Business & Money | Thursday 27 August, 2015 6:36 am

Labor Ministry to launch new e-recruitment service next week

An official at the Ministry of Labor confirmed that ministry will launch an e-recruitment service via the Musaned website next week. The service will allow employers to apply for visas without the need to visit labor offices. Ahmad Al-Ghamdi, director of public relations at the Labor Ministry, ...

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Business & Money | Thursday 27 August, 2015 5:58 am

Voter registration yet to pick up

Only 7,034 Saudis have so far registered in Riyadh and the Eastern Province for the Dec. 12 municipal council elections, a local publication reported Wednesday. The elections, held for the third time in the Kingdom, are expected to attract a record number of voters because it includes women...

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Business & Money | Thursday 27 August, 2015 1:13 am

Coca-Cola on Track to Meet 100% Water Replenishment Goal

The Coca-Cola Company and its global bottling partners (the Coca-Cola system) today announced they are on track to meet their 2020 water replenishment goal by the end of 2015. Based on the Coca-Cola system’s global water replenishment projects to date, the system is...

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Business & Money | Wednesday 26 August, 2015 4:03 pm

Red Sea Mall 200 Million Riyals Expansion Launched!

The Red Sea Mall, Jeddah’s biggest shopping center and family entertainment district, formally announced the commencement of its largest expansion project in a special ceremony attended by VIP retailers, businessmen, influencers and members of the media at the Park Hyatt Hotel. The...

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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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Business & Money | Wednesday 26 August, 2015 2:46 pm

Virgin Megastore Opens Largest Apple Shop in Saudi Arabia

Virgin Megastore, one of the world’s leading retail chain in electronics and entertainment, with 40 stores spread across eight countries in the Middle East, announced the opening of the biggest Apple Shop in Saudi Arabia on August 24th at its Red Sea Mall store in...

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Business & Money | Wednesday 26 August, 2015 1:52 pm

MELBOURNE ONLY CITY NAMED AS WORLD’S MOST LIVEABLE FOR FIVE YEARS

 Melbourne remains the only city in the world to have this week topped the Economist’s Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) Global Liveability Index for the fifth year in a row. The annual ranking looks at living conditions in 140 cities across the globe by assigning a rating across five...

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Business & Money | Wednesday 26 August, 2015 12:54 pm

EUROSTAR Launches Asianet Mobile TV App for the GCC Malayalees

EUROSTAR Group, the leading digital and consumer technology innovator in the Middle East, today announced the launch of Asianet Mobile TV Tablet and App for the GCC – a bouquet of twenty popular Malayalam television channels that could be watched and an entire range of Radio channels on your...

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Business & Money | Wednesday 26 August, 2015 12:00 pm

More Than 4,500 Chinese Dragons Set To Descend On Melbourne

The International Dragon Award (IDA) Annual Meeting, a prestigious international conference currently being hosted in Dubai, will be staged in Melbourne in August 2017, it was officially announced today. More than 4,500 Mandarin speaking insurance specialists chose Melbourne for their convention ...

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Business & Money | Wednesday 26 August, 2015 7:59 am

Pacific Controls Acquires Equity in WSO2 Positioning itself as a Global Leader in Delivering Managed Cloud Services

Pacific Control Systems (PCS), the world leader in Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions, announced that it has invested $20 million into WSO2, an open source cloud application development and middleware company. Further to this investment, Mr. Dilip Rahulan, Executive...

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