TikTok teams up with Shopify to boost e-commerce

San Francisco: Ahead of the online holiday shopping season, Shopify has entered into a global partnership with short video-sharing platform TikTok to make it easier for the e-commerce company’s more than one million merchants to boost social commerce presence. The TikTok channel is now available in the US, and will become available in other select […]

Microsoft rides cloud to higher earnings

San Francisco: Microsoft on Tuesday said its profit in the recently ended quarter continued to soar as the pandemic boosted a trend toward business being taken care of in the internet cloud. The US technology titan’s profit rose to $13.9 billion, up 30 percent from the same quarter last year, according to earnings figures. Revenue […]

LinkedIn’s new ‘Career Explorer’ tool to help professionals find jobs

New Delhi: Professional networking platform LinkedIn on Thursday launched new tools and resources to help unemployed professionals get back to work. LinkedIn’s new ‘Career Explorer’ tool helps job-seekers find new jobs by mapping their skills to open roles, and the new #Hiring frame helps hiring managers share that they are hiring right from their profiles, […]

‘Zadi’ platform keeps Dubai’s food trade flowing

Dubai: Jebel Ali Free Zone’s food import portal ‘Zadi’ was able to withstand all of the disruptions and challenges posed by the COVID-19 outbreak, according to the free zone. A joint initiative with Dubai Customs and Dubai Municipality, Zadi supports more than 18,000 companies engage in 360,000 transactions annually via the platform. It allows for […]