Author: Emirates Insight
There are several popular get-rich-quick money-making concepts that continually spring up, from online poker to selling your Beanie Babies collection. Do they actually work? No, not at all. Will you be able to make money from it? Maybe. However, your 9-to-5 work would most likely pay you more. At the very least, you’ll have a regular income. The reality is that there are legitimate methods to earn money online, and millions of individuals do so every day. From freelance digital nomads to savvy marketers to rising entrepreneurs, there are plenty of business ideas you can try at home using your laptop…
Apple’s AirDrop tool is extremely useful for sharing photographs, movies, documents, and other information across the company’s devices, which include iPhones, iPads, and Macs. You may effortlessly email anything to a buddy — or use AirDrop to move things between your own devices.The simplicity of AirDrop is what makes it so appealing. Instead of painfully sharing data through Dropbox, Google Drive, or another cloud storage service, it’s an instant transfer from one device to another that (in most situations) takes only seconds.Apple uses AirDrop to establish a peer-to-peer Wi-Fi connection between the two devices involved in an AirDrop exchange. These…
Here are five technological developments from the last week and how they affect your business. Did you happen to miss them?1—In terms of both popularity and ad income, TikTok outperforms other social media platforms.TikTok’s advertising-income is estimated to reach $11 billion by 2022. The platform, which is owned by the Chinese business ByteDace, is the most popular app in the world, with the United States accounting for more than half of its income. Other social media networks’ combined revenues, such as Twitter and Snapchat, are still less than TikTok’s. (Source: Reuters). Why this is important for your business:It’s all about finding…
Any small business can design its own custom software using no-code apps to broaden its audience and improve customer experience. Apps are becoming a more powerful force in the world of business. Consumers are expected to spend $170 billion on apps in 2021, up 19% from the previous year. Applications account for roughly 87 percent of users’ time on mobile devices, and unlike websites, which are normally free to use, many apps require payment.When you consider the advantages of applications versus web browsers, such numbers aren’t surprising. Apps are more user-friendly and pleasing to the eye. The information adapts properly to…
Well, I don’t believe anyone saw this coming, at least not in a realistic sense.However, Elon Musk appears to be serious about his quest to better align Twitter with free speech values, since the billionaire Tesla CEO has offered a complete $43 billion hostile takeover proposal for the service.According to Musk’s letter to the SEC:”I invested in Twitter because I believe it has the potential to be a global forum for free expression, and I believe free speech is a societal requirement for a functioning democracy.” However, after making my investment, I’ve realized that the firm, in its current form,…
We all know the failure rate of startups, roughly 90 percent over five years. And we know Silicon Valley might still be the top place in the United States for founding technological enterprises. Perhaps it’s because venture capitalists expect that the companies they back be based in or relocate to Silicon Valley. However, when you explore the type of business you want to establish, you should consider the importance of a number of elements other than money that could affect your startup’s success. Even in the age of remote work, the location of your startup may be more important than…
A blockchain is a decentralized database that is shared among computer network nodes. A blockchain acts as a database, storing information in a digital format. Blockchains are well known for their critical role in keeping a secure and decentralized record of transactions in cryptocurrency systems like Bitcoin. The blockchain’s novelty is that it ensures the fidelity and security of a data record while also generating trust without the requirement for a trusted third party.The structure of the data on a blockchain differs from that of a traditional database. A blockchain organizes data into groupings called blocks, each of which contains…
Elon Musk says a lot of things that appear fanciful. For example, Elon Musk, the millionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, appears to believe that by transferring their brains into robots, humans would be able to live indefinitely.”I believe that is achievable,” Musk, 50, told Insider recently. “Yes, we could download the characteristics that we believe distinguish us. Of course, if you’re no longer in that body, there will be a difference, but as far as keeping our memories and personalities, I believe we can do it.” The idea of prolonging human life by downloading consciousnesses into synthetic bodies has been…
The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has given Careem Pay an in-principle approval (IPA) for an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) license, which would allow it to offer financial services such as bill payments, and peer-to-peer (P2P) transfers, and wallet cash-outs.Careem, the ride-hailing company, has announced the creation of Careem Pay, its fintech subsidiary in Pakistan, as a separate organization with intentions to invest $50 million in the country, according to a statement. Noman Khurshid, who has been with Careem since 2018, will lead the Careem Pay section as its General Manager. The process of becoming an EMI will open the way…
COLABS, a coworking space in Lahore, has secured $3 million in a seed round, with the goal of becoming a launchpad for companies and freelancers.Pakistan-focused funds Indus Valley Capital, Zayn Capital, and Fatima Gobi Ventures led the seed round. Shorooq Partners, Kinnow Capital, Muir Capital, Sai Ventures, and certain prominent angels such as Turner Novak, William Hockley, and Teddy Himler also participated in the round.Colabs were founded in 2019 by Omar Shah, former private equity and venture capital investor, and his twin brother Ali Shah, who runs SABCON, a long-running family-owned real estate and development firm that develops and builds…