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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.
  • From vast numbers of CCTV cameras to trials of lampposts kitted out with facial recognition tech, Singapore is seeing an...

    From vast numbers of CCTV cameras to trials of lampposts kitted out with facial recognition tech, Singapore is seeing an explosion of tools to track its inhabitants

    Officials have long pushed a vision of a hyper-efficient, tech-driven "smart nation", but activists say privacy is being sacrificed

  • Data Analytics

    Data analysts are already helping businesses set marketing strategies, explains Jadd Elliot Dib, founder and CEO of Pangaea X.

    Through data analytics, SMEs can get a better understanding of their customers behavior

    Big Data has the ability to positively impact all industries in the region by creating new revenue streams

  • Already in 2018, 3.6 billion people had inadequate access to water for at least one month per year, and only...

    Over the last 20 years, the levels of water stored on land had dropped at a rate of 1 cm per year

    This includes water on the surface, in the subsurface, in snow and ice

  • The United Arab Emirates will launch a spacecraft to explore a major asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, officials said...

    In September 2019, the oil-rich country sent the first Emirati into space

    The UAE also has plans to send an unmanned rover to the moon by 2024

  • The Nobel Physics Prize has been awarded for ‘groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems.’

    Syukuro Manabe demonstrated how increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere lead to increased temperatures

    Klaus Hasselmann created a model that linked together weather and climate, thus explaining why climate models can be reliable

  • The Arab countries have their own share in terms of investment in innovations with the UAE and Saudi Arabia leading...

    Despite human and economic toll of the COVID-19 pandemic, investments in innovation have increased in parts of the world

    The UAE ranks first among the top 12 most innovative Arab countries in 2021 and 33rd in the world, according to the Global Innovation Index

  • The world's airlines made a joint pledge Monday to reach "net zero" CO2 by 2050, as the aviation industry ramps...

    "The important decision that we must make today will secure the freedom to fly for future generations"

    IATA represents 290 member airlines comprising 82 percent of pre-pandemic global air traffic

  • The Red Sea Development Company (TRSDC) of Saudi Arabia has partnered with an Austrian biotechnology firm, Blue Planet Ecosystems (BPE),...

    "The initiative is in response to “growing consumer demand for sustainable protein”

    BPE will specifically provide the Land-based Automated Recirculating Aquaculture (LARA) system, which mimics a natural aquatic ecosystem

  • They will share the Nobel Prize cheque for 10 million Swedish kronor ($1.1 million, €1 million).

    The scientists had won the prize for discoveries on receptors for temperature and touch

    In essence they discovered how humans, for instance, feal the warmth of the sun or when they touch something hot

  • A project has managed to grow date palm trees from 2,000-year-old seeds found near the Dead Sea.

    Samples of the dates from the trees will be available for sale soon, said the team that grew the trees

    They used an enzyme-based fertilizer to grow the plants, ruling out the use of any man-made chemicals

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