A decade of bringing jazz and its many musical offshoots to Bahrain will take centre stage this year as BNP Paribas Bahrain Jazz Fest returns for its 10th anniversary edition with a lineup spanning international...

G42 the Abu Dhabi-based global technology group and its portfolio company Analog have signed memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with Advanced Machine Intelligence. The non-binding agreements span frontier...

The GCC remained the largest contributor to emerging-market (EM) US dollar ESG debt issuance in 9M26 accounting for about 39% of the total excluding China Fitch Ratings says. We expect the GCC to continue...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is stepping up preparations for sixth-generation (6G) communications focusing on advanced network capabilities artificial intelligence (AI) spectrum readiness and international...

etisalat UAE has become the first telecom operator in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region to achieve accredited certification to ISO/IEC 42001:2023 for its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Management...

Bahrain s The Information & eGovernment Authority (iGA) has announced the renewal of a strategic agreement with Computer World being the Amazon Web Services (AWS) s approved partner for the government...

stc Bahrain a digital enabler in the kingdom has partnered with the National Bank of Bahrain (NBB) Group to support the enhancement of its data centre infrastructure as part of the second phase of the...

Saudi Arabia s foreign direct investment (FDI) net inflows for FY2025 surged to SAR159 billion ( 41.7 billion) up 33.5% over the previous year while the country s FDI stock rose 8.3% to hit SAR1.06 trillion...

VAST Data and Hyperfusion have announced plans to integrate the VAST AI Operating System into Hyperfusion s Sentinel modular AI infrastructure as its preferred data platform. This will create a jointly...

Emirates NBD Asset Management and BlackRock have launched two new income-focused funds the FundStar Emirates CLO AA Fund and the Emirates Systematic Income and Growth Fund. Building on the initial platform...

UAE organisations are adopting AI-powered security at pace and seeing clear improvements in how quickly they detect and respond to threats according to new research from Cisco. However the findings show...

Nasdaq Dubai has welcomed the secondary listing of two sovereign bond issuances totalling 1.55 billion by the Republic of the Congo as the first sovereign issuer from Africa to list securities on Nasdaq...

The Future Investment Initiative (FII) Institute has postponed the 10th edition of its flagship conference themed The Power of Legacy which was scheduled to take place in Riyadh from October 26 to 29 2026...

DIP Holding the owner of Dubai Investments Park has announced plans to list its shares on the Dubai Financial Market through an initial public offering comprising 20% of its issued share capital. A DIFC-incorporated...

Dubai s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) results hit AED473 billion ( 129 billion) in H1 2026 according to data released by the Dubai Data and Statistics Establishment at Digital Dubai. The results reflect...

stc Bahrain a digital enabler has selected Telenor Linx as its Firebase Phone Number Verification provider becoming the first mobile operator in the Middle East to deploy the advanced verification service...