Transguard Group, a leading UAE-based business services provider, has announced two unique initiatives that underscore the company’s commitment to improving its impact on the environment: a sustainability garden and a water conservation project that repurposes condensate from air conditioning units. The first, a sustainability garden, features a living plant wall constructed from upcycled plastic bottles
A powerful combination of youth and experience were in evidence at the Saudi Aramco sponsored Research and Innovation summit held by the Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association (GPCA) last week. With attendees gathered from across the world of petrochemicals, chemicals, technology, engineering and research institutions, a spirit of innovation pervaded the summit’s venue in Bahrain
Hyundai has announced plans to introduce new ‘digital key’ technology on future models, allowing drivers to unlock and start their car via a smartphone. Selected new cars will start offering the technology during 2019. Users will download the digital key as an app, with each car allowing up to four authorized devices. The system uses
STARZPLAY, the subscription video on demand (SVOD) service, is leading the way in content with targeted appeal to a wide range of audiences across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). STARZPLAY has made a multimillion-dollar investment in programming content in the first quarter of 2019, curating series and movies tailored to its demographically diverse,
Winter has officially come to the Middle East as the most anticipated TV season of all time – the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones – premieres exclusively on OSN, the region’s leading entertainment network. The wait for the final season may feel longer than a winter in Westeros, but the end is
Ubongo, which creates fun, localised and multi-platform educational media that reaches millions of families through accessible technologies, has won the ‘Next Billion’ Edtech Prize launched by The Varkey Foundation to recognise the most innovative technology destined to have a radical impact on education in low income and emerging world countries. Ubongo was voted for by
The seventh annual Global Education & Skills Forum (GESF 2019), a Varkey Foundation initiative, hosted a session on the rising adoption rates of smart phones and whether mobile technology is harming children and adolescents. The session, led by Professor Candice Odgers of the University of California Irvine, highlighted key findings regarding the effects of new