Pakistani IT firm ‘on top of the world’ in apps

AFP
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Lahore-based Five Rivers said its Photo Editor Suite had hit the top spot across all sectors on Blackberry’s AppWorld store. – AP Photo

ISLAMABAD: Photo editing software developed by a Pakistan technology firm Five Rivers became the best selling paid-for application for the Blackberry, the firm said Wednesday.
Lahore-based Five Rivers said its Photo Editor Suite had hit the top spot across all sectors on Blackberry’s AppWorld store.

“This is extremely good news for us and especially for the Pakistani IT industry,” Mahe Zehra Husain, the head of operations and product management at Five Rivers Technology, told AFP.
“We feel we are on top of the world. This is incredible.”The application “has been in the top five paid applications for quite a while now and on Sunday made its way to the number one spot,” she said.

Photo Editor Suite allows users to crop, rotate, adjust brightness and contrast, recolour and resize photos, Husain added.

The website of Five Rivers, which opened a year and a half ago, says it has developed and run out more than 100 mobile applications for the Blackberry and iPhone as well as other smartphones.
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it’s a proud moment for pakistan. I’ve never heard of Five Rivers but writing software for giants like Blackberry and Apple and having the number one photo editor software is a major accomplishment.

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Heard this on tv today, great achievement for this firm!

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Glad to see me Ex-Company on top :)

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i own that company. nice to see it on top.
:halo:

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:k: :jhanda: :smiley:

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you are not the owner :p…are you really? well if you are then :k: if you’re not, do i really look that naive to believe that :hinna:

about Mahe Zehra Husain, the head of operations and product management at Five Rivers Technology, i know i shouldn’t point out her gender but i’m so proud of her for being the head of operations and product management of the company…woohoo!!

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but as i have come accross news about this software ,pakistani software proffessionals own companies thousand times bigger than this software company

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yes, thats true .. .. FRT is not that big company .. .. compared to Techlogics, System, Netsol, CambridgeDocs, Confiz etc ..

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This is terrific news!!

I am getting this app, tonight :D

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Kudos to them for getting to that level :k:

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Proud of this achievement by this company. Any good news from Pakistan is so heart warming.

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but have those companies ever had software that's made it to the top spot as most downloaded for giants like the two companies that the article is talking about.

must be some smart brains to write good software like that

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I love that company..

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congrats to them but the thread title is misleading.

this company has the top app for blackberry, which has only a tiny fraction of total apps (mostly iphone/android).

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Mods , Please pay attention to the similar thread in “All Views” , We can only take Pakistan Bashing in smaller doses instead of cross the board ! :smack:

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who’s bashing pakistan here, eh? AND this thread was posted a full day before that one in “all views” so :stuck_out_tongue:

but the company has written loads of good apps for iphone as well

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