Culture & Education | Sunday 13 March, 2016 7:25 am

Riyadh Book Fair begins with a new twist

The increase in the number of publishing houses, having extra spaces, providing postal services, having several booths to educate people about foreign countries, as well as, having booths focusing on social initiatives and activities, are some of the features that have made Riyadh Book Fair 2016...

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Tourism & Hospitality | Sunday 13 March, 2016 6:56 am

King Salman Park opened in Riyadh

Riyadh Gov. Prince Faisal bin Bandar inaugurated Phase-1 of the King Salman Park project on the northwest side of King Khaled International Airport, about 50 km from here, on Thursday. The park, which occupies 3.4 million square meters of land, has been aesthetically designed by the planners...

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Technology & IT | Sunday 13 March, 2016 5:22 am

Interactive Intelligence Launches Customer Engagement Cloud Service in Saudi

 Interactive Intelligence Group Inc. (Nasdaq: ININ), a global leader of cloud services for customer engagement, communications and collaboration, has made available a new customer engagement cloud service for businesses in Saudi.   The unique PureCloud Engage℠...

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Business & Money | Saturday 12 March, 2016 3:11 pm

Applications to drive Saudi business success

APPLICATIONS are more vital to business performance, security and availability than ever before, according to new research from F5 Networks. Results of the State of the Application Delivery (SOAD) survey — the only study of its kind worldwide — were revealed in Riyadh at the F5 Networks ...

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Business & Money | Saturday 12 March, 2016 2:29 pm

World’s Largest Homeland Security Event in 2016 Opens Next Week in Abu Dhabi

The world’s largest homeland security and national resilience event in 2016, the 7thInternational Exhibition for National Security and Resilience (ISNR), opens next week at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre from 15-17 March 2016.   ISNR 2016 will run under the theme of...

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Business & Money | Saturday 12 March, 2016 11:54 am

Hajjar, Singh sign deal for Indian pilgrims

Minister of Haj Bandar Hajjar and India’s Minister of State for External Affairs Gen. (Rtd.) V.K. Singh signed on Thursday the annual bilateral agreement for services to Indian pilgrims taking part in the upcoming Haj. The signing followed a meeting between Singh and Hajjar in...

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Tourism & Hospitality | Saturday 12 March, 2016 11:52 am

New academy to train youths for tourism jobs

The Saudi Academy for Event, Conventions and Conferences will be launched in September this year to groom young talent for tourism sector jobs and the sector’s requirements. This academy, which will be the first of its kind in the Middle East, will focus on the development of human...

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Culture & Education | Saturday 12 March, 2016 11:51 am

Four Saudis win top British alumni education awards

Four Saudis who graduated from British universities have been honored for their achievements at the Education United Kingdom Alumni Awards for 2016. This was announced here Thursday night at a gala awards ceremony hosted by Simon Collis, British ambassador to the Kingdom. The awards were organized ...

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Technology & IT | Saturday 12 March, 2016 11:47 am

Mobily introduces (Connect Roaming) packages during spring vacation

Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) introduces distinctive (Connect Roaming) packages during the current spring vacation. These packages meet the customer demand in staying online during their vacation outside the kingdom. (Connect Roaming) packages come in four distinctive offers; the starting package...

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Technology & IT | Saturday 12 March, 2016 10:18 am

Panasonic Unveils Enhanced "freeze-ray" Series Data Archiver System, Using 300 GB Optical Discs

Panasonic Corporation today unveiled its enhanced "freeze-ray" series Data Archiver, using 300GB Optical Discs (scheduled for release in the 2nd half of 2016) at the OCP U.S. Summit 2016 being held March 9-10, 2016, in San Jose, California. Panasonic is proposing a data archiving system...

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