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Bahrain sovereign wealth fund reduces IT costs by 50% with AWS
Sheikh Khalid bin Abdulla Al Khalifa, Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company (Mumtalakat), the sovereign wealth fund of the Kingdom of Bahrain, has recently announced the successful migration of the company’s IT infrastructure to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud and the closure of its onsite and offsite data centres.0 4059
Amazon completes Souq.com acquisition
Amazon has officially completed the acquisition of Middle East based e-commerce player Souq.com. As the first step of integration, customers can now …
Your Voice: The rise of e-commerce
The second outing of the Your Voice series gathered e-commerce and retail specialists to look into the rapidly expanding and promising e-commerce industry in the region.
President Trump meets with CEOs of top tech companies
The tech executives also called for White House’s help in dealing with regulatory and other policy issues such as visas for highly skilled workers
Bricks and clicks: The rise of e-commerce
Reseller Middle East recently hosted Your Voice with Tahawul Tech’s second edition. Held at the Jumeirah Emirates Towers, the second outing of the series gathered e-commerce and retail specialists to look into the rapidly expanding and promising e-commerce industry in the region.
Amazon to buy Whole Foods for $13.7 billion
Amazon, on Friday, has announced plans to purchase US-based upscale grocery chain Whole Foods for a staggering amount of $13.7 billion.
Clicks of the trade: Criteo’s push for omnichannel success
Criteo called upon journalists from across the EMEA region to meet at its HQ in Paris to explore the power …
CBRE: Amazon entry to fuel Middle East e-commerce growth
Global property advisor CBRE’s tenth edition of ‘How Global is the Business of Retail?’ report states that Middle East’s online …
Riverbed enters cloud Wi-Fi market, acquires Xirrus
Riverbed Technology has announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Xirrus, a provider of next generation Wi-Fi networks.
What to expect from Amazon Web Services this year
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels took the stage at the company’s AWS Summit on Wednesday to announce a series of new features for Amazon Web Services.