The Gulf Organization for Industrial Consulting (GOIC) revealed that the GCC computer and electronic products manufacturing industry improved remarkably in the last few years. The private sector contribution was also significant to meet the growing demands on these products. In fact, the...
The Middle East and Africa (MEA) wearables growth story continues unabated, with the latest figures from International Data Corporation (IDC) showing that the market grew 66.0% year on year in Q2 2016 to total approximately 482,000 units for the quarter. The global technology research and...
According to a report on the International Trade and Investment Outlook, the Kingdom’s structural economic transformation, envisaged by Vision 2030, will have significant implications on trade and financial flows over the next 15 years. “We believe that several fundamental factors will...
The technologies defining the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’, more commonly referred to as Industry 4.0, are being powered by cloud infrastructures. The Oracle Cloud: Opening up the Road to Industry 4.0 report has found that from robotics to artificial intelligence, businesses view the...
The eighth edition of the biennial Seatrade Maritime Middle East (SMME) exhibition and conference, which takes place in Dubai from 31 October to 2 November 2016, will open with an economic forum session addressing the challenges and prospects for the industry in light of future oil price forecasts, ...
Arbor Networks Inc., the security division of NETSCOUT (NASDAQ: NTCT), marked twenty years of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks targeting the availability of internet service provider (ISP) networks.
In September 1996, New York City’s original ISP, Panix, was hit by a SYN...
Annual IT spending in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) is forecast to reach $110.94 billion this year, representing year-on-year growth of 5.1%, according to the latest 'Worldwide Semiannual IT Spending Guide: Vertical and Company Size' from International Data Corporation (IDC). The global...
Callum Laing, is a Singapore based, entrepreneur, author and the man who successfully deployed the ‘agglomeration business model’ along with his partners in Singapore. He stated that a similar model can be adopted by SMEs in the UAE and the GCC region to grow their businesses on a...
We would take issue with commentators who continue to characterise the past few weeks’ global bond and equity market sell-off as a reflection of a fear of US rate rises. In truth expectations for a Federal funds rate rise, this week have fallen from a 43% probability on August 25th to just...
‘Fitness and leading a healthy lifestyle’ is as important as scoring higher grades in academics as per ASPAM Indian International School. “Obesity and juvenile diabetes is on the rise across the globe, and ignoring physical fitness will not only impact the physical health of a...
