The November 2022 edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report forecasts that in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, 5G subscriptions are projected to grow steadily from 24 to 270 million up to the end of 2028, accounting for 31 percent of total connections at that time. Data trafficRead More…
Zoho Desk’s new version offers one-of-a-kind Blended Conversations feature, combining human-driven conversation and machine-intelligence conversational services. Zoho Corporation has launched an updated version of Zoho Desk, the anchor application in the company’s customer service platform, to help customer service teams evolve with the changing needs of customers and meet heightenedRead More…
With a global surge of 75% in ransomware attacks, Trend Micro solutions protected organizations from 63 billion threats in H1 2022 Trend Micro has predicted that ransomware groups will increasingly target Linux servers and embedded systems over the coming years. The latest Trend Micro 2022 Midyear Roundup Report recorded aRead More…
The collaboration to provide seamless customer experiences in Magnati MetaV Saudi Arabia-based fintech firm Geidea has partnered with Magnati – a leader in the payments solutions industry – to enable merchants to provide seamless customer experiences in Magnati MetaV – the first metaverse marketplace in the MENA region.Read More…
By tapping into Geidea’s network of merchants in Egypt, the partnership will allow valU to expand its customer and merchant bases valU, MENA’s leading Buy-Now, Pay-Later (BNPL) lifestyle-enabling fintech platform, has announced that it has formed a partnership with Geidea, a Saudi-based digital payments provider, to integrate the company’s seamlessRead More…
Wipro Limited has announced the launch of a new Middle East financial services advisory capability. Capco, a Wipro company, will offer strategic management and technology consulting capabilities to financial services firms in the Middle East to enable their transformation, digitization, and business consolidation initiatives. Regional macroeconomic trends, including diversification fromRead More…
Dataiku, the platform for Everyday AI, has announced $200 million in Series F funding led by new investor, Wellington Management, at a $3.7 billion valuation.Read More…
Equinix has announced plans to enter the South African market with a US$160 million data center investment in Johannesburg that augments its current footprint on the African continent in Nigeria, Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. The new data center is expected to open mid-2024. With its South Africa expansion, Equinix isRead More…
Leading value-added distributor emt Distribution has announced that it has expanded its partnership agreement with Progress, a provider of application development and infrastructure software, to help partners and customers in the Middle East and Africa region with load balancing and network security solutions. emt Distribution caters to the entire cybersecurityRead More…
Cloudflare has announced a new Impact Initiative to provide Zero Trust security at no cost to small and medium critical infrastructure organizations around the world. This new program, named Project Safekeeping, aims to protect under-resourced organizations that provide a critical community benefit but are at high risk for cyberattacks, withRead More…
The new partnership is essential as the number of overbroad money transfers continues to grow, with the value of remittances from the UAE being Dh 2.88 trillion* (780 billion USD) in Q1 2022. NOW Money and ThetaRay have announced a collaboration to implement ThetaRay’s cloud-based AML solution to monitor cross-borderRead More…
Aspen Technology has announced a partnership with Aramco to introduce a unique, integrated modelling and optimization solution that will enable capital intensive industries to achieve practical and economic solutions for Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU). The new solution is based on technology developed by Aramco collaboratively with the Korea AdvancedRead More…
