Twitter delivered a surprise for Africa when it said it was establishing a regional headquarters in the West African nation of Ghana, triggering a vigorous debate about the business environment for technology start-ups across the continent. For the social media giant, its decision was based on shared values – Ghana supports “free speech, online freedom, […]
The Sharjah Research Technology and Innovation Park (SRTI Park) and PLM, a global design and technology company, launched the Retail R&D Experience Studio, a partnership for innovation in retail, aimed at bringing together the best in the industry. “The future of retail will feature a high level of digital competition. Suppliers will boost direct-to-consumer relationships […]
Celebriffy’s new social media platform to provide real freedom and greater monetisation control to content creators suffering from low payouts, payment interruption, anti-freedom platform rules, and fan relationship limitations pressed by existing social media content publishing platforms. Frustration is killing great content for everyone. The existing power structure has stripped many talented performance artists of […]
Amplitude introduced the Digital Optimisation System, to manage, measure, and optimise the business value of digital product innovation. Amplitude also announced the general availability of its new personalisation product, Amplitude Recommend. Recommend is the first personalisation solution that leverages customer behaviour data in the digital product and machine learning models to determine which behaviours result […]
Leading brands such as The Coca-Cola Company, Hilton, The Home Depot, Panera Bread, ServiceNow and Sony Interactive Entertainment lean on Adobe Experience Platform to power their digital experience strategy, Adobe said in a statement. In the digital-first economy, data volume is skyrocketing as companies accelerate their investment in digital experiences and harness data to optimise […]
VMware has announced a new solution that’s designed to help companies deliver better and more secure experiences to their employees no matter where they are in the world – VMware Anywhere Workspace. The platform is aimed at supporting organisations that want to become truly distributed businesses that can work from anywhere. “Work is what you […]
Dubai-based online mortgage platform Huspy has raised seed funding in a round led by Athens-based VentureFriends, it announced in a statement earlier this week. Beco Capital’s former managing partner Amir Farha also participated in the deal (through his new firm COTU) along with B&Y Venture Partners, Plug and Play, and some family offices from the […]
Raqmiyat has signed a strategic partnership with Software AG to empower entities in the UAE to deliver data-driven intelligent solutions. Under the agreement, the two companies will address customers’ needs to adopt innovation, gain results and grow sustainably with the lineup of the new Software AG solutions such as Application Program Interface (API) technologies, webMethods, […]
Qatar-based Doha Venture Capital has participated in a $235 million funding round for Singapore-based exhibition entertainment experience provider Cityneon. The round, which was led by Cityneon’s existing investors including Singapore’s Pavilion Capital, Ron Tan, Cityneon’s executive chairman and Group CEO, as well as EDBI, also saw backing from Seatown Holdings, along with other financial institutions […]
Alibaba Group, recently hit by a record $2.8 billion anti-monopoly fine in China, has once again ranked third in the global Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) market and first in the Asia Pacific region for the third consecutive year. This was according to global research and advisory firm Gartner’s latest report titled ‘Market Share: IT […]
