Completing five years in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, Facebook opened doors to new regional headquarters in Dubai. The 20,000-square-foot space features an open office concept, and showcases regional cultural inspirations through the various designs and artistic cues. Since launching its local… Read More
Blockchain, together with artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, and virtual and augmented reality, has the potential to deliver disruptive outcomes and reshape digital business in 2018. And companies that have not started the digital investment cycle are at high risk of being disrupted. This is… Read More
“There are many possible futures ahead of us. The road we’ll end up taking is still ours to choose.” With these two sentences, Jonathan (JC) Oliver, global creative officer of Unlockd and speaker at BrainScape 2017, set the tone for PHD’s annual conference in Dubai.… Read More
WARC has taken a closer look at the region’s most effective marketing trends, based on insights from the inaugural WARC Prize for MENA Strategy, in its MENA Strategy Report 2017. “We’ve analyzed all the submissions to establish unrivaled insights into how the region’s communication strategies… Read More
Social media giant Facebook is the most positively talked about brand among millennials in the UAE, ahead of iPhone and Apple according to new data from YouGov BrandIndex. The top 10 brands in the region for millennials include Facebook, iPhone, Apple, WhatsApp, Samsung Galaxy, Samsung,… Read More
The MediaVantage has appointed Dan Qayyum as International Sales Director, with the mandate for multiple media groups including News UK, IC Publications, Nation Media Group, Hindustan Times, Russia Today, among others. In this multifaceted role, he will be responsible for managing the sales team, along… Read More
Tech giant Apple is the most positively talked about brand among millennials in Saudi Arabia, ahead of Saudia and Al Rajhi Bank according to data from YouGov BrandIndex. YouGov’s daily brand tracking tool, BrandIndex, considered the opinions of respondents aged between 18 and 34 in… Read More
Infor, an industry-specific business applications provider, built for the cloud, has incorporated Infor Coleman, an enterprise-grade AI platform into the company’s talent science solutions. Coleman, a platform that operates below an application’s surface, mines data and uses machine learning to improve processes such as inventory… Read More
LinkedIn celebrated the success of companies in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) region in the talent and employer branding space by hosting the 2017 edition of ‘MENA Talent Awards’. Held for the third consecutive year, the awards recognized and acknowledged LinkedIn’s top customers… Read More
Edelman has appointed Ranjit Jathanna as Chief Strategy Officer for client programming in Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa (APACMEA). Mr Jathanna, who joins November 1, 2017, will be based in Singapore and will report to Rupen Desai, Executive Vice Chairman of Edelman APACMEA. He… Read More
