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  • Tally Solutions’ brings its successful event SMB Pulse to Ajman, aims to assist small and medium enterprises in accelerating growth

    Tally Solutions, a leading international accounting and compliance software provider, brings its successful event SMB Pulse to Ajman. The event focussing on effective measures to increase work efficiency, amidst evolving business landscape in the region was attended by many small and medium businesses. The session primarily helped in understanding the new ways to enhance operational […]

  • Kuwait Finance House Chooses IDEMIA’s Technology for the Country’s First Metal Payment Card

    IDEMIA, the global leader in Augmented Identity, is delighted to announce its partnership with Kuwait Finance House (KFH) to offer the first metal payment card in the country. This full-metal-card is the most premium product of the IDEMIA Smart Metalrange. Long considered a pioneer in Shar’iah compliant banking and one of the foremost Islamic financial institutions […]

  • Ericsson and ABB join forces to accelerate wireless automation for flexible factories

    Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) and ABB, the technology leader focused on digital industries, have strengthened their collaboration to accelerate the industrial ecosystem for flexible wireless automation. The partnership will enable enhanced connected services, Industrial IoT and artificial intelligence technologies in the future. The partners established their joint vision for future flexible production with automation and wireless […]

  • du wins Seamless Award for Blockchain Initiative

    du, from Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC), covets the prestigious Seamless Award for Blockchain Initiative for its BPaaS (Blockchain Platform as a Service) platform. The award was presented at the 2019 Seamless Awards, which took place at the Armani Hotel in Dubai and recognized the telco’s role in supporting the UAE’s Blockchain Strategy. du launched […]

  • TajMahal: rare spying platform with 80 malicious modules, unique functionality and no known links to current threat actors

    Kaspersky Lab researchers have uncovered a technically sophisticated cyberespionage framework that has been active since at least 2013 and appears to be unconnected to any known threat actors. The framework, which researchers have named TajMahal, features around 80 malicious modules and includes functionality never before seen in an advanced persistent threat, such as the ability […]

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  • Soundcore by Anker brings Flare to the Region

    Soundcore by Anker introduces the Flare Series of audio products to the region in the form of ambient light-enhanced Bluetooth speakers that bring life to the rhythm accompanied with a synchronized brilliant light show. Thoughtfully engineered, Flare’s custom, dual full-range speakers, deliver room-filling 360-degree sound, perfect for party lovers. It features Soundcore’s proprietary BassUp™ technology, […]

  • Machine Learning Will Become Reality In The Near Future

    In the UAE, 40 per cent of accountants currently see AI as all or mostly hype, while 55 per cent say that in three years’ time it will become a reality. The findings are published in a new report from ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) Machine learning: more science than fiction which highlights […]

  • YORK Invests SAR 6 Million in the Saudi Youth

    The MoU is in line with Vision 2030 and the National Transformation Program 2020 CEO of Al Salem Johnson Controls (YORK), Dr. Mohanad Alshaikh, recently revealed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Technical and Vocational Training Cooperation in the Makkah Region, worth SAR 6 million. This comes as a part of the […]

  • HONOR Raises the Bar for Mid-Tier Photography Experience with the Launch of the HONOR 10i in Saudi Arabia

    Triple Your Style with the Triple-Lens Camera and the Industry Leading 32MP Selfie Camera HONOR, the leading smartphone e-brand, announced the latest addition to the HONOR series, the HONOR 10i over a launch event held in the capital city of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh. Building upon HONOR’s heritage, HONOR 10i demonstrates the company’s […]

  • SANS Institute to Train and Enable Professionals with Deep, Hands-on Cyber Security Skills at SANS Riyadh 2019

    SANS Institute, the global leader in cyber security training, announced SANS Riyadh 2019 to help cyber security professionals in Saudi Arabia develop deep, hands-on skills through immersion-style training. SANS Riyadh 2019 will be held at the Burj Rafal Hotel Kempinski Riyadh from April 13-18, 2019.   Expert instructors including some of the world’s top cyber […]

  • LG’S PREMIUM LIVING SPACE SOLUTIONS SET TO IMPRESS AT INNOFEST MEA 2019

    LG Electronics (LG) unveiled its latest lineup of premium living space solutions at InnoFest Middle East and Africa (MEA) 2019. Held in the metropolitan city of Seoul, South Korea (April 9-11), the event gave partners, retailers and media from countries across the Middle East and Africa the opportunity to experience LG’s revolutionary technologies and learn […]

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    Ericsson to highlight networks of the future at 5G MENA 2019

    Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) will be the official ICT partner of the upcoming 5G MENA 2019, the largest event in the MENA region to focus on advancing and commercializing 5G networks. Under the theme ‘Enabling the Connected Society’, the event is taking place in Jumeirah Beach Hotel, Dubai from April 7 – 9, 2019. Over the course […]

  • 5G will drive Industry 4.0 in the Middle East and Africa

    By: Mikael Bäck Corporate Officer for Ericsson’s Group Function Technology Group   Industry 4.0 has arrived, and it is going to spark an unprecedented wave of innovation in the Middle East and Africa (MEA). Industry 4.0 merges operational, information and communication technologies with cyber-physical systems, enabled by advanced wireless communication and Industrial IoT services. This […]

  • Finastra and Mashreq Bank team up to rethink the future of corporate banking

    one of the leading financial institutions in the UAE, recently came together in Dubai, for a unique one day workshop around the future of corporate banking. Over 40 bank customers and participants, including CFOs and SVPs from the telecommunications, utilities and transportation industries, took part in the conversations to identify challenges that face the industry, […]

  • Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) showcases cutting-edge power changing technologies reshaping how energy is generated in Kuwait

    In an impressive display of Japanese technological advancement and efficiency and Kuwaiti far-sightedness and ambition, Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd. (MHPS) held an advanced technology seminar on April 8 in Kuwait City, centered on gas turbine combined-cycle power generation systems. The increasing demand for electricity, the desire to introduce natural gas as the fuel of […]

  • Under the patronage of HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and presence of HH Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan – Annual Investment Meeting opens today

    Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai and in the presence of HH Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, the Annual Investment Meeting (AIM) 2019 opens today. The 9th edition of the world’s […]

  • UAE ranks first in the region representing 36 percent of the total FDI flow to the Arab countries

    H.E. Eng. Sultan Bin Saeed Al Mansoori, UAE Minister of Economy stated that the UAE has maintained its position as a regional and international destination for foreign direct investment, ranking first among the Arab countries to attract Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) since past five years. The country attracted about 10.35 billion dollars in 2017, representing […]

  • UAE home to over 67 fintech startups in Middle East

    Latest figures by Bloomberg Intelligence revealed that the UAE has topped the list of countries in the Middle East with the highest number of financial technology (fintech) startups to date at 67. The UAE was followed by Turkey at 44 and Jordan and Lebanon at 30 each. Overall, the number of fintech startups in the […]

  • AIM Startup states that young companies provide 50 percent of all new jobs

    Several reports reveal that startups generate significant employment opportunities globally, helping drive immense economic growth prospects. Startup firms and other young companies provide around 50 percent of all new job prospects in the market with seed stage and those operating for two and a half years hiring an average of 12 workers. The role of […]

  • Annual Investment Meeting 2019 to host strategic sessions to draw foreign direct investments

    The organizing committee of the Annual Investment Meeting 2019, has completed the preparations for the upcoming event, which will be held from 8th to 10th of April in Dubai. More than 20,000+ corporate leaders, policy makers, businessmen, regional and international investors, entrepreneurs, leading academics, experts, and stakeholders from over 140+ countries from Europe, North America, […]

  • du & one37 together create the City of the Future Experience powered by the Blockchain Technology at Future Blockchain Summit 2019

    du, from Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC), has announced a significant strategic partnership with leading identity and access authentication solutions provider one37. The collaborative partnership, which was agreed at the Future Blockchain Summit 2019 will see the two parties introduce innovative identity solutions enabling public and private enterprises to take full advantage of the readymade blockchain-powered platform.   […]

  • UAE’s intelligent transportation system sector to witness 9.2 percent CAGR during 2017-2023:

    The UAE’s intelligent transportation system market is seen to experience a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.2 percent during 2017-2023. An industry report released by Research and Market showed that the segment is poised for healthy growth within the covered period due to a number of factors, among which is the rising local demand […]