W7Worldwide, the leading award-winning communication consultancy agency, leads the Saudi PR industry by taking home several awards and nominations. It was the only homegrown Saudi agency that competed with the region’s leading agencies and went on to win several MEPRA awards and nominations including a gold at the 2022 MEPRA awards. The independent consultancy agency […]
Students representing 12 nationalities from 21 schools, 10 cities, and 4 countries across the GCC have received life-changing mentoring from Ivy League college students, as part of the Harvard Youth Lead the Change (YLC) program, staged recently in Dubai. Organized by university admissions counselling institute, UniHawk, it was the first time that the highly selective youth leadership development conference has […]
DMCC – the world’s flagship free zone and Government of Dubai Authority on commodities trade and enterprise – has announced that it achieved its best-ever year for new member company registrations, attracting 3,049 new businesses to Dubai in 2022. An increase of 23% year-on-year, this breaks the previous record set in 2021 when DMCC registered […]
Ostaz, the online private tutoring platform in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, has partnered with Aldar Education, the leading education group in Abu Dhabi, to bring tutoring services and after-school support to almost 35,000 students in the UAE capital. The partnership between Ostaz and Aldar Education was initiated by Hub71, Abu Dhabi’s […]
Global real estate advisory firm Alpha1Estates said on January 9 that its real estate index for Makkah and Madinah had fallen by 21.5% in 2022, compared to a jump of 12.9% in 2021, impacted by downturns in the global economy, central bank interest rate hikes affecting indebtedness and a continuing recovery in pre-pandemic levels of […]
The Dubai Financial Market (DFM) and the Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) today announced their partnership to host the MENA IPO Summit – Dubai, an essential new platform set to unite the entire IPO value chain and the region’s only IPO-focused summit. The inaugural Summit will shed light on the strong impetus and promising prospects […]
According to a new report by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in collaboration with Meta, there is ample ground in the UAE to leverage ten use cases such as telehealth; digital twins; augmented tourism; live augmented events; virtual and augmented shopping, and virtual assets; and more. Recognizing the key role that the UAE’s advanced market could […]
Travellers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia are planning to spend more on holidays in 2023, with most in both markets (93%) planning to go away, and more than two thirds in each market (66% in Saudi Arabia and 69% in the UAE planning more breaks than in 2022. Luxury will also […]
PowerSchool (NYSE: PWSC), the leading provider of cloud-based software for K-12 education in North America, announced its accelerated international expansion plans to open its first Middle East & Africa (MEA) Office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). The UAE office will serve PowerSchool’s extensive and growing customer base in the MEA region, as well as support […]
Jedox, the world’s most adaptable planning and performance management platform serving the integrated business planning needs of organizations across the world, was recently recognized in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Planning Software1. Additionally, Gartner Critical Capabilities research shows Jedox performance in Use Cases across categories for Efficiency, Improved Operational Visibility and Management, and Complex […]
