Footprints: App, app and away
Uber is the latest of these to arrive in Karachi, after a successful touchdown in Lahore some six months ago...
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PakistanNews channels go off air, Facebook and YouTube blocked in parts of Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) on Saturday afternoon issued a notification prohibiting live coverage of the operation to end the Faizabad sit-in, following which most private news channels were taken off-air in Islamabad and other parts of the country...
Additionally, Facebook, YouTube, DailyMotion, Twitter and Instagram have been blocked in some parts of the country...
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ArchivePOPARAZZI: WHERE ARE PAKISTAN’S YOUTUBE STARS?
For children of the ’90s, AIB represents one of many ways in which Indian culture has seemed to catch up with and overtaken Pakistan’s...
Many of them were either stand-up comedians who had spent a long time performing in local pubs and bars, or they were part of India’s various film and media industries...
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PakistanYoutube turns 'local' for Pakistan
KARACHI: World's largest video-sharing website, Youtube, on Tuesday announced that it has launched localised versions of the site in Pakistan...
According to a media release issued by Youtube's parent firm Google, visitors to YouTube from Pakistan will see their country-specific YouTube site by default...
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PakistanYouTube returns to Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: After over three years of being told to ‘Surf Safely’, Internet users in the country were able to access the popular video-sharing website, YouTube, following orders from the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) that the website be unblocked...
YouTube was blocked in September 2012, after a blasphemous film, ‘Innocence of Muslims’, triggered global protests...
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PakistanYouTube Pakistan officially launched
KARACHI: Like Zaid Ali T and Shaam Idrees, who have over four million likes on Facebook and more than 300,000 views on YouTube, any Pakistani man, woman or child can now have their own channel and make money from it on YouTube...
At a press conference held at the DHA Golf Club on Wednesday to launch the video-sharing website in Pakistan, it was learnt that if one is in the YouTube partner programme one can monetise videos on one’s...
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ArchiveYouTube releases list of Pakistan's most watched videos
YouTube Pakistan on Thursday released a list of the most watched videos and music videos in Pakistan for the current year with Commander Safeguard taking the top spot, said a press statement from the world's most popular online video community...
YouTube is the world's most popular online video community allowing millions of people to discover, watch and share originally created videos...
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ArchiveYouTube CEO writes to PM Imran, pledges $5 million to spread virus awareness in Pakistan
YouTube will give Pakistan $5 million in advertisement grants to spread awareness about the coronavirus, it emerged on Saturday...
com, YouTube Chief Executive Officer Susan Wojcicki outlined the work "Google and YouTube have been doing to support Pakistan's citizens and businesses through this difficult time"...
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ArchiveSenate body asks govt to unblock YouTube
ISLAMABAD: A Senate standing committee on Tuesday directed the Ministry of Information Technology to unblock YouTube at the earliest...
On Sept 17, 2012, the Supreme Court directed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to block a controversial and amateur film ‘Innocence of Muslims’ uploaded on all websites...
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WorldSyrian war archives at risk as YouTube bans graphic content
Hundreds of thousands of amateur videos have been uploaded to YouTube every heartbeat of the war over the past seven years, from momentous events like cities under bombardment to intimate scenes like a father cradling his dead children...
However, now Syrian activists fear all that history could be erased as YouTube moves to rein in violent content...
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ArchiveLet YouTube ban go
THE federal government has placed a ban on YouTube in a move to unjustly punish the service provider for showing blasphemous content...
YouTube is an essential research tool in the hands of the youth to acquire knowledge free of cost...
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ArchiveAs YouTube marks 10th year, Facebook emerges as video threat
MENLO PARK: It’s 10 years to the day since the first clip (“Me at the Zoo”) was uploaded on YouTube, and the service — now owned by Google Inc — has dominated online video-sharing ever since...
Google does not disclose viewership or revenue numbers for YouTube, although the company said in January 2012 that it had reached 4bn daily views...
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Archive10 years on, YouTube is a hit but faces challenges
WASHINGTON: Ten years after its launch, YouTube has become a household name for online video but faces an array of rivals in the market and lingering questions about its business model...
A decade later, YouTube has more than one billion users, with localised service in 75 countries and 61 languages...
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ArchiveYouTube 1st decade shows sharing free content pays off
SAN FRANCISCO: YouTube’s legacy extends beyond its pioneering role in the Internet’s video revolution...
YouTube’s rapid rise demonstrated that influential media hubs could be built around free content supplied by an Internet service’s users...
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PakistanECP bans use of social media, YouTube in its offices across the country
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has issued a notification banning the use of social media and video streaming sites at its national secretariat in Islamabad and provincial offices across the country, it emerged Tuesday...
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