CleverTap, the world’s leading user engagement and retention cloud, has expanded its core leadership with the appointment of Sidharth Malik as global CEO. The announcement comes as CleverTap accelerates its international growth and builds new capabilities to help digital consumer brands increase their customer retention and foster lifetime value. Malik is a proven leader with a distinguished track […]
Carrefour Flash is the first store of this kind in France, and will be located at 11 avenue Parmentier, in the capital’s eleventh arrondissement. With Flash, technology is used to enhance the customer experience, making shopping more straightforward. It has nearly 900 everyday product references on sale. With this innovative new format, Flash 10/10 (“10 seconds to shop and 10 […]
Splashlight Studios, a young e-commerce digital solutions provider has raised seed funding of $1 million from Eagle Ventures, a Dubai-based fund managed by Adit Mehta and Hitesh Ajmera. Backbay Advisors was the financial advisor to Splashlight Studios on the transaction. “The seed fund is a great vote of confidence for Splashlight Studios and highlights the progress achieved since its launch in 2020. […]
IT spending in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is forecast to total $1.7 billion in 2022, an increase of 2.6% from 2021, according to a recent forecast by Gartner, Inc. “The recovery of the IT sector in MENA will continue in 2022,” said Miriam Burt, managing vice president at Gartner. “In 2022, digital transformation […]
Dubai leads the Arab world in the latest edition of the Dubai Innovation Index, maintaining its 20th position globally in 2020, Dubai Chamber announced today as it released the Index at the 12th World Chambers Congress in Dubai. The Index report, bearing the theme The Road to Recovery Through Resilience and Innovation, analysed a total of 39 cities. […]
Across the UAE, the banking and wider financial services sector is changing faster than most individual incumbent banks, with consumer forces disrupting their roles, structures, and competitive environment. As financial and lifestyle services continue converging and financial products become even more embedded within customer propositions, enriching existing banking offerings with lifestyle services will enable local […]
“The only constant in our industry is the uncertainty in the cyber realm. Attackers keep evolving – getting more sophisticated and changing their tactics, techniques and procedures to try get one up on the defenders”, said Gordon Love, VP MEA at Mandiant. “This report provides security leaders with an overview of what to expect in […]
Along the COVID-19 crisis cycle of disruption, management, and recovery, important decisions have become part of everyday for CEOs and big decisions take courage. During the first phase of the crisis, business leaders formulated and activated their crisis plans to react to what was needed immediately. The management phase presented an uncertain wait and see […]
The onset of COVID-19 positively contributed to the revival of the used car market in UAE post an initial contraction because of supply chain disruption and falling per capita disposable income due to physical restrictions imposed. As consumers are more concerned about their health and hygiene, there exist an increased perception towards ownership of private […]
The British company behind the innovative crypto ratings platform, evai.io, has announced that over one million dollars worth of ERC-20 and BEP-20 compatible EVAI tokens were staked into the new EvaiStableFund within hours of it going live. The new EvaiStableFund, launched on 22 November, gives investors the opportunity to yield a fixed 15% APY with an […]
