Business
#Pay and Payfort Team Up to Offer Secure e-Payments in the Region
PAYFORT, an online payment service provider in the Arab world, and fintech startup #Pay (pronounced ‘hash-pay’) announced #Pay team will now be part of PayFort. The two will be working together to fac...
STEP Group Gets $2 Million in Funding
STEP Group, a Dubai-based media and technology company, has successfully closed its Series A funding round with a $2 million investment from regional investors, including Wamda Capital, Equitrust and ...
Operation Falafel Signs Franchise Development Agreement in KSA
Operation Falafel has signed a franchise development agreement with KSA-based ETE Group. The agreement was signed to expand into the Eastern Province and Northern Borders Region in the Kingdom of Saud...
Millennial Appetite for Mobile Apps Fueling Growth of UAE Tech Startups
Today we live in a world where we can complete our most routine, yet often time consuming tasks, be it doing the laundry, booking transportation, scheduling a delivery, or merely ordering food, with t...
Bayt.com Launches Source2Hire Hiring Service
Bayt.com has launched Source2Hire, a hiring service designed to save employers time, cost, and effort during the hiring process. Source2Hire uses a dedicated team of experienced talent-sourcing execut...
Winners of Sharjah Economic Excellence Network Award 2016 Honoured
Guided by the innovative vision of His Highness Sheikh Dr Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah, and held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Sultan ...
Aubot’s Telepresence Unit Benefits Less Physically-Abled Users
We’ve seen telepresence robots, remote controlled two-way video-communications devices, featured in a number of different scenarios, such as allowing online gallery exploration after hours or to provi...
Facebook Outs the Results of a new Future of Business Survey
In collaboration with the World Bank and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Facebook has launched the Future of Business Survey, a new global source of information on small...
Biz Idea: Billboard Coughs When it Detects Cigarette Smoke
The World Health Organization reports that tobacco use kills approximately six million people each year. And despite having one of the lowest smoking rates in Europe, Sweden’s Apotek Hjartat pharmacy ...