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Gaming worth $184bn globally, but ad spend remains low, reveals report

Gaming worth $184bn globally, but ad spend remains low, reveals report

The worldwide games market has a huge audience with 3.4bn people globally playing video games across age groups

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Intelligent process mining: The next stage in digital transformation

Leveraging intelligent process mining is the next stage for enterprises that have adopted digital transformation and are focused on continuous and cyclic improvement in their processes to drive internal efficiencies

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EQT to acquire majority stake in cybersecurity firm Acronis

The completion of this transaction is pending customary regulatory approvals and is anticipated to take place in Q1-Q2 2025

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Meta, Startupbootcamp partner to empower MENA startups

The initiative, Llama Design Drive, aims to address the region’s specific needs by launching a series of intensive programmes

EFG Hermes ONE rebrands, unveils new trading platform

EFG Hermes ONE rebrands, unveils new trading platform

Currently available in Egypt and Kuwait, and soon to be launched in the UAE, EFG Hermes ONE grants users access to 35 global markets through OLT

Finastra's Siobhan Byron on addressing financial inclusion, agility

Finastra’s Siobhan Byron on addressing financial inclusion, agility

Siobhan Byron, EVP Universal Banking at Finastra, highlights the role of open ecosystems, cloud, SaaS, and AI in accelerating innovation

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Oracle launches second public cloud region in Saudi Arabia

Oracle’s footprint expands to eight cloud regions in the Middle East and North Africa region

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Google has an illegal monopoly on search, US judge finds

Google paid $26.3bn in 2021 to maintain search engine dominance, the judge noted

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Democratising AI: Here’s how G42’s new LLM JAIS 70B will help

Developed through training on 370 billion tokens – 330 billion of which are Arabic – the new LLM represents the largest Arabic dataset ever used for an open-source foundational model

Why R&D-intensive SMEs in emerging markets excel in outward FDI

Why R&D-intensive SMEs in emerging markets excel in outward FDI

With the right tools and assistance, SMEs can overcome barriers to international business and become formidable players on the world stage

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Instagram blocked: Turkey’s response to Meta’s ‘censorship’?

There are more than 50 million Instagram users in the country

Insights on elevating talent acquisition from ARC Talent's CEO Abdul-Rahman Risilia

Insights on elevating talent acquisition from ARC Talent’s CEO

Emiratisation offers the opportunity to tap into a pool of motivated local talent and contribute to national development goals, says ARC Talent’s Abdul-Rahman Risilia

ASUS Zenbook S 16 UM5606: A cutting-edge AI-powered laptop

ASUS Zenbook S 16 UM5606: A cutting-edge AI-powered laptop

Ideal for white-collar professionals, AI adopters, and business travellers, the latest ASUS Zenbook S 16 UM5606 stands out with its sleek design, impressive performance and innovative AI-integrated features

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Microsoft’s latest outage caused by ‘DDoS attack’

Microsoft revealed that a distributed-denial-of-service cyberattack triggered the Azure cloud application outage in the US

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

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OpenAI enters Google-dominated search market with SearchGPT

The company plans to integrate the best features from the search tool into ChatGPT in the future

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Europe welcomes Middle East money but some deals face headwinds

Investors from the Middle East bring cash and expertise to such projects

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What the region’s data centres can learn from UAE’s Olympic swim team

On average, a single large data centre generates enough heat energy to warm approximately 100 Olympic-sized swimming pools for an entire month

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Dubai to host Games of the Future 2025

Dubai will play host to thousands of world-class athletes and esports competitors from as many as 100 countries, as part of national and multinational teams

Abu Dhabi to launch 3 high-tech ventures_ ATRC meeting highlights

Abu Dhabi to launch 3 key tech ventures: ATRC meeting highlights

The initiatives will focus on transforming data security in the quantum era, enhancing smart autonomous mobility, and advancing Agritech with robotic technologies

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Abu Dhabi launches biometric smart travel project at Zayed International Airport

The project is expected to enhance operational performance, reduce infrastructure costs, and effectively combat fraud and forgery in identification documents

Al-Futtaim's Hasan Nergiz on BYD's popularity in UAE, Saudi Arabia

Al-Futtaim’s Hasan Nergiz on BYD’s popularity in UAE, Saudi Arabia

The MD of Al-Futtaim Electric Mobility Company shares that EV maker BYD’s SEAL, SONG PLUS and HAN models are very popular in the UAE and Saudi Arabia

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Core42, Qualcomm launch Compass 2.0 to advance AI solutions

The platform, which soft-launched in January, has successfully processed approximately 150 billion tokens since its inception

Saudi Arabia is a key growth market, says Honeywell exec Phil Daniell

Saudi Arabia is a key growth market, says Honeywell’s Phil Daniell

The VP and GM of Honeywell Building Automation (META) delves into the company’s expansion strategy in Saudi Arabia, including the opening of its new facility in Dhahran

CrowdStrike outage sparks investor, customer rethink

CrowdStrike chaos could prompt rethink among investors, customers

The company’s stock fell more than 11 per cent on Friday after an outage disrupted operations across multiple industries

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World’s ‘biggest IT fail’ in numbers: Billions lost, millions of devices impacted, thousands of flights hit

The outage affected major companies including Amazon, Delta Airlines, Bank of America, and Visa among others

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8.5 million Microsoft devices were hit by CrowdStrike outage

Software giant Microsoft has outlined how big Friday’s outage was, but the company maintains that only 1 per cent of all its devices were impacted

Global outage: CrowdStrike update likely skipped checks, experts say

CrowdStrike released information to fix affected systems, but experts said getting them back online would take time

Global smartphone shipments Increase 6.5% in Q2 2024: IDC report

Smartphone shipments rose 6.5% in Q2 2024, says IDC

Samsung secured the top position in Q2 2024 with an 18.9 per cent share of shipments, driven by a strategic focus on its flagship models and a robust AI strategy

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6 of the biggest tech outages in recent years

Even as the world reels from the Microsoft outage, here’s a look at some outages that have taken down major systems, in recent years