The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) and Huawei have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to enable the national cadre in ICT and promote innovation and entrepreneurship in the sector to push the growth and development of the Kingdom,… Read More
The UAE Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratization has endorsed the fourth annual HR Tech MENA Summit. The summit focuses on how technology developments affect Human Resources function across organizations in all the sectors. Initiated in 2015 by QnA International and with three editions in… Read More
Meltwater has acquired DataSift, a privacy-by-design data and analytics platform that extracts real-time insights from social and online data sources, while protecting user privacy. This acquisition, Meltwater’s sixth in the past year, is expected to solidify the company’s emergence as a provider of AI-powered competitive… Read More
Du has joined the Amazon Partner Network (APN) as an APN Consulting Partner. As such, du will be able to design, architect, build, migrate and manage customer workloads and applications on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud enhancing its offerings for customers across the region.… Read More
Members of the Dubai Internet City (DIC) community have collectively attracted AED 7.8 billion in funding since its launch. The figure bears testimony to Dubai’s success in attracting the best businesses, making the emirate one of the main drivers of technological innovation and investment in… Read More
Two in three large enterprises in the Arab Gulf region intend devoting at least 5 percent of annual revenue to digitization of operations, according to a Microsoft research conducted on the current state of digital transformation and corresponding readiness among organizations. The findings reveal that… Read More
Television viewing in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has changed drastically with the boom in smartphones and internet transformation transforming the broadcast industry. As audience numbers, who are enjoying online video, grow in every region, so do their expectations. Viewers expect online… Read More
Global experts including Geoffrey Moore, Management Author, Advisor and Steve Miranda, Executive Vice President – Oracle Applications Product Development took the stage at Oracle’s first global AI Summit in Dubai to highlight the new business innovation opportunities that artificial intelligence (AI) will offer to public… Read More
With VAT of 5 percent becoming effective across the UAE and Saudi Arabia on January 1, 2018 and the rest of the GCC following suit in the year, the region’s mobile phone market is bracing for impact. International Data Corporation (IDC) takes a closer look… Read More
Appropriate budget is key to digital transformation in the midmarket. The SAP Digital Transformation Executive Study, which highlights this point, found that more than a fifth (21 percent) of all small and midsize enterprises (SMEs) surveyed cited lack of budget as the biggest hurdle to… Read More
