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Middle East IT Spending to Reach $214.7 Billion In 2015: Gartner Analysts Say Every Business Unit is Becoming a “Technology Startup” During Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2014, May 19-21, in Dubai Middle East (ME) IT spending is projected to reach $214.7 billion in 2015 a 5.2 percent increase from 2014, according to […]
Over dependence on tech gadgets is something that is fast becoming a hallmark to define the present generation. The overpowering influence of social media has found child engagement like never before. According to recent research, children below the age of 13 are increasingly visible on social media sites. 38% of […]
STEP Conference shifts gear to beyond technology If you have got anything to do with technology, you got to be here! The top three tech speakers of the world are marking their presence– Dave McClure of 500 Startups, Mike Butcher of TechCrunch and Jeremiah Owyang of Crowd Companies. What started […]
The ongoing mobile and technology revolution will integrate the physical and virtual world, blurring their distinctions and reshape our society way beyond our imagination. The Arab world “With 135 million internet users in the Arab region today – of which 71 million actively use social media platforms, we are witnessing […]
The fifth-gen of Samsung’s uber-elite Galaxy S series was launched in Dubai by the South Korean technology giant on the 2nd April 2014. The Smartphone looks to provide an enriched mobile phone usage to the end consumers with highly pioneering up gradation to the most sought-after Smartphone features. According […]
At one time, it was quite astonishing to hear about air travellers being able to contact their family and friends through phones installed in their seats. Especially as a kid, I always wondered how the planes could have a link of never-ending cables dropping down from the plane to the […]
Ever since electronic commerce or as the popular acronym goes, e-commerce, has come into existence, there has only been positives being raved about it. The concept’s dynamics have been explored thoroughly over the course of the years and with newer technological stimuli making inroads into the commercial spectrum, the relevance […]
When Facebook acquired Whatsapp, it really was a humongous bit of news that quite forcefully indicated the progressive way of the way social media networks were being consolidated and taken into the future. But for residents and social media users in the Middle East, namely the United Arab Emirates, things […]
Middle East & Africa IT Infrastructure Spending will Reach $3.5 Billion in 2014 Towards the end of the 20th century – the 1900’s so to speak – there emerged this new fad to call the new millennium as ‘Y2K.’ It was a technological reference that eluded many except for those […]
Social Media is an important tool today. But going by the trends, it’s women who seem to wield it more efficiently than men. Who invented social media? Who knows, but suffice to say that we can’t easily interpret the invention – or pioneering – as one with a woman firmly […]
With the PS4 Release, Does Social Life Cease? The much anticipated Sony Playstation 4 is to be released in the UAE on December 13th and is widely expected to smash all kinds of one-day sales records upon the initial launch. To celebrate the forthcoming release, a PS4 launch party was held […]
With the future of organizations such as RIM still uncertain, Booz & Company identifies the strong need for technology companies to build coherence –by aligning their value proposition (or their ‘way to play’) with their distinctive capabilities and their portfolio of products and services –so as to ensure their survival […]
Press Release Regus, the world’s largest provider of flexible workplaces, has opened its fourth business centre in Saudi Arabia, in the key strategic port of Jeddah. It complements Regus’ popular existing centres in Riyadh and Dammam. The launch of the first Regus centre in this important Red Sea port offers […]
Press Release Today, Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the performance company, introduced two new virtual editions to the Riverbed® Cascade® product family that enable managed service providers (MSPs) to deliver application-aware network performance management (NPM) as a service to their small-to-medium-sized and enterprise customers in the Middle East. The new Cascade Profiler […]
According to a recent study ‘The Five Faces of the Cloud’ by Bain & Company revenue from sales of cloud computing products and services are due to increase from around $20 billion to almost $150 billion by 2020 – a total of 8% for all technology spend. With this in mind, Saad Khan, […]
Professional social networking site LinkedIn has opened its first office in the Middle East and North Africa in the Dubai Internet City which will serve as the company’s regional headquarters as it seeks to build on its growing membership and client base. It currently has more than five million members […]
PRESS RELEASE On Sunday, Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the performance company, announced that Nino D’Auria joined the company as vice president of channel sales for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) and Rob Rosiello joined the company as vice president of channel sales for the Americas. As Riverbed® continues […]
Ciena’s Mervyn Kelly, EMEA Marketing Director, looks at how networks will need to keep up with the demand following Apple’s iPhone5 launch. Amid much fanfare, Apple has launched the iPhone 5 and CIO’s must now expect to face a barrage of employees who will want to get their hands on […]
Today’s top business news from the Middle East and North Africa: Dubai introduces rewards system for safe drivers Dubai Police announced they have started a white points system to encourage motorists to follow traffic rules and help cancel black points, local media reported on Wednesday. Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan Tamim, […]
Press Release Mobily, Ikoo, Al Jazeera and others bring Middle East expertise to the Congress Webit Congress (www.WebitExpo.com), the world’s only international event for the digital, technology and entrepreneurial ecosystem with special focus on EMEA emerging markets is to be held on 10-11 October, 2012 in Istanbul, Turkey. The event […]
Do you own a farm with daily production of stock? Do you own a garage full of cars? Do you own a city ? Or are you now wondering how insane these questions are? If you are still clueless to what I am talking about, chances are that you are […]
QTel repays $3bn loan facility Qatar Telecom (Qtel) said in a bourse statement on Thursday it has repaid a $3 billion loan facility using existing funds. According to Thomson Reuters data, bookrunners Barclays, BNP Paribas, DBS and RBS facilitated the five-year syndicated term loan in August 2007. It was priced at 65 basis […]
Qatar Telecom (Qtel) said in a bourse statement on Thursday it has repaid a $3 billion loan facility using existing funds. According to Thomson Reuters data, bookrunners Barclays, BNP Paribas, DBS and RBS facilitated the five-year syndicated term loan in August 2007. It was priced at 65 basis points over the London interbank […]
Jordan, tipped as the would-be “Silicon Valley of the Middle East”, on Wednesday witnessed a SOPA-inspired media blackout to protest a piece of legislation activists say could threaten that freedom in the future. Reports said hundreds of sites have gone dark in support of #BlackoutJo — a protest against a draft bill to amend […]
Saudi Aramco claimed on Wednesday it had put its network back online on Saturday, 10 days after a malware attack knocked off 30,000 workstations at the oil giant. In a statement, Saudi Arabia’s national oil firm said that it had “restored all its main internal network services” hit by a malware […]
Press Release Employers use the Internet to hire senior executives, and more than 57% of employers research candidates online before hiring, making professional Internet presence imperative for candidates. According to a recent “Hiring Management in the MENA” poll conducted by Bayt.com — the region’s number one job site — the […]
Middle East Business News Review: Top Business News from the Middle East & North Africa Middle East investment lifts top European clubs to new heights Investment from the Middle East is matching record levels of revenue in European football, a report compiled by an international professional services group said […]
Philippe Elie is the director of operations, EMEA at Riverbed Technology. Philippe is also responsible for developing the partner community in the Middle East consisting of distributors, resellers, systems integrators, and service providers. Arabian Gazette’s Moign Khawaja asked him some questions about Riverbed Technology’s operations in the Middle East, and […]
The battle for Syria is raging on the ground but also on social media, where people on both sides of the conflict are hacking, posting and spamming in a frenzied propaganda war. The Twitter feeds of news organisations have been hacked by pro-regime elements, videos purporting to show atrocities in […]
A leading computer security firm has found a new cyber surveillance virus in the Middle East that spies on financial transactions, email and social networking activity, reports said on Thursday. The Kaspersky Lab said the virus named “Gauss” may also be capable of attacking critical infrastructure and was built in the […]
All tragedies in the world have a bittersweet balance. Sometimes a family is hit by a crisis that goes beyond family relations and the conclusion of the story leaves the audience with a touch of melancholy. One side that is always forgotten, however, is the fact that the tragedy […]
Middle East Business News Review – A look at today’s important financial news and business updates from the Middle East and North Africa Dubai diamond trade hits $39bn in 2011, up 12% The total value of Dubai’s diamond trade, including rough and polished diamonds, soared 12% to $39 billion in […]
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has successfully placed itself among Asia’s top 5 spenders on digital literacy, according to the latest UN eGovernment Readiness Survey. In addition to its betterment in digital literacy, the report has also highlighted other significant achievements of the GCC countries. The UN readiness survey is carried out […]
Social networking giant Facebook is reportedly working with Taiwanese smartphone giant HTC, to come out with its own line of phones, and is considering to launch it in 2013. Sources close to Facebook have revealed that the company has even hired Apple’s former employees to work with HTC for the […]
Middle East Business News Review – A look at today’s important financial news and business updates from the Middle East and North Africa MasterCard Index survey reveals UAE consumer confidence highest since 2009 Consumers in the UAE are very optimistic in their attitudes towards the economy, a survey conducted by […]
Middle East Business News Review – A look at today’s important financial news and business updates from the Middle East and North Africa ENEC to construct nuclear power reactors near Abu Dhabi UAE’s nuclear regulator has given green signal to the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corp. (ENEC) to build two nuclear […]
British Library has announced plans to make more than half a million pages of historic documents detailing Arabic history and culture available online for the first time, as part of its ambitious programme to publish more online content. J.G. Lorimer’s Gazetter, originally compiled in the early 20th century as a handbook […]
Saudi Aramco announced on Monday the launch of an investment arm to acquire tech companies that are of strategic importance to Saudi Arabia and facilitate their deployment in the kingdom. The company said Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures plans to invest in start-up and high-growth ventures offering new technologies to the […]
Google +, Google’s own social networking version, made a surprise entry into the race of social networking sites last year. This, however, raises two questions now: (a) “What the heck is Google+?” (b) “How is Google+ still alive?” Over the years, we have witnessed mushrooming of social networking sites, which […]
Being the maker of the first true smartphone, Apple undoubtedly created a different perception toward mobile phones among people when it launched the first iPhone 5 years ago, a time Android-based phones didn’t existed, and executives where addicted to Blackberry. Sold at the price range of $600, it was an iconic […]
