Business & Money | Wednesday 7 October, 2015 4:38 pm

Middle East Homeland Security Market Growing Three Times Faster than Global Average

Regional economic and critical infrastructure development is the engine driving the Middle East security and national resilience market. A recent Frost & Sullivan report projects the Middle East homeland security market to grow at three times the pace of the global average. This growth is...

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Business & Money | Wednesday 7 October, 2015 3:54 pm

Just Where Exactly is My Data Going?

With the days of unlimited data becoming a thing of the past, there has been a growing trend in customers using up mobile data much quicker than what they were doing previously. Is this because user habits didn’t factor in just how data hungry our habits were or is there something else at...

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Business & Money | Tuesday 6 October, 2015 9:22 am

Analysis: Development of business leaders in Saudi Arabia does not live up to the global standards

The Leadership Circle has analyzed the investments made in development of business leaders in the GCC countries. The conclusion of the analysis is that organizations in the region, and not least in Saudi Arabia, are not living up to international benchmarks for how to develop future business...

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Technology & IT | Sunday 4 October, 2015 2:19 pm

GITEX Shopper 25th anniversary key milestones

 Celebrating its 25th edition this year, GITEX Shopper has earned its position as the largest and most anticipated consumer IT and electronics show in the Middle East. Attracting the world’s leading brands and the region’s power retailers, the show has grown in every respect ...

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Business & Money | Sunday 4 October, 2015 1:38 am

Dovish Fed offers limited respite for EMs

Emerging Markets (EMs) have continued to suffer from capital outflows, even after the Federal Reserve (Fed) decided not to increase interest rates on 17th September (as we predicted in a previous commentary, Markets could tilt the Fed towards postponing its rate hike). All else being equal, lower...

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Business & Money | Thursday 1 October, 2015 1:18 pm

Riyadh ranked in the top ten in the MTSI 2015 index with overall score of 59.3 out of 100

Riyadh was ranked among the top 10 destinations within the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for Muslims to travel to for shopping purposes, according to a new report released today by MasterCard and CrescentRating just ahead of the upcoming Global Islamic Summit to be held in...

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Business & Money | Thursday 1 October, 2015 3:11 am

Saudi Arabia’s new development plan gathers momentum

A new report on Saudi Arabia just produced by the global publishing, research and consultancy firm Oxford Business Group (OBG) charts the latest developments in the Kingdom’s bid to shift away from hydrocarbons towards a knowledge-based economy. 2015 has been a momentous year for the...

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Business & Money | Tuesday 29 September, 2015 4:47 pm

DIABETES AND YOUR EYES

Diabetes is a metabolic disorder in which the body does not produce or properly use insulin, a hormone that allows the body to use blood sugar for energy. It is characterized by high levels of blood sugar, which can cause changes in the blood vessels of the retina, the light-sensitive tissue at the ...

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Technology & IT | Tuesday 29 September, 2015 2:34 pm

KSA mobile users believe they collectively pay for 305 centuries of talk time

New research commissioned by Virgin Mobile has found that four-in-five mobile phone users in Saudi Arabia (77%) say that they pay every month for minutes, texts or internet data which they do not use.    These losses add up to well over five hours just of calls on average each year,...

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Business & Money | Tuesday 29 September, 2015 2:14 am

Digital Wallets Are Driving Excitement about Payments Innovation in the World’s Biggest Emerging Markets

Ahead of the MasterCard Innovation Forum 2015, to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 29-30 September, a MasterCard study revealed that digital wallets are the main topic of discussion online when it comes to payments innovation in some of the world’s biggest emerging markets including the...

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