the world’s largest pre-college science competitions, to be held in Phoenix, Arizonain May 2016. During the Punjab Science Fairs, studentsRead More →
LAHORE ( HAFEEZ REPORT ) Center for Entrepreneurship (LCE), the university’s flagship experiential development platform for entrepreneurs held an exclusive investor event to mark the graduation of their third cohort of startups graduating from The Foundation incubator. These startups went through an intense, 4-months-long, startup development bootcamp at LUMS andRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( BMZ REPORT ) Mobilink and LUMS Center for Entrepreneurship (LCE) have signed an agreement whereby, the Telco in collaboration with LCE will scout, mentor and provide sustenance to LCE’s next cohort of 12 to 18 prospective business startups. This extension of support to young entrepreneurs is being carriedRead More →
LAHORE ( HAFEEZ REPORT ) Zong, Pakistan’s fastest growing and most advanced Telecom operator has a key focus on its highly skilled human resource. Keeping in view the need to expand and bring in fresh minds the HR team recently visited the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) and theRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( MEDIA ) Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunications (MoIT) has completed a project, which was launched to introduce a self-managing energy system (SES) to conserve energy usage in buildings. The energy conservation cited as the ‘most important fuel’ in energy generation is possible in buildings only if usageRead More →
LAHORE ( HAFEEZ REPORT ) Groopic, a Pakistani technology startup founded by four students and researchers of Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), has just closed a US$ six figures investment from Kima Ventures, the seed stage fund that also financed Shopistan recently. Based on details of the funding disclosedRead More →