Saudi tech start-up pushes instant messaging for businesses to boost engagement with customers

Dubai: Unifonic, the Saudi Arabia-based cloud tech innovator, has launched this week at GITEX Technology Week an enhanced multi-channel solution for businesses to boost engagement with customers. The Riyadh-based technology firm is pushing an enhanced multi-channel platform launched during this week’s tech jamboree in Dubai. Unifonic offers a portfolio of solutions to boost engagement with […]

Dubai red-hot again? 24% spike in off-plan sales; property sales zoom past 2018 numbers

Dubai: Property buyers in Dubai sure are picking up the bargains. Off-plan sales in the year to end September have already crossed the tally for the whole of 2018 — that’s 16,056 units against 12,979. Sales volumes are running at a 24 per cent gain year-on-year as investors and end users swoop in on the […]

Indians are going to the movies to escape slowing economy, cinema owner says

Cinemas are seeing brisk business even as India’s economy slows to a six-year low and unemployment swells, according to PVR Ltd., the nation’s largest operator of multi-screen theatres. Ever since the box-office hit Kabir Singh released in June, even films with small budgets or less-recognizable actors are drawing the crowds, Kamal Gianchandani, chief executive officer […]

Meet UAE-based Indian millionaire Mithesh Bhatia: From Dh5,000 to over Dh10 million turnover

Dubai: Mithesh Bhatia, 34, dabbled in business way back in 2007. He had saved Dh5,000 from working odd jobs and was studying at a Dubai-based university at the same time. And this [the Dh5,000] became the start-up capital for his very first venture in the UAE. Meet Nyla Khan, 27-year-old tycoon building an education empire […]

UAE Central Bank launches customer satisfaction survey

ABU DHABI: The Central Bank of the UAE, CBUAE, has launched a survey to gauge the level of customer satisfaction rates with banks, finance companies and exchange houses operating in the UAE. The survey is part of CBUAE’s ongoing commitment to monitoring the activities of financial institutions, improving customer experiences and understanding consumer sentiment. The […]

US seeks to blacklist Chinese artificial intelligence firms

San Francisco: The United States is blacklisting a group of Chinese tech companies that develop facial recognition and other artificial intelligence technology that the US says is being used to repress China’s Muslim minority groups. A move Monday by the US Commerce Department puts the companies on a so-called Entity List for acting contrary to […]