News Desk DUBAI: The UAE government is working on initiatives to equip all schools, universities and students of the country with smart devices and systems, said His Excellency Hussain Bin Ibrahim Al Hammadi, the UAE Minister of Education while inaugurating the Global Educational Supplies and Solutions (GESS) exhibition in Dubai on Tuesday. “Curricula, projects and researches will be enhanced with …

News Desk ABU DHABI: Sky News Arabia and Twitter announced today that the first-ever live Arabic news show on the social platform called #OnStream. The show will launch on February 26 as a weekly show covering general interest news from science and technology, to health, culture, sports and world news. It will air via Sky News Arabia’s Twitter account @SkyNewsArabia. Produced and …

News Desk DUBAI: GymNation reinforced its position as UAE’s fastest growing fitness brand with the recent openings of its Bur Dubai and Ras Al Khaimah branches. The fitness chain also announced plans to open branches in Downtown, Silicon Oasis, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah during the course of 2020. The home grown U.A.E fitness concept opened its doors in January to over 3000 …

By Afshan Lalani KARACHI: A dinner was hosted in honor of visiting delegation from Iran. The special evening was hosted by Rashid Ahmed Siddiqui, President Karachi Business Forum & Think Tank at his place. Pakistan and Iran are close neighbors, and they were together partnering in turkey in what was called regional cooperation for development (rcd). Pakistan share a boundary …

News Desk KARACHI: In line with recent developments in the digital ecosystem and keeping up with an increasing demand for more fluid customer experiences, Jazz has partnered with Telenor Microfinance Bank and Telenor Pakistan has partnered with JazzCash to provide direct and seamless integration on the mobile financial platforms to optimize customer experience. The partnership’s aim is to enable a digital …

News Desk KARACHI: TPL Trakker, Pakistan’s leading IoT Company, has partnered with Eat Mubarak, a local food delivery service, to power their app with TPL Maps, a business segment of TPL Trakker and Pakistan’s first digital mapping service. This partnership will give Eat Mubarak access to the largest location based dataset covering over 400 cities, 4.5 million geocoded addresses and …

KARACHI: Standard Chartered upskilled community coaches from Karachi United Football Club (KUFC) to build future footballers of Pakistan. This programme was led by two Liverpool FC academy coaches for 12 KUFC coaches who work across underserved communities and are an integral part of the Bank’s annual football community league. Steven Gillespie and Paul O Brien, coaches who work with the …

News Desk DUBAI: It was a marathon of a different kind – young, bright and futuristic minds at Carnegie Mellon University worked with intent over a 24-hour period to present 10 extraordinary ideas to Emirates – the lead sponsor of the varsity hackathon. The Emirates Group and Carnegie Mellon University, based in the US, have a history of partnering around various initiatives, including …

News Desk PANAMA CITY, Panama: Dubai Chamber organized a breakfast roundtable for private and public sector stakeholders in Panama, with the aim to introduce them to the trade and investment opportunities in Dubai due to Expo 2020.  The event alsohighlighted on Dubai as a global business destination and gateway to the MENA region for Latin American countries. Forty-five participants representing …

News Desk DUBAI: An impressive line-up of partners and speakers addressed industry peers and stake holders on utilising the IoT landscape to drive innovation at the 5th Internet of Things 2020, held at Armani Hotel Dubai. The key note addressed how AI has made business more profitable with Dr. Sven Korner and using semantic processing to interpret data to deliver real …