• Generation Start-up: How Fine Diner emerged from another failed venture amid Covid-19

  While the Covid-19 outbreak has hurt businesses across the globe, Sami Elayan, founder of mobile app Fine Diner, sees the crisis as an opportunity to be resilient and fill gaps created by the pandemic. “We can’t sit back and wait for the situation to improve...

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• Dh3.6 billion tech merger in Dubai: OLX and EMPG join forces

    Dubai-based Emerging Markets Property Group (EMPG) and OLX, which owns listings portals dubizzle, have merged their Middle East and North Africa and South Asia operations to form a Dh3.6 billion holding company.   This is the third in a series of mega deals in Dubai’s...

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• UAE telco Du reveals 200% surge in use of video services, including Zoom

    UAE telco Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC) – also known as Du – has revealed a 200 percent increase in its video streaming services, including Zoom, since the onset of the coronavirus outbreak.   The app has been used extensively across the country following...

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• Generation Start-up: Why Itcan thinks all e-commerce ventures should thrive in the crisis

    For e-commerce businesses finding it hard to survive during the Covid-19 pandemic, digital marketing specialist Mansour Althani of Itcan has one message: “You shouldn’t be struggling at this time.”   “If you are,” adds the chief executive and co-founder of the technology and digital...

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• Earth Day: coronavirus is real and so is climate change

    Today is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Unfortunately, there is little to celebrate as the world undergoes an unprecedented crisis.   In the run-up to this Earth Day, we find that we may not have done enough as global citizens to celebrate.  ...

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