04/17/13 ~ Mera Pak Watan

Russia’s Altimo Moves to Buy 48% Shares of Orascom Telecom: ProPakistani

Russia’s Altimo Moves to Buy 48% Shares of Orascom Telecom
Warid to Announce Bonuses for Employees After Three Years
Google Reveals Specs for Its Glass
Warid Introduces Maal Dhamaal Bundle
Google Program Manager Speaks About Securing Internet Services Against Hackers

Russia’s Altimo Moves to Buy 48% Shares of Orascom Telecom

Posted: 17 Apr 2013 01:13 AM PDT

Russian investment firm Altimo has prepared a tender to buy 48.08 percent stakes of Orascom Telecom – the parent group of Mobilink – against USD 1.8 billion to value Orascom Telecom at mere USD 3.67 billion. Altimo made this offer to minority stakeholders of Orascom, many of whom hold shares through Egypt's stock exchange or through global depositary receipts in London. It maybe recalled that [...]

Warid to Announce Bonuses for Employees After Three Years

Posted: 17 Apr 2013 12:10 AM PDT

Warid Telecom is likely to reward its employees with yearly incentives after a good break of three years. According to well placed sources in Warid, these performance based bonuses will be equaling up to 3.5 gross salaries of the employees. If reports are to be believed then bonuses will be derived after evaluating individual performances coupled with company's performance during past one year, which remained healthy due [...]

Google Reveals Specs for Its Glass

Posted: 16 Apr 2013 11:20 PM PDT

Ever since Google’s Glass was revealed, its specs have been much speculated in the technology circles. The resolution camera, the storage, the display resolution, all these details were unknown — Until now. Google has finally updated the Glass’ website with all the necessary details so the wait is over now. To start with, the Glass’ display has a resolution of 640 x 360 pixels. That [...]

Warid Introduces Maal Dhamaal Bundle

Posted: 16 Apr 2013 11:11 PM PDT

Warid Telecom has begun its latest promotion named the Maal Dhammal bundle offer. The Maal Dhamaal Bundle allows customers to purchase 10 SMS and 10 Wallpapers/Ringtones for Rs.9.99+tax. In addition, customers who make use of this offer will find themselves entered in a lucky draw for Rs.100,000 daily and a grand prize of Rs.1 Crore. Customers can also participate in the Maal Dhammal Quiz and [...]

Google Program Manager Speaks About Securing Internet Services Against Hackers

Posted: 16 Apr 2013 10:41 PM PDT

As Pakistan grows more connected, focus is gradually shifting towards securing people who manage to establish an electronic link between themselves and the rest of the world. This signalled a growing need for initiating a conversation on how to best protect the rights as well as data of users and prevent them from being exploited. In order to kickstart and facilitate this conversation on a [...]