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Sayed Hashish

Cisco appoints Sayed Hashish as VP of customer experience for the Middle East and Africa

Hashish will help shape Cisco’s strategic CX direction, with a strong focus on leveraging technology to support digitisation, innovation and social inclusion

Gitex Global 2022

Dubai: Gitex Global 2022 to kick off next month

The 42nd edition of the event will take place from October 10-14 at DWTC,  hosting over 4,500 companies and over 100,000 attendees from 170 countries

agility

Kuwait’s Agility Ventures invests in India’s e-commerce platform Shiprocket

The investment was part of Agility’s strategy to expand across digital logistics and e-commerce in high-growth markets

amana_CEO_Muhammad Rasoul

Neo broker amana launches trading app, offers access to regional and global markets

The platform offers stocks, commodities, ETFs, currencies and crypto among other assets through the app

Buy-now-pay-later

Buy-now-pay-later firms switch from Gen Z shoppers to businesses

Startups such as Billie, Mondu, Tranch and Tillit are offering buy-now-pay-later solutions to companies in an attempt to secure a slice of the $700bn industry

digitalisation

How cloud computing will serve as the foundation for business innovation

Cloud-first strategy is becoming increasingly popular among businesses following the Covid-19 pandemic

Carrefour Egypt partners with Merge to provide sign language interpretation

Carrefour Egypt stores will offer sign language interpretation

Carrefour has partnered with Merge, an IT company to launch simultaneous sign language interpretation in its stores

FedEx insights on e-commerce

What’s driving the e-commerce industry: consumer behaviour or digital innovations?

More than ever, consumers now want fast, on-time and flexible delivery solutions, with the option of easy returns

distributed denial-of-service

Insights: The changing distributed denial-of-service threat landscape

The scale and sophistication of the DDoS attacks launched by the new botnet, drawing power from compromised internet of things devices, is unprecedented

AI driven software solutions

Saudi tech startup Elevatus raises $10.5m in Series A funding round

The funding round was co-led by venture capital firm Global Ventures and Wa’ed Ventures, the venture capital arm of Aramco

Chip

Insights: A new normal is dividing the global chip industry

Chipmakers that focus mainly on older technology for mainstream use are seeing a more dramatic slowdown

Smart Salem to provide swift medical screening for UAE residence visas

Smart Salem centre to provide swift medical test for UAE residency visa

The state-of-the-art facility will allow customers to obtain medical fitness results within 30 minutes

MoIAT, Korean Agency for Technology and Standards

UAE’s MoIAT, Korean Agency for Technology and Standards partner to boost standardisation

The aim of the MoU is to enhance technical collaboration and knowledge exchanges in standardisation to facilitate bilateral trade

Veeam

Veeam to present modern data protection solutions at Gitex Global

The company will deliver live demonstrations of its platform for cloud, virtual, physical, software-as-a-service and Kubernetes environments

stocks

Tech stocks brace for more bleeding as Fed ratchets up rates

Technology and other growth stocks have been battered this year amid slowing economic growth and soaring interest rates

CybelAngel

Digital risk protection platform CybelAngel expands to UAE and Saudi Arabia

The company’s regional director of Middle East and Turkey, Adnan Taha, will oversee its operations in the Middle East

Lookout

Lookout to exhibit data-centric cloud security portfolio at Gitex Global

The company will showcase how its security service edge technologies enable organisations to gain insight required to secure data

Tintra

Tintra secures fintech services licence to operate in Qatar

Tintra is using artificial intelligence and Web3 technologies to build a global, borderless banking infrastructure

Trellix

Trellix to showcase ‘Living Security’ XDR architecture at Gitex Global

The company will also exhibit demos on its endpoint, data security and professional services consulting

Oracle Abu Dhabi

Oracle boosts investment in Abu Dhabi with new innovation hub

The hub will act as a catalyst to inspire and empower creative ideas that will enable the digital future

Sheikh Hamdan launches robotics and automation programme for Dubai

As part of the programme, 200,000 robots will be provided over the next 10 years to increase productivity across various sectors

Epson

Epson to showcase sustainable, energy-efficient solutions at Gitex Global

The company’s solutions for the healthcare, retail, construction and education industries will take centre stage during the event

Simulation of UAE’s 2117 Mars to be created in the metaverse

Simulation of UAE’s 2117 Mars mission to be created in the metaverse

Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre and Bedu will collaborate on the ideation, creative development, and visualisation of the 2117 metaverse elements

Tikety careem

Careem, Tikety partner to provide easy access to events in UAE

Careem customers can now use its Super App to search for, purchase and manage tickets and bookings for museums, tours and other activities across the UAE

Abu Dhabi Digital Authority lainches cybersecurity campaigncampaign

Abu Dhabi Digital Authority launches campaign to boost cybersecurity awareness 

The awareness will enable ADDA to spread the culture of cybersecurity among Abu Dhabi government employees and the general public

John Lickrish CEO Flash Entertainment

Flash Entertainment officially opens Saudi headquarters in Riyadh

Since its inception in 2008, Flash Entertainment has worked with global brands, including Disney, FIFA, NBA, UFC and WWE, as well as various international AAA music performers

Amiviz

AmiViz to display comprehensive suite of cybersecurity solutions at Gitex Global

Channel partners will have the opportunity to learn how to navigate the brand’s app during the event to request for quotations

Apple store

Apple will hike app store prices from Europe to Asia next month

Apple earlier this summer raised prices across its Mac, iPhone and iPad ranges

Egypt post

Egypt Post signs agreement with SAP to establish an integrated system for cloud solutions

The agreement will allow Egypt Post to study, analyse and develop current business cycles in a practical way

UAE's economy

Here’s how digitisation can support UAE’s non-oil economy

The widespread adoption of technologies such as cloud computing, big data, AI and 5G makes it easier to discover potential data value and improve efficiency