INSEAD Day 4 - 728x90

2PointZero posts profit surge

Growth driven by merger consolidation.

Mashreq Q1 profit rises

Total revenue increased 10% year-on-year.

TECOM profit climbs

High occupancy across assets boosts earnings.

Emirates Stallions Q1 revenue up 11%

The rise helped by strong demand in real estate

ADNOC Distribution 2025 dividend $700m

The company had reported EBITDA of $1.17 bn in 2025.
  • A controversial proposal of staging the FIFA World Cup championship every two years rather than the current four-year cycle is...

    FIFA is to hold an online global summit to discuss the feasibility of biennial world cups

    An association of 54 of FIFA's 211 members, the Confederation of African Football' supports the idea

  • An NFT by digital artist Beeple was auctioned at Christie's in March for $69.3 million in March this year.

    Non-Fungible Tokens or NFTs are digital items that can be bought and sold using this blockchain technology

    However, they are not fungible, meaning an NFT cannot be exchanged for another NFT

  • The Oman-origin telecom firm has signed a deal with Optiva for this.

    Omantel’s agreement with Optiva will upgrade the latter’s Charging Engine to a cloud-native architecture on the former’s private cloud

    The upgrade is expected to support new business models for 5G monetization

  • Morocco’s official recycling aim is 20 percent garbage by 2022 which has been moved to 2030.

    No domestic organic waste is treated at the factory because “it’s too expensive”

    Official data shows that 66 illegal rubbish dumps in Morocco have been regularized or closed

  • In 2020, Saudi Arabia hosted the International Date Council meeting, under the chairmanship of the Minister of Environment, Water and...

    The Saudi National Center for Palms and Dates and the Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture worked on formulating and implementing initiatives

    Saudi Arabia has supported the idea of establishing the International Date Council to strengthen international cooperation in this field

  • Tunisian authorities are scrambling to find new sites as most of the country's 11 official dumping grounds will close by...

    Tunisia produces 2.6 million tones of waste each year, 85 percent of which ends up in landfills, while the rest goes into informal dumps

    National waste management agency of Tunisia recently admitted that it lacks resources to control the situation

  • The deals are in sectors ranging from livestock-rearing to vegetables, rabbits, and even Omani thyme.

    The biggest of the projects is expected to produce 22,000 tons of meat and target the production of fodder and by-products

    This project, worth RO11,387,000 ($29.62 million), will be on an area of 574 feddan (around 596 acre)

  • The Dubai firm has appointed an exclusive pan-India franchisee.

    The franchise partnership agreement was between MYCRANE and Sahil Freight Express Pvt Ltd was signed at Expo 2020 Dubai

    The crane market in India is expected to grow strongly in the coming years due to the expansion of roads and metro railways

  • The center will offer digital products and services using Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies, such as cloud services, the Internet of...

    The data center will be implemented by Moro Hub, a subsidiary of Digital DEWA, the digital arm of DEWA

    The carbon-neutral green data center will use 100% renewable energy with a capacity exceeding 100 megawatts

  • Under Hong Kong's rules, if an airline brings in too many infected passengers on a particular route, it is banned...

    Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker took issue with a border-control rule that temporarily bans airlines that have brought in infected passengers

    Last month, British Airways announced it was suspending Hong Kong flights after crew members were required to quarantine following a positive Covid-19 test among the staff