The fundamentals of merger and acquisition (M&A) deals in the GCC region have not been significantly affected by artificial intelligence (AI) and still rely on human cognition.
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Global public cloud spending set to skyrocket
Worldwide spending on public cloud services and infrastructure is forecast to reach $160 billion in 2018, representing an increase of 23.2 percent over 2017.1 3288
Why today’s enterprises need less IT to boost productivity
In order to be maximally effective, it remains important for businesses to optimise IT, so that employees have to spend less time on IT processes that are not part of their core tasks, says Taj El-Khayat, regional director, Citrix for Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Egypt cracks down on cybercrime
The new lab, the first of its kind in the MENA region, is mainly designed to resolve business software and internet-based piracy cases.
Middle East slow to adopt analytics: Gartner
A worldwide survey of 196 organisations by Gartner has shown that that 91 percent of organisations have not yet reached …
Citrix acquires Internet traffic management player Cedexis
Citrix has announced the acquisition of Cedexis, a real-time data-driven service for dynamically optimising the flow of traffic across public …
Redington Value onboards cybersecurity vendor PhishRod
Cybersecurity vendor for phishing readiness and security awareness automation PhishRod has signed up with Redington Gulf to be its authorised …
Companies in ‘slow lane’ when advancing in data, analytics: Gartner
The lion’s share of global companies – 91 percent – haven’t reached a “transformational” level of maturity in data and …
HID Global now supports facial recognition
HID Global has announced that its HID Approve two-factor mobile authentication and verification platform now supports Apple’s iPhone X Face …
Top 7 most in-demand tech jobs
Seven jobs expected to be in-demand for 2018, and the skills and experience you should look for in a candidate.
Can AI predict when a new hire will quit?
New pattern matching tech takes aim at predicting how long new hires will stay, potentially saving employers billions per year. But has AI really cracked the code on employee retention?