Business & Money | Tuesday 31 May, 2016 2:15 pm

Women on boards in the GCC: Not a priority to business leaders

With businesses in the GCC facing pressing challenges, including oil prices, the issue of gender balance at board level is not a priority in the present climate. This and other revelations are among the findings of a study released today entitled View from the top: What business executives...

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Business & Money | Tuesday 31 May, 2016 1:18 pm

Arab world could see US$69 billion in online payment transactions per annum by 2020

PAYFORT, the leading online payment service provider in the Arab world, has announced its third “State of Payments in the Arab World” report, offering up-to-date data and insights in the region’s payment trends and consumer buying habits. Based on the seven key country markets...

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Tourism & Hospitality | Monday 30 May, 2016 12:11 pm

Visitor Surge for World Travel Market 2016 Events

  The World Travel Market  portfolio of events for 2016 has received a phenomenal 35% increase in travel trade visitors – totalling an impressive 37,651 – attending the array of leading events around the globe, compared to 2015.  One of the latest events in the...

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Business & Money | Sunday 29 May, 2016 10:11 am

Deloitte: Alternative solutions needed to fund capital projects in GCC

The new economic reality of lower oil prices will constrain the amount of funding available to the Gulf Cooperation Council’s (GCC) governments to finance capital and infrastructure projects it the region.  These governments will hence have to make tough choices such as cuts in public...

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Technology & IT | Sunday 29 May, 2016 9:35 am

Businesses Don’t Need a Website to Be a Victim of DDoS

Research by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International shows that businesses don’t need to have external interfaces such as public websites, customer portals and transactional systems to be hit by a DDoS attack: internal web services, operations and connectivity are just as vulnerable.  In...

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Technology & IT | Thursday 26 May, 2016 9:57 am

New VMware Research: CEOs expected to be held accountable for cyber attacks damages

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), a global leader in cloud infrastructure and business mobility, today announces new findings from specialist market research agency Vanson Bourne that shows over a third (40 per cent) of IT Decision Makers (ITDMs) and almost two thirds (60 per cent) of office workers in...

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Healthcare | Wednesday 25 May, 2016 3:50 pm

Top 10 things you need to know about metastatic breast cancer

We never really know how strong we are until finding our strength is the only choice left. Cancer survivors know this better than anyone else. Most will testify that having access to reliable information and strong support networks has made all the difference. Women find it much easier to stay...

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Business & Money | Wednesday 25 May, 2016 2:44 pm

Jadwa Investment Grows its Core Client Business By 39% in 2015

Jadwa Investment, a leading Saudi Arabian investment management and advisory firm, today announced its 2015 full-year financial results, achieving SAR 247.47 million in total revenues and SAR 93.56 million in net income. These results were achieved through a 39 percent growth in the firm’s...

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Technology & IT | Wednesday 25 May, 2016 10:29 am

Middle East Mobile Phone Market Suffers Worst Quarter-on-Quarter Decline on Record

Shipments of mobile phones declined 11.7% quarter on quarter in the Middle East in Q1 2016, according to the latest figures released by International Data Corporation (IDC). The market totaled 26.1 million units for the first three months of the year, a significant drop from the 29.49 million units ...

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Business & Money | Monday 23 May, 2016 4:07 pm

Ashridge research highlights aspirations of Gen Y employees in Saudi Arabia

Generation Y holds a significant importance for Saudi Arabia with its high demographic of young population and strategic focus on localization. Ashridge’s research on Gen Y in Saudi Arabia, provides input for business managers on how to create greater levels of engagement among Gen Y...

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