Business & Money | Sunday 17 January, 2016 12:39 pm

Value of contract awards to plummet in 2016

The value of contracts awarded in the GCC is set to drop sharply by 15 per cent in 2016 as low oil prices hit government spending plans, according to the latest forecast by MEED Projects, the region’s leading project tracking service. The forecast, which is based on more than 2,100...

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Business & Money | Wednesday 13 January, 2016 8:48 am

5 Branding Resolutions for Businesses in 2016

As we have stepped into 2016, this is the perfect time for brands to review the year gone by and to make new plans jumpstarting their success in the next 12 months. With that in mind, James Pass, Managing Director and Creative Principle at JPd revisited some of the most popular branding...

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Business & Money | Sunday 10 January, 2016 11:50 am

 Deloitte: Dubai a safe haven for wealthy high-net worth families and their investments

As a first-class tourism destination, and a world-leading financial services center, Dubai is seen as a safe haven for individuals from the rest of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and other Middle Eastern countries, and as an alternative jurisdiction for wealthy high-net worth families and their ...

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Business & Money | Thursday 7 January, 2016 12:56 pm

Emirates NBD Saudi PMI™ for December 2015

 Saudi Arabia’s non-oil private sector suffered a loss of growth momentum at the end of 2015, with business conditions improving at the weakest pace in the survey’s history. Weighing on the sector were slower expansions in output, new orders and employment. Staffing levels, in...

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Technology & IT | Thursday 7 January, 2016 12:30 pm

‘Organizations in Saudi Well Advised to Defend Against Top 5 Security Risks in 2016’ Cautions Regional Expert

2015 was a memorable – although not a devastating – year for cyber security. We witnessed less widespread, panic inducing vulnerabilities in 2015 than in years past; while 2014 will go down in the security history books as the year of Heartbleed, ShellShock and point-of-sale malware,...

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Business & Money | Tuesday 5 January, 2016 3:04 pm

Saxo Bank’s John Hardy named top currency forecaster among FX Week contributors

Saxo Bank, the online multi-asset trading and investment specialist, has today been named as the most successful forecaster among over 30 of FX Week’s regular contributors this year.   Anticipating macro trends and the relative policy trajectory among central banks helped Saxo Bank ...

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Technology & IT | Sunday 3 January, 2016 11:21 am

SAP Activities Highlight the Importance of Private Sector Engagement in Humanitarian Crises

Highlighting the pivotal and proactive role the private sector can play in emergency response, SAP Middle East and North Africa (SAP MENA), an enterprise software company, has carried out a variety of activities with the aim of responding to the worst displacement crisis since World War...

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Business & Money | Wednesday 30 December, 2015 5:37 am

As 2015 comes to a close, Chris Sunbaigong, VP of honor looks to 2016 to unveil the top three hottest trends for 2016

  Living Online    2016 is the year when consumers in the Middle East will turn to digital more and more as they choose to live their everyday lives online – and why is that? The UAE and KSA come out as one of the highest internet usage penetration rates in the...

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Business & Money | Tuesday 29 December, 2015 5:42 pm

Consumers Hopeful Despite Challenges, Increasingly Driven To Make The World A Better Place, Ford Trend Report Shows

In a world of constant and dramatic change, new insights from Ford’s Looking Further with Ford 2016 trend report reveal a renewed sense of inspiration and ingenuity among consumers striving for a better quality of life in the New Year – motivated more than ever to make the world a...

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Technology & IT | Tuesday 29 December, 2015 3:23 pm

Xerox Survey: Consumers Want Tech Brands to Play Wider Role in their Lives

A new Xerox report, ‘The State of Customer Service 2015,’ reveals that more than half (51%) of consumers are comfortable with the idea of buying into a single brand “ecosystem” for all their technology, communications and media needs. By 2025, 37% believe a single supplier...

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