As we enter 2017, there are a number of issues that owners of UAE businesses of all sizes and across all sectors will face. In this article, I will highlight the areas we, as a business ourselves, feel will be hot topic items in 2017, and the biggest issues our existing clients have been engaging […]

Netflix added nearly 2 million new subscribers domestically and around 5 million subscribers internationally in the fourth quarter this year, the company said today. Wall Streets expectations for the fourth quarter fell far below that, coming in at 1.38 million and 3.78 million respectively. We’ll address the financial parts of the company further down, but […]

The head of Dubai Land Department (DLD) has predicted a rebound for the city’s real estate market this year, signaling an upward trend for sustained growth in the run-up to Expo 2020. Sultan Butti Bin Merjen, director-general of DLD made the comments in an annual report for 2016 which revealed that total real estate transactions […]

Facebook is deeply invested in understanding how small and medium-sized businesses engage with digital tools, not only because they’re crucial customers, but also because small enterprises provide the majority of jobs globally. On Tuesday, Facebook unveiled the “2017 Future of Business” survey with the World Bank and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to […]

The annual Powering Africa Summit returns to Washington DC this March providing a platform for Africa’s energy sector stakeholders and developers to engage multilateral, global investors and technology providers. The meeting will present backbone energy and infrastructure projects to the most proactive partners. The Summit in 2016 welcomed 620 attendees from 18 countries and whilst […]

Dubai’s Department of Economic Development (DED) issued 26,707 new business licenses in 2016, as it introduced new measures to ease the setting up of new businesses. The number of licenses renewed in 2016 stood at 107,043 while 20,873 initial approvals were issued and 38,918 trade named were reserved. The data was released by the Business […]

A new list of the world’s most and least powerful passports has been released, ranking them for the ease of travel they offer. The latest edition of the Passport Index by Arton Capital ranks national passports by the cross-border access they bring, assigning a “visa-free score” according to the number of countries a passport holder […]

The UAE is making great strides towards achieving its vision of boasting some of the smartest cities in the world, with Dubai emerging as the Middle East’s leading smart city due to its high-tech infrastructure and execution of several smart initiatives. The countries of the Gulf region are playing an increasingly visible role in the […]

UAE equity markets, both Dubai and Abu Dhabi, remained resilient to the fall in the oil price in H1 2016. The Dubai General Index and Abu Dhabi General Index registered year-to-date returns of 6.5 percent and 1.9 percent respectively. The better performance of telecom, banking and real estate stocks in UAE markets have been the […]

Tech – Facebook, Google and Alibaba cofounders sponsored lavish prizes in physics, life sciences, and math. A constellation of tech billionaires, A-list celebrities, and preeminent scientists convened at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley for an Oscars-style ceremony celebrating the biggest achievements in science on Sunday evening. In its fifth year, the Breakthrough Prizes […]