Accenture has announced that it will achieve a gender-balanced workforce, with 50 percent women and 50 percent men, by 2025. Currently, Accenture has 150,000 women, nearly 40 percent of its global workforce. Over the past several years the company has set milestones on the path to gender equality. Read More…

Honeywell and Saudi Aramco have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that advances their long-standing cooperation, further supports the development and diversification of Saudi Arabia’s oil and gas sectorRead More…

Saudi Telecom Company (STC) on Thursday unveiled a $500 million venture capital fund, aimed at stimulating the Middle East’s digital ecosystem by investing in promising digital start-ups across the region. Read More…

The Saudi General Authority of Zakat and Tax will publish the value-added tax (VAT) draft on its electronic portal within the next two weeks, local media in Saudi Arabia reported on Wednesday. Read More…

During her recently concluded three-day visit to the Kingdom, Meg Whitman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), met with key decision makers to discuss new growth opportunities to foster innovation and fulfil the nation’s Vision 2030 agenda. During the visit, Whitman met with senior officials fromRead More…

Veeam has announced the appointment of IT veteran Graham Porter as Middle East channel manager. Graham will be responsible for the company’s regional channel sales team spread across Dubai, Riyadh and Qatar, managing relationships with major distributors such as Aptec, Redington and Logicom and building opportunities along with ecosystem alliance partnersRead More…

Mobily has signed a memorandum of understanding with Palo Alto Networks with the aim of evaluating and subsequently developing future security offerings to be made available to Mobily’s customers. Any offerings brought to market according to this memorandum would be based on the Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Security Platform.Read More…