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Month: June 2018

Vote, YY? Bigo is where the Millennials are, not the polling stations any time soon.

June 20, 2018 by Faizan Siddiqi

I suspect you know what the top 20 free apps are on the Pakistani App Store? Go on, guess. WhatsApp? Uber? Facebook Messenger? All solid guesses – but there is a surprise entrant, at least for me  and  is already wreaking havoc on the charts. Its 20 on the Apple App Store and 9 on … Read more

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(Ali) Ba Ba Black Sheep and the game of market/mind share

June 3, 2018 by Faizan Siddiqi

Our friends from across the border are carefully rolling out a well thought out strategy for growth in Pakistan. Whilst they have access to human capital at scale in China, yet as they come across the border some surprises await. No one buys into e-commerce plays and banking(payments) for letting it run on welfare. Clearly … Read more

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