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Saudi’s KSrelief signs $10m deal with UK for cholera response in Yemen

KSrelief will provide $5m to the WHO, while the UK government will provide a further $5m to the UN Children’s Fund An estimated 3.5m people...

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The core sector, which has a 40 percent weight in IIP, grew at 3.8 percent, up from 3.4 percent in the previous month, as...

Saudi debt capital market nears $500bn mark amid global uncertainty

Kingdom’s sukuk dominance and Vision 2030 progress fuel 16 percent annual growth, Fitch Ratings reports RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s debt capital market continued its upward trajectory...

UAE, Greece sign agreement to advance development of digital infrastructure

The Ministry of Investment of the UAE and the Ministry of Digital Governance of the Hellenic Republic have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)...

Microsoft’s Bing, Edge to Avoid EU’s Digital Dominance Crackdown

Microsoft Corp.’s Bing search engine, Edge web browser and Advertising services are set to be exempt from strict new European Union antitrust rules reining in Big...

AI, Metaverse, chatbots: Workplace trends to watch for in 2024

Every end-of-year working assumption is the same: Next year will be different. This is the eternal optimism of business and the never-ending story of...

AI-powered technologies to dominate tech landscape

Microsoft shares perspectives on the transformative trends that will shape the technology landscape in the region Sets of technologies that are empowered by artificial intelligence...

DEWA and Microsoft explore enhancing cooperation

HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), welcomed a delegation from Microsoft, led by Ralph Haupter,...

Communications and Information Technology Minister Briefed on stc Group’s Efforts to Support Future of Digital Economy

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UAE authority issues security alert for Apple users

Apple users in the UAE are urged to update their systems to the latest versions to prevent a 'potential leakage of confidential information', the...

Foxconn makes most of the world’s iPhones. Now its CEO wants to make EVs

Certainly, Young Liu has heard the auto industry cliche that modern vehicles are “iPhones on wheels.” Cars and SUVs are packed with computer chips,...

AI was the buzzword of 2023. What happens in 2024?

AI is the buzzword du jour. The emerging industry has kept investors optimistic and stirred up market euphoria throughout 2023. Of all S&P 500 companies, 152...

EU takes action against Elon Musk’s X over disinformation

The European Union has formally announced it suspects X, previously known as Twitter, of breaching its rules in areas including countering illegal content and...

Mohammed Bin Salman Nonprofit City, stc group Conclude Metathon Competition

Mohammed Bin Salman Nonprofit City (Misk City), the world’s first nonprofit city, and stc group, an engine of digital transformation, announced today the conclusion...

Dubai Grants Climate-based AYA Platform Conditional VARA License

Dubai’s financial regulator, the Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA) has issued a conditional operating license to AYA Platform, a web3 launchpad subsidiary of Enjinstarter. In...

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI and Founder of Worldcoin

Worldcoin, the crypto startup co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, announced a major expansion to its eye-scanning identity platform on Wednesday, including integrations with...

Look: Inside Dubai’s solar park where thousands of panels generate electricity from the desert

Miles and miles of solar panels dot Dubai's Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park — generating electricity right in the middle of the desert to...

Meta rolls out end-to-end encryption for Facebook Messenger

It means that no one other than the sender and the recipient — not even Meta — can decipher people’s messages Meta is rolling out...

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HSBC (HSBA.L) has completed what it says is the world's first trial of a tool designed to protect highly sensitive financial data from cyber criminals seeking...

China hopes Microsoft will play constructive role in China-US cooperation on AI

China's Commerce Minister Wang Wentao met with Microsoft (MSFT.O) President Brad Smith on Wednesday, and exchanged views on Microsoft's development in China, Sino-US economic and trade...

Protocol Village: QANPlatform for Quantum Resistance Raises $15M from Qatar’s MBK

QANplatform, a layer-1 blockchain compatible with Ethereum's EVM standard that says it's quantum resistant, has signed a $15 million investment contract with MBK Holding, whose founder and chairman is Qatari Sheikh Mansoor...

WhatsApp Rolling out View Once Photos, Videos Option for Desktop Apps

The instant messaging platform WhatsApp is once again reportedly rolling out the ability to send view once photos and videos from desktop apps, a...

Google to Drop Calendar App Support from Android Nougat 7

Google Calendar, a popular app for organizing daily schedules, is set to stop supporting devices running on Android Nougat 7.The reason for dropping support...

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