Agility, a supply chain service said finalises sale of its Global Integrated Logistics (GIL) business to DSV Panalpina A/S (DSV), a Danish transport and logistics company. The all-shares transaction gave Agility 19,304,348 DSV shares in all jurisdictions, representing approximately 8% of all post-transaction shares of DSV. This makes Agility the second largest DSV shareholder based […]
Avaya, a communications and collaboration platform recently announced a strategic relationship with Microsoft to create a powerful set of joint cloud communications solutions to define the future of customer and employee experience. Benefitting from the complementary strengths of both companies, the joint solutions include Avaya’s award-winning Avaya OneCloud CPaaS (Communications Platform as a Service) now […]
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has used its state-of-the-art digital infrastructure, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), to turn its Customer Care Centre into a interactive digital centre to enrich customer experience. The centre adds to DEWA’s smart channels for customers to complete their transactions anytime and anywhere. The company also provides all its services on […]
Web safety coalition the Digital Citizens Alliance and anti-piracy firm, White Bullet recently released a report, Breaking (B)ads: How Advertiser-Supported Piracy Helps Fuel a Booming Multi-Billion Dollar Illegal Market that details a year-long investigation into how brands and advertising intermediaries help support the operators of illegal piracy websites and apps through the placement of ads. Online criminals who […]
Informa plc has launched Curinos as its latest subsidiary, equipping financial institutions with a far more expansive view of their competitive position with new data, expertise, and intelligent technologies to plot strategic growth. Curinos, resulting from the combination of Informa’s FBX business and Novantas, Inc., is an industry data, analytics and technology company servicing financial […]
Arab Advisors Group recently announced the launch of its new benchmark reports during September 2021 covering key telecom operators in MENA. The reports will track and monitor operators’ presence, engagement, responsiveness, and interaction on social media platforms. The reports will cover more than 40 operators which offer telecommunication services across 14 Arab countries. These countries are Algeria, […]
Equifax has partnered with Snowflake to make select differentiated data assets rapidly and securely available through Snowflake Data Marketplace. Snowflake Data Marketplace offers a frictionless data sharing experience with no data transfer or integration requirements, enabling data scientists, business intelligence and analytics professionals access to live and ready-to-query data from Equifax for smarter decision making. Customers […]
Luxury fashion brand Louis Vuitton has seen half a million downloads in the first week of its adventure-based game for mobile, Louis the Game, which launched on 3 August, according to figures from App Annie. China is the biggest market driving the download numbers. The game was created as part of the celebrations to mark the brand’s 200th […]
Medal.tv, a short-form video clipping service and social network for gamers, is entering the livestreaming market with the acquisition of Rawa.tv, a Twitch rival based in Dubai, which had raised around $1 million to date. The seven-figure, all-cash deal will see two of Rawa’s founders, Raya Dadah and Phil Jammal, now joining Medal, and further […]
Abacus.AI debuts as an end-to-end real-time MLOps and DLOps platform. Customers can stream real-time events, such as clickstream data, social media interactions, online purchases, media views and readings from iOT sensors to Abacus.AI through a streaming API. Abacus.AI will process and transform that data, train deep learning models, and generate contextual predictions in real-time. Real-time deep […]
