Author: Sohail Qaisar

The foreign exchange market (“Forex”) is the largest market in the world, and increasing in popularity.  Forex trades are based on currency pairs and are made to take advantage ofminute changes in the exchange rates, with prices changing very quickly.  In such a fast changing market, an investor needs to have a good trading strategy to make sound decisions. Since the Forex market is open 24 hours a day, six days a week, there is a vast amount of data to process.  Technical analysis tools have become vital in making decisions based on the available data. Even cable ties companies do worry…

Creating a responsive design for content-rich news websites can never be an easy task – at least not for those who are at the editorial end of it. While designers and developers can sift through various options of code and play with the perfect color for the navigation bar, the editorial end struggles with how and where they would want to present their content – never an easy task given the plethora of options available. Web-design along with content plays a very crucial role in visitor’s conversion, be it Ecommerce, Brand or Local business site. Initially opposed to constant changes and revamps…

When the economy starts showing an ominous downward spiral, companies begin to cut jobs, wages start to decrease, the expressions on most business analysts’ faces seem to oscillate from grave to somber, and then you know that an economic recession has finally hit home. However, when exactly the current spell or financial despair began enveloping corporations and businesses all over the world is still a debatable issue. A common definition dictates that recession begins when the gross domestic product (GDP) shows a negative growth for two successive quarters. The National Bureau of Economic…

Beatles used semaphore signals to promote Help!, their 5th British album. On original British cover, band members hand-gestured to spell out LPUS (on reverse print) or Help Us. It’s a clever use no doubt; but how do you communicate business messages? Do you hand gesture? Or, do you use homing pigeons and torch signals? Definitely not! It’s the age of computer and World Wide Web. Like every façade of life, technology has invaded business communication space rightfully. In fact, improved communication technology helped businesses to have a global reach. Unlike social and inter-personal…

Anyone who owns a smartphone, be it a sleek Apple iPhone or a fully customizable Android device, knows that mobile applications are what brings the “cool” factor to these devices. From small applications that tell the weather or current stock prices, to highly addictive gaming experiences which can suck up hours of your social life, apps are all the rage with smartphone users. This app experience is not just a passing fad, but has become a powerful revenue generating machine for Apple and Google with app downloads crossing the 25 billion and 10 billion mark for these companies, respectively….

The fourth generation of mobile communications, to nobody’s surprise, offers extremely high downlink rates and in the case of Long Term Evolution (LTE), this can theoretically reach 100 MB per second. The question is; what is LTE technology all about?   Enter 4G with LTE LTE is a bundle of improvements to the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) being worked on by the third Generation Mobile Communications standards, one notch higher than the second generation (2G) of mobile communications. Usually, it is speed that determines the generation any technology falls in….

Getting a local investor is as hard and rare as it gets.  Miscalculating the amount of money and time taken to make a video game can tick off any investor that you might have, and it’s not anything new for me, I have seen that kind of situations many times before. For a foreign investor, you need to: Do your homework, create a good demo, prepare and document the various information an investor needs. Create a decent portfolio that shows you have experience. If wanting to pitch for a game, you should have at the very least multiple tech demos and preferably smaller games in your portfolio. Also, find…

Welcome to the digital era, where we have bid farewell to old marketing tools. Now brands successfully promote themselves by using social media platforms, especially with the help of Facebook pages. If you are a social media enthusiast, you might be familiar with the marketing tactics used by brands over social media networks. As of today, the ultimate gauge of a company’s social media marketing skills is how many ‘likes’ they have on their Facebook page. Almost all of us are aware of the ‘like’ button introduced by Facebook and its significance. Not merely an expression of a user appreciating…

What happens when a stream of water hits a big enough obstacle? It moves towards right or left to pass over the blockage. Same thing happens to your audiences when they face dashboard or presentations on your site and fail to make anything out of them. We are talking specifically about drill-down charts here. They are pretty intuitive tools to make your reports and dashboard easier to grasp. However, the same tool can break your neck if you don’t use it with intelligence. Here, we explain how to make drill-down charts more intuitive and least obnoxious for all your reports and dashboards.  …

Hardcore gamers and fans of the latest video game reviews will be very excited when they read this article. Over the years, the gaming world has gone through a number of changes in order to cater to its target market, while adapting to the current technology. While the most noticeable of these changes is the visual quality, game difficulty is one of the most important aspects of the game that has changed over the years. During the Atari days, games were simple and responsive, with little difficulty – other than skill to navigate and (sometimes) attack. However, it was during the early years of the…