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  • Cell Towers
    Digital Bridge Said to Be a Lead Bidder in Mobily Tower Sale

    Digital Bridge Holdings is among the leading bidders for Etihad Etisalat Co.’s portfolio of wireless towers in Saudi Arabia, a sale that could fetch as much as $2 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

  • Satellite Imagery
    DigitalGlobe and Saudi government sign joint venture on satellite imaging constellation

    Westminster, Colorado-based DigitalGlobe operates a fleet of large high-resolution satellites whose imagery is sold worldwide. The company’s principal customer is the U.S. government, through a large contract renewal yearly, with the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

  • Sectarianism and Social Media
    Sectarian Twitter Wars: Sunni-Shia Conflict and Cooperation in the Digital Age

    Amid mounting death tolls in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, sectarian discourse is on the rise across the Arab world—particularly in the online sphere, where extremist voices are amplified and violent imagery and rhetoric spreads rapidly.

  • Iran's Economy
    Iran’s digital start-ups signal changing times

    Western business people returning to Iran in the wake of the nuclear deal may be surprised to find plenty of entrepreneurial drive from a new generation of online start-ups, which have appeared despite years of international sanctions.

  • Banking: ME and Africa
    Digital Transformation Drives New Profits in Banking in Middle East and Africa

    There are no qualms about it. For banking, Africa and the Middle East represent one of the biggest opportunities of our generation. They are already dynamic markets for personal banking, portfolio management, institutional investment. And they will only get much, much bigger as digital banks, next generation banking, online banking, and other financial services arrive to claim their stake.

  • Snapchat and Mecca
    Snapchat opens digital window on Mecca to millions

  • Cyber
    The Invisible (Digital) War

    Every day, an invisible war is waged across the planet. Hundreds of gigabits of data bombard servers every second in nonstop digital warfare targeting the free flow of information.

  • Digital Arabic Content
    Digital Arabic Content: an industry brief

    In the past few years, the MENA region has witnessed a rapid growth of internet and smartphone penetration - and these trends are projected to increase in the foreseeable future. Despite this, the Digital Arabic Content (DAC) field has not grown with the same pace and industry experts point to a significant gap in both the quality and quantity of Arabic content online.

  • Healthcare
    MENA, birthplace for a digital health revolution?

    Healthcare proves both a critical and rapidly growing sector in the Middle East and North Africa, with demand far outpacing supply owing to the growing population and shifting disease demographics, the latter largely prompted by sedentary lifestyle habits resulting in the rising prevalence of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. In 2011, approximately 27 million people in the region had diabetes according to the International Diabetes Federation. In barely four years, that number has already risen to 37 million, and IDF estimates nearly 68 million diabetes sufferers by 2035.

  • Startups in Iraq
    10 digital startups debut at a demo day first in Tehran

    Since launching in 2014 the Tehran-based accelerator AvaTech has taken 10 digital startups successfully onto their first demo day. The event, held in Tehran last week, saw startups covering education, social media, news and project management present their products to investors.