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GITEX GLOBAL 2024: Two mega venues, one massive tech event

The world’s largest technology exhibition, GITEX GLOBAL, returns for its 44th edition, bringing together tech innovators, start-ups, and investors from across the globe

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Why data must be refined like oil to drive business value: Cloudera CEO

Charles Sansbury tells Gulf Business that data like oil requires substantial effort and infrastructure to unlock its full potential

Moody’s upgrades Turkey’s ratings to B1 on tight monetary policy

Turkey announces $30bn incentives package for high tech areas

President Erdogan said that Ankara would unveil an incentive packages for high tech areas totalling $30bn

Cognizant

Transforming air travel: Inside Cognizant’s partnership with Riyadh Airports

Cognizant’s GM in Saudi Arabia, Tarek Zarg El Aioun, discusses the company’s strategic partnerships and digital innovations transforming the aviation sector and beyond

Microsoft

Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutiny

The European Commission has been investigating Microsoft’s tying of Office and Teams since a 2020 complaint by Salesforce-owned competing workspace messaging app Slack

Huawei

Huawei continues rebound with strongest earnings growth since 2019

While the company’s core ICT infrastructure business remained stable, its cloud business grew by more than a fifth, generating revenue of CNY55.3bn

LEAP

Tech investments approach $13bn on Day 2 at LEAP 2024

The Riyadh Exhibition and Convention Centre in Malham witnessed the unveiling of investments aimed at supporting local start-up ecosystems

LEAP 2024

LEAP 2024: AWS, IBM, Dell and other tech firms commit massive $11.9bn in investments

The announcement underscores Saudi Arabia’s position as a growing tech powerhouse in the region

MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2024

Mobile World Congress 2024: What to expect from big tech brands

The 2024 edition of the Mobile World Congress expects to attract close to 100,000 attendees from across the technology universe

Synology

Interview: Synology’s Michael Chang on impact of AI on security, storage solutions

As the use of AI raises a range of enterprise demands for data storage and management, Synology offers an insight into its portfolio of offerings for new market needs

Ministry of Economy signs MoU with Presight to enhance UAE's attractiveness to FDI & support private sector partnership

UAE Ministry of Economy signs MoU with Presight to drive FDI

Presight will work with the ministry to attract foreign direct investments to new sectors in the UAE, by deploying big data, analytics and AI in education, healthcare, infrastructure and financial services

Data Analytics

How digital assets are revolutionising financial data analytics

Data analysis can reveal interesting trends that the average investor is unlikely to spot and interpret

SAS

How SAS is empowering customers to transform data into intelligence

Data and analytics can help organisations create competitive advantages and drive innovation

Healthcare

Top tech trends transforming the healthcare industry

Georg Schroeckenfuchs, head of Gulf and Saudi Country Group – Innovative Medicines at Novartis Innovation, tells us how technology is enabling innovation in healthcare

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Can Dubai’s growing tech affinity propel its real estate sector?

Dubai’s real estate sector has taken massive strides in terms of sales and investment

Gitex Global 2022 concludes on Oct 14

Gitex Global, the UAE’s annual tech event, began on October 10 and ended on October 14

Abu Dhabi Data Program

New ‘Abu Dhabi Data Program’ to help emirate’s government entities leverage data to drive growth

Abu Dhabi Data Program aims to harness data powered by a future-ready cross-government technology backbone built on UAE’s national sovereign cloud

RTA approves strategic plan 2023-2030 aligned with Dubai Urban Plan 2040

Dubai’s RTA finalises data investment master plan, aims to sell data to boost revenues

The project includes creating an operational model to maximise return on investment from the use of RTA’s data while protecting the confidentiality of data

Mining big oil’s big data for big battery

Newer energy technologies, such as solar power and batteries, may not require tankers of fuel to work, but they do need minerals to build them

cyber attacks

Here’s why coding is a biggest game changer for digital innovation

Coding and programming help young students develop problem-solving abilities, such as solving an issue rationally and creatively

Virtual Reality

GITEX Global: Women in tech

Women to take centre stage at GITEX Global’s TiE Women pitch competition, where women-led startups from over 40 cities pitch on stage for equity-free cash prizes, mentorship, investor networking and exposure

GITEX Global: What’s new in 2021?

The region’s largest IT exhibition has been defining the newest trends, and displaying product developments from across the world for over 40 years

Gitex Global x Ai Everything set to drive international transformation

Gitex Future Stars will host over 700 startups from more than 60 countries along with a network of 400+ international investors

How data analytics changed companies marketing strategies?

Data analytics has revolutionised the marketing sector by helping brands to deliver more targeted messaging to their customers and measure their campaign ROI.