Business & Money | Wednesday 3 July, 2019 1:30 pm

Cisco Predicts 30 Million Internet Users in Saudi by 2022

Cisco’s Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast predicts 4.8 billion Internet users to be connected globally by 2022, out of which 549 million will be living in the Middle East and Africa. Cisco celebrated 30 years of the World Wide Web by sharing insights from the VNI Forecast to predict...

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Business & Money | Wednesday 3 July, 2019 12:57 pm

Kaspersky extends cooperation with INTERPOL in joint fight against cybercrime

Kaspersky, a global cybersecurity company, and INTERPOL have signed a new five-year agreement to reinforce their collaboration in the fight against cybercrime around the world. This is the second agreement between the two parties following the first signed in 2014. On July 3, Eugene Kaspersky,...

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Business & Money | Wednesday 3 July, 2019 10:30 am

MIT Technology Review Lists Huawei in 50 Smartest Companies

Huawei was named one of the 50 Smartest Companies by MIT Technology Review on June 29, 2019. Since 2010, the MIT Technology Review, a globally influential technology media outlet, has annually published a list of the 50 companies that best combine innovative technology with an effective business...

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Business & Money | Wednesday 3 July, 2019 10:00 am

KOC Awards Halliburton Integrated Offshore Services Contract

Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) and Halliburton (NYSE: HAL) today announced the companies have signed an Integrated Offshore Drilling Services contract for six high-pressure high-temperature (HPHT) exploration wells on two jack-up rigs in the Arabian Gulf. Through Halliburton Project Management, the...

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Culture & Education | Wednesday 3 July, 2019 12:00 am

SANS Institute to Enhance Critical and Strategic Cybersecurity Skills in Saudi Arabia

SANS Institute, the global leader in cyber security training, announced SANS Riyadh 2019, a training event for cyber security professionals in Saudi Arabia. The event, which will be held at Burj Rafal Hotel Kempinski, Riyadh from July 28 to August 1, 2019, will focus on developing skills in...

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Sports | Tuesday 2 July, 2019 11:23 pm

"West Asia": Jordan in the group of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain

The organizing committee for the ninth edition of the West Asian Men's Championship, held in Iraq from July 30 to August 14, distributed the nine teams in two groups. Jordan came in Group B along with Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain. With the Iraqi team hosting the first group along...

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Business & Money | Tuesday 2 July, 2019 8:51 pm

Non-Jordanian investors own 51.1% of shares in ASE

Eye of Jordan:-Mamoon Alomary  The value of shares bought by non-Jordanian investors in the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) in June reached JD17.3 million, constituting 17.3 percent of the total trade value, ASE figures have suggested.  The value of shares sold by non-Jordanians in June...

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Sports | Tuesday 2 July, 2019 5:39 pm

Al-Jazira football will face the Lebanese Al-Ahed

Al-Jazira football team will face the Lebanese Al-Ahed back in Amman on September 24, while the home game will be played in Lebanon on October 1. The two matches come in the AFC Cup final for West Asia. The draw came at the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) headquarters in Kuala Lumpur,...

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Environment & Energy | Tuesday 2 July, 2019 5:24 pm

Energy refers tender to explore oil and gas in Alazraq and Alsarhan

Energy refers tender to explore oil and gas in Alazraq  and Alsarhan The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources has submitted a tender to explore oil and gas in Al-Azraq and Al-Sarhan areas on the British Southern Services Company, after qualifying them in accordance with the...

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Technology & IT | Tuesday 2 July, 2019 5:05 pm

Warning to Apple MacBook users of battery problems

  The Jordanian Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has warned its MacBook users of battery problems and possible high temperatures. The Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, Dr. Ghazi Jabour stressed the keenness of the Authority...

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