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 […]