INSEAD Day 4 - 728x90

BYD logs record EV sales in 2025

It sold 2.26m EVs vs Tesla's 1.22 by Sept end.

Google to invest $6.4bn

The investment is its biggest-ever in Germany.

Pfizer poised to buy Metsera

The pharma giant improved its offer to $10bn.

Ozempic maker lowers outlook

The company posted tepid Q3 results.

Kimberly-Clark to buy Kenvue

The deal is valued at $48.7 billion.
  • Shuaa Capital, the Dubai-based fund manager, has set up a $250 million venture debt fund in order to shore up...

    According to the company, the Shariah fund, to be listed in Abu Dhabi’s market, will focus on technology ventures “seeking alternative sources of capital”

    Early-stage businesses are dominating investments with VC funding to the Middle East and North Africa startups soaring to $2.6 billion in 2021

  • Saudi Arabia accounted for 22 percent of GCC investments to Latin America during 2016-2021, followed by Qatar with 1 percent.

    Saudi Arabia accounted for 22 percent of GCC investments to Latin America during 2016-2021, followed by Qatar with 1 percent

    The report, titled Cultivating Ties: Deepening trade and investment between Latin America and the GCC, was issued ahead of the Global Business Forum Latin America 2022

  • Survey analyses the impact of COVID-19 on small businesses, the key verticals of growth and the growing acceptance of digital...

    Survey analyses the impact of COVID-19 on small businesses, the key verticals of growth and the growing acceptance of digital payments

    With adoption of digitalization, 41 percent of the respondents have seen increased purchases through social media channels

  • It is hard to balance sustainable developments and what people want in the market, especially when it comes to pricing,...

    Designing a building, putting up construction plans in terms of materials until the demolition are responsibilities of a sustainable property developer

    The real estate market in Dubai had a 65 percent increase in the number of transactions and a 71 percent increase in value in 2021.

  • The money will go in producing aviation fuel from waste.

    The Lighthouse Green Fuel project generates more than 180 million liters of sustainable aviation fuel annually in the UK

    This amount of sustainable aviation fuel is sufficient to power 15,000 flights per year, reducing harmful carbon emissions from conventional fuels by over 700,000 tons annually

  • Emirati entrepreneurs and national enterprises in Dubai won contracts worth AED 921.6 million ($250 million) from various local and federal...

    Since 2002, GPP has facilitated contracts worth over AED 8.4 billion for Dubai SME members from 69 supporting entities across the government, semi-government and private sectors.

    Expo 2020 Dubai topped the list of local government support agencies of GPP last year with contracts worth AED 161.7 million.

  • Egypt hosted the Israeli and UAE leaders for unprecedented three-way talks Tuesday as the Ukraine war rocks energy and food...

    The meeting, which took place in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, included discussions on "energy, market stability, and food security"

    The first three-way summit of its kind comes at a crucial time for the Middle East after Russia's invasion of Ukraine sparked concerns about stability and sent commodity prices up

  • Vietnam has signed economic, trade and scientific-technological cooperation agreements with five GCC countries.

    Vietnam has mostly traded with six member nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council in the Middle East region.

    Trade between Vietnam and the GCC countries has surged from US$2.7 billion in 2012 to US$12.5 billion in 2021.

  • The payout will be in the form of cash and bonus shares.

    The firm said the shareholders will get a cash dividend of six fils per share and a bonus of one share for every 40 shares held, which is equivalent to 12 fils per share.

    Last year, group revenue increased by 12 percent to 1.95 billion dirhams ($530 million), while net income grew 6.3 percent to 585 million dirhams.

  • Libyan authorities reopened the war-torn country's skies for domestic flights on Tuesday, an aviation official said, two weeks after they...

    Flights between Mitiga and other Libyan airports had been suspended since March 7, after the country's eastern-based parliament appointed a rival government

    The United Nations and Western officials had called repeatedly for the airspace to be reopened