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The Sharjah Entrepreneurship Centre (Sheraa) recently launched their new initiative titled Access Sharjah, with a goal to help support and build the entrepreneurship community in the region. Their new program focuses on the digital content and publishing sector and has welcomed 14 startups into the program. Communicate got to have an exclusive chat with Najla Al Midfa, […]

Sophia can identify faces and have long conversations with others. Sophia is also a Saudi citizen. This might not come out as big news to you, until you learn that Sophia is a robot, imbued with artificial intelligence. Sophia, modeled after actress Audrey Hepburn, has been touring the globe, in a sign that the age […]

By Ayman Haydar You could be forgiven for thinking that 5G has been implemented, tested and been through several iterations given the amount of coverage it has generated in the last six months alone. We’ve always been impatient when it comes to waiting for the next big technological development and the arrival of this fifth-generation […]

Marketing used to be about the 4 Ps of price, product, promotion and place. But that isn’t the case anymore. In a world of increased connectivity and more options than ever before, marketing is no longer the same. This interview looks at the evolution of marketing as a function, and how it is reflected on […]

If there was a single conclusion to be drawn from Mobile World Congress – the wireless mobile industry’s largest annual event that was held in Barcelona last week – it’s that the smartphone makers, carriers and networks in attendance have roughly 5,000 reasons to be excited about 5G, or fifth-generation wireless system technology. “It’s really […]

One can’t talk about mobile technology without, well, mobility. And as it happens, mobility was a big theme on the first day of Mobile World Congress, the mobile industry’s biggest event, held annually in Barcelona, Spain. Mike Troiano, VP of IoT at AT&T (and, yes, that is a lot of letters) breaks down where mobile […]

Any partly sane mind in the tech industry knows that making predictions about the future of technology, even a year out, is an exercise in vanity. Still, it pays to forecast what the future holds for us vivacious marketers, so we can prepare our clients, FOMO psychs and, oh yes, our clients. From an ‘innovation-evangelical […]

Visa unveiled its connected car proof of concept, developed in partnership with Accenture, at the Mobile World Congress this year. Visa’s connected car commerce execution builds on the idea of enabling a seamless mobile payment experience in consumer vehicles. The prototype is being showcased for the first time ever in the region at the Middle […]

Payment solutions provider Visa Inc. has created Visa Digital Solutions, a suite of offerings that facilitate secure payments across a broad range of Internet-connected devices and wearables. In 2014, commerce initiated with mobile phones and tablets is expected to total $114 billion in the US alone, according to research firm Forrester. Two-thirds of those sales will happen via […]