Mobily signed a memorandum of understanding in August with four of Atheeb’s founding shareholders to buy a controlling interest in the firm.
A royal decree last May ordered the liquidation of the firm, which never launched services despite making a winning SAR1 billion bid for a fixed telecom licence in 2007.
Cyber security company Secunia found that 17.4 per cent of users had unpatched versions of WinXP, Win7, Win8 or Windows Vista.
The 60,000 seat venue has taken 14 months to construct.
Saudi Arabia has appointed 10 disease specialists to investigate the spread of the MERS virus and advise the government on future steps.
The 143 cases announced since the start of April represent a 73 per cent jump in total infections in Saudi Arabia this month.
Work on the unit, which lasted a month from March 27, was originally due to finish on April 19 but was extended by a week.
Saudi Arabia has now had 323 confirmed cases of MERS, of which 94 have been fatal.
In total, 92 people have died of MERS in Saudi Arabia, the ministry said on its website.
The Haj ministry said that it is yet to receive directives from health officials about the MERS-coronavirus being an epidemic.
Prince Turki al-Faisal said that the Gulf states should be prepared for any possible outcome from Iran’s nuclear talks with world powers.
The sources said it was currently unclear if STC was looking to complete a sukuk issue in the local Saudi market.
A health ministry statement said eight of the people were in intensive care, two were stable and one showed no symptoms.
Dissatisfaction over state broadcasters’ staid programming and societal restrictions have created a large audience for web-based entertainment in the Kingdom.
The jump in infections is particularly concerning due to the large number of pilgrimsset to visit the country in July during Ramadan
Finance ministry and ICD venture Bidaya will submit an application for a licence as soon as regulations under the kingdom’s mortgage laws are finalised.
Mobily made a first-quarter net profit of 1.4 billion riyals ($373.3 million), up from 1.34 billion riyals in the prior-year period.
The firm made a net profit of 2.39 billion riyals ($637.3 million) in the three months to March 3.
Abdullah al-Rabeeah’s post will be taken over by Labour Minister Adel Fakieh, who keeps his current post, according to a royal decree.
An international firm is scheduled to visit the Kingdom to discuss the manufacturing of a MERS vaccine.
Profit climbed to SAR190.8 million ($50.9 million) in the quarter, the company said in a statement.
Net earnings in the three months to March 31 were SAR126.4 million ($33.7 million), compared to SAR110.1 million in the same period a year earlier.
The company lost 913 million riyals during the three months to March 31, compared to 657 million riyals during the same period of the previous year.
The cleric used unusually placatory language about Qatar’s neighbours, some of whom he has accused of a variety of failings including being insufficiently Islamic.
The Kingdom Tower project has been undergoing exhaustive testing works before construction begins on April 27.
MERS has infected 244 people in the Kingdom, of whom 76 have died, according to officials.
SABIC chief said that increased competition among sectors and a shortage of gas have made internal expansion hard.
The firm’s operating profit fell 96 per cent partly due to reforms in Saudi Arabia’s labour market.
The company made a profit of 423 million riyals in the first three months of 2014, up from 295 million riyals in the year-earlier period.
SABIC made a net profit of 6.44 billion riyals ($1.72 billion) between January and March compared to 6.56 billion riyals a year earlier.