Azadea.com, the lifestyle retail website based in UAE, has announced yet another pioneering online partnership with Italian makeup and cosmetics brand, Kiko Milano. Launching the multi-national Italian brand across the MENA region aims to accelerate its growth by reaching consumers in the Middle East and Africa. With stores currently operating in 14 malls across...
Giselle Kassatly, a Reiki Master, Transcendental Meditation practitioner, and Women's Fashion Designer has launched her new book titled ”Be a Woman”, all-dedicated to women empowerment. Kassatly, who also hosts TV and Radio shows to help spread awareness for self improvement and better lifestyle, shares in this book all the phases of...
SHAREit Group, a global technology company, announced that its file sharing, content streaming, and gaming application SHAREit now ranks amongst the Middle East region's elite top five Android user platforms across gaming and non-gaming industry categories. In the Retention Index, SHAREit has expanded its influence into the non-gaming category, ranking...
Akama Holding, the Dubai-based family office with investments in media, tech and content, has welcomed Near, the leading privacy-led source of intelligence on people, places and products, as an investor in its SaaS data-driven marketing solutions company MEmob+. The Singapore-based data intelligence specialist has taken a minority stake in a...
The fifth annual The Marketing Society conference took place last week at Marketing Mania, GITEX, bringing together key industry figures from the UAE’s marketing landscape to discuss how marketing can spearhead long-term business and economic growth in the region. ‘Changemakers Unite’ saw respected marketing leaders and visionaries from some of...
NEOM Tech & Digital Holding Company – the first holding company to be established as a subsidiary of NEOM – today announced Oracle as the first tenant of its hyperscale data center at NEOM. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) will be hosted at the data center, providing a high-performing, resilient foundation...
With the rise in digital streaming services and a shift in consumer behaviour toward premium content at home, the cinema industry’s ‘theatrical windows’ have never been more important to operators as the sector strives to recover from the past two years of predominant closures. Speaking in a CABSAT panel discussion...
Mouawad, a privately held Swiss and Emirati company that makes and sells jewelry, objects of art, and luxury watches, has revealed its special partnership as exclusive jewelry sponsor of Spencer movie, a new biopic on the life of Princess Diana, which received a rapturous standing ovation following its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September...
Viu, the pan-regional over-the-top (OTT) video streaming service, and Choueiri Group jointly announce the appointment of Digital Media Services (DMS), the digital arm of Choueiri Group, as Viu’s exclusive media representative across the MENA region. The collaboration, which became effective on October 1, 2021, will witness DMS working towards supporting...
The Stevie Awards has issued a call for entries for the 2022 (third annual) Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards, sponsored by the RAK Chamber of Commerce & Industry. The Middle East Stevie & North Africa Awards are the region’s only awards to recognize innovation in all its forms through the workplace. The awards...
ADFEST is now accepting entries to the ADFEST Lotus Awards 2022 and announces a 15% early bird discount for entries submitted before Friday 3rd December 2021. Entries submitted after the early bird deadline will be subject to the regular fees. The final deadline for entry submissions is Friday 24th December...
Lebanon-based commercial bank, Banque BEMO, has launched a social responsibility flavoured initiative titled “Back to our Cedar Roots.” This initiative, launched in partnership with NGO Jouzour Loubnan, consists of offering a number of newly planted Cedar trees in favor of persons of Lebanese origin living abroad and not having a...
The second day of CABSAT 2021, the industry’s first in-person event for satellite, broadcast, and production since the pandemic saw multiple industry leaders and experts talk about the ever-changing industry landscape. Steven Doiron, Executive Vice President, Regulatory & Spectrum Affairs at Yahsat, the Abu Dhabi-based multi-mission satellite services company, insisted...
Hubilo, a provider of virtual and hybrid events technologies, announced it has raised US$125 million in Series B funding from a consortium led by Alkeon Capital. The announcement comes just months after Hubilo established a strong client base in Dubai in response to growing demand from UAE organisations for its...
The Remote Work in the MENA Poll 2021, conducted recently by Bayt.com, the renowned Middle East's #1 job site, and global online market research company, YouGov, revealed that over two-thirds of Lebanon respondents believe that remote working will either increase or remain the same as now after the pandemic situation...
