Business & Money | Monday 7 September, 2015 3:06 pm

GCC megaprojects report points to major opportunities for contractors

Megaprojects worth hundreds of billions of dollars are creating enormous opportunities for contractors, sub-contractors, suppliers, and manufacturers in the Middle East. This is one of the suggestions of a new report published by Ventures Onsite, which details the top 30...

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Business & Money | Saturday 5 September, 2015 11:15 am

Commodities market forecast – until end 2015

Background: A broad basket of commodities has fallen to the lowest level in 16 years thereby wiping out all the gains that were made during the Chinese boom years during the first decade of this millennium. The main trigger for this weakness has not been due to slowing demand but more due to...

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Technology & IT | Saturday 5 September, 2015 3:07 am

CIOs in Saudi Need to Heed Five Signs Indicating it’s Time to Upgrade IT Network

How old is the equipment running the organization’s IT network? Older than 5 years? Do recurrent network outages occur? Is there a struggle with poor quality voice and video communications? Is it too costly to maintain the organization’s legacy equipment? Is there trouble scaling up...

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Business & Money | Thursday 3 September, 2015 2:43 pm

Emirates NBD Saudi Arabia PMI™

Saudi Arabia’s non-oil private sector continued on its strong growth path in August, with business conditions improving at the sharpest pace since March. Output, new orders and employment all rose more quickly, as did purchasing activity. As a result, the sector gathered further momentum,...

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Business & Money | Wednesday 2 September, 2015 8:29 am

JADWA Investment - Saudi Chartbook Sep 2015

Economic activity recorded a seasonal slowdown in July, in line with the usual pattern around the Eid al-Fitr holidays. The net withdrawals from government accounts with SAMA fell to its lowest point in ten months with all three main government accounts recording small net monthly changes. This led ...

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Healthcare | Tuesday 1 September, 2015 3:25 pm

the major health concerns that are associated with Hajj

- Interview Dr. Mushira Abdulaziz Enani, MBBS, FRCPE, FACP, CIC - Head- Section of Adult Infectious Diseases - Medical Specialties Department at King Fahad Medical City What are the major health concerns that are associated with mass gathering events such as Hajj? Religious...

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Technology & IT | Tuesday 1 September, 2015 2:44 pm

Ericsson Mobility Report: mobıle data traffıc wıll grow 14 tımes by 2020

The inaugural appendix to the Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) Mobility Report for the Middle East and North East Africa, reveals that, despite the market being extremely varied with regards to Information & Communications Technology (ICT) adoption and mobile penetration, the proliferation of mobile...

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Business & Money | Sunday 30 August, 2015 1:03 pm

93.8% of professionals in the Middle East and North Africa have a positive outlook on life

The ‘Personal Fulfillment in the Middle East and North Africa’ poll, recently conducted by Bayt.com –  the Middle East’s leading career site –  has revealed that 93.8% of professionals polled from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have a positive ...

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Business & Money | Thursday 27 August, 2015 12:54 pm

Saudi Arabia is looking to hire Software, Hardware, Telecom professionals

The Monster Employment Index is a monthly gauge of online job posting activity in Middle-East based on a real-time review of tens of thousands of employer job opportunities culled from a large representative selection of career Web sites and online job listings. The Index does not reflect the trend ...

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Business & Money | Wednesday 26 August, 2015 3:42 pm

GCC Governments Urged to Secure National Infrastructure in Face of ‘High Risk’ of Cyberattacks

GCC governments are urged to secure critical national infrastructure in the face of high risk of more sophisticated cyberattacks in the emerging Internet of Things era, industry experts announced today.   As Internet of Things era advances, with IBM predicting 30 billion autonomously...

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