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Company’s co-founders will all join competitor Voicera. By Michael Fahy, ZAWYA A Dubai-based technology company started at a hackathon event three years ago has been bought out by a Silicon Valley-based competitor. Wrappup, which has been developing an app using artificial intelligence (AI) to record and automatically note action points in meetings, has been acquired by Voicera, which has also …

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Dubai Internet City (DIC) concluded two days of hosting the STEP Conference held on its premises. The event, which saw more than 6,000 visitors, including professionals, startups, entrepreneurs and students visiting the Dubai Internet City community, brought together over 300 speakers from across the technology ecosystem. STEP, which comprised four different conference streams running in parallel, took place across different …

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Dubai’s non-oil foreign trade grew by 2 percent last year, with China, India, the United States and Saudi Arabia topping a list of the emirate’s biggest trading partners, the Dubai government’s media office said in a press release on Monday. The emirate’s non-oil trade grew by 26 billion dirhams ($7.1 billion) to total 1.302 trillion dirhams in 2017, up from …

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Will also provide job opportunities to over 1,000 UAE citizens. Dubai will have 70 Amer centers by the end of 2018 and these will provide job opportunities to more than 1,000 people, GDRFA has contended. As many as 21 new smart Amer centers have been established and opened since the beginning of this year, said Major General Mohammed Ahmed Al …

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China State Construction to build tower at Aykon City overlooking Dubai Canal. Damac Properties has announced the award of a 600 million UAE dirham ($163.4 million) contract to build a tower at its Aykon City project on Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai. The company has chosen China State Construction Engineering Corporation’s Middle East (CSCEC) arm to build the tower overlooking …

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Dubai has begun testing autonomous pods in a trial run the Gulf’s trade and tourism hub hopes will help its transformation into one of the smartest cities in the world. Officials from Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) displayed two cube-shaped vehicles built by U.S.-based Next Future Transportation company in Italy as they spun around on a main street in …

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The findings of the latest Index were released by the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry. DUBAI: Dubai has once again improved its innovation performance climbing one spot to rank 14th among 30 global cities on the 3rd Dubai Innovation Index, outperforming major business destinations such as Berlin, Madrid, Shanghai and Sao Paulo. The findings of the latest Index were …

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Nasdaq Dubai’s website showed Dubai index futures, due to expire on June 21, trading at 3,328 on Sunday while the underlying index was down 0.6 percent at 3,310 points. Abu Dhabi index futures were at 4,560 while the index was up 0.2 percent at 4,586 points. Nasdaq Dubai said it was in talks with regional and international financial institutions that …

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More than 400 leaders in the fintech industry will gather in Dubai this month. DUBAI- More than 400 leaders in the fintech industry will gather in Dubai this month to showcase innovation in their sector, highlighting the future of fintech for the global and regional markets. Held in partnership with the UAE Ministry of Finance, MoF, and showcasing the latest …

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Zawya Express presents the top story, topic or trend highlighted by our editorial team as recommended reading to start your working day Representation of the Bitcoin virtual currency standing on the PC motherboard is seen in this illustration picture. The CEO and co-founder of Dubai’s popular cryptocurrency exchange BitOasis, Ola Doudin, has said that Sunday’s statement by the United Arab …

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