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Mideast firms warned over new cyber threatsCyber criminals in Nigeria have evolved common malware campaigns to infiltrate businesses in the Middle East that have not previously been their primary targets, a recent report has warned. The new report ‘419 Evolut More… |
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Batelco wins order freezing former partner's assetsA British court has ordered a worldwide freeze on assets of Batelco's former Indian investment partner Siva Limited and its chairman Chinnakannan Sivasankaran. The Bahrain-based international telecommunications group s More… |
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Mobily Q2 profit hit by Atheeb deal provisionEtihad Etisalat (Mobily), Saudi Arabia's No 2 telecom operator, matched forecasts on Monday despite a 18.6 percent fall in second-quarter net profit caused by a provision against a scrapped network sharing deal with Atheeb Telecom. Mobily, an affiliate of the UAE's Etisal More… |
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Oxygen appoints new MEA strategic marketing directorOxygen, a leading secure mobility value-added-distributor (VAD) in the region, has appointed Rohan Daniel Nair as its new strategic marketing director for the MEA region. In his new role, Nair will be responsible for More… |
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Huawei pilot scheme backs ‘green’ supply chainHuawei, a leading global ICT solutions provider, has launched a pilot scheme among 24 suppliers to support its global supply chain to go ‘green’, making its end-to-end operations more environmentally sustainable. More… |
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India deal: Batelco seeks payment of $212m claimBatelco Group, the Bahrain-based international telecommunications group with operations across 14 countries, has demanded full payment of the judgment debt totalling $212 million awarded by the English High Court of Justice against Chinnakannan Sivasankaran and Siva Limited (the defendants) fol More… |
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Saudi Telecom Q2 profit nearly doublesSaudi Telecom Company (STC), the Gulf's biggest telecommunications operator by market value, reported a 96 percent surge in second-quarter profit on Monday, beating analysts' estimates because of a change in the valuation of an Asian divestment. The firm, which competes d More… |
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Etisalat profit jumps 26pc on Maroc Telecom buyEtisalat reported a 26 percent jump in second-quarter profit on Sunday, beating analysts' estimates, as the UAE firm's acquisition of a majority stake in Maroc Telecom bolstered its bottom line. The former telecom monopoly, which operates in 19 countries across the Middle More… |
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Batelco-Mobily deal offers LTE roaming in SaudiBatelco, Bahrain’s leading telecommunications services provider, has launched 4G LTE data roaming services to customers travelling in Saudi Arabia, in a deal with Saudi Arabia’s Mobily. The customers need not s More… |
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Microsoft to cut 18,000 jobs this yearMicrosoft Corp will slash up to 18,000 jobs, or 14 percent of its workforce, this year as it almost halves the size of its newly acquired Nokia phone business and tries to transform into a cloud-computing and mobile-friendly software company. The larger-than-expected cuts, announ More… |
