Tech Tuesday Start up of the week: Sehat Kahani
As indicated by the World Health Organization (WHO), one out of three women doesn’t see a health specialist in their pregnancy.51% of Pakistan’s populace living underneath the poverty line, having restricted or no entrance at all to quality essential facilities. We live in a nation where despite the fact that we have in excess of 240,000 PMDC doctors/specialists, yet for every 1200 patients, there is just 1 doctor accessible.
Pakistan is running short of female doctors. However, 70 percent of all medical students are women. What is happening to them? Female doctors leave their careers midway and this is unfortunately known as the ‘doctor bride’ phenomenon, very prevalent in Pakistani culture nowadays. But a telehealth startup ‘Sehat Kahani’ changes and revolutionizes the process of healthcare.
Sehat Kahani
Established in 2017 by two female doctors, Sara Saeed Khurram and Iffat Zafar Aga, Sehat Kahani had begun as an organization to connect locally/home-based female health specialists and doctors to patients through telemedicine-enabled physical wellbeing facilities. The thought was to utilize countless female doctors, who because of family responsibilities can’t rehearse medication at a clinic or center and associate them with patients in underserved communities through an organization of nurse-assisted medical facilities.
How Sehat Kahani works?
The startup has since developed into a telemedicine stage offering on-demand health administrations to patients throughout the nation over web and portable applications. The organization works from offline centers, through its 5,000 female specialists. It professes to have offered more than 350,000 consultations online since its launch.
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Administering corporate customers with ease!
Furthermore, as well as serving patients, Sehat Kahani also works with corporate customers. Who offers its on-request health administrations to their representatives/employees (and their families). The customers incorporate from the banking, insurance, telecom, media, pharmaceuticals, and FMCS sector.
Moreover, Sehat Kahani means to democratize medical services by building an all-female wellbeing organization to convey quality medical services arrangements. That utilizes telehealth, a phenomenon known to be the eventual fate of medical care universally utilizing 3 primary business lines Access, Prevention, and Efficiency.
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Sehat Kahani raises $1 million Pre-Series A
Sehat Kahani also raised US$1 million in its pre-series A round from investors including the Islamic Development bank, 10Pearls Ventures, Mentors Fund, Korean Impact Collective Funds, and Impact Investment Exchange. Moreover, the round saw participation from the Pakistan-based KASB Group of Companies and Din Group, along with other angel investors.
Health start-ups like these are helping female doctors achieve their faded dreams with immense pride and empowering women from all directions!
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Xiaomi pushes Apple down to become the second-largest smartphone maker
Xiaomi pushes Apple down in tech world
Well, things are looking quite good for Xiaomi these days. As the Chinese smartphone maker company was recently removed from the U.S. blacklist. After the Department of Defense realized that it is not a “Communist Chinese military company.”
According to new data from Canalys report, the company has overtaken Apple to become the number two smartphone maker globally.
Xiaomi taking the second spot becoming second worldwide smartphone maker
According to the report, Xiaomi took the second spot for the first time with a 17% share of worldwide smartphone shipments, up 3% from the previous quarter.
Whereas, Samsung continued to hold the top spot with a 19% share. Meanwhile, Apple was pushed down to the third spot with a 14% share, Canalys said. Oppo and Vivo (both 10 percent) completed the top five. Global smartphone shipments rose 12 percent in the second quarter, it said.
“Compared with Samsung and Apple, its average selling price is around 40% and 75% cheaper respectively,” said Canalys Research Manager Ben Stanton.
Furthermore, he said, “So a major priority for Xiaomi this year is to grow sales of its high-end devices. And these devices include Mi 11 Ultra.
Moreover, he added, “But it will be a tough battle, with Oppo and Vivo sharing the same objective, and both willing to spend big on above-the-line marketing to build their brands in a way that Xiaomi is not.”
Even though the company faced massive backlash in the past due to its phones burning up after heating and injuring people, this news is still a big thing in the tech world!
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You can now use WhatsApp web without connecting your phone
WhatsApp – A tech prodigy!
WhatsApp is one of the useful messaging applications in the world out there. The application was launched in February of 2009 and now it boasts more than 2 billion clients, utilizing the application every day and depending on it to a great degree.
Use WhatsApp without connecting your phone with WhatsApp Beta Version
Probably the best thing that WhatsApp did was to acquaint WhatsApp Web with the world in January of 2015. So many of us depend largely on the web administration of WhatsApp in view of the workload that expands day by day requiring more utilization of laptops than our phones. Through this feature, we use WhatsApp Web the most. Students and people from different professions rely greatly on WhatsApp Web. To summarize, WhatsApp Web has basically made the entirety of our lives simpler!
Hustle of stable connection with WhatsApp web
Each time you need to use WhatsApp on the web, you have to connect it with the internet in order for it to work. Your phone must have to be constantly connected to the internet. If not, you cannot use WhatsApp on your desktop or laptop. However, this new update is relied upon to make your life simpler.
How does the WhatsApp beta version work?
As per the update, you will be able to connect with the application on the web regardless of whether your phone is with or without an active internet connection. Presently, the connection could be obstructed by poor signals or the phone’s battery drainage. But now you can keep sending and getting messages without running off to charge your telephone.
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This will roll out in the beta version first for a little group of clients. Ideally, the tech designers will put it out for everybody.
Before the rollout, according to [WABetaInfo], WhatsApp announced that it will allow you to use your account through four desktop devices if you participate in the beta program. Even the program isn’t fully available to WhatsApp beta users yet. It was expected though that the multinational tech giant company might extend its beta users list to run out of something as important as this. The testing program of the app is reported to be available for both WhatsApp and WhatsApp business account holders.
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Tech Tuesday Start up of the Week: DigiKhata
How can small businesses manage their logbook? Bookkeeping can be daunting for new or small business owners sometimes. But now through an application, this is possible, DigiKhata makes it possible. Let’s learn more about DigiKhata.
DigiKhata
Founded in 2020 by Adnan Aslam, DigiKhata authorizes micro and small businesses to manage their bookkeeping using its web and mobile app. The app replaces offline registers and diaries and helps merchants digitize their bookkeeping by recording financial transactions digitally. It also sends automated reminders to its customers for (due) payments, helping merchants recover debts.
Before beginning DigiKhata, Adnan Aslam led finance and bookkeeping capacities at various organizations in Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, and Africa. He’s a professional chartered accountant and bootstrapped the business prior to raising this round, with his reserve funds.
Categories of businesses
DigiKhata manages Kiryana stores, tea shops, grocery stores, bakeries, fruits and vegetable shops, jewelry, pharmacies, garment shops, and tailors, etc.
What DigiKhata offers?
First Pakistani app that facilitates you with decent features to handle your personal or multiple business accounts. It manages debit-credit transactions, installment payments, etc.
Cash register
You can record your inventories and cash balance or download PDF report to share online with customers through its application
Offline support
Stress-free offline support that helps to manage your account entries and ledgers even if you are not connected to the Internet. All your data gets synced as soon as you become active with the internet.
Easy business
Access your business ledger and all the details of credit-debit with DigiKhata. Customers can manage multiple businesses at once. It also provides you a platform where you can manage your accounts in foreign and multiple currencies.
Pay reminders
Send free payment and installment reminders to your customers via SMS and WhatsApp.
DigiKhata raises $2million seed
Faisalabad-based fintech has raised a $2 million international seed round. The round was Led by China’s MSA Capital and joined by the leading MENAP Based Shorooq Partners, SOSV, +92 Ventures, and angel investors. DigiKhata also won a PKR 10 million grant from ‘Karandaaz Pakistan’ for its notable work towards financial inclusion. Currently, it is also taking part in the Telenor Velocity accelerator program 2021.
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DigiKhata also launched DigiDokaan in the past. DigiDokaan is a mini-Shopify in the Pakistani language, to help MSMEs launch digital stores within 30 seconds. Its instinctive interface has attracted 50,000+ businesses to successfully create their online stores and start selling online.
How to use DigiKhata?
You can download the app from Google Play Store “DigiKhata.”Then you can add new customers from your contact list (your phone book is your customer list) and with this you can pay or receive from your customer and sit back and relax, DigiKhata will manage your record now.
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Xiaomi devices Redmi 8 and Poco X3 explode causing serious injuries to the users
Soon after the horrifying incidents with a Poco X3 and Redmi Note 9 Pro a couple of months ago, two Xiaomi devices have now also gone into flames. The two devices, a Poco C3 and a Redmi 8 exploded and dealt damage to the owner and a child respectively.
Xiaomi and Redmi phones blast in 2020
There were two major incidents of Xiaomi phone blasts during 2020 and 2021 that caught the headlines. In one case, a Redmi Note 6 Pro in a Gujarat India retail outlet started originating smoke. That leads a technician to throw out the phone to avoid serious damage.
The subsequent case saw a Redmi Note 7 Pro warming up in the client’s pocket before it burst into flames; fortunately, the client had figured out how to haul it out and toss it on his bag before the blast could hurt him physically. However, the backpack was totally burnt and the fire became too enormous to be contained even by a fire extinguisher.
In the second case, Xiaomi said “the device was already damaged before it was brought to the service center” and gave the customer a new phone and a bag as compensation.
Xiaomi and Redmi phones blast in 2021
What’s more, recently it is uncovered that one more Xiaomi gadget has gone off the flares. Two, truth be told: a Poco C3 and a Redmi 8. As uncovered on Twitter, the Poco C3 exploded while in the pocket of its owner, Shihabuddin, in India. The blast seems to have caused serious injuries to the consumer’s leg.
While the shared pictures demonstrate that the blast happened at the phone’s battery, this case is somewhat not normal for other people. As noted, that the gadget was in the user’s pocket when it blasted, which makes it impossible that it was being charged. Similarly in the past, some people have reported this happening during charging.
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A Redmi 8 also went up on flames some time back. While the tweet has now been erased, screen captures show that the telephone detonated and “intensely harmed” the user’s four-year-old niece, with Xiaomi laying blames on the user first. We saw something almost identical with the Poco X3 episode. Xiaomi has since made a U-turn on the issue and will replace the gadget with a Redmi 9.
General warning before your device flare-up usually detects signs that your battery is damaged and could explode. That includes swelling, a hissing sound, or popping. In addition to this, make sure you’re using the company’s original charger, avoid overcharging. You should keep the phone away from the water. Don’t charge the phone when it’s extremely hot. And do not keep it under the pillow or anywhere close to the head while it’s charging.
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Tech Tuesday Start up of the Week: Trivzia
Sometimes all you need is some cash which you earn simply by sitting comfortably at home doing nothing, answering some fun questions, and play games. Game show culture has been prevalent in Pakistani culture. It started from the Tariq Aziz show and now is a part of the post-Ramzaan Transmission routine and people enjoy watching it and even participating in them. Well, Lahore-based live video streaming platform Trivzia serves up the dream.
Trivzia
Founded in late 2019, Trivzia is a brainchild of Waqqas Alvi, Waqas Shahid, Jahnzaib Shahid, and, Ejaz Rana. Trivzia has a gameshow ‘Jeeto Naye Andaz Se’ that goes live at 10 PM every day. The game show where 10,000 people can join and participate to win. It is a mobile application with over half a million downloads on Play Store.
How to play Trivzia’s Jeeto Naye Andaz Se Gameshow?
The users who participate, simply need to join the show and continue to answer questions in the multiple-choice form. The host will ask the questions and show up on their screens. They get 10 seconds to respond to each. And then the contestant will go to a higher level in the competition that they answer it effectively. The individuals who answer every one of the ten inquiries accurately share the announced prize pool.
Win real cash online
Moreover, the most exciting part is that from this live mobile gameshow you can win real cash. The amount you claim as a winner will be given to you through JazzCash and Easypaisa. You simply have to log in to the application. Fill in your details and mobile number on which you will receive a code. Enter the code and start playing!
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Trivzia raises $400,000 in seed round
Lahore-based live video streaming platform Trivzia has raised a little over $400,000 (PKR 65 million) in a seed round from Pakistan-focused 47 Ventures, it announced in a statement today.
Last, but not least, the organizers of Trivzia began with a plan to make it more available. The live game shows facilitated by TV hosts are regularly joined by two or three dozen individuals in the studio. With this new innovation of Jeeto Naye Andaz Say, the startup is empowering people in Pakistan. To have the option to turn out to be the sole host of a gameshow for entertainment and rewards.
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Delete these Joker Malware infected Android apps or lose your data
The scandalous Joker malware has been seen in different applications found on the Google Play Store for a very long time at this point. The malware has now been seen in eight new applications, proposes another report by Quick Heal Security Labs. The malware is known for its capacity to sneak into a client’s device through an application, following which it can furtively gather information.
What is Joker Malware?
Malware is noxious programming that leaks classified data from cell phones or other wireless-enabled individual advanced aides. Malware can be of various types. Joker is a ‘trojan’ malware that is initiated just when a client connects with an application installation. The infection then invades the gadget’s security and can deliver the device useless or even take data from it.
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What applications are effected by Joker Malware?
The malware can even supposedly subscribe the victim to premium memberships of different administrations, without the client’s consent. Authentications such as OTPs (one-time passwords) are obtained by stealing SMS information. Furthermore, the user only gets to know of the money deduction when they are alerted about transactions on their cards.
After the disclosure of the eight new applications that were discovered to be bound with the malware, Google rushed to take these applications off the Playstore. Nonetheless, if you have downloaded any of these applications, your gadget and privacy could in any case be in danger.
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Uninstall these apps
The eight apps that are under dangerous malware are: Auxiliary Message, Fast Magic SMS, Free CamScanner, Super Message, Element Scanner, Go Messages, Travel Wallpapers, and Super SMS. If your smartphone has any of these eight applications installed, uninstall them right away to stay safe. The virus is capable of changing and evolving itself so that it can bypass the security norms of the Google Play Store.
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Tech Tuesday Start up of the Week: Jugnu
E-commerce business in Pakistan
The energy in the e-commerce grocery business in Pakistan, in general, has been in progress for around five years (with players like MandiExpress, Sabzi.pk, QnE, and so forth working since 2015), however the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdowns assisted new companies with seeing fast and significant development. The food and grocery retail market in Pakistan made $59.3 billion in absolute income in 2018 which established a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of about 8.4% from 2014 to 2018. With start-ups such as GrocerApp, Tajir, Retailo Technologies, Bazaar, and Dastgyr. Jugnu also shines through empowering small retail to greater heights!
Jugnu
A startup from Lahore by Yasir Suleman Memon, Sharoon Saleem, and Ahsan M Khan. Jugnu is Pakistan’s premier B2B e-commerce platform. Salesflo started in 2015 as a software company by the same team (including Syed Khurram Haider). Salesflo built the country’s first cloud-based sales and distribution platform for FMCGs. The platform has worked with 40 enterprise FMCGs, pharmaceutical, and distribution companies. And they help them access over 300,000 retailers across the country, through its software.
Progression towards B2B online business
Jugnu was then launched in 2020 to empower more than a million small businesses to directly procure from manufacturers and improve their financial inclusion.
This startup works as perhaps the most progressive B2B online business innovation stage in the world. With a total eco-framework and having state-of-the-art fulfillment centers, advanced steering and vehicle load the executives to AI-empowered CRM stage it conveys elite client experience.
What they do?
The process is plain and simple. You can simply install the Jugnu application in your phone and place your order from their multiple categories. The Jugnu team will make sure that they will dispatch your ordered goods perfectly. And after that the Jugnu rider will deliver the order safely to your doorstep.
The retailers are getting quite a profitable sale through the quick and pain-free supply from their end to the shops. Retailers don’t have to wait for the particular product to arrive to the store in order to sell it. They can just place an order and the goods get delivered in a day.
Jugnu raises $3.2 million
With its parent company Saleflo, Jugnu raised ~$3.2 million (PKR 518 million) from Systems Limited, a Lahore-based leading global technology, and business process outsourcing services provider. Some angel investors also participated. Systems made an investment of $3 million in exchange for a 20 percent stake in the company.
The application is available on both Google and Apple stores. You can download the app and conveniently order stock for your store at any time on Jugnu. As Jugnu believes that ‘tech-enabled retail changes everything.‘
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Apple’s FaceTime feature is coming to Android
FaceTime feature for Android
The biggest rivals for decades are finally coming a little bit closer with the news that iPhone users will soon be able to FaceTime people on Android devices. Apple has revealed in Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2021 that the upcoming iOS 15 will finally allow you to call all your family and friends, whether they’re on an Apple, Android, or even Windows devices.
Up till now, the very famous technique for video calling has just been accessible on Apple’s gadgets, like iPhones and iPads, or Macbooks and Macs. However, you’ll have the option to add an Android buddy to a FaceTime session.
Apple’s yearly working framework redesign often carries a large number of highlights to get iPhone clients to their feet. The current year’s selection focused a concentration for new new privacy features, and also a new look, and new compatibility, to FaceTime.
This feature now has more of a Zoom feel to it. Not only can you chat with non-Apple users, but there’s also a new grid-style layout too.
How to use FaceTime in Android?
Another important thing to note that Android and Windows devices will not get an app of their own. This will only remain an exclusive feature. Apple users instead will invite their Android friends via a link. So if you have an Android phone you should expect a FaceTime invite from your friend.
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You can click on a link and then you will automatically direct to your browser and you can then start your session. You don’t need to download anything. Only an Apple device will be able to start a FaceTime session or share the link from the same Apple device. And in terms of privacy, your call will be end-to-end encrypted.
Tech Tuesday Start up of the Week: GrocerApp
There are days when you don’t want to go out for groceries and just want it to get delivered at your doorstep without any haphazard. GrocerApp is a startup from Lahore which resolves and takes care of your daily grocery problems.
GrocerApp
The start-up is founded by Ahmad Saeed, Hassaan Sadiq, and Rai Bilal in 2016. Before setting GrocerApp’s foundation this team was key members of PakWheels. It is a digitized grocery shopping store in the application that mainly focuses on customer service and experience. Before tech-empowered grocery solutions, grocery shopping was used to be the largest segment of consumer spending. It comprises over $48 billion in 2019.
Quick and easy service
Moreover, the application is easy and quick to use. Every item is divided into its respective sections. You can see a variety of household items, including seafood, meat, fruits and vegetables, and personal care. The start-up is currently operating in the Punjab region, including Lahore, Islamabad, and Faisalabad.
Furthermore, the startup is focusing on capturing the attention of masses by their online platform and seamless customer service.
GrocerApp raises $5.2m in Series-A funding
GrocerApp also successfully raised $5.2 million in a Series-A round from local and global institutional and angel investors.
The round was driven by Hayaat Global, with support from Millville Opportunities Fund, New York, MENA-based Wamda Capital, Jabbar Internet Group and Nama Ventures, China-based Haitou Global, and Pakistan-based LeanBricks and Walled City Co. Further interest from angel investors included previous Souq/Amazon MENA CFO Asif Keshodia, Khalid Alami, Ziyad Alami of Huda Group in Dubai, and Jon Puckhaber of Alvento Capital who took part in his own capacity.
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On the occasion, GrocerApp CEO Ahmad Saeed says, “We owe our success to the vigorous efforts of our brilliant team enabling us to rapidly scale in such a short span of time while maintaining sustainable and healthy unit economics.”
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